Today's poet

[Harry H Howgill]

ha ha ! but the thing is HHH you will still be eons faster than me mate! and i will be tripping over on the blue dress whilst furiously writing with a feather quilled pen on scraps of paper!

Please, please turn up at the first meeting with your now legendary blue dress. I'll be so disappointed if you dont!

If you do I'll promise to run slower than you.

[freckle]

Please, please turn up at the first meeting with your now legendary blue dress. I'll be so disappointed if you dont!

If you do I'll promise to run slower than you.

OK OK but only if X Runner promises to carry my books ...tee hee, laters (another school run now!)

[Harry H Howgill]

I'll have too lug all those books around with me.

And I don't think I've got an extension lead long enough to keep posting.

(And you can keep your Freudian analysis to yourself miss F.)

[freckle]

And I don't think I've got an extension lead long enough to keep posting.

(And you can keep your Freudian analysis to yourself miss F.)

Freudian analysis? ...elaborate young man!.....bit more Kleinian anyway!

[XRunner]

The first run of the FRA Forum Poets.

14 = Freckle
3 = HHH
28 = Hes
56 = OH
99 = ME (out of shot!)

[Harry H Howgill]

The thing is, I'm sure it would work both ways. I like it. It seems thoughtful not just to follow the convention. The style helps to add to the feling of being ill at ease too, as in your second line. (I'm sure that was deliberate ) and I like the acknowledgement to ee cummings.

a lovely nourishing run this morning through the dene....

moving reverie

you' re not here and i
ill at ease
reach for my trainers
and make for the woods

the soft underbelly of the forest
cradles my feet
your presence in the sun,
the trees, the stream
carries my steps
c(l)on(o)jur(v)ing(e)

the silent, moving lullaby.
O peaceful reverie
in this moment
i know
contentment.

let me knowyour honest view on the presentation, does it add or detract? appreciate your views one and all....

[Harry H Howgill]

The first run of the FRA Forum Poets.

14 = Freckle
3 = HHH
28 = Hes
56 = OH
99 = ME (out of shot!)

I think you just blew any brownie points you had with the young ladies. As for me, you're not actually too far out!

[Harry H Howgill]

[Old Whippet]

Heard recently that action man was making a come back for christmas. Cue John Cooper Clarke........
To be read at high speed and in a Salford drawl. (I remember JCC quoting Peter O'sullivan the horse racing commentator as his main inspiration).


action man

give him scars and khaki to wear
remove his balls, he'll go anywhere
he doesn't speak, he doesn't dare
death sneaks, he isn't scared
minus balls, he doesn't care
jacks beware, action man.
he can ack-ack Ackrington, bomb Berlin
reduce your car to a heap of tin
wage war, what's more - win
punctured skin means nothing to him
the human grenade minus pin
that's him, action man

a chin with a thin Kirk Douglas cleft
squad by the bleeding left
don't shout he's deaf
head over heels in love with death
beware of the wrath of the man bereft
no marriage plans for action man


LYRICS © JOHN COOPER CLARKE

[freckle]

Is this yours? I like....
thanks for your comments on mine...
off to eat salad soon (ref x runners pic!)