Today's poet

[Mossdog]

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

I like it HHH, but while it's their turn in the balmy west, Kendal way, it's still the big freeze up here in Teesdale - and much more to come i hear.

[Mossdog]

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.

Wow, that's, metaphorically and literally, really illuminating TM

[Harry H Howgill]

I like it HHH, but while it's their turn in the balmy west, Kendal way, it's still the big freeze up here in Teesdale - and much more to come i hear.

I know! I couldn't believe how much you guys had had over there yesterday!

[Harry H Howgill]

Both poetic and educational. I like it TM.

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.

[freckle]

Anonymous traveller

Flashlight of the orient, a picture of my dreams
Acends into unknown ink, a beguiling beam.

Not knowing where your journey will end,
the fragile beauty of you melting into darkness

I am left wondering where this seed of light
eventually descends.

[Mossdog]

Anonymous traveller

Flashlight of the orient, a picture of my dreams
Acends into unknown ink, a beguiling beam.

Not knowing where your journey will end,
the fragile beauty of you melting into darkness

I am left wondering where this seed of light
eventually descends.

Beautiful, and another light theme I see (excuse the pun)

[freckle]

Beautiful, and another light theme I see (excuse the pun)

Mossy you would have been so proud of me yesterday...whilst others were building snowmen i was taking photos of the snow in our local cemetry...i felt it had a certain plath like beauty about it!....anyway...i am planning on getting really miserable soon when we get more into january with plenty of sexton/plath etc etc however I will intersperse this with spike milligan at various points!!!!

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ps do you think i am just a frustrated goth waiting to get out?

[Mossdog]

Sorry, but I had to snigger when I read this first line - school-boy humour - how irreverent!

Illumining Light

There the sun shines not, nor the moon and the stars,
nor the lightning, let alone this earthly fire.

Only when illumining Light shines,
everything else shines;
the self-revealing Light illumines the entire universe.

[Mossdog]

Mossy you would have been so proud of me yesterday...whilst others were building snowmen i was taking photos of the snow in our local cemetry...i felt it had a certain plath like beauty about it!....anyway...i am planning on getting really miserable soon when we get more into january with plenty of sexton/plath etc etc however I will intersperse this with spike milligan at various points!!!! Attachment 2739

I am. I am. I'm DEAD impressed - sorry, I'm in one of those moods tonight

[freckle]

I am. I am. I'm DEAD impressed - sorry, I'm in one of those moods tonight

Tee Hee! your a right card you are...oh and school BOY humour eh?