Today's poet

[Harry H Howgill]

So speaks
the voice of reason
Harry happy to hope
Howgill



nice tune, i hadn't really come across him until this thread, lovely stuff

Here's another of his I'm listening to now....

http://www.youtube.com/watch#!v=riJJ...aynext_from=ML

Anything off the album "want 1" is stunning.

[Harry H Howgill]

Right. I'm offski. Sweet dreams...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjSjB...eature=related

[freckle]

Right. I'm offski. Sweet dreams...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjSjB...eature=related

Hey! you spoilt my suprise! that's exactly the outfit I will be wearing for the anniversary!.....................................( including shoes and haircut)..........., oh and did I mention.....armitage has agreed to come and cheer me on at the end!

night harry!

[Stolly]

first draft


Gifts

I brought gifts, a dream,
above the edge of an escarpement,
unfathomable drop,
I felt the fear and the desire to fall.

Another dream, my naked torso,
huge cavernous omission where a stomach should have been,
the wind howling through.
After that I saw holes everywhere, and the drop,
some kind of pleasant vertigo followed.

At the theatre I gazed at the distance
between my seat and the stage
dizzied with the prospect of some magical falling,
not conceiving of decking out,
the unconscious illogical harness of certainty
held my risk taking mind.

Eventually the delectable fear of falling
could be resisted no longer,
and an unsuspecting catalyst
luminous hood in november rain,
unsure of the descent,
we peeled away, without realising
at each carapace.

And so began the journey,
crashing and banging
down a huge bamboo shoot
of possibilities,
I landed with a bump into uncertainty.
The chockstone unlodged, it got ugly,
I think...
I got ugly.
I wasn’t expecting that.

But now, after the machinations,
I catch glimpses,
here is the centre of myself,
a stillness forgotten.

Tonight my mother found some poems
written for her when I was a child
“you were always writing poems”,
I had forgotten completely,
it was a relief to remember.

Brilliant frecks

[Hes]

Pandora’s Box

My ribs were a cage
for carrion crows
the blue-black scavengers
who, once trapped,
amused themselves by pecking
at the vestige of my heart.
Then unexpected, uninvited
there you were
and I lay down before you,
naked and shivering.
With trembling hands,
you cracked my chest
whilst I cowered and bled,
afraid of what you might find.
How bravely you caught them,
those fearsome birds,
And held each one close
whispering a charm,
a gentle spell,
to soothe ruffled feathers
and slow wilful minds.
One by one
you offered them
for my examination
before raising each to the sky.
You sent them away
on wild beating wings
and, as I watched,
I saw the mid-day sun
pierce their tattered feathers
and knew that what they left me
was hope.

[Hes]

There's been some really great things written on the thread lately, I've only just had a chance to catch up. Herakles looks like he is on a real roll! Its good to see. Off to read some Carol Ann Duffy...

[Nathaniel Lee]

The quality of work on here is unbelievable. Freckle, Hes and everyone.

[Lola]

Run and live as one
Heart and soul for Hann to hold
Lace and love bind tight.

[freckle]

Pandora’s Box

My ribs were a cage
for carrion crows
the blue-black scavengers
who, once trapped,
amused themselves by pecking
at the vestige of my heart.
Then unexpected, uninvited
there you were
and I lay down before you,
naked and shivering.
With trembling hands,
you cracked my chest
whilst I cowered and bled,
afraid of what you might find.
How bravely you caught them,
those fearsome birds,
And held each one close
whispering a charm,
a gentle spell,
to soothe ruffled feathers
and slow wilful minds.
One by one
you offered them
for my examination
before raising each to the sky.
You sent them away
on wild beating wings
and, as I watched,
I saw the mid-day sun
pierce their tattered feathers
and knew that what they left me
was hope.

Ooooooo I am all goosebumps!.......utterly brilliant Hes well done !

[freckle]

Run and live as one
Heart and soul for Hann to hold
Lace and love bind tight.

I am intrigued......................................... .............................. nice one "lola"