Today's poet

[Hes]

Sounds like a typical night in for me
Hope you enjoyed your holiday Hes

Ha ha! Hi there Merry, I did enjoy my hols although I need one to get over it! India is intense to say the least but I have come back alive and well with plenty of food for thought and enjoying the silence that is currently ringing in my ears in my wee cottage.

[stevefoster]

Ha ha! Hi there Merry, I did enjoy my hols although I need one to get over it! India is intense to say the least but I have come back alive and well with plenty of food for thought and enjoying the silence that is currently ringing in my ears in my wee cottage.

Hi Hes, that's always the case with hols, but food for thought and silence soothes the soul

[Old Whippet]

Here is one called Flotsam...

We were the homeless, he and I, floating ones
Who recognise swiftly another of the tribe
By that certain hunger in the eye, a slight
Narrowing, for, although brimming with a desert sun,
It fancies it sees an oasis; the mirage
Greenly reflected in each lonely cornea,
And, so together we stumbled so clumsily
Into lust, But pushing his urgent limbs away
I fought to regain my body's poise till he cried
I love you, you've no need to be afraid of me.
When at last he left, scolded, sent away, alone
On the white desert of my sheets I wondered if
I should have fought at all to save this dubious
Asset, my aloneness, my terrible aloneness.

Hes - you've been putting up some absolute gems here. You've brought back much more than the usual duty-free!
ANd I might have to introduce 'Wassailing' to the good folk of Newcastle - though there's a chance that no-one will notice!

[stevefoster]

Lullaby


arise
calmly to this night
to the hour of angels and fairies
listen

arise
let the spirits take hold of you
go into a mysterious dream
listen

there is silence
silence
only silence
hushed silence
whispering silence
no, not only silence
music with silence
chords of the golden lute
crowning the silence

arise
calmly to this night discover what you know not
listen
listen
and listen

[freckle]

Here is one called Flotsam...

We were the homeless, he and I, floating ones
Who recognise swiftly another of the tribe
By that certain hunger in the eye, a slight
Narrowing, for, although brimming with a desert sun,
It fancies it sees an oasis; the mirage
Greenly reflected in each lonely cornea,
And, so together we stumbled so clumsily
Into lust, But pushing his urgent limbs away
I fought to regain my body's poise till he cried
I love you, you've no need to be afraid of me.
When at last he left, scolded, sent away, alone
On the white desert of my sheets I wondered if
I should have fought at all to save this dubious
Asset, my aloneness, my terrible aloneness.

Brilliant!!!! and at the risk of sounding crude...ding dong!

[stevefoster]

This thread beats arguing over football

[Hes]

Hes - you've been putting up some absolute gems here. You've brought back much more than the usual duty-free!
ANd I might have to introduce 'Wassailing' to the good folk of Newcastle - though there's a chance that no-one will notice!

Cheers OW! I think a little wassailing in Newcastle would be a good thing...you could always miss out the fruit tree part and concentrate on the noise and drink, it works for me!

I'm really glad that you like Kamala Das too. I am going to have to restrain myself and not post the entire book. I've got an anthology from Tamil Nadu too so I'll post one of those next next.

[Hes]

Brilliant!!!! and at the risk of sounding crude...ding dong!

It's good to be back!

[Hes]

Near and Far

I feel
Nearness
When I feel
The colour of
Your silence
Distance
When I savour not
The smell of
Your words.

Kallazhagar

[freckle]

Lullaby


arise
calmly to this night
to the hour of angels and fairies
listen

arise
let the spirits take hold of you
go into a mysterious dream
listen

there is silence
silence
only silence
hushed silence
whispering silence
no, not only silence
music with silence
chords of the golden lute
crowning the silence

arise
calmly to this night discover what you know not
listen
listen
and listen

I missed this somehow!....lovely Merry, is it yours? it is very soothing and lord needs I need a bit of soothing at present ! thank you....

i am shattered so bed soon for me folks, na night and sleep tight one and all