Today's poet

[Hes]

Hi guys...i love these lyrics they are so evocative..i sued to have this album years ago it brings back memories of working in a punk/indie shop with pink hair and a nose stud!

Ha ha, I bet you looked brilliant. I saw her at Glastonbury in 2004, she was amazing.

[freckle]

[quote=Harry H Howgill;280853]Like barley bending

So would I softly,
Day long, night long,
Change my sorrow
Into song.

how utterly beautiful and inspiring is this....thank you for posting HHH, sorry i am behind a bit tonight!!!!.....

[freckle]

Welcome back Freckle, really glad you made it tonight, you've been missed.

Thanks Hes

[freckle]

Hope
What joy
A flash of light
A tiny speck of a thing
For y(m)o(e)u

[Harry H Howgill]

Dear Neil, I really enjoyed the poetry you have posted so far and this info about wordsworth...i am glad you have chosen to expend your creative energies in this direction! it is a friendly and warm thread which embraces and nurtures creativity!

Well said.

[freckle]

i never post lyrics but i do like these, been in my head today...

originally by Kaiser Chiefs and not Lilly Allen as i previously thought!

Time on your side that will never end
The most beautiful thing you can ever spend
But you work in a shirt with your name tag on it
Drifting apart like a plate tectonic
It don’t matter to me
‘Cos all I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
Too much time spent dragging the past up
I didn’t see you not looking when I messed up
Settling down in your early twenties
Sucked more blood than a backstreet dentist
It don’t matter to me
‘Cos all I wanted to be
Is a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
Oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home

Great rulers make for greater glory
The only thing growing is our history
Knock me down I’ll get right back up again
I’ll come back stronger than a powered up pac-Man
It don’t matter to me
‘Cos all I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
Oh my god, I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home

Oh my, god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from

[freckle]

Celebration

Brilliant, this day – a young virtuoso of a day.
Morning shadow cut by sharpest scissors,
deft hands. And every prodigy of green –
whether it's ferns or lichens or needles
or impatient points of buds on spindly bushes –
greener than ever before. And the way the conifers
hold new cones to the light for the blessing,
a festive right, and sing the oceanic chant the wind
transcribes for them!
A day that shines in the cold
like a first-prize brass band swinging along
the street
of a coal-dusty village, wholly at odds
with the claims of reasonable gloom.

Denise Levertov </B>

[Hes]

A poem by Wallace Stevens that I just found on a Jeanette Winterson site. I do really love her books.

THE BLUE GUITAR

The man bent over his guitar,
A shearsman of sorts. The day was green.

They said, ‘You have a blue guitar,
You cannot play things as they are.’

The man replied, ‘Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar.’

And they said then, ‘But play, you must,
A tune beyond us, yet ourselves,
A tune upon the blue guitar
Of things exactly as they are.’

[Harry H Howgill]

But there's poetry in lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm4iU0yx9GY

i never post lyrics but i do like these, been in my head today...

originally by Kaiser Chiefs and not Lilly Allen as i previously thought!

Time on your side that will never end
The most beautiful thing you can ever spend
But you work in a shirt with your name tag on it
Drifting apart like a plate tectonic
It don’t matter to me
‘Cos all I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
Too much time spent dragging the past up
I didn’t see you not looking when I messed up
Settling down in your early twenties
Sucked more blood than a backstreet dentist
It don’t matter to me
‘Cos all I wanted to be
Is a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
Oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home

Great rulers make for greater glory
The only thing growing is our history
Knock me down I’ll get right back up again
I’ll come back stronger than a powered up pac-Man
It don’t matter to me
‘Cos all I wanted to be
Was a million miles from here
Somewhere more familiar
Oh my god, I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home

Oh my, god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from home
And oh my god I can’t believe it
I’ve never been this far away from

[Derby Tup]

you're busy freckle catching up!