Today's poet

[Hes]

Thank you Hes for such lovely comments hope you are having a nice night...this thread has finally put pay to vegetating in front of the TV once and for all for me!!!!!...repeat after me "Live, Breath, Eat, Sleep....Poetry"

That sums it up doesn't it! I don't have a tv (too much temptation when you work from home) but now I have a lovely alternative way of relaxing besides films on my laptop. I am having a nice night thanks...finishing a drawing for a commission and checking in here now and again.

[Harry H Howgill]

Thank you Hes for such lovely comments hope you are having a nice night...this thread has finally put pay to vegetating in front of the TV once and for all for me!!!!!...repeat after me "Live, Breath, Eat, Sleep....Poetry"

I pressed the big red off button not half an hour ago. Enjoying the relaxed mood with good company, inspirational verse and fine music.

[freckle]

That sums it up doesn't it! I don't have a tv (too much temptation when you work from home) but now I have a lovely alternative way of relaxing besides films on my laptop. I am having a nice night thanks...finishing a drawing for a commission and checking in here now and again.

i've said it b4 and i'll say it again your art is beautiful so keep on producing treats for us all to wonder at!

[Harry H Howgill]

I once saw Nyman once at the South Bank and it was magnificent. What impressed me most was at one point, when he thought the orchestra had lost the plot somewhere halfway through a piece, he stood up and said "hold it there" and stopped the lot of them, then set off again to great applause. I hadn't even noticed they'd got lost!

I'd not heard of Surprice Ice until tonight. Thanks for that. It made me think of what Nick Drake might have been doing if he'd ever been allowed to grow old.

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)

[Hes]

mmm...Nick Drake is a good comparison and sometimes they sound like Simon and Garfunkle.

[Hes]

ps...I'd love to have seen Nyman play. I almost had a chance at the Celtic Connections in Glasgow this year but he'd sold out by the time I got there.

[Nathaniel Lee]

From Sylvia Plath. A Favourite of mine.

Mad Girls Love Song.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
{I think i made you up inside my head.}

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed,
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
{I think i made you up inside my head.}

God topples from the sky,Hell's fire fades:
Exit Seraphim and Satan's men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But i grow old and forget your name.
{ I think i made you up inside my head.}

I should have loved a Thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
{I think i made you up inside my head.}

Not sure if will be to everyone's taste but i like it a lot.

[Harry H Howgill]

mmm...Nick Drake is a good comparison and sometimes they sound like Simon and Garfunkle.

Now you mention it.

[Hes]

From Sylvia Plath. A Favourite of mine.

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed,
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
{I think i made you up inside my head.}
.

Love this Tri-mind. Especially these two verses.

[Harry H Howgill]

ps...I'd love to have seen Nyman play. I almost had a chance at the Celtic Connections in Glasgow this year but he'd sold out by the time I got there.

This must have been in '91 or '92 I think. I can't quite remember how I'd first heard of him. Anyway, the only one I listen to now regularly is Prospero's Books (Greenaway / Nyman again) but I think its about time I got them out again.