Today's poet

[Hes]

Hi all, some lovely offerings tonight, just had a quick read, really liked your poem OW.

Entropy
Neil Rollinson

Your coffee grows cold on the kitchen table,
which means the universe is dying.
Your dress on the carpet is just a dress,
it has lost all sense of you now,
your body heat gone from the fabric.
I open the window, the sky is dark
and the house is also cooling, the garden,
the summer lawn, all of it finding an equilibrium.
I watch an ice cube melt in my wine,
the heat of the Chardonnay passing into the ice.
It means the universe is going to die:
the second law of thermodynamics.
Entropy rising. Only the fridge struggles
to turn things round but even here there's a
hidden loss. It hums in the corner, the only sound
on a quiet night. Outside, everywhere in the vast
sky stars are cooling, I think of the sun
consuming its fuel, the afternoon that is past,
and your dress that only this morning
was warm to my touch.

I love that Freckle!! Nice to see you tonight.

[stevefoster]

Another one if his is called 'Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4b0fd...eature=related

It has a gorgeous flute part in it that I aim to learn one day.

Nice song, lovely flute bit, reminds me of the intro to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg

[Hes]

Nice song, lovely flute bit, reminds me of the intro to this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg

Wow...blast from the past. I lurve Peter Gabriel and have seen him play a couple times. This is a great, sexy song!

[Hes]

and boy...does he look young in the video!!!

[stevefoster]

and boy...does he look young in the video!!!

That's because he was
Sister saw him a couple of years ago and he's still brilliant live.

[Hes]

Love this one by Leonard Cohen too:

I'm Your Man

If you want a lover
Ill do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
Ill wear a mask for you
If you want a partner
Take my hand
Or if you want to strike me down in anger
Here I stand
Im your man

If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you
And if you want a doctor
Ill examine every inch of you
If you want a driver
Climb inside
Or if you want to take me for a ride
You know you can
Im your man

Ah, the moons too bright
The chains too tight
The beast wont go to sleep
Ive been running through these promises to you
That I made and I could not keep
Ah but a man never got a woman back
Not by begging on his knees
Or Id crawl to you baby
And Id fall at your feet
And Id howl at your beauty
Like a dog in heat
And Id claw at your heart
And Id tear at your sheet
Id say please, please
Im your man

And if you've got to sleep
A moment on the road
I will steer for you
And if you want to work the street alone
Ill disappear for you
If you want a father for your child
Or only want to walk with me a while
Across the sand
Im your man

If you want a lover
Ill do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
Ill wear a mask for you

[Hes]

That's because he was
Sister saw him a couple of years ago and he's still brilliant live.

I'm just trying to forget the fact that him looking young means that I am now a lot older too...

I hope I get to see him again, he puts on a great live show. Sinead O'Connor duetted with him on Don't Give Up when I saw him the second time. This should probably be on Tonights Music Thread but nevermind.

[stevefoster]

Flute and Fiddle, love Irish music, it's in the blood on me mum's side, love to be able to play the fiddle as well as i can drink Guinness!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ8B-Wl_trQ

[Hes]

Flute and Fiddle, love Irish music, it's in the blood on me mum's side, love to be able to play the fiddle as well as i can drink Guinness!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ8B-Wl_trQ

I play quite a bit of folk on my flute...alas, I will never look like one of the Corr sisters...they have some genes! Feel a bit sorry for the brother though. Nice whistling.

[stevefoster]

Love this one by Leonard Cohen too:

I'm Your Man

If you want a lover
Ill do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
Ill wear a mask for you
If you want a partner
Take my hand
Or if you want to strike me down in anger
Here I stand
Im your man

If you want a boxer
I will step into the ring for you
And if you want a doctor
Ill examine every inch of you
If you want a driver
Climb inside
Or if you want to take me for a ride
You know you can
Im your man

Ah, the moons too bright
The chains too tight
The beast wont go to sleep
Ive been running through these promises to you
That I made and I could not keep
Ah but a man never got a woman back
Not by begging on his knees
Or Id crawl to you baby
And Id fall at your feet
And Id howl at your beauty
Like a dog in heat
And Id claw at your heart
And Id tear at your sheet
Id say please, please
Im your man

And if you've got to sleep
A moment on the road
I will steer for you
And if you want to work the street alone
Ill disappear for you
If you want a father for your child
Or only want to walk with me a while
Across the sand
Im your man

If you want a lover
Ill do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
Ill wear a mask for you

Sounds like the perfect bloke, if there is such an animal