Today's poet

[freckle]

You should check out Nitin Sawhney's 'Waiting'...very beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVa32kbICiA

This is so cool Hes thanks for posting......off to get the sonnet now....i was going to do blakey blitz but something else turned up! hope you had a fab time

here we are...

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.

What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies not plenty;
Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Live for today eh?

[Harry H Howgill]

Barden Bridge, Wharfedale
dippers and grey wagtails
no sand martins, yet



ghostly near full moon
appears in springtime sky
over Simon's Seat



Grimworth Reservoir
curlew, widgeon and redshanks
birdwatching delights

Excellent stuff DT. Still feeling inspired I see.

[Harry H Howgill]

Freckle, this is a great choice! I do love the rhythm of it and the last verse particularly. I was reading 'Rapture', Carol Ann Duffy's book, as a result of HHH and DT's postings and she references Louis MacNeice in a poem.

I've got a couple of poetry books, including one from Carol Ann Duffy, and I was intending on bringing them along to the AW to give to anyone who wanted them. Only 4 weeks to go!

[Harry H Howgill]

I was listening to Johnathan Ross and he had Rufus Wainwright on who sung one of Shakespeares Sonnets to his own music. It was really good.

Rufus is an absolute star. I love his stuff. His Dad, Loudon Wainwright III was good too. He even managed an appearance on M*A*S*H.

[freckle]

I've got a couple of poetry books, including one from Carol Ann Duffy, and I was intending on bringing them along to the AW to give to anyone who wanted them. Only 4 weeks to go!

Oh my lord!!!!!!!!!!!.....4 weeks!!!!!!..........Ian Brown's FEAR track springs to mind....can't wait to meet up with all inspite of almost inevitable pain in the process (of running the thing i mean!!!!)

anyhoo...herakles thanks for pointing out the rufus wainwright thing....i wonder if it was this one?...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYd2KlRX4Vs

[Harry H Howgill]

You should check out Nitin Sawhney's 'Waiting'...very beautiful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVa32kbICiA

I love Nitin Sawhney (always tricky to spell!) since I heard him on a wonderful compilation someone gave to me. It is awlays a good one to start a journey to work to.

[Nathaniel Lee]

The price of knowledge.

I drift through this twisted circus,
That they call life,
Only really able speak of things,
When the sands of time,
Are running away from me,
To there end,
Oh how i wish to bear the curse,
Of the vampire,
The feast of crimson lifeblood,
Worth the pain and guilt,
So i could learn so much,
Feel natures life flow,
See man for what he truly is,
And know who the real monster is.

By Herakles.

[freckle]

The price of knowledge.

I drift through this twisted circus,
That they call life,
Only really able speak of things,
When the sands of time,
Are running away from me,
To there end,
Oh how i wish to bear the curse,
Of the vampire,
The feast of crimson lifeblood,
Worth the pain and guilt,
So i could learn so much,
Feel natures life flow,
See man for what he truly is,
And know who the real monster is.

By Herakles.

i like this....how is the book idea coming along herakles?

[Harry H Howgill]

This is so cool Hes thanks for posting......off to get the sonnet now....i was going to do blakey blitz but something else turned up! hope you had a fab time

here we are...

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear; your true love's coming,
That can sing both high and low:
Trip no further, pretty sweeting;
Journeys end in lovers meeting,
Every wise man's son doth know.

What is love? 'Tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies not plenty;
Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

Live for today eh?

Was "Live for today eh?" part of the original Shakespeare?

That is beautiful, but I didn't realise it was Shakespeare until long after I first heard it.

"Come kiss me sweet and twenty" is just the best line ever.

[freckle]

Was "Live for today eh?" part of the original Shakespeare?

That is beautiful, but I didn't realise it was Shakespeare until long after I first heard it.

"Come kiss me sweet and twenty" is just the best line ever.

I know I loved that line too but I thoiught you would all rip me if I highlighted that one!!!!!!....good chat up line if ever i heard one! mind you in some parts round here it might engender a good slapping!