Today's poet

[Nathaniel Lee]

The one and only Sir Charles Chaplin

He cheers me up when i am down,
That splay footed cinematic clown,
He slides round corners and twirls his cane,
I love his movies they keep me sane,
Suffocating a giant with a street gas lamp,
That amazing funny little tramp.

By Mat.

[stevefoster]

Test test

Like the new avatar Matt, Charlie in colour

[Hes]

Tri - I really enjoyed reading this. Seems a while since I had such a run, and on those magical occasions when the body is behaving, and weightless, and your whole being integrated into the landscape.......the possibility of moments like this keep me (us?) going.
Thanks for reminding me what it can be like

That's too true OW. I had that feeling tonight and it was really lovely. It put right a frustrating day. I hope that you get out into the fells soon.

[Old Whippet]

Wish

To sit quietly
without incident or judgement
with you.
True enough, life's savour
is in its transience,
but I'd like a little bit of
S-T-I-L-L,
to grab those
small seconds of eternity.
When,
our mutual gaze
becomes the warp and weft
of some ancient forgotten fabric
and I hear once again
the skin of your drum
reverberating in my ear
as if it were my very own life
that I could hear,
enlivened and beating strongly
and dissolving
into a fragment of forever.

well....arriving here late tonight, it's been such a pleasure reading more original work than usual....Haiku mastery on show. And my literary criticism of the above......
Bloody Nora!

[stevefoster]

The one and only Sir Charles Chaplin

He cheers me up when i am down,
That splay footed cinematic clown,
He slides round corners and twirls his cane,
I love his movies they keep me sane,
Suffocating a giant with a street gas lamp,
That amazing funny little tramp.

By Mat.

Good stuff Matt, laughter is the best medicine

[Nathaniel Lee]

Thanks i like your new one too. I think some of you know this but i am a huge silent comedy fan. I like Chaplin,Keaton.Lloyd in that order and possess all available films for them.

[stevefoster]

Yeah well...two out of three aint bad!

Shame it's cloudy, no moonlight tonight

[Hes]

Hey DT, I have a contemporary haiku anthology here and there are some lovely ones. Thought you might like these:

cloud shadow
long enough
to close the poppies

Christopher Herold

the crow flies off...
mountains fall away
beneath him.

Larry Gates

heaped
in the buttercup
blue sky

Carl Patrick

beyond
stars beyond
star

LA Davidson

[Hes]

Shame it's cloudy, no moonlight tonight

It was cloudy here but the moon still managed to light my way. Only turned my headtorch on when I thought someone was coming. Then there was a sudden gap in the cloud and the moon lit a puddle so brightly I thought I'd turned my torch on when I hadn't.

[stevefoster]

Weightless


I am in orbit around you, i am suspended weightless over you just hovering. hanging over you in a delirious kiss. yesterday i heard your name in the street but when i turned around nobody was there just 5 birds and when their wings hit the air i heard your name again and just for a second i was one of them pounding out your name! a word of few syllables stuck in my head, you see i am and always will be the one who loved you with no limits.

Dylan Dawe