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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
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    “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".
    I like this a lot Freckle. The "Testosterone bathed ears" line is interesting. I read it as you being the one with the testosterone bathed ears. i.e. hearing the sound of a male voice. The word bathed tells me it is a pleasant experience, otherwise you might have said "blasted" or "assailed" or something. Is the "Magnificent" verse yet to be written?

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    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    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
    Good Lord, the forum had an early night last night didn't it? 10pm? What's going (gannin?) on?

    Good luck to everybody in the Anniversary Waltz! I had planned to enter the TWA this year but for various reason's didn't. It would have been good to meet a few of you.

    My memory of running the AW a few years ago is pushing hard to Dale Head and off Dale Head and then having completely shot legs over Maiden Moor and the last descent. It is a tough race, definitely one to start at an sensible pace.

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    Re: Today's poet

    Sir Edwin Arnold

    Destiny

    Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours
    For one lone soul another lonely soul,
    Each choosing each through all the weary hours
    And meeting strangely at one sudden goal.
    Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers,
    Into one beautiful and perfect whole;
    And life's long night is ended, and the way
    Lies open onward to eternal day.
    Am Yisrael Chai

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    It’s that time of year again
    My brother said she’s drunk is your mum
    Then I knew your ghost had taken the train
    To Ravenglass from Eskdale

    Thirteen years to the night
    - How can it be possible -
    After the hospital call that taught me
    Life unravels as fast as travels the tide

    On the Mite sands where you swam
    Before your war arrived

    Thirty-three years after I’d watched
    You strain like Sisyphus with a pipe
    At a stranger’s car tide-bound
    In the shifting sands of the Mite

    And afterwards we took the train
    From Ravenglass to Eskdale

    Forty years on from the night
    The hospital called you to a new son
    With roses from the garage for mum
    But I became your world

    Away from the shore that moves
    With the tides of the Esk and the Mite

    It was April seventeen and I thought
    In the breeze I felt the ghost
    Of your hand encompassing both mine
    Like it did that distant afternoon

    We sat happy on the line
    To Ravenglass from Eskdale

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Sir Edwin Arnold

    Destiny

    Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours
    For one lone soul another lonely soul,
    Each choosing each through all the weary hours
    And meeting strangely at one sudden goal.
    Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers,
    Into one beautiful and perfect whole;
    And life's long night is ended, and the way
    Lies open onward to eternal day.
    Good choice Mossdog, is this for anybody in particular?

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    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    Interesting choice Alf, what inspired it?
    I was reading about Yeats as I was looking to get a collection of his poems and I discovered he had a lifelong unrequited love for Maud Gonne and this poem, like a lot of his poems, are about her. They did get together eventually but it was a bit of a disaster apparently. I don't know if you have ever read the book (or seen the film) "Love in the time of cholera", their relationship reminded me a bit of that situation as well.

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Tooshy View Post
    It’s that time of year again
    My brother said she’s drunk is your mum
    Then I knew your ghost had taken the train
    To Ravenglass from Eskdale

    Thirteen years to the night
    - How can it be possible -
    After the hospital call that taught me
    Life unravels as fast as travels the tide

    On the Mite sands where you swam
    Before your war arrived

    Thirty-three years after I’d watched
    You strain like Sisyphus with a pipe
    At a stranger’s car tide-bound
    In the shifting sands of the Mite

    And afterwards we took the train
    From Ravenglass to Eskdale

    Forty years on from the night
    The hospital called you to a new son
    With roses from the garage for mum
    But I became your world

    Away from the shore that moves
    With the tides of the Esk and the Mite

    It was April seventeen and I thought
    In the breeze I felt the ghost
    Of your hand encompassing both mine
    Like it did that distant afternoon

    We sat happy on the line
    To Ravenglass from Eskdale
    Thats a great poem Tooshy, well done

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Sir Edwin Arnold

    Destiny

    Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours
    For one lone soul another lonely soul,
    Each choosing each through all the weary hours
    And meeting strangely at one sudden goal.
    Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers,
    Into one beautiful and perfect whole;
    And life's long night is ended, and the way
    Lies open onward to eternal day.
    Thats a nice choice Mossy and with Tooshy's wonderful poem has certainly kick started my day!

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
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    “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".
    Definitely catchup time today .... love that poem Freckle

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Tooshy View Post
    It’s that time of year again
    My brother said she’s drunk is your mum
    Then I knew your ghost had taken the train
    To Ravenglass from Eskdale

    Thirteen years to the night
    - How can it be possible -
    After the hospital call that taught me
    Life unravels as fast as travels the tide

    On the Mite sands where you swam
    Before your war arrived

    Thirty-three years after I’d watched
    You strain like Sisyphus with a pipe
    At a stranger’s car tide-bound
    In the shifting sands of the Mite

    And afterwards we took the train
    From Ravenglass to Eskdale

    Forty years on from the night
    The hospital called you to a new son
    With roses from the garage for mum
    But I became your world

    Away from the shore that moves
    With the tides of the Esk and the Mite

    It was April seventeen and I thought
    In the breeze I felt the ghost
    Of your hand encompassing both mine
    Like it did that distant afternoon

    We sat happy on the line
    To Ravenglass from Eskdale
    This is very moving Tooshy, after reading it a few times the sense of time passing and family history really comes through. Some things in life are constants (the Mite and the Esk and the railway), and others change, but although you become more distant in time from events in the past there are some key moments there to hang on to. The things that stay with you may not be the things you expect to stay with you - the red roses, the car on the sand. But one thing that always stays with you and is the memory of your Mum, obviously very intense. The train ride with and without your Mum is a good way of getting the feeling across. Thanks for posting this.

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