Today's poet

[freckle]

A bit of dear old Pablo Neruda for loved-up Fell Poets everywhere

Love, We're Going Home Now


Love, we're going home now,
Where the vines clamber over the trellis:
Even before you, the summer will arrive,
On its honeysuckle feet, in your bedroom.

Our nomadic kisses wandered over all the world:
Armenia, dollop of disinterred honey:
Ceylon, green dove: and the YangTse with its old
Old patience, dividing the day from the night.

And now, dearest, we return, across the crackling sea
Like two blind birds to their wall,
To their nest in a distant spring:

Because love cannot always fly without resting,
Our lives return to the wall, to the rocks of the sea:
Our kisses head back home where they belong

Aw.............sigh....just what the doctor ordered thank you! glad to see folk back on here, stef hope you are OK and mossy good to have you back around again!...

[freckle]

thank the lawd for neruda!!!!!!!....

sigh.............................................. ................

Love Sonnet
Pablo Neruda

I do not love you as if you were a salt rose, or topaz
or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.
I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
So I love you because I know no other way

than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,
so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

[Derby Tup]

A weary old Tup with aching legs
Skipped Tuesday training and scoffed Easter eggs
After a long day at work
Hill run training he did shirk
To perch on his bum and drink beer from kegs

[Harry H Howgill]

My goodness. What a great day on the thread. There was Freckle worring about its demise and then she, Hes, and Heracles all come up with some absolutely fantastic lines. An absolute delight to read.

[freckle]

A weary old Tup with aching legs
Skipped Tuesday training and scoffed Easter eggs
After a long day at work
Hill run training he did shirk
To perch on his bum and drink beer from kegs

Well, you can't be a top athlete all the time now can you?....there are far too many easter eggs round here too!

freckle grazes on chocie eggs
which I don't think her legs
will appreciate on gisborough moors!

i am sick of the sight of eggs and am going to persuade my gals to melt a few tomorrow roll them in rice crispies and top the little cakes with smarties, Mmmmm.....oh aye we are a healthy living lot!

[freckle]

My goodness. What a great day on the thread. There was Freckle worring about its demise and then she, Hes, and Heracles all come up with some absolutely fantastic lines. An absolute delight to read.

Thems good genes
in the Howgill clan
first Paulo nutini there
then his brother the ol ham!

Oh I am naughty sometimes

Hope yer good harry!

[Derby Tup]

Wharfedale little owl
diminutive diurnal
long time favourite!

[Nathaniel Lee]

Passion dreams.

If only you could read my mind,
You would see how much you touch me,
I would be an open book if only you would ask,
It's all i can do to restrain myself,
To ply you with sonnets and soliloquies,
My nights are full of lucid dreams,
Your beautiful soul enchanting me,
I feel 18 again glad to be alive,
If only you knew.

By Herakles.

[Harry H Howgill]

Thems good genes
in the Howgill clan
first Paulo nutini there
then his brother the ol ham!

Oh I am naughty sometimes

Hope yer good harry!

I'm doing just fine and dandy thanks. I've sadly got little time for much writing at the moment as I'm busy decorating. But I'm enjoying everyone's great poems.

[freckle]

I'm doing just fine and dandy thanks. I've sadly got little time for much writing at the moment as I'm busy decorating. But I'm enjoying everyone's great poems.

Mmmm funny that you should mention decorating I have just been browsing the internet looking at self build houses, well a girl can dream?