Today's poet

[Hes]

****ing love it Mossy!!

I really like the forthrightness and truth of the poem and it made me laugh as I was aware on Sunday's fell race that I may have offended the guy behind me's sensibilities when I exclaimed **** on a near twisted ankle. I think there is an earthiness about the word that no alternative can match and said in the height of passion or as a request...well, those last two verses say it all!

There are some weird and wonderfully obscure poetry sites out there on the high seas of the internet, and while surfing my eye was caught by one that seems to be particularly...er...,irreverent, as it's title suggests it's devoted to the F-word. Intrigued, but also resigned to the likelihood of hasty disappointment at a possibly neanderthal and banal anthology, I ventured in closer......And actually I found it's first offering quite uplifting and thought provoking. Anyway, see what you think, (sadly this forum's automated 'taste-police' has somewhat ****ed with the text, but let me assure you it isn't called the four asterisks !)
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[Masham Man]

To all you Fell poets.... Radio 4 this saturday coming 6.05am......Ramblings, Stuart Maconie walks with poet Simon Armitage. I think the prog is repeated sometime during the week, for those of you that are'nt early birds.

[Alf]

To all you Fell poets.... Radio 4 this saturday coming 6.05am......Ramblings, Stuart Maconie walks with poet Simon Armitage. I think the prog is repeated sometime during the week, for those of you that are'nt early birds.

Thanks MM and theres also Roger McGough as well http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qp7q

[Masham Man]

Saw a couple of Hares chasing each other on the the way home from work tonight, so here is my first offering to .........today's poet

In the black furrow of a field
I saw an old witch-hare this night;
And she cocked a lissome ear,
And she eyed the moon so bright,
And nibbled of the green;
And I whispered 'Whsst! witch-hare,'
Away like a ghostie o'er the field
She fled, and left the moonlight there.

Walter de la Mare

[Derby Tup]

Masham, North Yorkshire
home to real ale breweries
and lovers of hares

My first haikhu for a very long time. I've noticed a few hares whilst out and about the last few days; what fabulous creatures!

[Masham Man]

Emm we just love the BEER. Did you know every house in Masham has beer piped straight to the cold tap.

Hic

[Nee Bother]

Emm we just love the BEER. Did you know every house in Masham has beer piped straight to the cold tap.

Hic

Ha ha.....on me way!!!!

Liked the poem too.....appealed to me and simple enough for me to understand.

[Derby Tup]

Emm we just love the BEER. Did you know every house in Masham has beer piped straight to the cold tap.

Hic

My best friends took me on a Black Sheep brewery tour for my birthday five or six years ago. We had a fabulous day in the sunshine as it coincided with the folk(?) festival. We were out for 11hours iirc. A wonderful do it was

[Old Whippet]

****ing love it Mossy!!

I really like the forthrightness and truth of the poem and it made me laugh as I was aware on Sunday's fell race that I may have offended the guy behind me's sensibilities when I exclaimed **** on a near twisted ankle. I think there is an earthiness about the word that no alternative can match and said in the height of passion or as a request...well, those last two verses say it all!

Sickening language. Those were MY sensibilities!! No wonder there are some who use ipods during races (see another thread). The 'Ban Everything' Brigade have not taken into account these devices as sensibility protectors.

Running through the Commondale muck....(you can see where this is going!)
A fell poet ran out of luck
When twisting an ankle
With a pain that did rankle
Cried out to the world the word 'Ouch'


or something to that effect.

[Nee Bother]

My best friends took me on a Black Sheep brewery tour for my birthday five or six years ago. We had a fabulous day in the sunshine as it coincided with the folk(?) festival. We were out for 11hours iirc. A wonderful do it was

We did the tour while at the Steam Rally many many years back....I then drove a vintage tractor on a parade through the village, great memories.