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    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    I know it's not a poem, but, well, it's Friday night and.....

    If you kissed the sun right out of the sky for me
    If you told me all the lies I might deserve
    If you lay all night in the rain for me
    I couldn't love you more
    Just couldn't love you more
    I couldn't love you more

    If you loved me till my eyes can no more shine for you
    If you walked beside me all the long way home
    If you wasted all of your time on me
    Well I couldn't love you more
    Just couldn't love you more
    I couldn't love you more

    If you gave me all the things I'd never ask of you
    If you showed me all the ways you have to cry
    If you lay all night in the rain for me
    I couldn't love you more
    Just couldn't love you more
    Just couldn't love you more

    John Martyn


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyV--s65vGU&feature=fvw
    Awwwwwwwww...........and.......sigh............... .....this is lovely, but Mossy! dear Mossy! you just made me miss someone EVEN MORE!............:-(

    ps the vegan debate is amusing some good off the cuff verse there!
    Last edited by freckle; 14-05-2010 at 10:11 PM.

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    Howgill lullaby

    Amidst the velveteen curtains
    Derelict farmsteads
    In domes of anti crag
    Sing their silent chimes
    of misty solitude

    The hum of a distant lullaby,
    earth and desolation
    hold traverse in a gentle reverie
    and leave this journey incomplete
    and beckoning
    WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I'm really pleased, not just that you clearly also love MY beautiful Howgills, but that they have inspired you to such superbly evocative verse.
    Am Yisrael Chai

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW I'm really pleased, not just that you clearly also love MY beautiful Howgills, but that they have inspired you to such superbly evocative verse.

    Aw thats so sweet Mossy you are kind...i was TOTALLY inspired, got to get back to your homeland soon!

    nb i finished editing now i think! :-)
    Last edited by freckle; 14-05-2010 at 10:33 PM.

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    Well I am shattered and turning in....wonder how emmilou is getting on with her journey, funny to think as we all sleep tonight she will be running with friends and cakes, inspiring stuff!

    burgundy braids
    and rock buns galore
    traverse mr graham's circle
    to the absolute awe

    of me!!!!!

    can't wait to hear how she gets on!.....night all x

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    Morning all

    Can i draw your attention to the Simon Armitage thread, anyone interested in tickets need to contact me soon as...see details on thread...)

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    Well I am shattered and turning in....wonder how emmilou is getting on with her journey, funny to think as we all sleep tonight she will be running with friends and cakes, inspiring stuff!

    burgundy braids
    and rock buns galore
    traverse mr graham's circle
    to the absolute awe

    of me!!!!!

    can't wait to hear how she gets on!.....night all x


    Good one freckle..burgundy braids alliteration sounds like she is going stongly at the moment

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    THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD

    WHAT'S the best thing in the world ?
    June-rose, by May-dew impearled;
    Sweet south-wind, that means no rain;
    Truth, not cruel to a friend;
    Pleasure, not in haste to end;
    Beauty, not self-decked and curled
    Till its pride is over-plain;
    Light, that never makes you wink;
    Memory, that gives no pain;
    Love, when, so, you're loved again.
    What's the best thing in the world ?
    — Something out of it, I think.

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alf View Post
    THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD

    WHAT'S the best thing in the world ?
    June-rose, by May-dew impearled;
    Sweet south-wind, that means no rain;
    Truth, not cruel to a friend;
    Pleasure, not in haste to end;
    Beauty, not self-decked and curled
    Till its pride is over-plain;
    Light, that never makes you wink;
    Memory, that gives no pain;
    Love, when, so, you're loved again.
    What's the best thing in the world ?
    — Something out of it, I think.

    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    this is really beautiful alf...particularly liked "light that doesn't make you wink".....i like the way our attention is rawn to the opposite meanings/outcomes in the same phenomena...clever

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    I like this a lot Harry, anyhoo you live in a beautiful part of the world! I really enjoyed my trip to the Howgills today so much so that i have dipped into Wainwrights book about it. At the beginning of the book there is a qoute from William Blake which is apparently inscribed over a doorway at the Cross Keys Hotel!!!!! Spooooooooky!!!!.....

    "Great things are done when men and mountains meet; these are not done by jostling in the street".

    If that is not enoough to make you win a few races then what else will?
    The Tebay race is on the day that Gummers How is on in the evening. So you could come and spectate and have a wander round the Howgills then if you have time.

    It is a beautiful spot.

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    Re: Today's poet

    Just heard this on the radio. I really enjoyed this one:

    As a child,
    who may I say,
    in all humility,
    was something of a prodigy,
    I learned an interesting fact.


    Bumblebees can’t fly.


    It’s just a bit of maths and physics
    those tiny wings
    simply can’t sustain
    those bulbous bodies aloft.


    Poor bumblebees fly on in ignorant bliss.


    As a child,
    who may I say,
    with some remorse,
    was something of a didact,
    I took upon myself the task
    of informing said bumblebees
    of the error of their ways.


    Creeping quietly up behind
    I whispered facts and figures
    and watched them plummet.


    My mother,
    caring soul,
    but not wishing to inhibit
    my enquiring
    if somewhat callous mind,
    (considering perhaps
    a career as a teacher
    or a preacher)
    instead put up tiny signs
    about the flowers
    which simply said


    “Dear bumblebees,
    just jump and pray”

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