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    Quote Originally Posted by merrylegs View Post
    Or maybe it's sad cos it's not made up
    Off for some food now, didn't eat enough today
    Nice to see you Andy, great weather as well
    Good to see you too Steve. Beautiful day for fell running poets
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Mouth and Tongue

    He belongs to her,
    like a tongue to its mouth,
    and the soft lips on her skull
    seek him out,
    as do the soft lips
    on the bony mount.

    He came this way
    and forever changed the shape
    of the ether in her rooms,
    opened up the window
    in the ceiling to her sky.

    He held a cluster,
    a loose cascade of rubies,
    blue sapphires
    and a solitary diamond
    in his palm.

    And while he spoke the words,
    poem of his heart,
    so she would know at last
    with the forefront of her mind,
    and cease forgetting,
    he hung the gently sparkling stones
    from every point in the space
    wherein they stood.

    Then he looked up,
    silent, his smile trembling,
    and watched her face
    as she realised who he was,
    what he had done.
    For she belongs to him
    like a mouth belongs
    to its tongue.

    Alisha Sufit
    This is gorgeous as was DT's offering, nice haiku Hes...evening all, especially the birthday boy!

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    Calderdale mist clears
    revealing Stoodley Pike to
    smiling fellrunners

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    Well it is still early days, but there has been some stunning choices so far. Plus I love your haikus DT and Hes. Top effin alliteration.

    Looking forward to TT's birthday offerings too.

    no moon no stars no
    sunset stolen by the mist
    darkest night beckons

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    When You've Got
    Helen Dunmore

    When you have got the plan of your life
    matched to the time it will take
    but you just want to press SHIFT/BREAK
    and print over and over
    this is not what I was after
    this is not what I was after.

    when you have finally stripped out the house
    with its iron-cold fireplace,
    its mouldings, its mortgage,
    its single -skin walls
    but you want to write in the plaster
    "This is not what I was after"

    when you've got the rainbow-clad baby
    in his state -of-the-art pushchair
    but he arches back at you
    and pulps his Activity Centre
    and you just want to whisper
    "This is not what I was after"

    when the vacuum seethes and whines in the lounge
    and the waste disposal unit blows,
    when tenners settle in your account
    like snow hitting a stove,
    when you get a chat from your spouse
    about marriage and personal growth,

    when a wino comes to sleep in your porch
    in your Citizen's Charter
    and you know a hostel's opening soon
    but your headache's closer
    and you really want to torch
    the bundle of rags and newspaper

    and you'll say to the newspaper
    "This is not what we were after,
    this is not what we were after"
    Last edited by freckle; 23-01-2010 at 07:58 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    Well it is still early days, but there has been some stunning choices so far. Plus I love your haikus DT and Hes. Top effin alliteration.

    Looking forward to TT's birthday offerings too.

    no moon no stars no
    sunset stolen by the mist
    darkest night beckons
    Gorgeous haiku HHH!

    Alas my running inspired poem will have to wait as I have been asked round to my friends for tea and a jam (of the musical kind not the fruit and sugar sort). I must leave this world of passion and poetry for one of boozy musos. Hope you all have a good night.

    Glad to hear DT and Merry had a good run at Hebden today.

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    Hes might like this one from my new poetry book

    One had a lovely face
    And two or three had charm
    But charm and grace were in vain
    Beacause the mountain grass
    Cannot but keep the form
    Where the mountain hare has lain

    Memory W. B. Yeats
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    There's a chinese called Nobby Longs ???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Derby Tup View Post
    Calderdale mist clears
    revealing Stoodley Pike to
    smiling fellrunners

    Aye, it was an erie sight with just the top showing, wish i'd taken a camera, folk were skiing up there two weeks ago

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    Quote Originally Posted by tri-mind View Post
    There's a chinese called Nobby Longs ???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
    Not sure if thats it's name but last time i ordered, that was the reply

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