Today's poet

[Mossdog]

carpet of snowdrops
beneath busy rookery
heralds season's turn

DT's imagery
Sketches an emerging Spring's
virescent progress.


Keep 'em comin' DT

[Alf]

The Fell Poets Society present

Simon Armitage

at Dufton Village Hall

15th of July 2010

8pm

The Poet and Writer Simon Armitage will be reading a selection of poetry as he walks the Pennine Way from north to south.

Entry is free but Simon will be passing his hat round at the end of the evening to see if he can fund his walk by performing each night.

Well done Harry , maybe we can ask Simon to sign some of the books sold before and after his reading?

Do we know his itineray prior to Dufton such as where his previous stop is and what time is he leaving so people can join him on the walk to Dufton?

[Mossdog]

I Am Vertical

But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,
And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.

Tonight, in the infinitesimallight of the stars,
The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors.
I walk among them, but none of them are noticing.
Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping
I must most perfectly resemble them--
Thoughts gone dim.
It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation,
And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:
Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.


Who else? But our Sylvia.

[Old Whippet]

The Fell Poets Society present

Simon Armitage

at Dufton Village Hall

15th of July 2010

8pm

The Poet and Writer Simon Armitage will be reading a selection of poetry as he walks the Pennine Way from north to south.

Entry is free but Simon will be passing his hat round at the end of the evening to see if he can fund his walk by performing each night.

That is wonderful!
Great credit to HHH, N-dubya and Freckle for making this a reality in such a short time! Didn't think I'd be going back to Dufton so soon. I seem to remember leaving a whole lot of Black Sheep ale untouched on account of having the car last time.

I can bring an unsophisticated PA unless someone else has something snazzier.

[Derby Tup]

DT's imagery
Sketches an emerging Spring's
virescent progress.

I had to look up 'virescent' Mossy

[Mossdog]

I had to look up 'virescent' Mossy

Me too, 'green' was short of a couple of syllables

[freckle]

Well done Harry , maybe we can ask Simon to sign some of the books sold before and after his reading?

Do we know his itineray prior to Dufton such as where his previous stop is and what time is he leaving so people can join him on the walk to Dufton?

Hi Alf we are organising for books to be there to purchase and people can bring their own to sign too, there will be more details about this and the walk nearer the time but if you are interested in finding out more about the itireray it is on simon armitage's website.....

http://www.simonarmitage.com/

[freckle]

I Am Vertical

But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the soil
Sucking up minerals and motherly love
So that each March I may gleam into leaf,
Nor am I the beauty of a garden bed
Attracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,
Unknowing I must soon unpetal.
Compared with me, a tree is immortal
And a flower-head not tall, but more startling,
And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.

Tonight, in the infinitesimallight of the stars,
The trees and the flowers have been strewing their cool odors.
I walk among them, but none of them are noticing.
Sometimes I think that when I am sleeping
I must most perfectly resemble them--
Thoughts gone dim.
It is more natural to me, lying down.
Then the sky and I are in open conversation,
And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:
Then the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me.


Who else? But our Sylvia.

Beautiful mossy, i really like that last line, love the image of trees touching her...nice haiku too

[freckle]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfgtiDvvAR8

and the text...

http://plagiarist.com/poetry/1396/

[Alf]

Hi Alf we are organising for books to be there to purchase and people can bring their own to sign too, there will be more details about this and the walk nearer the time but if you are interested in finding out more about the itireray it is on simon armitage's website.....

http://www.simonarmitage.com/

Aha!

Thursday 15th July

Garrigill to Dufton

Thanks Freckle