Today's poet

[Hes]

This is something like the poem I was writing in my head on this morning's run, inspired by the empty sky. Obviously I hope that Derby Tup's travel plans are not disrupted, even so. And I hope the last line isn't too corny.

An upturned empty bowl -
the sky, would ring clear
if you could only reach and strike
it. Echoes only to the sound
of birds and distant traffic.

Virgin blue is mirrored
in the water-filled quarry
still as sheet of glass.
I hardly dare breathe.
No aircraft dotting it
like flies in the ointment.
No airborne parasites crawling
across its perfect face
or scarring it with vapour trails.

No whine as low level jets slice
the sky over the hills
on the Luton approach.

The sun hauls itself lazily
over the trees of Ashridge -
no alarm call this morning
Go easy, jets, wait another day.

Stevie

Oh Stevie, this is just beautiful. I don't think the last line is corny, just gently witty.

[Hes]

In answer to HHH...its official, the swallows have reached Masham! It was all hearsay until I saw the swoop of one against the blue sky just moments ago.

[freckle]

This is something like the poem I was writing in my head on this morning's run, inspired by the empty sky. Obviously I hope that Derby Tup's travel plans are not disrupted, even so. And I hope the last line isn't too corny.

An upturned empty bowl -
the sky, would ring clear
if you could only reach and strike
it. Echoes only to the sound
of birds and distant traffic.

Virgin blue is mirrored
in the water-filled quarry
still as sheet of glass.
I hardly dare breathe.
No aircraft dotting it
like flies in the ointment.
No airborne parasites crawling
across its perfect face
or scarring it with vapour trails.

No whine as low level jets slice
the sky over the hills
on the Luton approach.

The sun hauls itself lazily
over the trees of Ashridge -
no alarm call this morning
Go easy, jets, wait another day.

Stevie

I really like this Stevie especially the opening line!

[freckle]

Driving neath a sundappled sky
Listening to Desmond Dekker
Bit of heaven amidst the humdrum

i can't do haiku its official

[Harry H Howgill]

I like the last line and definately don't think it is too corny.

This is something like the poem I was writing in my head on this morning's run, inspired by the empty sky. Obviously I hope that Derby Tup's travel plans are not disrupted, even so. And I hope the last line isn't too corny.

An upturned empty bowl -
the sky, would ring clear
if you could only reach and strike
it. Echoes only to the sound
of birds and distant traffic.

Virgin blue is mirrored
in the water-filled quarry
still as sheet of glass.
I hardly dare breathe.
No aircraft dotting it
like flies in the ointment.
No airborne parasites crawling
across its perfect face
or scarring it with vapour trails.

No whine as low level jets slice
the sky over the hills
on the Luton approach.

The sun hauls itself lazily
over the trees of Ashridge -
no alarm call this morning
Go easy, jets, wait another day.

Stevie

[Harry H Howgill]

In answer to HHH...its official, the swallows have reached Masham! It was all hearsay until I saw the swoop of one against the blue sky just moments ago.

Excellent. There must be at least two in the country then as I saw my first this morning too.

[Harry H Howgill]

I really like this Stevie especially the opening line!

I like the last line and definitely don't think it is too corny.

The bit in the middle is great too!

[Alf]

Fallen Majesty
Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,
And even old men's eyes grew dim, this hand alone,
Like some last courtier at a gypsy camping-place
Babbling of fallen majesty, records what's gone.

These lineaments, a heart that laughter has made sweet,
These, these remain, but I record what's gone. A crowd
Will gather, and not know it walks the very street
Whereon a thing once walked that seemed a burning cloud.


William Butler Yeats

[Derby Tup]

Shanghai frog chorus
emanating from wasteland
guttural echoes

[Harry H Howgill]

Shanghai frog chorus
emanating from wasteland
guttural echoes

A lovely image DT, but I now can't get this out of my head...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0auCDOERZyE

cheers pal