Today's poet

[Hes]

Dark Peak Virgin.

Going to clubhouse tomorrow,
Into the Dark Peak lair,
Walk in they all turn round,
What is Johnny Vegas doing here.

More machines in here,
Than your average Terminator movie,
I'm feeling nervous,
I hope things go well.

By Herakles.

Don't worry Herakles, you'll be fine. If the club is anything like mine or the fell runners I have met at races, they'll be really kind and welcoming. Have fun.

[Stef F]

ps stef, the kitchen is just about dry now but i need a new washer and fridge!!!!! but at least we are in one piece...go check your fire alarm girls and boys!

It looks like I just need to replace the battery - has only taken 2 years for me to look at it. Shocking behaviour for a building surveyor! Will get one tomorrow

[Hes]

All the kings horses
Charlotte Ansell

You are not the answer
to my questions,
you are not the saviour
to bring me deliverance,
you are not the prophet
to tell me the meaning
of my dreams,
you are not a wise-man
to tell me
things aren't what they seem.

You are not all the king's horses,
and all the kings men,
and even if you were, like them
you couldn't put me together again.

You are not a knight in shining armour,
to rescue me from the tower.
You are not going to slay the dragon
or arrive in my final hour.
You are no magician,
to cut me in half then
Make me whole.
I may not fit together too well
but mending me is not your role.

I am no beauty, you are not the beast,
this isn't something that a kiss could relieve.
You are not a gypsy
whose palm I will cross with gold,
I haven't come to you
to have my fortune told.
You are not my guardian angel,
you are definately not divine,
I am not asking for a sign.

You are not all the king's horses,
and all the king's men
and even if you were like them
it happened to fast;
you cannot undo what's already past
all I ask if for you
to bear with me.

You are not an astrologer,
to predict my future from the stars
you are not my sun and moon,
to dictate my hours.
You are not my boatman,
to row me to the shore.
You are not my keeper,
to hold me safe behind closed doors.

You are not all the king's horses
and all the king's men.
You cannot save me from my fate,
and even if you could
like them you arrived too late.
You cannot undo what's already past
all I ask if for you
to bear with me.

You are none of those things
neither should you be.
I don't want to crush you
with the burden of me.
I don't want to shatter you
or drive you away;
make a monster out of either one of us,
or dig love an early grave.
I',m not asking to be saved
just cherished.
Not revered,
but also not diminished.

You are a beautiful man
but just a man.
I want each of us to find
our own identities,
name our needs,
plant the seeds of living.
I only ask that you stay with me
while I fight my fight,
and I will do the same for you.
But I am no saviour, deliverer or healer
no wise woman, nor gypsy, nor angel either.
But humour me
Because I am a dreamer.

Let all the king's horses
and all the king's men,
go rescue some other victim who's fallen from his wall.
If they couldn't be there
to break his fall
they won't break mine.

We only have ourselves.
We only get one chance;
the rescuer, the rescued
caught in their eternal dance
don't help anymore
especially not themselves
that's the myth I'm trying to fell.
So lets begin the future...
rescue ourselves



phew!!!!! i typed all that yer know! but she is good ain't she?

Wow Freckle, that brought a lump to my throat. Thanks for going to the trouble of typing it out. It sums up my feelings exactly and I am not even in a relationship.

[freckle]

Dark Peak Virgin.

Going to clubhouse tomorrow,
Into the Dark Peak lair,
Walk in they all turn round,
What is Johnny Vegas doing here.

More machines in here,
Than your average Terminator movie,
I'm feeling nervous,
I hope things go well.

By Herakles.

Oooooo i know that feeling mate but the thing is at least you are turning up and the only way to improve is by training with those who are better than ourselves (well thats what i tell myself anyway) i still get a bit nervous but always feel pleased to have gone by the end

[freckle]

It looks like I just need to replace the battery - has only taken 2 years for me to look at it. Shocking behaviour for a building surveyor! Will get one tomorrow

I went to a fire lecture recently and the instructor said every xmas he gave his fire alarms a new battery as a present, i thought that was a good way to remember to do it and as he pointed out at that time of year people often take them out to put in toys

[Hes]

I went to a fire lecture recently and the instructor said every xmas he gave his fire alarms a new battery as a present, i thought that was a good way to remember to do it and as he pointed out at that time of year people often take them out to put in toys

hmmm....I don't have any fire or smoke alarms. The way things are going lately, I'd better go and get some.

[freckle]

Fairytales
Charlotte Ansell

monday she was someone
i wanted
to get to know.
i didn't understand
why i should
find it hard to hug goodbye
or kiss hello.

tuesday she rescued me
from the forest
of my pride.
a hundred years of branches
had grown up on all sides
i wasn't sleeping
more fatigued with pain;
something inside had been denied
until she came.

wednesday she said she couldn't
keep it secret
anymore.
she came and declared herself
leaving flowers at my door.
she said i was her cinderella
that my foot fit her shoe
but her words
left me speechless
i hadn't expected my prince charming
to be
a woman.

thursday she told me stories,
how love takes time to grow,
how frogs can turn into princes,
how the beast can be loved and known.
how expectations and assumptions
often leave a sour taste
and the mirror reflects
only the truth it sees
but only those who dare to
can see it and believe.

friday she took her pipe
and told me she would go,
she had kept her promise;
charmed the rats out of my conscience.
for her gift of healing
i needed to offer in return
but i couldn't love her
like she asked.
so she stole into the night
and i could neither fight
nor follow
even knowing she was right.

the fairytales i used to read
always said the princess meets a prince
but now she's gone and i've not found
happy-ever-after since
it's become clear
since she was here
second best isn't
going to be good enough
anymore.

[freckle]

hmmm....I don't have any fire or smoke alarms. The way things are going lately, I'd better go and get some.

please do Hes otherwise i will not sleep at nights!...

frecks sends her brother
who is also a fire-man
straight round to darling Hes' house
to stop her getting the wrong type of tan!!!!!

[freckle]

a friend has recommended reading the following book which i must say looks lovely:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Sno.../9780641864827

i thought you might be interested given the haiku angle!

[Hes]

a friend has recommended reading the following book which i must say looks lovely:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/Sno.../9780641864827

i thought you might be interested given the haiku angle!

I have it! I totally love it and have posted a couple snow haikus from it on this thread. Do get a copy if you get a chance.

A fireman coming round to my house would be rather nice so long as it was a social visit!