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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Whippet View Post
    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!
    Evening OW

    Sometimes you just find the perfect one.

    He's a rather fine artist too...

    http://www.rorymotion.co.uk/gallery.htm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    Great choice Mossy.
    Thanks HHH and Happy Birthday Freckle. I've recently come across this apposite poem...

    Silence the colour of snow

    Silence the colour of snow
    settles against everything we love –
    the late, startled flowers, the roadside stones –
    all edge softened, all calamities blurred.
    Why do you accuse me of never talking with you?
    You know, they used to say that
    if every tongue in the world were stilled at once,
    the common silence would translate itself
    to a snow that summer winds
    could never drive away. Hush now, not another word.
    Look! High over the frozen roofs,
    my answer hangs and falls, that six-fingered star.

    John Glenday
    Am Yisrael Chai

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    Beautiful Mossy!

    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Thanks HHH and Happy Birthday Freckle. I've recently come across this apposite poem...

    Silence the colour of snow

    Silence the colour of snow
    settles against everything we love –
    the late, startled flowers, the roadside stones –
    all edge softened, all calamities blurred.
    Why do you accuse me of never talking with you?
    You know, they used to say that
    if every tongue in the world were stilled at once,
    the common silence would translate itself
    to a snow that summer winds
    could never drive away. Hush now, not another word.
    Look! High over the frozen roofs,
    my answer hangs and falls, that six-fingered star.

    John Glenday

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Thanks HHH and Happy Birthday Freckle. I've recently come across this apposite poem...

    Silence the colour of snow

    Silence the colour of snow
    settles against everything we love –
    the late, startled flowers, the roadside stones –
    all edge softened, all calamities blurred.
    Why do you accuse me of never talking with you?
    You know, they used to say that
    if every tongue in the world were stilled at once,
    the common silence would translate itself
    to a snow that summer winds
    could never drive away. Hush now, not another word.
    Look! High over the frozen roofs,
    my answer hangs and falls, that six-fingered star.

    John Glenday
    Yes, there's a lot to be said for silence (sorry, couldn't resist)
    Am Yisrael Chai

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Yes, there's a lot to be said for silence (sorry, couldn't resist)
    Very good Mossy

    Night all

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Yes, there's a lot to be said for silence (sorry, couldn't resist)
    beautiful poem mossy thank you

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    Flying at night

    Above us, stars. Beneath us, constellations.
    Five billion miles away, a galaxy dies
    like a snowflake falling on water. Below us,
    some farmer, feeling the chill of that distant death,
    snaps on his yard light, drawing his sheds and barn
    back into the little system of his care.
    All night, the cities, like shimmering novas,
    tug with bright streets at lonely lights like his.

    Ted Kooser

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    Re: Today's poet

    aged Wharfedale oak
    half a millenium old
    naked, defiant

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    Quote Originally Posted by Derby Tup View Post
    aged Wharfedale oak
    half a millenium old
    naked, defiant
    Thats beautiful DT....

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    Re: Today's poet

    A Snow Burial
    by: Florence Peacock


    Dream not of spring-tide's blossoms,
    They perished long ago,
    And all dead summer's roses
    Are past; the autumn's glow
    Has faded from the woodland;
    The world is white with snow.

    The sea lies grey below me,
    Above the trees are bare,
    The brook is hush'd and silent,
    Whose music filled the air,
    That far off day in summer,
    When we two wander'd there.

    What dreams, like spring, have vanished;
    What radiant joy, what fears,
    What hopes that never ripened,
    What summers wet with tears,
    What vain regrets, what longings,
    Lie buried with past years.

    To me the breath of winter,
    Is welcome, for I know
    No other voice will mingle
    With hers above the snow;
    In spring tide and in autumn,
    Across the long-ago

    Your voice seems ever calling;
    And I may not forget
    The days when roses blossom'd.
    A life-time of regret
    Has made me love the winter
    Because we never met,

    But with blue skies above us;
    No footprint on the snow,
    Calls back the days departed,
    To me the summer's glow
    Comes but to stir a memory,
    Deep buried mid the snow.
    Am Yisrael Chai

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