Today's poet

[Hes]

Hello everyone! Just wanted to wish you all a really happy Christmas and hope that your day is full of love, happiness and poetry! I just spent mine on the beach at Mamallapuram, Tamilnadu beachcombing, drawing cows amongst the boats and chatting to gypsies...happy days!

Thanks for all your lovely comments about my haiku and I have been reading a few posts. There has been some wonderful choices and some really creative new work. I'm going to read the last few weeks pr so properly when I am back and sufferning from jetlag.

[Hes]

a couple from the jungle:

forest canopy
a net for one hundred stars
caught among the leaves

as the moon rises
bird song gives way to insects
the night forest hums

like sparks from a fire
the afternoon sun sets light
to dragonfly wings

From chaotic Madurai:

polychrome temple
air hangs heavy with jasmine
and warm candle wax

and from Mamallapuram:

the half moon hangs low
among the boats the cows sleep
waves wash the beach clean

[Hes]

From a poet from Tamil Nadu:

Primal Cause

I cracked myself
The world emerged
I cracked the world
Became myself

vannanilavan

[Hes]

and for all you parents and poets....

An Equation

Between the lines of a poem
(a+b)2 = a2 + b2 + 2ab
scribbled in pencil by
my little daughter.

Poem versus equation-
her action set me thinking.

A few days later
in her homework

Swimming through
algebraic symbols-
a small, childish flower

karikalan

[Smut]

Happy Merry.

[Boy Wonder]

Santa's nicked off
the presents all out
too much wine and cheese
makes a fell poet feel stout
never mind pretty soon
you'll get the miles in
which will help you forget
the magnitude of your sin
so it is that I leave
this forum
for one special day
and trust that all forumites
in my absence resist
any temptation
to get totally and utterly p***ed!
Of course I am jesting
as you may be aware
my passion for sneckliftering
is beyond compare!
So dear friends
it is with no further a do
I sincerely wish y-o-u
merry christmas
and a year full of NEW!

And all the best to you and yours... and all other poets of whatever type!

[freckle]

From a poet from Tamil Nadu:

Primal Cause

I cracked myself
The world emerged
I cracked the world
Became myself

vannanilavan

I adore this Hes...its beautiful!...the haiku are so evocative, really lovely...your xmas sounds fab!...we are having a lovely day here but think i need a good long run tomorrow after all this indulgence!...thanks for thefestive wishes boy wonder and hope all you fell poets are having a good one...

back to the high school musical dance mat..i am the champ after all !

[freckle]

One of my xmas presents...the forward book of poetry, a collection of the best poems of the year from the forward poetry prizes has this one...i think its rather good!

Lit Windows
Glyn Maxwell

When I go home again,
when I know so many homes, but I mean the home
with the longest vowel, when I wander the old realm,
I pass them on the lane,
boys turned to men,

so I turn back to a boy
to pass them saying nothing. For it's death
to be where one is not, where every breath
is a heaving of the oars
alone at sea.

I could grow white and old
and I will, I am well aware, grow white and old
looking through lit windows of the world
for people in their rooms;
for the blue, cold

light of a TV on
in an empty room . . . girl at a light so bright
she's silhouette . . . a man who hangs his coat
and stands quite still . . . a mother
agrees with someone

over cake . . . the frosted light
of suppertime, of bathtime, of sex.
I don't have what I have from reading books
but stopping by your homes
to see these sights

and wondering forever
who is someone else? Who on earth
are all these people to have known this with,
this world? Whole skies of stars
are a lesser wonder

fullythan all your lights at evening,
all your lives. When the lights go out I'm there,
moving on. When it's dark the stars are clear,
their immaterial eyes
believing, disbelieving.

[Derby Tup]

From a poet from Tamil Nadu:

Primal Cause

I cracked myself
The world emerged
I cracked the world
Became myself

vannanilavan

I love this too Sounds like an ace trip Hes!

[Derby Tup]

snowy Christmas run
knee-deep drifts on Pennine Way
mince pies aided thaw