Today's poet

[freckle]

Awwww I'm not hun....simply because I'm not fit enough!
Would love to do it again...and get some more choccies!! What a fluke that was! :thumbup: Also I am now a Vet Category!!! So I could even be promoted to a bottle of vino :w00t:
Perhaps 2012? x

I really wish you were, thats a shame, I am soooooooo unfit but reckon I have got to start somewhere! hope to ctach up with you at some point, perhaps high cup nick in feb? take care you x Oh and the choccies, i think i opted for wine instead, just about says it all!

[Mountain Goatess]

I really wish you were, thats a shame, I am soooooooo unfit but reckon I have got to start somewhere! hope to ctach up with you at some point, perhaps high cup nick in feb? take care you x Oh and the choccies, i think i opted for wine instead, just about says it all!

Well done to you for giving it a go. I am not that brave, but I do wish I could join you!
Have a good un, you will probably surprise yourself :wink:

[freckle]

Well, first fell race tomorrow after quite some time and with no hill training and a dodgy knee (eeek)...so been looking for some inspiration...really like "If" by rudyard kipling and wish there was a female version, anyhoo...instead i found this little lot...

first some qoutes...

“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ....Lao Tzu

and...

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ......Mark Twain


and finally, a poem...


Still Here
Langston Hughes

I been scared and battered.
My hopes the wind done scattered.
Snow has friz me,
Sun has baked me,

Looks like between 'em they done
Tried to make me

Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'--
But I don't care!
I'm still here!


well, if that doesn't get me round nowt will!

have a lovely night fellpoets...off to see the Kings speech!

[Mountain Goatess]

Well, first fell race tomorrow after quite some time and with no hill training and a dodgy knee (eeek)...so been looking for some inspiration...really like "If" by rudyard kipling and wish there was a female version, anyhoo...instead i found this little lot...

first some qoutes...

“The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ....Lao Tzu

and...

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." ......Mark Twain


and finally, a poem...


Still Here
Langston Hughes

I been scared and battered.
My hopes the wind done scattered.
Snow has friz me,
Sun has baked me,

Looks like between 'em they done
Tried to make me

Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'--
But I don't care!
I'm still here!


well, if that doesn't get me round nowt will!

have a lovely night fellpoets...off to see the Kings speech!

Fab, just fab, the whole of it! xxx

[freckle]

Oooo and there was this one too...

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.

The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Ayn Rand

[Hes]

Go Freckle go!!!

Good luck tomorrow, you'll be fine, you just need to get round in one piece and know that its a great start to your fell running year. In at the deep end, its the only way! xxx

Oooo and there was this one too...

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.

The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Ayn Rand

[Harry H Howgill]

...really like "If" by rudyard kipling and wish there was a female version, anyhoo...

You mean something starting like this...

IF you can curl your hair when all about you
Are straightening theirs........

[Harry H Howgill]

Oooo and there was this one too...

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.

The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Ayn Rand

Inspirational stuff Freckle. Good luck for tomorrow. I hope the weather is better in the north east than here today. It has blown a hoolie here all day.

[freckle]

You mean something starting like this...

IF you can curl your hair when all about you
Are straightening theirs........

Ha ha ha ! this made me laugh out loud Harry nice one!

thnx all for your well wishes! :-) x

[OneOffPoet]

Hello everyone. It's been such a while since i wrote anything and i'm woefully behind on this thread. As the following poem testifies, i've been a bit preoccupied with this and silly long runs before Christmas! I'm hoping that i might find the time and energy to write a follow up in a few weeks time. We'll see. I hope those who have trodden this path and those that have not find something in here that chimes. THanks and hopefully i'll pay more attention to the Forum's best thread!

The little one is due on the 25th Jan :0

OOP

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Baby Steps - Part One (38 weeks and counting)

A thousand miles, a single step
An epic trip, nights to forget
This nascent soul we brought to life
Is in the post, we’re terrified

We wait, the due date ringed in red
Bags in the hall, cot by the bed
Nursery in green (we want a surprise)
We’ll sure get that, gender aside

The books and classes duly done
In one ear, out the other one
The list is done, she’s fit to pop
It’s coming soon, ready or not

Advice dispatched, “it worked for me”
The judging mums, horror stories
Outweighed by friends who understand
Grandmas-to-be sit on their hands

And so do we, what can we do?
See out these days with just we two
Prepare the nest, agree the name
Nothing will ever be the same