Today's poet

[freckle]

one Month Old
Or So I'm Told
The Poetry Thread
My Choice Before Bed
Passion, Love, Sadness
Humour, Rap, Madness
A Limerick Or Haiku
Whatever Moves You
A Talent Shared
A Soul Bared
So Here's To All Of You
Let's Try And Make It Two

Hester.x

Class!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[freckle]

I found this after googling Chinese poetry:

Pink and white hands like roses and rice cake!
Cups full of golden pools of wine!
Today the willows are blooming
By the palace wall. the Spring wind
Brings me no pleasure and I
Hate it. My bowels are knotted
With bitterness. I cannot
Loosen the cord of the years
Which has bound us together.
The Spring is still the Spring
Of other days, but I am
Empty, withered with pain.
My rouge is streaked with tears, my
Dress is stained with tear drops.
The peach trees are in blossom
Over my room, here by the
Still lake that mirrors the hills.
I no longer have the strength
To finish this letter and
Wrap it in a cloth of gold. When
You receive it, everything
Will be over forever.


It's by Lu Yu, who lived from c AD 733 to 804, and was respected as the "Sage of Tea" for his contribution to Chinese tea culture. Apparently, he is best known for his book The Classic of Tea, the first definitive work on cultivating, making and drinking tea

Thanks for this DT, i have a lovely second hand book of chinese poetry (by penguin i think), it has some really old poetry like this...i find it so evocative and romantic...i wonder if they sell anything like that where you are ( i mean translated into english)....

[Derby Tup]

Thanks for this DT, i have a lovely second hand book of chinese poetry (by penguin i think), it has some really old poetry like this...i find it so evocative and romantic...i wonder if they sell anything like that where you are ( i mean translated into english)....

Sadly many of these trips overseas are pretty full on with little time for much more than work and bed but I'll have a look round if I get chance. I noticed there is a book shop in the airport

[Harry H Howgill]

BPH? That is an enlarged prostate: (benign prostatic hyperplasia)

I thought he mentioned testicles somewhere too!

loving it HHH! thank you...

Oh...and just to mention, tonight on my way home i nearly crashed my car, a piece of paper obscured my vision just as i was crossing the tyne bridge, i stopped and perchance caught the offending item which would you believe was a long lost ode by e bye gummings!...that fellow crops up all over the place these days...anyway haven't the foggiest what it is about but that's part of the joy of it ain't it...as yeats once put it "the fascination of what is difficult"....see wot yer think......


BPH

You pass me
The fluroscent
g
l
o
w
Coat and I
Put
my arms where
t(l)e(o)n(v)t(e)icles once hung.
S
t
e
p
p
i
n
g
into patchwork trousers,
with Wonderment,
LOOK your legs,
(beguiling) weight-less objects,
were once here,
if i am to wear such elf like wares,
will you become,
part of me and I
your
e
l
f
i
n
will
neverevernevereverleave

[Derby Tup]

Time I got ready for work. Good night poets and here's to another month

[freckle]

Sadly many of these trips overseas are pretty full on with little time for much more than work and bed but I'll have a look round if I get chance. I noticed there is a book shop in the airport

double ......try not to work too hard we need you here at this thread! take care

[freckle]

BPH? That is an enlarged prostate: (benign prostatic hyperplasia)

I thought he mentioned testicles somewhere too!

trust you to lower the
t
o
n
e.

[Harry H Howgill]

I need a link to that! Do you think it would have found a rhyme for limerick? I'd better go to bed...night night!

I might just have a link to hand

http://www.rhymezone.com/

Not sure whether these have all been vetted. (See last of 4 syllable)

1 syllable:
bic, bick, blick, bric, brick, bryk, chick, click, crick, cwik, dic, dick, dicke, dyk, dzik, fick, ficke, flick, frick, fricke, gick, glick, hick, kick, klick, knick, krick, kwik, mic, mick, micke, nick, nik, pic, pick, pik, prick, quick, quik, ric, rick, ricke, schick, schlick, schmick, schnick, schrick, schtick, shick, shtick, sic, sick, slick, smick, spic, sprick, stick, strick, swick, thick, tic, tick, trick, vic, vick, vik, wick, wicke, wik, wyk, zick, zwick

2 syllables:
afflik, be sick, card trick, cue stick, deer tick, fish stick, free kick, frog kick, handpick, hard tick, horse tick, house dick, ice pick, joss stick, mouse click, nonstick, oil slick, old nick, place kick, pool stick, sheep tick, size stick, soft tick, sword stick, throw stick, vandyck, vanwyck, vanwyk, wood tick

3 syllables:
carrot stick, control stick, corner kick, dolphin kick, double quick, flutter kick, hockey stick, magic trick, nic, pogo stick, polo stick, scissors kick, shooting stick, sleepy dick, swagger stick, swimming kick, throwing stick, trisomic, walking stick

4 syllables:
adobe brick, celery stick, conjuring trick, licorice stick, measuring stick, ostpolitik, realpolitik, slippery dick

5 syllables:
devil's walking stick

6 syllables:
american dog tick

[Harry H Howgill]

trust you to lower the
t
o
n
e.

sorry miss.

Please ignore my next post as I did it again. !

[freckle]

sorry miss.

Please ignore my next post as I did it again. !

Waaaaaaaaaaaat?