Today's poet

[Harry H Howgill]

Burnsall 1910 {Dalzell's Race}

The reverend set the boys off at burnsall,
Off like a bullet Metcalfe,Dalzell,Greenhow and all,
Once on the fell Metcalfe thought his lead was enough,
He tried to outfox Dalzell by running into the rough.

But Dalzell wouldn't have it he raced young Thomas to the turn,
That was when Metcalfe realised his plan had been spurned,
Dalzell was only two seconds behind at the top of the fell,
Heading back down the hillside is what he does well.

But this time he was so wonderfully quick,
His feet ne're touching the ground his footwork so slick,
Like a gazelle he leapt way up into the sky,
All the crowd who saw it believed a man could fly.

He finished the race in the fastest time ever,
Many said it will stand for all time,"Never be Never,"
It took 67 years until someone faster crossed the line,
In 1910 in burnsall Dalzell ran 12:59.


By Matt Harmston

That is one of the classic fell running stories. You captured it well TM.

[Nathaniel Lee]

Youth.

So quickly it's gone the days when everything was yours,
When if you wanted something your confidence would open the doors,
Out all night loving hard, living fast squeezing the marrow out of everyday,
Not thinking about the future just where's the next lay.

Now when i'm older i look back sometimes bitter,sometimes fond,
I just lived for the day never thinking that there was anything beyond,
It would be great to be able to go back for the day and give some advice,
Just to warn myself that all of the loving and living fast comes at a price.

By Matt Harmston.

[freckle]

Youth.

So quickly it's gone the days when everything was yours,
When if you wanted something your confidence would open the doors,
Out all night loving hard, living fast squeezing the marrow out of everyday,
Not thinking about the future just where's the next lay.

Now when i'm older i look back sometimes bitter,sometimes fond,
I just lived for the day never thinking that there was anything beyond,
It would be great to be able to go back for the day and give some advice,
Just to warn myself that all of the loving and living fast comes at a price.

By Matt Harmston.

oooooooo tri now that i do like, very sat night hows the book coming along? plenty of material !

[freckle]

Top of the morning to ya! and its the best kindo of morning, the type where i will be up a fell, albeit bedraggled, but up a fell nevertheless!....have a good one everyone!

Butterflies in stomach
the size of pterodactyls
hope they make me fly as good!!!!

[Harry H Howgill]

Top of the morning to ya! and its the best kindo of morning, the type where i will be up a fell, albeit bedraggled, but up a fell nevertheless!....have a good one everyone!

Butterflies in stomach
the size of pterodactyls
hope they make me fly as good!!!!

That nervousness is
fight or flight. Don't bop no-one,
Go run for your life

[freckle]

That nervousness is
fight or flight. Don't bop no-one,
Go run for your life

just got back, wot fun, poems to follow but extremely muddy....

record turn out today at simonside (116)

so nice to see deejay and mountain goatess today, i caught siight of old whippett but he was quite quickly a blur, which was a shame cos
guess which fell poet won a prize?......and hooved princess?

clarty as owt
with twinkly lights
a lung busting start
followed by gentle inclines
those people at the brink
have batteries i think!

a good time was had by all
over bog (and in my case three falls)
splattered in mud,
freckle and the flaxen haired one
exclaim "what a splendid run! "
and receive bitter and chocolates
just for fun!

ah well, who cares if it doesn't rhyme perfectly?... what a great morning, need to organise my next race quick sharp! and lookingforward to seeing you forumties in the flesh again soon!

[freckle]

That nervousness is
fight or flight. Don't bop no-one,
Go run for your life

awww thanks HHH it was such a lovely run, really enjoyed it, think you and some other fell poets shoud do it next year! imagine? wud be such a laff

[Derby Tup]

Hope you had a good run freckle

Calderdale Relay
leg four with forumite friends
great December fun!

[freckle]

Hope you had a good run freckle

Calderdale Relay
leg four with forumite friends
great December fun!

sounds cool DT nice one

[freckle]

Today was one of the best days of my life.
Nothing of any importance occurred -
I cut my finger on a paperknife
And marvelled at a busy hummingbird
Plucking out wet moss by a waterfall;
Broke bread with friends and shared a glass of wine;
Wrote this poem; swam; made love. That’s all.
Why should it be some days erect a shrine...
A cairn, a white stone day, in memory?
Is it, as Buddhists claim, a lack of need,
Or want? Or simple serendipity,
The perfect flowering of one small seed?
The wise will say our frames are none too pure:
How many perfect days could we endure?

Felix Dennis

Right off for a curry soon...well a girl's gotta eat after 11 miles yer know!