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    well....it's getting late, and it seems the poets are sleeping tonight.
    A little offering from Margaret Atwood for the night.


    Night Poem

    There is nothing to be afraid of,
    it is only the wind
    changing to the east, it is only
    your father the thunder
    your mother the rain

    In this country of water
    with its beige moon damp as a mushroom,
    its drowned stumps and long birds
    that swim, where the moss grows
    on all sides of the trees
    and your shadow is not your shadow
    but your reflection,

    your true parents disappear
    when the curtain
    covers your door.
    We are the others,
    the ones from under the lake
    who stand silently beside your bed
    with our heads of darkness.
    We have come to cover you
    with red wool,
    with our tears and distant whipers.

    You rock in the rain's arms
    the chilly ark of your sleep,
    while we wait, your night
    father and mother
    with our cold hands and dead flashlight,
    knowing we are only
    the wavering shadows thrown
    by one candle
    , in this echo
    you will hear twenty years later.

    Margaret Atwood

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    Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
    Because their words had forked no lightning they
    Do not go gentle into that good night.

    Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
    Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
    And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
    Do not go gentle into that good night.

    Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
    Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    And you, my father, there on the sad height,
    Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    Dylan Thomas

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    THE SLOTH

    In moving-slow he has no Peer.
    You ask him something in his Ear,
    He thinks about it for a Year;

    And, then, before he says a Word
    There, upside down (unlike a Bird),
    He will assume that you have Heard -

    A most Ex-as-per-at-ing Lug.
    But should you call his manner Smug,
    Hell sigh and give his Branch a Hug;

    Then off again to Sleep he goes,
    Still swaying gently by his Toes,
    And you just know he knows he knows.


    Theodore Roethke

    off to sleep I go....feeling like a sloth!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Whippet View Post
    well....it's getting late, and it seems the poets are sleeping tonight.
    A little offering from Margaret Atwood for the night.


    Night Poem

    There is nothing to be afraid of,
    it is only the wind
    changing to the east, it is only
    your father the thunder
    your mother the rain

    In this country of water
    with its beige moon damp as a mushroom,
    its drowned stumps and long birds
    that swim, where the moss grows
    on all sides of the trees
    and your shadow is not your shadow
    but your reflection,

    your true parents disappear
    when the curtain
    covers your door.
    We are the others,
    the ones from under the lake
    who stand silently beside your bed
    with our heads of darkness.
    We have come to cover you
    with red wool,
    with our tears and distant whipers.

    You rock in the rain's arms
    the chilly ark of your sleep,
    while we wait, your night
    father and mother
    with our cold hands and dead flashlight,
    knowing we are only
    the wavering shadows thrown
    by one candle
    , in this echo
    you will hear twenty years later.

    Margaret Atwood
    Not asleep OW entertaining!....they have all gone home now except one who has crashed at the bottom of the stairs and refuses to budge as apparently "quite comfortable",mmmmm....anyway i really liked this poem especially the line "you rock in the rain's arms"...lovely

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    TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME
    by Robert Herrick

    GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,
    Old time is still a-flying :
    And this same flower that smiles to-day
    To-morrow will be dying.

    The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
    The higher he's a-getting,
    The sooner will his race be run,
    And nearer he's to setting.

    That age is best which is the first,
    When youth and blood are warmer ;
    But being spent, the worse, and worst
    Times still succeed the former.
    Then be not coy, but use your time,
    And while ye may go marry :
    For having lost but once your prime
    You may for ever tarry.

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    Some really great stuff again. I really enjoyed reading them.

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    A Prayer

    Run awaken
    dull senses!
    Envelope with
    a shuddering heart,
    salt on the brow
    quickening of breath
    and the hope
    of fresh sun crumbs
    for a solitary soul

    Offski !!!!!!!!
    Last edited by freckle; 15-11-2009 at 01:19 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    A Prayer

    Run awaken
    dull senses!
    Envelope with
    a shuddering heart,
    salt on the brow
    quickening of breath
    and the hope
    of fresh sun crumbs
    for a solitary soul

    Offski !!!!!!!!
    I do like that! I never thought of writing one about what I want from a run. Hope your Sunday run delivers it all!

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    Now I was just about to compliment you on your continuing high standard of writing, but then I thought I'd have a quick Google of the first line just in case I was about to embarrass myself with my poetic ignorance and it was written be someone dead famous. Anyone heard of Yeats?

    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    evening all....just a quick one then i'm offski...

    NEVER give all the heart, for love
    Will hardly seem worth thinking of
    To passionate women if it seem
    Certain, and they never dream
    That it fades out from kiss to kiss;
    For everything that's lovely is
    But a brief, dreamy. Kind delight.
    O never give the heart outright,
    For they, for all smooth lips can say,
    Have given their hearts up to the play.
    And who could play it well enough
    If deaf and dumb and blind with love?
    He that made this knows all the cost,
    For he gave all his heart and lost.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Whippet View Post
    well....it's getting late, and it seems the poets are sleeping tonight.
    A little offering from Margaret Atwood for the night.
    BOFRA dinner last night OW. A fine end of season bash, catching up with friends that often only get a quick hello at races all season.

    I'm sure I'll get a composition out of that thought sooner or later.

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