Today's poet

[stevefoster]

Me too!!!!! how funny!....surely that can't be right can it?...oh well.... think i'll check out the lounge!

Congrats Lady Master freckle

[XRunner]

We've had much much worse I'm sure!

Drumroll for X-Runner.............

I did find a poem called "Please Master" by Alan Ginsberg but it cannot be published on this forum
It is much worse I'm sure.

Congratutions to Freckle on her Master status and her 810 postings on this thread!!!

[freckle]

EMOTIVE WARNING - A change of tone ahead - extremely SAD, but so very moving and written straight from the heart like (I believe) all good poetry.

Aftermath

by: Amy Lowell (1874-1925)


I learnt to write to you in happier days,
And every letter was a piece I chipped
From off my heart, a fragment newly clipped
From the mosaic of life; its blues and grays,
Its throbbing reds, I gave to earn your praise.
To make a pavement for your feet I stripped
My soul for you to walk upon, and slipped
Beneath your steps to soften all your ways.
But now my letters are like blossoms pale
We strew upon a grave with hopeless tears.
I ask no recompense, I shall not fail
Although you do not heed; the long, sad years
Still pass, and still I scatter flowers frail,
And whisper words of love which no one hears.

very moving Mossy beautiful...i love the image of scattering flowers frail....and the last line is heartwrenching, very well written

[Old Whippet]

Well they haven't been on for ages...that could mean so many different things both good and bad!...anyway a fell running wedding, doesn't get more romantic than that does it?...its a good job we weren't around then (ie the thread that is) as i could imagine us all crashing it and sitting at the back annoying everyone with our recitals of various poems!.....i hope they are happy

A fell running wedding....of course the Anniversary Waltz fell race is an anniversary celebration of 2 fell runners marrying at Newlands Church. So....surely any fell running poet worth his or her salt would not dream of missing it?????
http://www.anniversarywaltz.co.uk/

[freckle]

I did find a poem called "Please Master" by Alan Ginsberg but it cannot be published on this forum
It is much worse I'm sure.

Congratutions to Freckle on her Master status

Mmmmm...we are very inclusive on this thread are we not?...Am I allowed to say I enjoyed that?...of course I am!!!!.......

now X runner can you find something with a slightly more delicate tone with the word master in it?....although there is nowt wrong with a bit of domination now and then...i'll stop there I think

[XRunner]

Mmmmm...we are very inclusive on this thread are we not?...Am I allowed to say I enjoyed that?...of course I am!!!!.......

now X runner can you find something with a slightly more delicate tone with the word master in it?....although there is nowt wrong with a bit of domination now and then...i'll stop there I think

As I read your poems O Master
My heart melts my soul rejoices
Energy pours out through my spine
A harvest of peace surrounds me
I contemplate deep on your words
Overwhelmed as I read out the verse
The novelty breeds divine presence
Silence reflects through the heavens
The eternal longing for the divine
Is heard deep within! Om!


(Anon)

[Mossdog]

Congrats Lady Master freckle

Yes...a new celebratory theme... for Lady Master (cue trumpet fanfare)

The Dream of a Kiss

by: Christine Siebeneck Swayne


I dreamed I lay within his master arm,
And that his eye, adventured into mine,
Had roused my pulses to a glad alarm
Of love, obeying his imperious sign;
His urgent will supreme, my will supine,
His mouth most eloquent in mute address,
Demanding that which I could not decline,
Because my heart said only "yes" and "yes":--
Oh! we forgot the world, and life, and death,
Because his heart was knocking on my breast,
When I, with faltering lips and flutt'ring breath,
Yielding, acceded to his keen request,--
At last, transcending words that speak of bliss,
Our two mouths moulded in one God-like Kiss!

[freckle]

As I read your poems O Master
My heart melts my soul rejoices
Energy pours out through my spine
A harvest of peace surrounds me
I contemplate deep on your words
Overwhelmed as I read out the verse
The novelty breeds divine presence
Silence reflects through the heavens
The eternal longing for the divine
Is heard deep within! Om!


(Anon)

Om indeed!..................well done X runner....and thank you

[freckle]

Yes...a new celebratory theme... for Lady Master (cue trumpet fanfare)

The Dream of a Kiss

by: Christine Siebeneck Swayne


I dreamed I lay within his master arm,
And that his eye, adventured into mine,
Had roused my pulses to a glad alarm
Of love, obeying his imperious sign;
His urgent will supreme, my will supine,
His mouth most eloquent in mute address,
Demanding that which I could not decline,
Because my heart said only "yes" and "yes":--
Oh! we forgot the world, and life, and death,
Because his heart was knocking on my breast,
When I, with faltering lips and flutt'ring breath,
Yielding, acceded to his keen request,--
At last, transcending words that speak of bliss,
Our two mouths moulded in one God-like Kiss!

Ooooo I am all of a dither!......thannk you mossy...particularly like the line"his heart knocking on my breast"...Oooo la la !

[Old Whippet]

I did find a poem called "Please Master" by Alan Ginsberg but it cannot be published on this forum
It is much worse I'm sure.

Congratutions to Freckle on her Master status and her 810 postings on this thread!!!

Now call me old fashioned....... before I read this, I thought the 'master' status was about having 1000 posts to your name!