Some really lovely reading on the thread tonight. Good evening to you all.
Some really lovely reading on the thread tonight. Good evening to you all.
Evening tri-mind. Glad you could join us in the quiet corner.Originally Posted by tri-mind
Impatience
Full of verve
I start to trot
But I am soon reminded
its Friday the 13th
A fairy elephant
Does not take to fells
And that egg sandwich
Well...
My stomach hurts
I’m getting cold
I really should be getting HOME
But I don’t want to
I trudge on
Leaden of foot
Simonside's hills looks on
“Silly Lass” they utter
With their rain and sharp air
Yet nature in its mocking
Holds me with its grace
The softness of a forest floor
An owl’s singular conversation
Alluring, superlative solitude
Later I drive home
Melting strokes from the air conditioning
Beethoven’s “Romance” on the radio
In the bath
I reluctantly scrub the peat from my toes
My heart is already asking
“When will I know that again?”
not at all conventional and still needs work but the sentiment is there!
Good choice HHH. I have this album and it is great. I absolutely loved 'Our Mutual Friend', I haven't listened to it since I was in my twenties and you're right, definitely Nymanesque in the middle. Love Nyman - (and Peter Greenaway films).
This song is beautiful and worth a listen if you don't know it:
Surprise Ice
When past sometimes takes you with soft hands
forcelessly pulls you to your chair
hides you away from these half days
sunless at the end of the year
the air is like a knife cutting through you
a room in the house is always warm
stretched out on the bathroom floor thinking
of fair days your future may hold
love comes like surprise ice on the water
love comes like surprise ice at dawn
love comes like surprise ice on the water
love comes at dawn
deprived of the light and of the colours
the world ends at your window tree
darkness creates these illusions
but pale days can teach you to see
rain falls but no life is given
weeks pass no progress is made
past sometimes takes you with soft hands
and all that surrounds you will fade
(Kings of Convenience)
Good evening, glad you joined us...there are some lovely offerngs this evening.
Now that IS hot of the press. I didn't realise until the egg sandwich line; then I smiled.
Good evening tri mind, good to see you here!
I'm glad I made you smile!
ps we are really not that far off 1,000 posts....wow!
Blimey Freckle...good work, elements of comedy, melancholy and interesting imagery. I love this line "An owl’s singular conversation
Alluring, superlative solitude" and it is exactly what I wish I'd thought of saying in a poem that I'm working on.
Thank you Hes for such lovely comments
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