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    Winter


    Clouded with snow
    The cold winds blow,
    And shrill on leafless bough
    The robin with its burning breast
    Alone sings now.
    The rayless sun,
    Day's journey done,
    Sheds its last ebbing light
    On fields in leagues of beauty spread
    Unearthly white.
    Thick draws the dark,
    And spark by spark,
    The frost-fires kindle, and soon
    Over that sea of frozen foam
    Floats the white moon. - Walter de la Mare

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roy Scott View Post
    Its Van Morrison my dear Feckle
    Oh thank you roy and DT...my nerves are quite calmed now (transit van?...oh yer...v funny harry!)....HHH love that walter de le mare poem "silver"...beautiful ...just back from my run, didn't see the little blighter thru the mist ......so good to come back to more poems about it....!
    Last edited by freckle; 11-12-2009 at 09:02 PM.

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    The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes

    The flame-red moon, the harvest moon,
    Rolls along the hills, gently bouncing,
    A vast balloon,
    Till it takes off, and sinks upward
    To lie on the bottom of the sky, like a gold doubloon.
    The harvest moon has come,
    Booming softly through heaven, like a bassoon.
    And the earth replies all night, like a deep drum.

    So people can't sleep,
    So they go out where elms and oak trees keep
    A kneeling vigil, in a religious hush.
    The harvest moon has come!

    And all the moonlit cows and all the sheep
    Stare up at her petrified, while she swells
    Filling heaven, as if red hot, and sailing
    Closer and closer like the end of the world.

    Till the gold fields of stiff wheat
    Cry `We are ripe, reap us!' and the rivers
    Sweat from the melting hills.

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    "Harvest Moon"

    Come a little bit closer
    Hear what I have to say
    Just like children sleepin'
    We could dream this night away.

    But there's a full moon risin'
    Let's go dancin' in the light
    We know where the music's playin'
    Let's go out and feel the night.

    Because I'm still in love with you
    I want to see you dance again
    Because I'm still in love with you
    On this harvest moon.

    When we were strangers
    I watched you from afar
    When we were lovers
    I loved you with all my heart.

    But now it's gettin' late
    And the moon is climbin' high
    I want to celebrate
    See it shinin' in your eye.

    Because I'm still in love with you
    I want to see you dance again
    Because I'm still in love with you
    On this harvest moon.

    N Young

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    "Harvest Moon"

    Come a little bit closer
    Hear what I have to say
    Just like children sleepin'
    We could dream this night away.

    But there's a full moon risin'
    Let's go dancin' in the light
    We know where the music's playin'
    Let's go out and feel the night.

    Because I'm still in love with you
    I want to see you dance again
    Because I'm still in love with you
    On this harvest moon.

    When we were strangers
    I watched you from afar
    When we were lovers
    I loved you with all my heart.

    But now it's gettin' late
    And the moon is climbin' high
    I want to celebrate
    See it shinin' in your eye.

    Because I'm still in love with you
    I want to see you dance again
    Because I'm still in love with you
    On this harvest moon.

    N Young
    Harry, this post was largely responsible for possibly one of the worst ever versions of 'Only love can break your heart' ever heard! A few minutes ago in my kitchen
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    Quote Originally Posted by Derby Tup View Post
    Harry, this post was largely responsible for possibly one of the worst ever versions of 'Only love can break your heart' ever heard! A few minutes ago in my kitchen
    What a shame you haven't got a web cam!

    You can't beat a bit of kitchen karaoke! I hope you were getting the washing up done at the same time!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    What a shame you haven't got a web cam!

    You can't beat a bit of kitchen karaoke! I hope you were getting the washing up done at the same time!
    I was making beans on toast, topped with dairy product mined by Cheddar mices
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    Quote Originally Posted by Derby Tup View Post
    I was making beans on toast, topped with dairy product mined by Cheddar mices
    Throughout these thousands of posts, containing some of humanity's finest poems, I don't think I've read a finer line than that.

    I'm sure you could wangle a haiku out of that!

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    Stella fueled Tup
    croons a Youngian classic
    grating farmhouse fare

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    Quote Originally Posted by Derby Tup View Post
    Stella fueled Tup
    croons a Youngian classic
    grating farmhouse fare

    Brilliant

    "Grating farmhouse fare" is a great line

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