Today's poet

[Old Whippet]

The Fetid Night.

I run wind racing past my face,
Faster, faster i know i am found,
I really must escape this place,
Before i find that i am bound.

Too late i falter and i am caught,
The black night will have it's way,
My struggle had been all for naught,
It night be that i die today.

I start to struggle, twist and turn,
You fetid darkness i will stop your fun,
My fight for life; A fire starts to burn,
I reach out through the night i think i have won.

Once again i am tired the fight too much,
To defeat the night there is a price to pay,
I must wary not to lose my touch,
As i must fight this fight everyday.


By Matt Harmston.

Wow Tri-mind! I'd not made the link that this was your work til I read the recent posts. It makes moving reading - especially in the context of what you have told us about your illness. Look forward to seeing more.

[Mountain Goatess]

Mmmm...can't sleep so been browsing....

Nothing
by John Cooper Clarke

nothing isn’t anything
it’s tasteless and it’s flat
nothing if it’s anything
is even less than that
I’ve got that certain nothing
no one can do without
the Spanish call it nada
I call it nowt
I’d take the train but don’t care
to travel by myself
all the way from nowhere
to get nowhere else
nothing ever goes on
nothing never ends
say nothing to no one
it’s nothing to do with them
nothing going on and on
nothing wall to wall
it happens once and then it’s gone
leaving bugger all

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I really like that Freckle!
I found this one which I like too....sometimes it's just nice to sit and do ....nothing!

A POEM ABOUT NOTHING

Sometimes imagination walks in the mist
Barefoot, it senses the ground
Stumbles in the steps of oblivion
Cautiously treasures anonymity
Divorces every reference
Aspires to a minimalist sublimation
Loses itself in the vastness of silence
Finding only a grey abstraction
Getting excited in the presence of monotony
Screams for a mundane tedium
Drinking the darkness with the eyes
Witnessing the nudity of words
Smiling at blank sheets of paper
Celebrates the emptiness of the pampas
Dances in the invisible turbulence of the air
Craving for a cosmic vacuum
Enjoying the ultimate pleasure of nothing

M. DAEDALUS

[Old Whippet]

I really like that Freckle!
I found this one which I like too....sometimes it's just nice to sit and do ....nothing!

A POEM ABOUT NOTHING

Sometimes imagination walks in the mist
Barefoot, it senses the ground
Stumbles in the steps of oblivion
Cautiously treasures anonymity
Divorces every reference
Aspires to a minimalist sublimation
Loses itself in the vastness of silence
Finding only a grey abstraction
Getting excited in the presence of monotony
Screams for a mundane tedium
Drinking the darkness with the eyes
Witnessing the nudity of words
Smiling at blank sheets of paper
Celebrates the emptiness of the pampas
Dances in the invisible turbulence of the air
Craving for a cosmic vacuum
Enjoying the ultimate pleasure of nothing

M. DAEDALUS

Oh I do like that! Right up my street that one MG.

On the back of yesterday's shock Plath in the attic discovery, I found a scrap of paper on the Northumberland moors yesterday afternoon. Signed Siegfried Sassoon (could have been Southern Softie - the writing was blurred).)
One of his unknown limericks.

I'm not enjoying this war
I don't even know what it's for
This God-awful trench
Is filled with the stench
Of chaos and carnage and gore.

now what's the chances of that?

[Harry H Howgill]

The Fetid Night.

I run wind racing past my face,
Faster, faster i know i am found,
I really must escape this place,
Before i find that i am bound.

Too late i falter and i am caught,
The black night will have it's way,
My struggle had been all for naught,
It night be that i die today.

I start to struggle, twist and turn,
You fetid darkness i will stop your fun,
My fight for life; A fire starts to burn,
I reach out through the night i think i have won.

Once again i am tired the fight too much,
To defeat the night there is a price to pay,
I must wary not to lose my touch,
As i must fight this fight everyday.


By Matt Harmston.

Tri-Mind

That has got to be the highlight of the first 1000 posts, (give or take 6).

All we can do is write about how we see the world, and every different way should be celebrated. This thread is a wonderful thing; generating such nice feelings of openness, community, shared experiences of happiness, sillyness, melancholy, and everything in between. May it last for a very very long time.

Love to you all

HHH

[Harry H Howgill]

Lottery

Its worth a quid
Just for a dream

[southernsoftie]

Yesterday I was e-mailing from work in limerick. Got some excellent responses!

[Derby Tup]

Hey, tri-mind well done from me too; great stuff from a deeply personal perspective. Make sure you post some more of your work please

I'm back on the haiku trail and composed a couple today around working. I'll post them when I can remember them

Poetry tread continues to go from strength to strength!!

[Derby Tup]

jet lag lifting now
shame Guangzhou smog not the same
just like Manchester

good dinner tonight
chicken and pineapple rice
with cold local beer

[freckle]

I really like that Freckle!
I found this one which I like too....sometimes it's just nice to sit and do ....nothing!

A POEM ABOUT NOTHING

Sometimes imagination walks in the mist
Barefoot, it senses the ground
Stumbles in the steps of oblivion
Cautiously treasures anonymity
Divorces every reference
Aspires to a minimalist sublimation
Loses itself in the vastness of silence
Finding only a grey abstraction
Getting excited in the presence of monotony
Screams for a mundane tedium
Drinking the darkness with the eyes
Witnessing the nudity of words
Smiling at blank sheets of paper
Celebrates the emptiness of the pampas
Dances in the invisible turbulence of the air
Craving for a cosmic vacuum
Enjoying the ultimate pleasure of nothing

M. DAEDALUS

HI MG...this is a really lovely poem, like the line "witnessing the nudity of words"....

[freckle]

Tri-Mind

That has got to be the highlight of the first 1000 posts, (give or take 6).

All we can do is write about how we see the world, and every different way should be celebrated. This thread is a wonderful thing; generating such nice feelings of openness, community, shared experiences of happiness, sillyness, melancholy, and everything in between. May it last for a very very long time.

Love to you all

HHH

I agree entirely HHH, I think this thread is good at commenting on, and celebrating the complexity of human nature and the beautiful natural environment which we all enjoy...part of the reason why I think it works so well is that inevitably we each bring our own unique experiences which adds to the richness of the thread...it is a friendly and supportive area....