Today's poet

[Derby Tup]

Harry H, where's the Southern Cross in the sky please? Just in from dinner and a couple of beers and had a quick look up at the sky but didn't really know where to look Fell Poet fave Orion seems to be in more or less same place as at home (err, not looking over towards Ilkley Moor, but you know what I mean)

[Alf]

GASOLINE
Shivering in the almost-drizzle
inside the wooden outboard,
nose over gunwale,
I watched it drip and spread
on the sheenless water:
the brightest thing in wartime,
a slick of rainbow,
ephemeral as insect wings,
green, blue, red, and pink,
my shimmering private sideshow.
Was this my best toy, then?
This toxic smudge, this overspill
from a sloppy gascan filled
with essence of danger?
I knew that it was poison,
its beauty an illusion:
I could spell flammable.
But still, I loved the smell:
so alien, a whiff
of starstuff.
I would have liked to drink it,
inhale its iridescence.
As if I could.
That's how gods lived: as if.

Margaret Atwood

Good selection Harry

I think freckle has included Langston Hughes before?

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

[Derby Tup]

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Love this Alf. Thanks for posting

I saw an interview with the great Seve Ballesteros before he had his recent brain problems, and he said, 'you have to dream; if you don't, you're dead'

[Derby Tup]

I forgot to bring any poetry books on my trip. However, the internet's a wonderful thing

Tie your heart at night to mine, love,
and both will defeat the darkness
like twin drums beating in the forest
against the heavy wall of wet leaves.

Night crossing: black coal of dream
that cuts the thread of earthly orbs
with the punctuality of a headlong train
that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly.

Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement,
to the grip on life that beats in your breast,
with the wings of a submerged swan,

So that our dream might reply
to the sky's questioning stars
with one key, one door closed to shadow

Pablo Neruda

[freckle]

Good selection Harry

I think freckle has included Langston Hughes before?

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

I lose track Alf but I do like this poem especially the line "Life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly"......Harry I also really enjoyed your choic, Margaret Atwood is a fave of mine especiall Variation on the word sleep...

Hoping to get back on soon to post a poem off for a bit

[Stef F]

Awww

I forgot to bring any poetry books on my trip. However, the internet's a wonderful thing

Tie your heart at night to mine, love,
and both will defeat the darkness
like twin drums beating in the forest
against the heavy wall of wet leaves.

Night crossing: black coal of dream
that cuts the thread of earthly orbs
with the punctuality of a headlong train
that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly.

Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement,
to the grip on life that beats in your breast,
with the wings of a submerged swan,

So that our dream might reply
to the sky's questioning stars
with one key, one door closed to shadow

Pablo Neruda

[Harry H Howgill]

Harry H, where's the Southern Cross in the sky please? Just in from dinner and a couple of beers and had a quick look up at the sky but didn't really know where to look Fell Poet fave Orion seems to be in more or less same place as at home (err, not looking over towards Ilkley Moor, but you know what I mean)

This link might help...

http://www.southernskies.com.au/astronomy/cross.htm

But look in a southerly direction as per the piccies. It looks like it might not be too far above the horizon at the moment.

Don't forget to head towards the cape to see the penguins if you get the chance.

[Derby Tup]

This link might help...

http://www.southernskies.com.au/astronomy/cross.htm

But look in a southerly direction as per the piccies. It looks like it might not be too far above the horizon at the moment.

Don't forget to head towards the cape to see the penguins if you get the chance.

Thanks Harry. Off to bed very shortly but I'll have a look tomorrow

Got Saturday off so hope to try and see the penguins

[Harry H Howgill]

Thanks Harry. Off to bed very shortly but I'll have a look tomorrow

Got Saturday off so hope to try and see the penguins

They look pretty cool but tend to hang around the car park. I nearly ran one over last time I was there. I seem to remember that the beach stinks to high heaven with penguin poop!

Have a good trip DT

[Stef F]

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These little guys?

Penguins of the cape
black and white comedians
dropping stinky poop

They look pretty cool but tend to hang around the car park. I nearly ran one over last time I was there. I seem to remember that the beach stinks to high heaven with penguin poop!

Have a good trip DT