Today's poet

[Harry H Howgill]

How did you know; I've just finished a massive clear out and it triggered lots of unhappy and a few happy trips down memory lane.

Out with the old, in with the new; time to move on to a future of rose not blue

Funny how this rang a chord with some of the girls, but none of us lads piped up about tidying.

[Harry H Howgill]

I was looking for a poem about cartharsis for Stef and I found this which isn't about that but is interesting:

How Things Work
by Gary Soto

Today it’s going to cost us twenty dollars
To live. Five for a softball. Four for a book,
A handful of ones for coffee and two sweet rolls,
Bus fare, rosin for your mother’s violin.
We’re completing our task. The tip I left
For the waitress filters down
Like rain, wetting the new roots of a child
Perhaps, a belligerent cat that won’t let go
Of a balled sock until there’s chicken to eat.
As far as I can tell, daughter, it works like this:
You buy bread from a grocery, a bag of apples
From a fruit stand, and what coins
Are passed on helps others buy pencils, glue,
Tickets to a movie in which laughter
Is thrown into their faces.
If we buy a goldfish, someone tries on a hat.
If we buy crayons, someone walks home with a broom.
A tip, a small purchase here and there,
And things just keep going. I guess.

I like that. Money makes the world goes round as they say, but I'm determined to use the phrase "If we buy a goldfish, someones tries on a hat" in a very profound tone of voice more often.

[Hes]

I have just discovered a previously untapped (for me) source of exciting poetry and I really like this one:

Insect
by Annie Finch

That hour-glass-backed,
orchard-legged,
heavy-headed will,

paper-folded,
wedge-contorted,
savage—dense to kill—

pulls back on backward-moving,
arching
high legs still,

lowered through a deep, knees-reaching,
feathered down
green will,

antenna-honest,
thread-descending,
carpeted as if with skill,

a focus-changing,
sober-reaching,

tracing, killing will.

[Hes]

Teatime

having simple tastes
tonight I will eat gnocchi
potato disguised

[stevefoster]

Some more good stuff on here tonight as always
Don't mean my stuff!
How's the job search going
Actually i've found one
Goodbye

[Stef F]

Some more good stuff on here tonight as always
Don't mean my stuff!
How's the job search going
Actually i've found one
Goodbye

This sounds exciting. Do tell?

I've found one up north to apply for My application will go in tomorrow. Cross everything for me please.

[Stef F]

[QUOTE=Hes;300581]I was looking for a poem about cartharsis for Stef and I found this which isn't about that but is interesting:QUOTE]

Catharsis; a good word

[stevefoster]

This sounds exciting. Do tell?

I've found one up north to apply for My application will go in tomorrow. Cross everything for me please.

Lost job just before XOTF, second time in one year
Start new job next thursday at Up and Running sports shop in Huddersfield.
Good luck Stef, everything crossed

[Hes]

Lost job just before XOTF, second time in one year
Start new job next thursday at Up and Running sports shop in Huddersfield.
Good luck Stef, everything crossed

Brilliant news Merry! The guys in my local Up and Running are great, very knowledgable, and you'll get some good discount!

[freckle]

I'll never throw away my bowls of pebbles, shells, fossils, feathers etc though. I even have a tiny little birds nest that I found in the middle of the road once. It is a thing of beauty.

ya big softie hes!...love that image of the little bird's nest.....aw