Today's poet

[TurboTom]

Sir you make me blush i'm just some old hack who doesn't possess an english gcse and doesn't know how to punctuate. Thank you very much your compliment is appreciated. Seriously the above is true i just have a deep well to go from due to my bipolar disorder gives me a lot to write about.

Well perhaps it is about raw feeling instead of academic and literary excellence. It is far to easy to get caught up in using big words but nothing catches a moment in time as well as simple, rythmical vocabulary.

[Hes]

Here's a question which poet would you be if you had to chose as some supreme being is forcing you to change lives.

To be honest, I have never wanted to be anyone else because by my reckoning, most poets that I love and admire had really tough lives in some way or other, broken hearts, killed in the war, suicidal, died from consumption, stony broke, starving etc. Maybe that is why their work is so poignant and creative. I wouldn't have minded being a muse for one or two though.

[Harry H Howgill]

Well perhaps it is about raw feeling instead of academic and literary excellence. It is far to easy to get caught up in using big words but nothing catches a moment in time as well as simple, rythmical vocabulary.

Too true TT. If it is hard to write, then you are writing about the wrong thing.

[Hes]

Good night all. It has been another classic night.

Night HHH, you sleep well.

[Hes]

Well perhaps it is about raw feeling instead of academic and literary excellence. It is far to easy to get caught up in using big words but nothing catches a moment in time as well as simple, rythmical vocabulary.

That's really well put TT and very true. Tri does have a rare talent too.

[Harry H Howgill]

Night HHH, you sleep well.

You too Hes.

Night all.

[stevefoster]

Night night Merry. Good luck with the run tomorrow.

Good night all. It has been another classic night.

Sir you make me blush i'm just some old hack who doesn't possess an english gcse and doesn't know how to punctuate. Thank you very much your compliment is appreciated. Seriously the above is true i just have a deep well to go from due to my bipolar disorder gives me a lot to write about.

Goodnight all, take care and be happy, look into the well Matt, but don't fall in, we need you here

[Hes]

I think I will head off for my bath now. Night everyone and thanks for a lovely evening!

Bath-Song

Sing hey! For the bath at close of day
that washes the weary mud away
A loon is he that will not sing
O! Water Hot is a noble thing!

O! Sweet is the sound of falling rain,
and the brook that leaps from hill to plain;
but better then rain or rippling streams
is Water Hot that smokes and steams.

O! Water cold we may pour at need
down a thirsty throat and be glad indeed
but better is beer if drink we lack,
and Water Hot poured down the back.

O! Water is fair that leaps on high
in a fountain white beneath the sky;
but never did fountain sound so sweet
as splashing Hot Water with my feet!

JRR Tolkien

[Nathaniel Lee]

I to will say Goodnight until tomorrow everyone.

[Harry H Howgill]

Favourite

When they ask me, "Who's your favourite poet?"
I'd better not mention you,
Though you certainly are my favourite poet
And I like your poems too.

Wendy Cope