Today's poet

[mr brightside]

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.

[freckle]

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!

[freckle]

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...

[XRunner]

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

[Mossdog]

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

[freckle]

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

[Harry H Howgill]

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

How on earth did you stumble across that again?!

A nice one though.

[Mossdog]

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.

[freckle]

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

[Mossdog]

How on earth did you stumble across that again?!

A nice one though.

Wow! Yes, and I wonder if Reet and Helen....