Today's poet

[Hes]

Night all.

Night HHH, sweet dreams (sorry if they are about the newts).

[emmilou]

Good question....a guy who lives by a large pond and has a fireplace with a large space above it that is waiting for one of my prints...it is not my best ever commission but will pay for half my flights to India so I better stop procrastinating. I did a panel of vegetables 8 foot long recently...which is why I tend to just sell my own work and not do commissions.

Completley off topic clearly but what medium? A commission is a commission I guess but having a family of artists (and a house full of paintings!!) I know exactly where you are coming from

[Harry H Howgill]

Interesting...how did that happen? My mum has one but she is a consultant ecologist. These are great crested too.

I manage quite a bit of land as part of the job and we've got hundreds of the little great crested devils. Rare? Not round our way!

We don't have 8-foot vegetables in this part of the county though - but maybe they do Sellafield way!

[Hes]

that's so funny can just imagine you........i need to hire you to teach my little girls they would love it! (aspiring artists especially the six year old)

Anytime...I have taught kids from age 7 to adults. In the words of Nina age 8 1/2 'printing is actually better than eating'.

[Harry H Howgill]

Night HHH, sweet dreams (sorry if they are about the newts).

night night

[freckle]

Anytime...I have taught kids from age 7 to adults. In the words of Nina age 8 1/2 'printing is actually better than eating'.

i'll keep you to that hes thank you!!!!

in the spirit of "alluring, superlative solitude" i found this by yeats, sounds like the kind of place i'd like to go......

Isle of Innisfree

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and
wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon
a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by
the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the
pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

[Hes]

Completley off topic clearly but what medium? A commission is a commission I guess but having a family of artists (and a house full of paintings!!) I know exactly where you are coming from

Collagraph and solarplate prints. The newts will be a collagraph. I'm a printmaker mainly although the vegetables were in pastels.

I found this today and liked it although I think November has a lot going for it.

No!

No sun--no moon!
No morn--no noon!
No dawn--no dusk--no proper time of day--
No sky--no earthly view--
No distance looking blue--
No road--no street--no "t'other side this way"--
No end to any Row--
No indications where the Crescents go--
No top to any steeple--
No recognitions of familiar people--
No courtesies for showing 'em--
No knowing 'em!
No traveling at all--no locomotion--
No inkling of the way--no notion--
"No go" by land or ocean--
No mail--no post--
No news from any foreign coast--
No Park, no Ring, no afternoon gentility--
No company--no nobility--
No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease,
No comfortable feel in any member--
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees,
No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds--
November!

Thomas Hood

[Old Whippet]

Old Whippet...you never cease to amaze me. Can I have a root around in your attic? If you had written this, I'd be so impressed as it is pretty much perfect in rhyme and rhythm but as Plath did it, I'd expect nothing less.

Hes - your serendipitous Auden discovery was a briLLiant response you have a simiLarly remarkabLe treasure trove. wouLd have enjoyed a bit of to_ing and fro_ing on this, but i buggered off to the hiLLs for many gLorious hours on what has been a very induLgent day.. There's a poem or two in it.
Came back to see that chiLd no 3 has spiLt juice on the keyboard. particularLy affecting the Letter L.

[freckle]

Hes - your serendipitous Auden discovery was a briLLiant response you have a simiLarly remarkabLe treasure trove. wouLd have enjoyed a bit of to_ing and fro_ing on this, but i buggered off to the hiLLs for many gLorious hours on what has been a very induLgent day.. There's a poem or two in it.
Came back to see that chiLd no 3 has spiLt juice on the keyboard. particularLy affecting the Letter L.

there was me thinking it was some innovative form of prose!!!!!! welcome back OW, look forward to new offerings ....i wonder who and what will be the 1,000 th post.....not that i am a nerd you understand

[Hes]

Hes - your serendipitous Auden discovery was a briLLiant response you have a simiLarly remarkabLe treasure trove. wouLd have enjoyed a bit of to_ing and fro_ing on this, but i buggered off to the hiLLs for many gLorious hours on what has been a very induLgent day.. There's a poem or two in it.
Came back to see that chiLd no 3 has spiLt juice on the keyboard. particularLy affecting the Letter L.

I am gLad that you had a good day out (I'm a bit envious)..we were specuLating as to your whereabouts. I reaLLy Like the styLe of your Latest post and think that chiLd number 3 has Lent it a certain fLair. I'm aLso pleased that you enojoyed my newLy discovered Auden. I wiLL spend some time searching my pantry for Lost Limericks by other poets and get back to you asap. Looking forward to your poems from today.