Today's poet

[Harry H Howgill]

Welcome to the forum and the fell poets' thread SA

Nice post

SA?! That'll be Simon Armitage in disguise then!

Good choice Sunbeam.

[XRunner]

Here is a spoken poem about Scafell Pike by norman nicholson.

[freckle]

Here is a spoken poem about Scafell Pike by norman nicholson.

this is lovely thank you x runner :-)

[Derby Tup]

SA?! That'll be Simon Armitage in disguise then!

Good choice Sunbeam.

But he's like a proper poet and everything. He does that rhyming! Wow

[Hes]

Still buzzing from Thursday's poetry infused fell adventure and meeting the man himself. I haven't written anything yet but yours is really wonderful Freckle! Its been a good couple days on here I see with some great choices and new faces and lovely haiku from DT. Am looking forward to posting something soon.x

[freckle]

Off to grab a sarnie but first....

The Brandy Glass

Only let it form within his hands once more -
The moment cradled like a brandy glass.
Sitting alone in the empty dining hall...
From the chandeliers the snow begins to fall
Piling around carafes and table legs
And chokes the passage of the revolving door.
The last diner, like a ventriloquist's doll
Left by his master, gazes before him, begs:
'Only let it form within my hands once more.'

Louis Macneice

I reckon we can all think of a magic moment or two that we would like to recreate ?

[Stevie]

Nice write up Freckle, makes me wish even more I had been there! And I liked your peom too. Looking forward to reading Hes's and anyone else who writes one inspired by the day.

I'll try and get a couple of photos at Mytholmroyd, though it may be a while before they make an appearance due to my going on holiday.

It looks like a rough day on Cross Fell, and you lot sound like great company for Mr A.

Why is that most Pennine Way walkers I see are solo, and can't wait to engage me in conversation?

Pennine Way solo
Walking England's lonely hills
Looking for a friend

[Hes]

This is wondeful. What a great first posting!

This is my first post - I hope it works ................

Swallows at Chenonceau by John Fuller:

Their building is never finished
Nor their life in the blue air.

Their looping trajectories
Capture invisibility

And return with easy accuracy
To breeding slits and crannies

Clustered beneath the eyebrows
Of these long-suffering turrets

Stone bleached by the sun,
Capped by tented slate.

A tail is seen just for a moment
Before disappearing inside.

No intrigue as patent
In such eager soaring and hovering

Nothing so guileless,
Nothing so anonymous
No calmness nor order of gardens
Could redeem this profusion

Nor effort of history,
Nor stone's severity.

Memory not conditional,
But continual.

[freckle]

Nice write up Freckle, makes me wish even more I had been there! And I liked your peom too. Looking forward to reading Hes's and anyone else who writes one inspired by the day.

I'll try and get a couple of photos at Mytholmroyd, though it may be a while before they make an appearance due to my going on holiday.

It looks like a rough day on Cross Fell, and you lot sound like great company for Mr A.

Why is that most Pennine Way walkers I see are solo, and can't wait to engage me in conversation?

Pennine Way solo
Walking England's lonely hills
Looking for a friend

Always a pleasure to see you on this thread Stevie and your haiku is so very apt...there literally was no one around for miles unlike the Hadrian Walls bit of the route which Simon said was like the M6!!!......we are planning to do some kind of fell poet do again at some juncture and it would be great to see you there if pos, watch this space! :-)

[freckle]

this might give us some ideas....

http://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/national-events/