Today's poet

[Nathaniel Lee]

X runner i am really confused.Does this mean someone is either been nasty or funny or is it from some other other source that does not relate to our freckle.

[Harry H Howgill]

Good stuff HHH Was it Wainwright who likened the Howgills to slumbering efferlumps?

That is what they are known as, and I'm sure he mentioned that in one of his books. It was beautiful but chilly heading round the Tebay race route tonight.

[Harry H Howgill]

Fast jet flies below.
I climb from Carlin Gill to
Cairn and cloud above.

[Mossdog]

Very tongue in cheek Mossy Must have been a particularly stormy day up on Howarth Moor to inspire the Seas of blood line!

Look here Anne was a happy lass too...


If This Be All


O God! if this indeed be all
That Life can show to me;
If on my aching brow may fall
No freshening dew from Thee, --
If with no brighter light than this
The lamp of hope may glow,
And I may only dream of bliss,
And wake to weary woe;

If friendship's solace must decay,
When other joys are gone,
And love must keep so far away,
While I go wandering on, --

Wandering and toiling without gain,
The slave of others' will,
With constant care, and frequent pain,
Despised, forgotten still;

Grieving to look on vice and sin,
Yet powerless to quell
The silent current from within,
The outward torrent's swell:

While all the good I would impart,
The feelings I would share,
Are driven backward to my heart,
And turned to wormwood, there;

If clouds must ever keep from sight
The glories of the Sun,
And I must suffer Winter's blight,
Ere Summer is begun;

If life must be so full of care,
Then call me soon to Thee;
Or give me strength enough to bear
My load of misery.

Acton

Anne Bronte

Perhaps she was so 'upbeat' because she wrote this poem while in Acton

[Harry H Howgill]

“Always tell someone
Your planned route when you head out”
Stuff that! Risk freedom.

[Mossdog]

That is what they are known as, and I'm sure he mentioned that in one of his books. It was beautiful but chilly heading round the Tebay race route tonight.

I bet it was HHH. We've still got deep, now icy, snow above 300m here in Teesdale, so it very hard to run at any pace at all.

[Harry H Howgill]

Motorway below
Full of aircon luxury
Icy blast chills me

[Mossdog]

“Always tell someone
Your planned route when you head out”
Stuff that! Risk freedom.

That's just a brilliant haiku

[Harry H Howgill]

I bet it was HHH. We've still got deep, now icy, snow above 300m here in Teesdale, so it very hard to run at any pace at all.

It was mostly clear but some of the traverses in the gulleys were just snowy banks. Every foot fall sent snow down towards the stream below. Exciting!

[stevefoster]

“Always tell someone
Your planned route when you head out”
Stuff that! Risk freedom.

Aye, and leave the mobile at home so the wife can't bother you
Speaking for myself