Today's poet

[Hes]

I do enjoy good songs and that may have been by the Kaiser Chiefs but Lily Allen has done some brilliant ones.

[freckle]

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.’

Wow! this poem is brilliant in its subtlety! i must read her books, i have heard "the passion" is great....

[freckle]

you're busy freckle catching up!

sorry don't mean to monopolize!!!!!! Over enthuasism st times is one of my traits...i loved your haiku by the way...i think of you as an expert in such things!

[Hes]

But there's poetry in lyrics

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

And so now I am dancing around the living room (well almost, bit hard to type and this is quite a big laptop)...pity we can't all get together and have a party eh? I think we could do with one.

[Harry H Howgill]

And so now I am dancing around the living room (well almost, bit hard to type and this is quite a big laptop)...pity we can't all get together and have a party eh? I think we could do with one.

Maybe next year some time. It is going to need to be a bloody week with all the things we've got planned. Poetry, Running, Food, Dancing....

[Hes]

Wow! this poem is brilliant in its subtlety! i must read her books, i have heard "the passion" is great....

The Passion is my all time favourite. Written in the Body is also wonderful. I have everything she has ever published I think and have seen speak her twice. She writes about aspects of love, passion and women with such a sense of poetry and deep understanding.

[Hes]

Maybe next year some time. It is going to need to be a bloody week with all the things we've got planned. Poetry, Running, Food, Dancing....

Yeahhhh!!! Fell Poetical Society holiday, bring it on!

[freckle]

Maybe next year some time. It is going to need to be a bloody week with all the things we've got planned. Poetry, Running, Food, Dancing....

Xmas on the poetic fells!!!!!! now that's a thought...do yer reckon we could get cheap flights to India HHH et al??????....i am dancing now, cool

[Derby Tup]

sorry don't mean to monopolize!!!!!! Over enthuasism st times is one of my traits...i loved your haiku by the way...i think of you as an expert in such things!

I wasn't being critical. On the contrary!

[TurboTom]

whoever smelt it
dealt it
whoever said the rhyme
did the crime