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    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    Thanks Mr Brightside....i don't really thnk there is any such thing as flute poetry really, i was just trying to justify the you tube link i put up earlier with t he guy playing a flute in an unusual manner!...it would be nice if you keep popping up on here, the more the merrier!
    Thanks Freckle, thing is i don't really get poetry, i don't feel it i just live my life aware of it as something that people like to read and write.

    It's like drum and bass, i love house especially classic and old school house, a tune with a snappy vocal and an uplifting piano riff will make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up but i just can't feel drum and bass like that it's not my vibe a bit like poetry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    This is rather sweet and, yes, uplifting


    GLYN MAXWELL


    Stargazing

    The night is fine and dry. It falls and spreads
    the cold sky with a million opposites
    that, for a moment, seem like a million souls
    and soon, none, and then, for what seems a long time,
    one. Then of course it spins. What is better to do
    than string out over the infinite dead spaces
    the ancient beasts and spearmen of the human
    mind, and, if not the real ones, new ones?

    But, try making them clear to one you love —
    whoever is standing by you is one you love
    when pinioned by the stars — you will find it quite
    impossible, but like her more for thinking
    she sees that constellation.

    After the wave of pain, you will turn to her
    and, in an instant, change the universe
    to a sky you were glad you came outside to see.

    This is the act of all the descended gods
    of every age and creed: to weary of all
    that never ends, to take a human hand,
    and go back into the house.

    Mossy what is your interpretation of this poem...i loved your poems becuase they are challenging..i need help!

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    Quote Originally Posted by mr brightside View Post
    Thanks Freckle, thing is i don't really get poetry, i don't feel it i just live my life aware of it as something that people like to read and write.

    It's like drum and bass, i love house especially classic and old school house, a tune with a snappy vocal and an uplifting piano riff will make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up but i just can't feel drum and bass like that it's not my vibe a bit like poetry.
    That's a really eloquent way of explaining your feelings Mr Brightside...an interesting insight...thank you ...i know what you mean, some things either grab you or they don't, well anhyway its been nice to chat, when i become an accomplished fell runner i hope to be on the same thread as you more often!....i am hoping that 2010 will the year when i get going, my target being 10 races...

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    Re: Today's poet

    Another poem for this forum: and the consequences of fell running!

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    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    Mossy what is your interpretation of this poem...i loved your poems becuase they are challenging..i need help!
    To me it reads accepting human and life's imperfections, tolerance and forbearance, the inevitability that companionship and even intimacy are always temporary, but that we should value and seek it just the same, and that we need fortitude to understand that while we are many we're also always one. Not sure that makes much sense, but that's the best I've got to offer
    Am Yisrael Chai

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    To me it reads accepting human and life's imperfections, tolerance and forbearance, the inevitability that companionship and even intimacy are always temporary, but that we should value and seek it just the same, and that we need fortitude to understand that while we are many we're also always one. Not sure that makes much sense, but that's the best I've got to offer
    That is a lovely and helpful synopsis...you are right...it is uplifting...thank you x

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    Quote Originally Posted by XRunner View Post
    Another poem for this forum: and the consequences of fell running!
    How on earth did you stumble across that again?!

    A nice one though.

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    Re: Today's poet

    And this isn't so off target of those same sentiments really (I think)...

    ROGER McGOUGH


    The Way Things Are

    No, the candle is not crying, it can not feel pain.
    Even telescopes, like the rest of us, grow bored.
    Bubblegum will not make the hair soft and shiny.
    The duller the imagination, the faster the car,
    I am your father and that is the way things are.

    When the sky is looking the other way,
    do not enter the forest. No, the wind
    is not caused by the rushing of clouds.
    An excuse is as good a reason as any.
    A lighthouse, launched, will not go far,
    I am your father and that is the way things are.

    No, old people do not walk slowly
    because they have plenty of time.
    Gardening books when buried will not flower.
    Though lightly worn, a crown may leave a scar,
    I am your father and that is the way things are.

    No, the red woolly hat has not been
    put on the railing to keep it warm.
    When one glove is missing, both are lost.
    Today's craft fair is tomorrows boot sale.
    The guitarist weeps gently, not the guitar
    I am your father and that is the way things are.

    Pebbles work best without batteries.
    The deckchair will fail as a unit of currency.
    Even though your shadow is shortening
    it does not mean you are growing smaller.
    Moonbeams sadly, will not survive in a jar,
    I am your father and that is the way things are.

    For centuries the bullet remained quietly confident
    that the gun would be invented.
    A drowning surrealist will not appreciate
    the concrete lifebelt.
    No guarantee my last goodbye is an au revoir,
    I am your father and that is the way things are.

    Do not become a prison officer unless you know
    what your letting someone else in for.
    The thrill of being a shower curtain will soon pall.
    No trusting hand awaits a falling star
    I am your father, and I am sorry
    but this is the way things are.
    Am Yisrael Chai

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    Quote Originally Posted by XRunner View Post
    Another poem for this forum: and the consequences of fell running!

    X Runner I absolutely adore this poem....it is so unbelievably romantic ( you know I am a sop)...but I do think that fell running itself is a very romantic activity in the broadest sense of the word.....I could go on....

    thanks you for posting

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    How on earth did you stumble across that again?!

    A nice one though.
    Wow! Yes, and I wonder if Reet and Helen....
    Am Yisrael Chai

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