Today's poet

[Harry H Howgill]

I think I will try and get there for at least ten too and will be one of the last to finish, not long now!

Four sleeps to go.

[stevefoster]

I think I will try and get there for at least ten too and will be one of the last to finish, not long now!

I'll be there at 10ish and plan a slow, steady trot round.

[freckle]

I prefer:

Fireflies in the Garden

Here come real stars to fill the upper skies,
And here on earth come emulating flies,
That though they never equal stars in size,
(And they were never really stars at heart)
Achieve at times a very star-like start.
Only, of course, they can't sustain the part.

Robert Frost

This is lovely...I love Robert Frost and hadn't seen this one.

[freckle]

I'll be there at 10ish and plan a slow, steady trot round.

One word........LUSH!!!!!!!

[Harry H Howgill]

I like it. I hope to meet your inspiration some day.

27

“Yep”
Fleet of foot.
Calmness in turbulent times.
Hopping down stairs and/or hill.
A disinclination for certainty.
Cleft of the chin.
Your construction of sentences.
Smoothest of all pebbles.

“Oi!!!!!”
Mischeviouness.
Reparative not paralysing guilt.
Damn good verse.
Testosterone bathed ears!
The narrative of your kith and kin.
Simultaneous mouth, eyes and forehead grin.
Down on the arms.
Capacity for forgiveness.

“Presently”.
You big, me tiny.
Finger tips.
Looking good in skinny jeans.
Catalyst to creativity.
Wisecracks.
Nervousness when cooking for a special guest.
Big, gentle hands.
The headlines!

“Magnificent".

[freckle]

Four sleeps to go.

Only four sleeps?

Holey moley!.......

And on that bombshell think I will turn in with that early night and a book I have been promising myself...night all

[freckle]

I like it. I hope to meet your inspiration some day.

Aw you are kind...that last line sounds corny but it ain't really (if you know the context!) ...anyhow apologies for being all sentimental i'll be posting plath again tomorrow no doubt!

[Old Whippet]

Nice one Freckle. Now...where can I get one of those testosterone ear baths?

27

“Yep”
Fleet of foot.
Calmness in turbulent times.
Hopping down stairs and/or hill.
A disinclination for certainty.
Cleft of the chin.
Your construction of sentences.
Smoothest of all pebbles.

“Oi!!!!!”
Mischeviouness.
Reparative not paralysing guilt.
Damn good verse.
Testosterone bathed ears!
The narrative of your kith and kin.
Simultaneous mouth, eyes and forehead grin.
Down on the arms.
Capacity for forgiveness.

“Presently”.
You big, me tiny.
Finger tips.
Looking good in skinny jeans.
Catalyst to creativity.
Wisecracks.
Nervousness when cooking for a special guest.
Big, gentle hands.
The headlines!

“Magnificent".

[Old Whippet]

It's been a long and busy day....I do like it when the Tupster pitches in with a bit of JCC. Makes me feel younger.
And DT - I particularly liked the froggy haiku - felt I got a sense of your surroundings without having experienced them. Which, I think, makes it a fine and above all successful verse.

(I Married A) Monster From Outer Space

The milky way she walks around
All feet firmly off the ground
Two worlds collide, two worlds collide
Here comes the future bride
Gimme a lift to the lunar base
I wanna marry a monster from outer space

I fell in love with an alien being
Whose skin was jelly - whose teeth were green
She had the big bug eyes and the death-ray glare
Feet like water wings - purple hair
I was over the moon - I asked her back to my place
Then I married the monster - from outer space

The days were numbered - the nights were spent
In a rent free furnished oxygen tent
When a cyborg chef served up moon beams
Done super rapid on a laser beam
I needed nutrition to keep up the pace
When I married the monster from outer space

We walked out - tentacle in hand
You could sense that the earthlings would not understand
They'd go.. nudge nudge ...when we got off the bus
Saying it's extra-terrestial - not like us
And it's bad enough with another race
But f.ck me... a monster ...from outer space

In a cybernetic fit of rage
She pissed off to another age
She lives in 1999
With her new boyfriend - a blob of slime
Each time I see her translucent face
I remember the monster from outer space

John Cooper Clarke

[Derby Tup]

the wonder of Skype
enabling loving looks
across continents