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    I was stood by a railway last week (No! not trainspotting before you ask!) and a train pulled up alongside and stopped. It was named after Bertolt Brecht. So it just goes to show that poetry is all around us! Even in the most unglamorous of settings. I don't think we've had much BB before.

    I never loved you more - Bertolt Brecht

    I never loved you more, ma soeur
    Than as I walked away from you that evening.
    The forest swallowed me, the blue forest, ma soeur
    The blue forest and above it pale stars in the west.

    I did not laugh, not one little bit, ma soeur
    As I playfully walked towards a dark fate –
    While the faces behind me
    Slowly paled in the evening of the blue forest.

    Everything was grand that one night, ma soeur
    Never thereafter and never before –
    I admit it: I was left with nothing but the big birds
    And their hungry cries in the dark evening sky.


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    He also co-wrote this!!!!, which I never knew. Did any of you?

    Mack the Knife

    Oh, the shark has pretty teeth, dear
    And he shows them pearly white.
    Just a jack knife has Macheath, dear
    And he keeps it out of sight.

    When the shark bites with his teeth, dear
    Scarlet billows start to spread.
    Fancy gloves, though, wears Macheath, dear
    So there's not a trace of red.

    On the side-walk Sunday morning
    Lies a body oozing life;
    Someone's sneaking 'round the corner.
    Is that someone Mack the Knife?

    From a tugboat by the river
    A cement bag's dropping down;
    The cement's just for the weight, dear.
    Bet you Mackie's back in town.

    Louie Miller disappeared, dear
    After drawing out his cash;
    And Macheath spends like a sailor.
    Did our boy do something rash?

    Sukey Tawdry, Jenny Diver,
    Polly Peachum, Lucy Brown
    Oh, the line forms on the right, dear
    Now that Mackie's back in town.

    Bertolt Brecht
    Last edited by Harry H Howgill; 31-01-2010 at 10:53 PM.

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    Parting

    We embrace.
    Rich cloth under my fingers
    While yours touch poor fabric.
    A quick embrace
    You were invited for dinner
    While the minions of law are after me.
    We talk about the weather and our
    Lasting friendship. Anything else
    Would be too bitter.

    Bertolt Brecht

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    Send me a leaf

    Send me a leaf, but from a bush
    That grows at least one half hour
    Away from your house, then
    You must go and will be strong, and I
    Thank you for the pretty leaf.

    Bertolt Brecht

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    Thanks Harrry for your input.Quiet again tonight.

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    To a little radio

    A little box I carried in my flight
    So as not to break the radio tubes inside me
    From house to boat, from boat to train held tight
    So that my enemies could still address me

    Right where I slept and much to my dismay
    Last thing each night and first thing every day
    About their victories, defeats for me
    Oh please do not fall silent suddenly

    Berthold Brecht

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    Quote Originally Posted by tri-mind View Post
    Frommelles.

    Boys thrown into war,
    Trenches waterlogged disease and lice,
    The enemy firing day and night,
    Scared but proud to serve the king,
    Advancing through hell on earth,
    One by one killed by hot german lead,
    Collected up together dumped in mass grave,
    Dignity lost names lost families grieve,
    Decades come and go they are discovered,
    Fathers,sons and brothers now can be named,
    Families peace of mind restored,
    Pay respect to these heroes who now can be named,
    The honour of a proper burial is the least they deserve,
    Be proud and remember they gave their lives for you.

    By Matt Harmston.
    War is Hell, brave men gave their lives so we could have a tomorrow, nice one Matt, love it

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    Quote Originally Posted by merrylegs View Post
    brave men gave their lives so we could have a tomorrow
    and an empire. Which is always handy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    I was stood by a railway last week (No! not trainspotting before you ask!) and a train pulled up alongside and stopped. It was named after Bertolt Brecht. So it just goes to show that poetry is all around us! Even in the most unglamorous of settings. I don't think we've had much BB before.

    I never loved you more - Bertolt Brecht

    I never loved you more, ma soeur
    Than as I walked away from you that evening.
    The forest swallowed me, the blue forest, ma soeur
    The blue forest and above it pale stars in the west.

    I did not laugh, not one little bit, ma soeur
    As I playfully walked towards a dark fate –
    While the faces behind me
    Slowly paled in the evening of the blue forest.

    Everything was grand that one night, ma soeur
    Never thereafter and never before –
    I admit it: I was left with nothing but the big birds
    And their hungry cries in the dark evening sky.

    I haven't really read many Brecht poems HHH and it has been brilliant to read them. Some great choices, thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by neil wootton View Post
    Heres a poem I wrote after a run on the canal

    Things, some not unexpected
    lie across the shards of icy trails
    Like badly fractured glass left
    Behind the barges passing by.

    Ripped up roots of trees, twigs and
    Branches, traffic cones, empty
    Beer cans; discarded, flung from
    low pack horse bridges, beneath that semi
    fractured pain there possibly
    could be fridges.

    But all alone, upright on one
    continuos side, rolled, but
    not from that far had it come
    from trailer, bike or car

    Its potential for movement
    ceased, cemented in a
    solitary track. Restricted like
    an invisble finger held it back

    Slowly through the days
    it will slip without pressure or force.
    The final minutes of a ships captain,
    gliding into the icy steel, saluting his own pride.

    And there it will hide beneath
    the brwon murk until some near
    or distant summer it will be lured
    from its bed of silt and bicycle frames.
    By a line and a hook and beyond the
    refracted world an angler
    will curse his luck to a stranger
    passing by and then sling it in
    brambles or ditch.
    And so it turns and starts again.
    Welcome back Neil. This is a powerful piece of writing!

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