Today's poet

[Alf]

A bit of Greek poetry to make Leonidas feel at home

To One who Loved not Poetry

THOU liest dead, and there will be no memory left behind
Of thee or thine in all the earth, for never didst thou bind
The roses of Pierian streams upon thy brow; thy doom
Is now to flit with unknown ghosts in cold and nameless gloom.

Sappho

[Old Whippet]

That's a lovely image.

It reminded me of the hedgehog on here...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AHvz...eature=related

This is a brilliant programme to watch with the subtitles on, (just in case you were wondering!) They have gone to great effort adding "baas", "moos", and "quacks" in all the right places. My favourite is the owl who either says "hoot", "hooot" or "hoooooooot"

The things you miss out on if you haven't got a telly! ;-)

just watched it.......the horror!.......the horror!.....
So pleased the kids are getting older.

[Harry H Howgill]

Freckle, you need to make some space in your inbox please so i can PM you to tell you i'm not in for the Dufton gig just yet I'll try again later.

You can always use the email [email protected] There is plenty of room on there. :-)

[freckle]

Yeah, I am still up for it. Where are we having our campfire and where are we putting our tents ?.

Not sure yet...think Hes knows where the camp is so she will post nearer the time!

good that you are still coming!

[freckle]

Freckle, you need to make some space in your inbox please so i can PM you to tell you i'm not in for the Dufton gig just yet I'll try again later.

Oooooops sorry, I just have done Mr Brightside, please feel free to PM now!

[freckle]

just watched it.......the horror!.......the horror!.....
So pleased the kids are getting older.

i liked it actually and think i will start singing it regular! )

harry i liked your shakespeare too, lush!

anyway have you seen how early I rise these days, flippin eck!

[Stolly]

Post Indifference

I think my posts are dying on their arse
Knowingly the forum applies the coup de grace
Of just ignoring them and taking a bypass

The message?
Shut the f**k up smart arse

[freckle]

Post Indifference

I think my posts are dying on their arse
Knowingly the forum applies the coup de grace
Of just ignoring them and taking a bypass

The message?
Shut the f**k up smart arse

You first poem Stolly i think?
nice rhyming couplets!

[Alf]

Just watched the film so:

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

[freckle]

Just watched the film so:

Invictus

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley (1849–1903)

Oooo la la ! I would have liked to meet wor William!

nice poem there Alf :-) just looked at the trailer of this film it looks good