Today's poet

[Old Whippet]

Which one were you meaning?

this one Harry

"I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members"

[freckle]

Good morning all

Have you seen the snow out there!...there is a lot here....still going to try and make that New Year's race but lets see how far I get eh?...in the meantime...

Snow flakes.
Emily Dickinson

I counted till they danced so
Their slippers leaped the town,
And then I took a pencil
To note the rebels down.
And then they grew so jolly
I did resign the prig,
And ten of my once stately toes
Are marshalled for a jig!

ps please be careful everyone on the roads

[Hes]

I'd much rather be choosing or writing poetry than having discussions about rules. This is a lovely and positive thread, but we are a little cliquey already without adding another layer of cliquiness to it. As far as rules go, we don't need any other than don't be offensive to anyone. I'm not sure what advantages there are either. I'd personally think that the thread is ticking along nicely without it. Please don't take offence XR. I'm sure you set it up by yourself with the best intentions.

Lets get on with the poetry.....

The Sun

I stayed up all night
Thinking about the sun
Then in the morning
It dawned on me

Rory Motion

Hi all...I agree with HHH and OW about the group. We already had an informal Fell Poets Society that I thought of myself as a part of and thought anyone that wanted to be could be too. I haven't been invited to the official one but understand that I can ask to be invited? I hope that not being in it won't exclude me from meetings as I was looking forward to our first one. I am on four committees and find they are tiresome and end up being about rules and constitutions and less about why the group formed in the first place. However, I can see a need to have a way of organising meetings...I don't know, as Xrunner said, he was just trying it out. I guess I'll think about it some more when I'm back home.

[Hes]

Happy New Year everyone!

Freckle...I loved your poem about New Year. I am not a great fan of it and find it a little depressing, too many expectations and pressure to 'have fun'. Usually I like to climb a big mountain on New Years Day and went up Ben Nevis last year. This year I got a boat to see the sunrise on the Ganges which was wonderful (even though the sun was hidden in fog)...very ethereal and thought provoking with enough melancholy to keep me happy!

New Years Eve

the full moon risen
silver glitters among flames
from floating candles

New Year Morning

rowing through the dawn
swallows dip between the boats
funeral pyres smoke

[freckle]

Hi all...I agree with HHH and OW about the group. We already had an informal Fell Poets Society that I thought of myself as a part of and thought anyone that wanted to be could be too. I haven't been invited to the official one but understand that I can ask to be invited? I hope that not being in it won't exclude me from meetings as I was looking forward to our first one. I am on four committees and find they are tiresome and end up being about rules and constitutions and less about why the group formed in the first place. However, I can see a need to have a way of organising meetings...I don't know, as Xrunner said, he was just trying it out. I guess I'll think about it some more when I'm back home.

I think you raise a number of very good points on this and the consensus of people who have commented seems to be moving towards not having a formal society...lets give it a bit more time for comments and see...i think it was a nice idea of X runners but perhaps we didn't forsee some now rather obvious difficulties with it!...anyhow i am hopeful that we can carry on with business as usual for 2010!

[freckle]

Happy New Year everyone!

Freckle...I loved your poem about New Year. I am not a great fan of it and find it a little depressing, too many expectations and pressure to 'have fun'. Usually I like to climb a big mountain on New Years Day and went up Ben Nevis last year. This year I got a boat to see the sunrise on the Ganges which was wonderful (even though the sun was hidden in fog)...very ethereal and thought provoking with enough melancholy to keep me happy!

New Years Eve

the full moon risen
silver glitters among flames
from floating candles

New Year Morning

rowing through the dawn
swallows dip between the boats
funeral pyres smoke

Hes these are brilliant...there is 6 inches of snow here so to imagine these images of India feels such a beautiful contrast.....well you will be homeward bound soon just in time for Clayton Banks, you never know there might be still some snow left for your return!...take care you

[freckle]

The Weary One

The weary one, orphan
of the masses, the self,
the crushed one, the one made of concrete,
the one without a country in crowded restaurants,
he who wanted to go far away, always farther away,
didn't know what to do there, whether he wanted
or didn't want to leave or remain on the island,
the hesitant one, the hybrid, entangled in himself,
had no place here: the straight-angled stone,
the infinite look of the granite prism,
the circular solitude all banished him:
he went somewhere else with his sorrows,
he returned to the agony of his native land,
to his indecisions, of winter and summer.

Pablo Neruda

[Stolly]

Furry Bear A A Milne

If I were a bear,
And a big bear too,
I shouldn’t much care
If it froze or snew;
I shouldn’t much mind
If it snowed or friz —
I’d be all fur-lined
With a coat like his!

For I’d have fur boots and a brown fur wrap,
And brown fur knickers and a big fur cap.
I’d have a fur muffle-ruff to cover my jaws,
And brown fur mittens on my big brown paws.
With a big brown furry-down up to my head,
I’d sleep all the winter in a big fur bed.

Kind of topical, what with the weather n'all, and a perfect link for me to post my winnie the pooh swine flu joke

[Harry H Howgill]

Hi all...I agree with HHH and OW about the group. We already had an informal Fell Poets Society that I thought of myself as a part of and thought anyone that wanted to be could be too. I haven't been invited to the official one but understand that I can ask to be invited? I hope that not being in it won't exclude me from meetings as I was looking forward to our first one. I am on four committees and find they are tiresome and end up being about rules and constitutions and less about why the group formed in the first place. However, I can see a need to have a way of organising meetings...I don't know, as Xrunner said, he was just trying it out. I guess I'll think about it some more when I'm back home.

The only rule there is: is that there ain't no rules.

[XRunner]

The only rule there is: is that there ain't no rules.

You seem to have broken the rule about swear words on the forum and avoided the ****** generator!