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Divn't worry
Better out than in;)
Goodnight freckle.
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Bonny Lass posts miseryQuote:
Originally Posted by freckle
Divn't worry
Better out than in;)
Goodnight freckle.
And it's goodnight from me, and it's goodnight from Hes, goodnight;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
Brought up watching the Two Ronnies, mispent youth:o
Hey you are on a roll tonight!!!!!!!!!...and I do like your use of the fair geordie language here ;)....night night one and all xQuote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
Helen.
Moonlight caresses her brow,
Whilst the gentle breeze stirs,
Such beauty never so pure as now,
No truer heart than hers.
My heart will always be yours to keep,
I'm sorry i don't always say,
Sometimes it's easier when you sleep,
To show i care this way.
I watch you sleep how quiet you lay,
Happy to share the rest of my life,
Loving you more with each day,
My soul mate and lover my wife.
By Matt Harmston.
Beautiful Matt, truly beautiful, straight from the heart.Quote:
Originally Posted by tri-mind
nice to see you back tri this is so sweet :)Quote:
Originally Posted by tri-mind
Good morning all!
Fire lecture at work this morning (dull, necessary, dull)...so thought i might need a lift.....
Bazonka
Say Bazonka every day
That's what my grandma used to say
It keeps at bay the Asian Flu'
And both your elbows free from glue.
So say Bazonka every day
(That's what my grandma used to say)
Don't say it if your socks are dry!
Or when the sun is in your eye!
Never say it in the dark
(The word you see emits a spark)
Only say it in the day
(That's what my grandma used to say)
Young Tiny Tim took her advice
He said it once, he said it twice
he said it till the day he died
And even after that he tried
To say Bazonka! every day
Just like my grandma used to say.
Now folks around declare it's true
That every night at half past two
If you'll stand upon your head
And shout Bazonka! from your bed
You'll hear the word as clear as day
Just like my grandma used to say!
Spike Milligan </B>
Ohhh thank god! I have just trawled through hundreds of my own posts to try and find the one with the article about haiku...the article that I found by mistake (I really did HHH) when researching for my commission but have been unable to find ever since. I will post the link here in case anyone else is interested:
[URL="http://poemshape.wordpress.com/category/guides/about-haiku/"]
I'm currently trying to work on my India haiku collection. DT did you do anything with yours?
On the Moor in January
Moor wind and snow
the roaring nothingness in my ears
the bite of it on my skin
the craziness that takes hold of me
so I lurch like a madman
and laugh and cry
and lose all proportion
then the tree appears in its grotesquerie
black and twisted, solitary
and I hug it like a brother
more than a brother
rooted unrooted together.
Kenneth White
Ha ha ha. I definately believe you! ;):DQuote:
Originally Posted by Hes
I was up on the moor this morning at work. It was bleak but beautiful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
The word of the day is definately "grotesquerie" :)
Bazonka to you all!
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Originally Posted by freckle
There was a starling flock living in the trees outside my office before Christmas, and it was great watching them swirling and twirling about, but then they shot overhead and you could hear the splat splat splat of three thousand incontinent starlings! I wish I had my hat!Quote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
Today's iambic pentameter
We're pretty good at haiku, (keep them coming) but I thought I'd introduce another form, the iambic pentameter. Sounds grand, but it isn't as tricky as it seems. Each line goes like this: -
ti-tum, ti-tum, ti-tum, ti-tum, ti-tum.
or
and one and two and three and four and five.
a famous one...
When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book
(W B Yeats - When you are old)
It doesn't have to rhyme, and there can be as many or as few lines as you like.
Here's an effort of mine to get us going...
A postcard did arrive this very day
Exotic images of lands afar
A Painted Stork adorning every stamp
The tales of those you met upon your way
Makes warming reading on a wint'ry night
Evening Harry , thanks for this...i really must read that Fry book just so tired at the minute somewhat incapable! anyway I liked your verse! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
Evening Freckle, soonQuote:
Originally Posted by freckle
be Friday night, time for that
welcome Snecklifter
I agreeQuote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
BAZONKA!!!!!
I said it at night, but it's ok, i had the light on;)
aye...bazonka!Quote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
That sounded more Yorkshire than Geordie, you missed the why off aye:pQuote:
Originally Posted by freckle
Hope your are well this evening marra;)
I never did anything with stuff I wrote in China. Trip was work and tough so not that bothered although might be interesting for me to review pages from thread at that timeQuote:
Originally Posted by Hes
Make sure you save your Indian poetry as it is excellent :)
evening merry! i am ok just tired for some reason ! hope your cool...anyway it was nice to see dick on here last night, i understand he is a fan of robert frost, here is a nice little one from him...night all...Quote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.
Cooling down
The heating just knocked off
Dreaming of sun
Good night freckle;)
Ok HHH - I'm on to it. Life getting in the way of poetry for a little while, but brace yourself, the Whippet will return brimming with iambic pentametryQuote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
goodbye lim'rick and our old friend Haiku
you served us well for three thousand postings
looking ahead I see pentametry......
are there any rules on length?
Good to see you taking on the iambic pentameter challenge Old Whippet! Think I might have a go; especially as rhyming isn't essential ;):D
Cheers DT. I write loads of stuff and am now reworking it and hope to produce two books (just for myself not to publish). One illustrated with the best photos and one as an artist's book and incorporating the text with printmaking. However, I haven't managed very much in three days so don't hold your breath!Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
I've manage to put this word on its head:DQuote:
Originally Posted by freckle
Not sure if I can manage iambic pentameters HHH but I like a challenge and will see if I can come up with something!Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill
Thanks for that.:)
Cheers DT. Go for it! I maybe should look into it further... e.g. what about rythm? HHH's ,one two, one two, one two, one two, one two; example suggests rythm, but the Yeats example does not.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
ah well....it's a challenge.
kicking off my bootsQuote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
I knock my heating back on
and pour a nightcap
I'm a wuss Merry, am consoling myself that a month away will have kept my heating bills down a bit.
Here is a good example:-Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
Paradise Lost
by
John Milton
Chapter 1 - Book 1
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste
Brought death into the World, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful seat,
Sing, Heavenly Muse, that, on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed
In the beginning how the heavens and earth
Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed
Fast by the oracle of God, I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar.
I've just been having a quick look OW and found this on wikipedia:Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Whippet
When a pair of syllables is arranged as a short followed by a long, or an unstressed followed by a stressed, pattern, that foot is said to be "iambic". The English word "trapeze" is an example of an iambic pair of syllables, since the word is made up of two syllables ("tra—peze") and is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable ("tra—PEZE", rather than "TRA—peze"). Iambic pentameter is a line made up of five pairs of short/long, or unstressed/stressed, syllables.
I think that is where the ti-tum bit comes in...I should know this from english lit a-level but it was a long time ago.:o
Can we drink lambic beer instead:D
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/...ing/03pour.jpg
No stressed syllables here, Hes.....Cheers
Sounds easier than getting a bin loaders job:rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Derby Tup
My bins are full again,
They've not been emptied for three weeks,
Think i'll do it myself,
Trip to the tip, instead of ringing and giving gip
Spot the bit of non-essential rhyming:D
Thanks Xrunner! I'm breaking the poem down into syllables and looking for the stresses but it is still a little confusing but HHH brought up the subject at a very good time for me as I've just been reading about syllables and stresses in relations to haikus and maybe one will help my understanding of the other.Quote:
Originally Posted by XRunner
Cheers big ears!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by XRunner
Hope they ain't motorcycle boots your kicking off, it's slippy/slidey out there, take care, warm up and enjoy your nightcap;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
Freckle will be most disappointed that she has missed a good drink:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
Cheers Hes - a fine piece of research. So I guess that's where the rhythm lies.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hes
Maybe I'll rise to this on another day. And by the way, I can't imagine I'm the only one here who doesn't want you to keep your illustrated poetry travelogue to yourself.
Thanks Merry! Don't worry, I ditched the motorbike idea and my Honda is still languishing in my shed. Couldn't get to running club tonight so consoled myself with a swift half in t'pub (on foot).Quote:
Originally Posted by merrylegs
do we need 5 of these lined up to make an Iambic pentameter? Could be the drink of the Fell Poets.....
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Originally Posted by Hes