Today's poet

A Haiku for last night's run

Ivinghoe Beacon
Beckoning stars to guide us..
Mind the rabbit holes!

Another workday
Awaiting delayed meeting
Lunchtime sun rare treat

I should be out with
my headtorch on the fells, but
haiku-ing instead

Counting on fingers
Trying to get these bloody
haikus to add up

Nice one Harry H
Haiku is the forward way
No running tonight :)

Hope torch still charging
Never made Bolton Abbey
Hellish squat session :eek:

Drag the body out of bed,
Be it summer or winter,
I make an effort to climb today!

Just so i can eat loads and drink beer:cool:

Fitness can't be stored.
It must be earned over and
over for all time.

I started from Keswick much earlier,
Halfway there now who's bright idea was this,
I move away from that thought and crack on!

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Originally Posted by Derby Tup

Nice one Harry H
Haiku is the forward way
No running tonight :)

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Thank you Derby Tup
Mental exercise is just
as much fun sometimes

Haiku taking over my life atm. Scraps of paper everywhere with experimental fragments of poems. My fingers are aching from counting fives and sevens. For a while this morning I was thinking seriously about making all my posts in haiku formatt. feckle, you have a lot to answer for :p:D

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Originally Posted by freckle

I really really really like this one ! :D

here's mine....

out again tonight
sea and streets
pining for a fell

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Cheers

It was inspired by one line in the snowshoing article in the new Fellrunner magazine

Editor Britta
Should pick all the best haikus
For The Fellrunner

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Originally Posted by freckle

ps another idea for a book...fell running haiku!!!!!!! we could do a little pamphlet!!!!!!

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What a wonderful
idea. I'm getting too
addicted as well.

dear derby T and HHH, here is a little something to soothe those active little minds and remind you that it doesn't all have to be haiku...

Lullaby

Now the day is done,
Now the shepherd sun
Drives his white flocks from the sky;
Now the flowers rest
On their mother's breast,
Hushed by her low lullaby.

Now the glowworms glance,
Now the fireflies dance,
Under fern-boughs green and high;
And the western breeze
To the forest trees
Chants a tuneful lullaby.

Now 'mid shadows deep
Falls blessed sleep,
Like dew from the summer sky;
And the whole earth dreams,
In the moon's soft beams,
While night breathes a lullaby.

Now, birdlings, rest,
In your wind-rocked nest,
Unscared by the owl's shrill cry;
For with folded wings
Little Brier swings,
And singeth your lullaby.

Louisa May Alcott

if that doesn't work i suggest a snecklifter! :)

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Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill

Thank you Derby Tup
Mental exercise is just
as much fun sometimes

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Haiku BOFRAish
Over quickly short sharp shock
Harry loves them both

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Originally Posted by Derby Tup

Haiku BOFRAish
Over quickly short sharp shock
Harry loves them both

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Brilliant :D

Absolutely ;)

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Originally Posted by freckle

dear derby T and HHH, here is a little something to soothe those active little minds and remind you that it doesn't all have to be haiku...

Lullaby

Now the day is done,
Now the shepherd sun
Drives his white flocks from the sky;
Now the flowers rest
On their mother's breast,
Hushed by her low lullaby.

Now the glowworms glance,
Now the fireflies dance,
Under fern-boughs green and high;
And the western breeze
To the forest trees
Chants a tuneful lullaby.

Now 'mid shadows deep
Falls blessed sleep,
Like dew from the summer sky;
And the whole earth dreams,
In the moon's soft beams,
While night breathes a lullaby.

Now, birdlings, rest,
In your wind-rocked nest,
Unscared by the owl's shrill cry;
For with folded wings
Little Brier swings,
And singeth your lullaby.

Louisa May Alcott

if that doesn't work i suggest a snecklifter! :)

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The literary equivalent to a cool flannel on a feverish brow :cool:

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Originally Posted by freckle

dear derby T and HHH, here is a little something to soothe those active little minds and remind you that it doesn't all have to be haiku...

Lullaby

Now the day is done,
Now the shepherd sun
Drives his white flocks from the sky;
Now the flowers rest
On their mother's breast,
Hushed by her low lullaby.

Now the glowworms glance,
Now the fireflies dance,
Under fern-boughs green and high;
And the western breeze
To the forest trees
Chants a tuneful lullaby.

Now 'mid shadows deep
Falls blessed sleep,
Like dew from the summer sky;
And the whole earth dreams,
In the moon's soft beams,
While night breathes a lullaby.

Now, birdlings, rest,
In your wind-rocked nest,
Unscared by the owl's shrill cry;
For with folded wings
Little Brier swings,
And singeth your lullaby.

Louisa May Alcott

if that doesn't work i suggest a snecklifter! :)

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Delightful

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Originally Posted by Derby Tup

The literary equivalent to a cool flannel on a feverish brow :cool:

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tee...hee.....:) ;)

glad you and HHH liked it...

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Originally Posted by freckle

...it doesn't all have to be haiku...

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Too true...


Crossing over the line,
Stop your watch, check the time.
You know in your heart how you fared.
You put up a fight, but paced it just right.
You raced it as fast as you dared.

Took a day's annual leave today and decided to give the A/Waltz a spin, but had haikus in me head all the bloody way a round!!!!!

Anyway, amongst several, I came up with this one while grinding my way up Robinson:

How much longer now?
Foggy summits in purdah,
Laugh! Humourless quads!
:)

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Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill

Too true...


Crossing over the line,
Stop your watch, check the time.
You know in your heart how you fared.
You put up a fight, but paced it just right.
You raced it as fast as you dared.

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Nice one HHH

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Originally Posted by Mossdog

Took a day's annual leave today and decided to give the A/Waltz a spin, but had haikus in me head all the bloody way a round!!!!!

Anyway, amongst several, I came up with this one while grinding my way up Robinson:

How much longer now?
Foggy summits in purdah,
Laugh! Humourless quads!
:)

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I like the humourless quads line.

I was looking out on the fells from my office wondering if there were some lucky ones up there today. I'm glad someone was up there making best use of the day.

It was fine today, but I wished I'd opted for my favourite Howgills Bowderdale - The Calf - Bowderdale run. The Newlands Valley was teaming with people; I'd forgotten it was half-term.

By The Sea

Why does the sea moan evermore?
Shut out from heaven it makes its moan
It frets against the boundary shore;
All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.

Sheer miracles of loveliness
Lie hid in its unlooked-on bed:
Anemones, salt, passionless, Blow flower-like;
just enough alive
To blow and multiply and thrive

Shells quaint with curve, or spot, or spike,
Encrusted live things argus-eyed
All fair alike, yet all unlike
Are born without a pang, and die
Without a pang, and so pass by

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Oh lonely windy path
How I wish to beat your track
Wheres those Walshes


Poor effort I know, but hey, great thread:)

DT another fan of Rossetti...:)

particularly like this bit...

All earth's full rivers cannot fill
The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.

and....

Shells quaint with curve, or spot, or spike,

if you ain't near a fell, then the sea ain't a bad second! thanx DT!

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Originally Posted by Roy Scott

Oh lonely windy path
How I wish to beat your track
Wheres those Walshes


Poor effort I know, but hey, great thread:)

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Oh contrare...I think this is a great effort! welcome!...:)

Time I went to bed
Dark nights all work little play
Eight hour til next verse

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Originally Posted by Derby Tup

Time I went to bed
Dark nights all work little play
Eight hour til next verse

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Sleep soft
and regenerate
tomorrow's journey awaits

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Originally Posted by Mossdog

Took a day's annual leave today and decided to give the A/Waltz a spin, but had haikus in me head all the bloody way a round!!!!!

Anyway, amongst several, I came up with this one while grinding my way up Robinson:

How much longer now?
Foggy summits in purdah,
Laugh! Humourless quads!
:)

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this is great!... the question is does haiku formation whilst racing help or hinder? perhaps once its formed it can become like a mantra? :confused::), anyway what a fun way to spend your day :)

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Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill

Too true...


Crossing over the line,
Stop your watch, check the time.
You know in your heart how you fared.
You put up a fight, but paced it just right.
You raced it as fast as you dared.

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britains got talent! fab!

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Originally Posted by Derby Tup

Time I went to bed
Dark nights all work little play
Eight hour til next verse

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"What is this shi*t?"

Is this the most famous put-down review of a record released by the towering genius of pop music for the later half of the 20th Century?

Or is it a critique of this thread?

The answer lies in a conversation I had on the rock steps with a certain runner whilst he staggered up Ingleborough last evening.

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Originally Posted by GrahamB

"What is this shi*t?"

Is this the most famous put-down review of a record released by the towering genius of pop music for the later half of the 20th Century?

Or is it a critique of this thread?

The answer lies in a conversation I had on the rock steps with a certain runner whilst he staggered up Ingleborough last evening.

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eh? :confused:

Graham, so pleased you have finished Ingleborough :D

Bitch!

Are you posting via your mobile?

Are you nearly at the top?

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Originally Posted by brett

Graham, so pleased you have finished Ingleborough :D

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ugh ugh ugh .

Are we nearly there?

(I can hear Brett behind me)

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Originally Posted by GrahamB

Bitch!

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just to clarify was that directed at me like ?

Me like?

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Originally Posted by freckle

just to clarify was that directed at me like ?

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Originally Posted by brett

Me like?

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Phew! ............... each to their own like! :D :) i can sleep soundly now!