Today's poet

[stevefoster]

Good luck to all Fell Poets running at Anni Waltz tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to loads of Lakeland inspired verse

Sod's bloody law, been looking forward to AW and meeting you all. Come home from work to the news the car has broken down and is in the garage, no courtesy car available!
Good luck to you all and enjoy

Don't like this new format btw

[Mossdog]

Hello, it's been a while in this guise.

Been scribbling again and now have ventured outside the BGR for inspiration. Not too far outside though. This is about the joy of descending from a hard earned summit in a race or hard run. That initial downhill serction is my favoiurite section in a race and my favourite races are the up-and-down real rollercoasters as described below. Hope you recognise this

Downhill

Summit crest, dramatic
Hairs on neck, like static
Arms spread, automatic
Potential, now kenetic

Plunging down, exciting
Placing feet, exacting
Braking quads, exploding
Heaving lungs, expanding

All too soon, it’s done
Hands back on thighs, again
‘Till summit crest, dramatic
And hairs on neck, like static...

That has all the makings of becoming a real classic fell running verse OnOff - really excellent, and the cadence is just the bizz - very well done.

[Mossdog]

Really must get on with some work but I wrote a couple haiku today whilst waiting by the river for the tracking to be done on my car!

buried in the grass
small bundle of sun and sky
feline-torn bluetit

proud parents float by
a raft of ducklings follow
with their mother's eyes

Hes, again you've poetically captured the cyclic tragedy and triumph of life in you two haiku so I'm not sure if I should sniffle or punch-the-air - I'll do both. Hope you're now back on the right track.

[Harry H Howgill]

Good luck to all Fell Poets running at Anni Waltz tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to loads of Lakeland inspired verse

Cheers DT. I know you there are in spirit. I'll bring you back a haiku or two.

[freckle]

Wild Geese
Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting --
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.



Good luck to all in the AW tomorrow looking forward to seeing you all very soon! and for those of you else where have fun!

[Hes]

Sod's bloody law, been looking forward to AW and meeting you all. Come home from work to the news the car has broken down and is in the garage, no courtesy car available!
Good luck to you all and enjoy

Don't like this new format btw

Oh no...that's gutting. I'm so sorry to hear that Merry. I bought you some choccie cake too (didn't get time to make my own). Hope to see you at another race soon. I'd better get to bed as I was supposed to be camping up in the lakes but work got in the way....very early start tomorrow to get to AW in time!

[Hes]

Hes, again you've poetically captured the cyclic tragedy and triumph of life in you two haiku so I'm not sure if I should sniffle or punch-the-air - I'll do both. Hope you're now back on the right track.

Thanks Mossy and also Alf.

I'm not liking this new forum format much.:-(

[Stef F]

Orion watches
inky owl glide silently
fox and vixen cross

[Stef F]

Good luck to all who venture out to the Anni Waltz.
Sad I can't join you.
Hope you have a great day

[freckle]

Orion watches
inky owl glide silently
fox and vixen cross

this is lovely stef....just getting ready fo drive across to lakes, a shame not to see you there but another time soon hopefully....

freckle wonders why
a butterfly the size of an elephant
luks in her tummy!

ah well as all good hell raisers note...."bring ot on!!!!"