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  1. #8821
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    Stef bought me a collection of love poems called Hand in Glove (don't know if its named after the Smiths song) edited by Carol Ann Duffy. This caught my eye straight away:

    Come Back

    Come back often and take hold of me,
    sensation that I love, come back and take hold of me -
    when the body's memory revives
    and an old longing passes through the blood,
    when lips and skin remember
    and hands feel as though they touch again

    Come back often, take hold of me in the night
    when lips and skin remember . . .

    C P Cavafy
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    Quote Originally Posted by Derby Tup View Post
    Stef bought me a collection of love poems called Hand in Glove (don't know if its named after the Smiths song) edited by Carol Ann Duffy. This caught my eye straight away:

    Come Back

    Come back often and take hold of me,
    sensation that I love, come back and take hold of me -
    when the body's memory revives
    and an old longing passes through the blood,
    when lips and skin remember
    and hands feel as though they touch again

    Come back often, take hold of me in the night
    when lips and skin remember . . .

    C P Cavafy
    This is just absolutely awesome DT, I love the observations being made in this poem it is so evocative and conveys so well a sense of yearning for someone not physically present or perhaps the metaphysical sense of being held.......sigh (again)...your on a roll! where is stef anyhow? hope she is well, haven't seen on here for yonks!
    Last edited by freckle; 22-06-2010 at 09:12 PM.

  3. #8823

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    I just realised that I hadn't posted the details of the Dufton campsite for all the fell poets off to teh Armitage gig. Here you are:

    Dufton Hall Farm Campsite, the owner is Margaret Howe and her email is [email protected]
    the phone number is 017683 51573
    Thanks Hes! :-) x

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    Stef's fine and running well atm. She'll be along later I bet. I had to Google C P Cavafy. Modern Greek poet, who wrote often about longing

    How are you freckle? Any more boating trips planned?
    Poacher turned game-keeper

  5. #8825

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    Here's one from the man himself...

    Nightshift

    Once again I have missed you by moments;
    steam hugs the rim of the just-boiled kettle,

    water in the pipes finds its own level.
    In another room there are other signs

    of someone having left: dust, unsettled
    by the sweep of the curtains; the clockwork

    contractions of the paraffin heater.
    For weeks now we have come and gone, woken

    in acres of empty bedding, written
    lipstick love-notes on the bathroom mirror

    and in this space we have worked and paid for
    we have found ourselves, but lost each other.

    Upstairs, at least, there is understanding
    in things more telling than lipstick kisses:

    the air, still hung with spores of your hairspray;
    body-heat stowed in the crumpled duvet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Derby Tup View Post
    Stef's fine and running well atm. She'll be along later I bet. I had to Google C P Cavafy. Modern Greek poet, who wrote often about longing

    How are you freckle? Any more boating trips planned?
    I am glad she is doing well...shame you guys can't make Dufton but ce la vie!

    I am very well thankyou but not enough fell running at the minute, training for a marathon in September and just not seeming to get the chance one way or another to get to the fells! As for boat trips I think we need to enter a whole sqaud of fell poets in next years gummers how! :-)

    I will look up that poet me thinks

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post

    I notice that international fell running stars took part in this event!!!!!!! blimey!

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    Hi Freckle

    I'm still here

    I'm concentrating on keeping busy and getting back into traing again which means less time on the laptop! I've started eating healthy food instead of junk too. I'm on a mission to get fit and lose a few pounds gained

    Hope all is well
    Stef

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    Quote Originally Posted by Derby Tup View Post
    Stef bought me a collection of love poems called Hand in Glove (don't know if its named after the Smiths song) edited by Carol Ann Duffy. This caught my eye straight away:

    Come Back

    Come back often and take hold of me,
    sensation that I love, come back and take hold of me -
    when the body's memory revives
    and an old longing passes through the blood,
    when lips and skin remember
    and hands feel as though they touch again

    Come back often, take hold of me in the night
    when lips and skin remember . . .

    C P Cavafy

    What a lovely poem

    Oh yes please come back!
    Hug all my troubles away,
    Make me whole again
    Last edited by Stef F; 22-06-2010 at 10:39 PM.

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