Today's poet

[Harry H Howgill]

This one's for DT....

Radio 2

From Dawn
(with Sarah Kennedy)
I listen to Radio 2
All day
Until I'm glad it's night
And the pips

Rory Motion

[Derby Tup]

Reminds me of a friend I used to fish with years ago. He daren't put his fishing umbrella up in rain as his wife used to shout at him if he got it wet!

Rory Motion is just fab....

I was watching the match at Leeds Road
It started raining
The two old blokes in the next seats
Took their caps off
"Excuse me," I said
"Why are you taking your caps off?"
"Nay, lad," the nearest one replied
"I'm not going to sit all night
In a damp cap."

[Derby Tup]

Now that is very funny and clever

This one's for DT....

Radio 2

From Dawn
(with Sarah Kennedy)
I listen to Radio 2
All day
Until I'm glad it's night
And the pips

Rory Motion

[Harry H Howgill]

Reminds me of a friend I used to fish with years ago. He daren't put his fishing umbrella up in rain as his wife used to shout at him if he got it wet!

Too right! I hope he never got his wellies soggy either!

[Mossdog]

Free

by: Alisha Sufit

I thought of life
as though it were a space
with walls and floor
and ceiling,
sought to make it solid, fixed,
construct it well,
so I should have security of place.

Then I heard the small stars'
laughter pealing far away.
"Fall!" they cried,
"and fly,
for you cannot break your bones,
nor die.

There is no ground
upon which you can land.
It's all pure ether,
solid as the sand
that fills Egyptian deserts,
solid as the water in the sea.
Let go and fall
and then you will be free."


Evening all

[freckle]

Free

by: Alisha Sufit

I thought of life
as though it were a space
with walls and floor
and ceiling,
sought to make it solid, fixed,
construct it well,
so I should have security of place.

Then I heard the small stars'
laughter pealing far away.
"Fall!" they cried,
"and fly,
for you cannot break your bones,
nor die.

There is no ground
upon which you can land.
It's all pure ether,
solid as the sand
that fills Egyptian deserts,
solid as the water in the sea.
Let go and fall
and then you will be free."


Evening all

so brilliant especially verse 2......thanks so much mossy for posting

[Derby Tup]

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.

W.B. Yeats

[Harry H Howgill]

so brilliant especially verse 2......thanks so much mossy for posting

Great choice Mossy.

[Harry H Howgill]

Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye;
That's all we know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
I lift the glass to my mouth,
I look at you, and I sigh.

W.B. Yeats

Now that is good too. I bought a book of his and haven't even started looking at it yet. I must dig it out.

[Old Whippet]

Here's one for Hes on her way back from views of the Himalayas to Yorkshire.

High Tea

Whilst on a Nepalese mountain walk
I came across two Yetis
So I took them both back home to York
And we went for tea at Betty's
We ordered toast and tea with lime
And some dainty little ices
And everything was going fine
Till the Yetis saw the prices
They ate two tourists who came from Spain
The way they were was all too horrible
So I never took them there again
Their behaviour was abominable

Rory Motion

well man of many h's - that's spookily appropriate!
Liked your gloom busting poem. Must delve into this Rory Motion person.
You and your levity!