Today's poet

[Alf]

Good stuff Alf, inspired by that old pepsi advert?

Yes guilty

[Alf]

i saw a carol duffy book of love poems today which i really fancied the cover was gorgeous, unfortunately it was about 15 quid in waterstones...no wonder borders went out of business...just a bit much i think...anyhoo......

i love this guy, he is such a drama queen (bit like me), i am off out for the night so have a good one all....


I Arise From Dreams Of Thee

Perce Byce Shelley

I arise from dreams of thee
In the first sweet sleep of night,
When the winds are breathing low,
And the stars are shining bright
I arise from dreams of thee,

And a spirit in my feet
Has led me -- who knows how? --
To thy chamber-window, sweet!
The wandering airs they faint
On the dark, the silent stream, --
The champak odors fall

Like sweet thoughts in a dream,
The nightingale's complaint,
It dies upon her heart,
As I must die on thine,
O, beloved as thou art!
O, lift me from the grass!

I die, I faint, I fall!
Let thy love in kisses rain
On my lips and eyelids pale,
My cheek is cold and white, alas!
My Heart beats loud and fast
Oh! press it close to thine again,
Where it will break at last!

Its all that time he spent with Byron freckle.....it rubbed off on him

[Mossdog]

Carol Ann Duffy
'Rapture' poem collection
is the book Mossy

Many cheers DT
Down to the book shop for me
Sedbergh perhaps?

[Fleeter]

Although not a poem as such i really like the words to this song,quite uplifting and relevent.

Dan Auerbach-Going Home


I've spent too long away from home
Did all the things I could have done
Gone are the days of endless thrills
I know I'm not the only one

So long, I'm goin', goin' home...

I saw the streets all ripe with jewels
Balconies and the laundry lines
They tried to make me welcome there
But their streets did not feel like mine

So long, I'm goin', goin' home...

I want the sun to hit my face
Through oak trees in the open lot
Forget about the things you want
Be thankful for what all you got

So long, I'm goin', goin' home...

[Derby Tup]

Many cheers DT
Down to the book shop for me
Sedbergh perhaps?

They have it with a good discount at amazon Mossy

[Derby Tup]

Lovely lyrics Andy!

Although not a poem as such i really like the words to this song,quite uplifting and relevent.

Dan Auerbach-Going Home


I've spent too long away from home
Did all the things I could have done
Gone are the days of endless thrills
I know I'm not the only one

So long, I'm goin', goin' home...

I saw the streets all ripe with jewels
Balconies and the laundry lines
They tried to make me welcome there
But their streets did not feel like mine

So long, I'm goin', goin' home...

I want the sun to hit my face
Through oak trees in the open lot
Forget about the things you want
Be thankful for what all you got

So long, I'm goin', goin' home...

[stevefoster]

Yes guilty

Inspired by, not copied And for them that dunt remember...................http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7vfl5iRueU

[Derby Tup]

That's the wise thrush; he sings each note twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!

Robert Browning

[freckle]

That's the wise thrush; he sings each note twice over,
Lest you should think he never could recapture
The first fine careless rapture!

Robert Browning

nice...........................

Occassionally I think I can dwell too much on the past, I sometimes need to remind myself that life is very very short and that the future is what we make of it...live for the day and all that (especially the sunny ones like today!)...i really like this poem a lot, it makes me think about love and loss and the need to cherish those who are important to us while we still can.....

Sunlight on the garden
Louis MacNeice

The sunlight on the garden
Hardens and grows cold,
We cannot cage the minute
Within its nets of gold,
When all is told
We cannot beg for pardon.

Our freedom as free lances
Advances towards its end;
The earth compels, upon it
Sonnets and birds descend;
And soon, my friend,
We shall have no time for dances.

The sky was good for flying
Defying the church bells
And every evil iron
Siren and what it tells:
The earth compels,We are dying,
Egypt, dying

And not expecting pardon,
Hardened in heart anew,
But glad to have sat under
Thunder and rain with you,
And grateful too
For sunlight on the garden.

[freckle]

What is wealth?

Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare

When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.