Today's poet

[N-dubya]

Yes OW i did

Tri youv'e got a real craft with how you use words

[Nathaniel Lee]

Thank you neil. I am a big fan of your work and wish i had your knack with words as you always seem to write cracking stuff. You seem very well versed in poets and poetry. Is this a long standing interest ?. Is it something to do with your education or job ?.

[N-dubya]

Thank you neil. I am a big fan of your work and wish i had your knack with words as you always seem to write cracking stuff. You seem very well versed in poets and poetry. Is this a long standing interest ?. Is it something to do with your education or job ?.

No mate i'm a sort of interned, unemployed geographer. I just like poetry because the great poets seem to have that great ability to take the things ordinary and make tham beautiful. I also love the reflective qualities of poetry such as " a flash upon the inward eye". That concept for me personally is the essence of poetry.

[Nathaniel Lee]

I know what you mean. With me it's just therapeutic i find it the best way of expressing myself. I honestly {and i am not being falsely modest here or anything like that } couldn't tell you if my poetry is good,bad or indifferent from an aesthetic angle as i didn't pass any english exams at school. Which i am sure is noticeable in my punctuation. All i know is that it makes me feel good writing it down and to me that is all that matters. I am going to self publish a book of my poetry in about 6-8 weeks to see if i can make a few quid for bipolar charity and to see if it helps anyone with bipolar to get stuff off there chest.

[freckle]

This seemed quite suitable for us lot.....

Michael Drayton

From First Steps up Parnassus

My dearly loved friend, how oft have we
In winter evenings (meaning to be free)
To some well-chosen place used to retire,
And there with moderate meat, and wine, and fire,
Have passed the hours contentedly with chat;
Now talked of this, and then discoursed of that,
Spoke our own verses ‘twixt ourselves, if not
Other men’s lines which we by chance had got,
Or some stage pieces famous long before,
Of which your happy memory had store;
And I remember you much pleased were
Of those who lived long ago to hear,
As well as of those of these latter times
Who have enriched our language with their rhymes.

Harry I really adore this, is it from your new "old" book?...in any case thanks for posting

[Nathaniel Lee]

Really good one Harry. After watching the wrestling with my son i was shocked to find that you in your spare time are a wrestler and member of a group called De-generation x. You have kept very quiet about that.I found this picture of you at work in your secret identity.http://www.starpulse.com/Athletes/Tr...ry/TRIPLEH001/

[freckle]

Good morning all (a lovely lazy lie in for the freckle this morn!)....lots of lovely slow here still....

The sky is low, the clouds are mean,
A travelling flake of snow
Across a barn or through a rut
Debates if it will go.

A narrow wind complains all day
How some one treated him;
Nature, like us, is sometimes caught
Without her diadem.

Emily Dickinson

PS Triple H...that is some look...ding dong!

[XRunner]

An appropiate poet and poem for today:



Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening (Robert Frost)

• Whose woods these are I think I know
  His house is in the village though;
  He will not see me stopping here
  To watch his woods fill up with snow.
  
• My little horse must think it queer
  To stop without a farmhouse near
  Between the woods and frozen lake
  The darkest evening of the year.
  
• He gives his harness bells a shake
  To ask if there is some mistake.
  The only other sound's the sweep
  Of easy wind and downy flake.
• The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
  But I have promises to keep,
  And miles to go before I sleep.
  And miles to go before I sleep.

[N-dubya]

Couple of nice snow poems to begin the day.
just been for a run the sound of frozen mud crushing underneath your mud claws is the best, I think i might call them mud hammers

[freckle]

Couple of nice snow poems to begin the day.
just been for a run the sound of frozen mud crushing underneath your mud claws is the best, I think i might call them mud hammers

Aye there's a verse to be had with those mud hammers of yours neil!...