Today's poet

[Hes]

Pain, sadness, but no regrets, i'll be fine Hes, don't worry, just felt the need to write it

It is good that you did. Hope you feel better. Take care Merry.x

[XRunner]

An interesting article about animals and sporting life.

[Hes]

Hey Xrunner...great minds eh?!!!

By the way, I really did enjoy your ditty from your uni days.

I also wanted to say hello to Neil and thanks for the lines on Kinder.

[Nathaniel Lee]

What a fabulous night for poetry and peoples feelings. Another day of outstanding contributions i loved reading them all.

[Hes]

An interesting article about animals and sporting life.

That looks very interesting, I've saved it to my favourites and will have a proper read tomorrow (probably when I'm supposed to be working). I'm doing two new snall hare prints...will have to choose two new names, I'm tempted to do gobshite and shag-the-hare but I think I might wait until I'm ancient and can get away with that kind of thing!

[freckle]

What a fabulous night for poetry and peoples feelings. Another day of outstanding contributions i loved reading them all.

i agree, lovely poems hes and x runner...its good that people can express their feelings here.....

[stevefoster]

i agree, lovely poems hes and x runner...its good that people can express their feelings here.....

Totally agree

[XRunner]

Thank you so much XRunner, I haven't come across this one before. It's lovely.)

Did you know that the middle name for Harry H Howgill is Hare?

[Hes]

Did you know that the middle name for Harry H Howgill is Hare?

Always wondered what the H was for! What's the X for then Xrunner?

[XRunner]

My series of 12 small hare prints was inspired by this translation of a 15th century hunting poem.

The Names of the Hare
translated from middle English

Here is another version of this poem in Norman-French Anglo-Saxon form!

Les nouns de un levre en Englais

The mon that the hare i-met
Ne shal him nevere be the bet,
Bot if he lei down on londe
That he bereth in his honde.
(Be hit staf, be hit bouwe),
And blesce him with his helbowe.
And mid wel goed devosioun
He shall saien on oreisoun
In the worshipe of the hare
Thenne mai he wel fare.

"The hare, the scotart,
The bigge, the bouchart,
The scotewine, the skikart,
The turpin, the tirart,
The wei-betere, the ballart,
The go-bi-dich, the soillart,
The wimount, the babbart,
The stele-awai, the momelart,
The evil-i-met, the babbart,
The scot, the deubert,
The gras-bitere, the goibert,
The late-at-hom, the swikebert,
The frendlese, the wodecat,
The brodlokere, the bromcat,
The purblinde, the fursecat,
The louting, the westlokere,
The waldenlie, the sid-lokere,
And eke the roulekere;
The stobhert, the long-here,
The strau-der, the lekere,
The wilde der, the lepere,
The shorte der, the lorkere,
The wint-swift, the sculkere,
The hare serd, the heg-roukere,
The deudinge, the deu-hoppere,
The sittere, the gras-hoppere,
The fitelfot, the foldsittere,
The cawel-hert, the wortcroppere,
The go-bi-ground, the sitte-stille,
The pintail, toure-tohulle;
The cove-arise,
The make-agrise,
The wite-wombe,
The go-mit-lombe,
The choumbe, the chaulart,
The chiche, the couart,
The make-fare, the breke-forwart,
The fnattart, the pollart,
(His hei nome is srewart);

The hert with the letherene hornes,
The der that woneth in the cornes,
The der that alle men scornes,
The der that no-mon ne-dar nemmen."
When thou havest al this i-said,
Thenne is the hare migtt alaid.
Thenne migtt thou wenden forth,
Est and west, and south and north,
Wedrewardes so mon wile,
The man that con ani skile.
Have nou godne dai, sire hare!
God the lete so wel fare,
That thou come to me ded,
Other in cive, other in bred! Amen!