Today's poet

[freckle]

One day, three seasons:
Shoots launch through leaves and snow.
It is their turn now.

Oooo i really like this Harry...I too have been thinking about spring the season and spring as a metaphor.....there's a nice one by rossetti will go and get it!

[freckle]

Damn and blast! i can't find it on the internet but it does exist!!! honest!...instead here is a one i like by Emily Dickinson instead which I really like...

A little madness in the Spring
Is wholesome even for the King,
But God be with the Clown —
Who ponders this tremendous scene —
This whole Experiment of Green —
As if it were his own!

[Harry H Howgill]

Oooo i really like this Harry...I too have been thinking about spring the season and spring as a metaphor.....there's a nice one by rossetti will go and get it!

It was just something I saw today whilst on my run and thought it was poetic. Thanks for posting the Emily Dickinson as a response.

[Harry H Howgill]

Chinese lanterns fly.
Lifting spirits, carrying
a smile to the stars.

[freckle]

Chinese lanterns fly.
Lifting spirits, carrying
a smile to the stars.

we saw some of these on new years eve they really are magical i wonder where i might get some? think they would be good for parties!

[Harry H Howgill]

we saw some of these on new years eve they really are magical i wonder where i might get some? think they would be good for parties!

I've seen them in town, but there are loads of spots on t'internet if you google "chinese lanterns".

I always worry about them dropping into some neighbour's garden and setting it ablaze, but I guess they are no worse than fireworks.

[freckle]

I've seen them in town, but there are loads of spots on t'internet if you google "chinese lanterns".

I always worry about them dropping into some neighbour's garden and setting it ablaze, but I guess they are no worse than fireworks.

regardez....

http://www.nightskylanterns.co.uk/ch...-/prod_33.html

[Harry H Howgill]

regardez....

http://www.nightskylanterns.co.uk/ch...-/prod_33.html

Add another star
to the sky was the plan. But
hedge ablaze instead!

[Mossdog]

And nothing is ever as you want to be

You lose your love for her and then
It is her who is lost,
And then it is both who are lost,
And nothing is ever as perfect as you want it to be.

In a very ordinary world
A most extraordinary pain mingles with the small routines,
The loss seems huge and yet
Nothing can be pinned down or fully explained.

You are afraid.
If you found the perfect love
It would scald your hands,
Rip the skin from your nerves,
Cause havoc with a computered heart.

You lose your love for her and then it is her who is lost.
You tried not to hurt and yet
Everything you touched became a wound.
You tried to mend what cannot be mended,
You tried, neither foolish nor clumsy,
To rescue what cannot be rescued.

You failed,
And now she is elsewhere
And her night and your night
Are both utterly drained.

How easy it would be
If love could be brought home like a lost kitten
Or gathered in like strawberries
How lovely it would be;
But nothing is ever as perfect as you want it to be.

Brian Patten

Brilliant stuff and so evocative of the gritty reality we all have to steer own way through!

[Nathaniel Lee]

Lanterns

God of heaven ruled one and all,
With sixteen dragons at his beck and call,
He inflicted famine,drought,pestilence and death on humankind,
Emperor Qinshihuang united the country and left the warring states behind.

The Emperor from that day to god implored,
That peace and harmony to this united land was restored,
On the 15th day of month one an offering each year would return,
And that's how we came to have the Festival of the Lantern.

By Matt Harmston.