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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Nice one DT. It is rather ironic that you are now freezing in Thailand as opposed to freezing here! Singha beer...mmmmm! I also drank Chang when I was out there, I think it has elephants on the label.
    That's DT, a Haiku in every port

    I remember when I was out there with the army and the two beers were Tiger and Elephant, one had a tiger on it and one had an elephant on it but I had no idea who the breweries were that produced it ?. Things were much simpler in those days

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    Quote Originally Posted by stevefoster View Post
    Good to see you back Matt, keep smiling mate

    And get well soon freckle marra
    thanks steve...interesting choice of poem too...take care matt and hope you both feel on top form again soon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alf View Post
    That's DT, a Haiku in every port

    I remember when I was out there with the army and the two beers were Tiger and Elephant, one had a tiger on it and one had an elephant on it but I had no idea who the breweries were that produced it ?. Things were much simpler in those days
    A Haiku in every port made me smile Alf

    Tiger beer is a huge international brand and the beer with the Elephant on is Chang. I'm with Hes, and prefer Chang to Shinga, which has a Lion on the label and which I always find a bit fizzy; not that it's ever stopped me guzzling it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    pps alf i liked your dandelion pic very much and also the john clare, his stuff is growing on me these days
    I am reading this at the moment freckle http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003...uardianreview5 and its very good (£7 paperback new free delivery Amazon)


    He is buried in Helpston churchyard near Peterborough and the inscription on his gravestone reads:
    "A Poet is born not made"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alf View Post
    Unleash Hell Steve!
    Strength and Honour Alf:wink:

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    Japan

    Today I pass the time reading
    a favorite haiku,
    saying the few words over and over.

    It feels like eating
    the same small, perfect grape
    again and again.

    I walk through the house reciting it
    and leave its letters falling
    through the air of every room.

    I stand by the big silence of the piano and say it.
    I say it in front of a painting of the sea.
    I tap out its rhythm on an empty shelf.

    I listen to myself saying it,
    then I say it without listening,
    then I hear it without saying it.

    And when the dog looks up at me,
    I kneel down on the floor
    and whisper it into each of his long white ears.

    It's the one about the one-ton temple bell
    with the moth sleeping on its surface,

    and every time I say it, I feel the excruciating
    pressure of the moth
    on the surface of the iron bell.

    When I say it at the window,
    the bell is the world
    and I am the moth resting there.

    When I say it at the mirror,
    I am the heavy bell
    and the moth is life with its papery wings.

    And later, when I say it to you in the dark,
    you are the bell,
    and I am the tongue of the bell, ringing you,

    and the moth has flown
    from its line
    and moves like a hinge in the air above our bed

    Billy Collins

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    on the one ton temple bell
    a moon-moth, folded into sleep,
    sits still

    Taniguchi Buson

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    On Reading Another Poet

    I think we are being given the same messages
    that oracles are speaking in our dreams
    warning admonition code
    syllables of unknown meaning.

    We are not in competition.
    If I say the same thing
    it is not because I copy
    but because the voice says so.

    Maybe there will be hundreds of us
    like choric echoes.
    It will not matter
    that the words repeat themselves

    so long as what is said
    rises like the tide in all our separate waves
    and beats upon and shapes the dreaming shore

    Elizabeth Brewster

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Something cheery for a Saturday night!

    The Choice

    Madness, it felt like madness
    How could it come to this
    The passion and the love
    And then the precipice

    I sensed the earth beneath me
    Beginning to give way
    I watched myself diminish
    And why? I couldn’t say.

    Your wanted me to be your wife
    I wanted to believe
    but knew it might cost me my life
    and chose instead to leave

    I want to say I’m sorry
    The choice was hard to make
    To rescue you or save myself
    I had to make the break

    my friends they say “it wasn’t you
    you have to remain strong”
    but everyday that passes
    I wonder, was I wrong?
    This is a very touching, heartfelt poem Hes. Your dilemma reminded me of this Larkin poem:

    Philip Larkin - Love, We Must Part Now

    Love, we must part now: do not let it be
    Calamitious and bitter. In the past
    There has been too much moonlight and self-pity:
    Let us have done with it: for now at last
    Never has sun more boldly paced the sky,
    Never were hearts more eager to be free,
    To kick down worlds, lash forests; you and I
    No longer hold them; we are husks, that see
    The grain going forward to a different use.

    There is regret. Always, there is regret.
    But it is better that our lives unloose,
    As two tall ships, wind-mastered, wet with light,
    Break from an estuary with their courses set,
    And waving part, and waving drop from sight.
    Am Yisrael Chai

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    7 posts short of the 10,000 on this thread!
    A foolish idea Freckle, that was never going to catch on.

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