Today's poet

[freckle]

I've lived to bury my desires
and see my dreams corrode with rust
now all that's left are fruitless fires
that burn my empty heart to dust.

Struck by the clouds of cruel fate
My crown of Summer bloom is sere
Alone and sad, I watch and wait
And wonder if the end is near.

As conquered by the last cold air
When Winter whistles in the wind
Alone upon a branch that's bare
A trembling leaf is left behind.

Alexander Pushkin

Such a woeful poem from our favourite frost fan ( love the signature :closed: )

and here is an equally sad one alf....after all mondays are for melancholy are they not?

To earthward
Robert Frost

Love at the lips was touch
As sweet as I could bear;
And once that seemed too much;
I lived on air

That crossed me from sweet things,
The scent of -- was it musk
From hidden grapevine springs
Down hill at dusk?

I had the swirl and ache
From sprays of honeysuckle
That when they're gathered shake
Dew on the knuckle.

I craved sweet things,
but thoseSeemed strong when I was young;
The petal of the rose
It was that stung.

Now no joy but lacks salt
That is not dashed with pain
And weariness and fault;
I crave the stain

Of tears, the aftermark
Of almost too much love,
The sweet of bitter bark
And burning clove.

When stiff and sore and scarred
I take away my hand
From leaning on it hard
In grass and sand,

The hurt is not enough:
I long for weight and strength
To feel the earth as rough
To all my length.

[freckle]

Poor Floyd

http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/album...achmentid=3427

He has scaled the heights of England. Is he called Floyd the Mountain Climber? No!
He fetches sticks for the fire. Is he called Floyd the Wood Gatherer? No!
He guards the house against intruders. Is he called Floyd the Guard Dog? No!
Yet he shags just one poet........

Poor Floyd indeed! I for one will provide a character reference...I can just imagine him in court "I didn't do it guvna!"...poor thing!

[freckle]

I never knew Frost was such a misery.....great stuff!

Lodged by Robert Frost

The rain to the wind said,
'You push and I'll pelt.'
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged--though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.

[Hes]

I like this very much Alf and I love the way you juxtaposed it with the earthiness of your previous post

I've lived to bury my desires
and see my dreams corrode with rust
now all that's left are fruitless fires
that burn my empty heart to dust.

Struck by the clouds of cruel fate
My crown of Summer bloom is sere
Alone and sad, I watch and wait
And wonder if the end is near.

As conquered by the last cold air
When Winter whistles in the wind
Alone upon a branch that's bare
A trembling leaf is left behind.

Alexander Pushkin

[Hes]

Some lovely Frost choices Freckle. I've finally got started on my allotment again and have sown the first seeds in my greenhouse:

Sowing

It was a perfect day
For sowing; just
As sweet and dry was the ground
As tobacco-dust.

I tasted deep the hour
Between the far
Owl's chuckling first soft cry
And the first star.

A long stretched hour it was;
Nothing undone
Remained; the early seeds
All safely sown.

And now, hark at the rain,
Windless and light,
Half a kiss, half a tear,
Saying good-night.

Edward Thomas

[freckle]

Some lovely Frost choices Freckle. I've finally got started on my allotment again and have sown the first seeds in my greenhouse:

Sowing

It was a perfect day
For sowing; just
As sweet and dry was the ground
As tobacco-dust.

I tasted deep the hour
Between the far
Owl's chuckling first soft cry
And the first star.

A long stretched hour it was;
Nothing undone
Remained; the early seeds
All safely sown.

And now, hark at the rain,
Windless and light,
Half a kiss, half a tear,
Saying good-night.

Edward Thomas

a lovely poem to end my day, thanks hes x

[Alf]

I like this very much Alf and I love the way you juxtaposed it with the earthiness of your previous post

I had a hellish trip to the dentist yesterday morning Hes where Mr "Mengele" my Dentist had launched a particularly vicious attack on two of my molars! In fact at any minute I was waiting for him to whisper in my ear "Is it safe?" :w00t:

My teeth ached, my jaw ached, my head ached and Paracetamol didn't help so I picked up a cheap bottle of Shiraz from the Co-op on the way home.

So that probably accounts for the earthiness and the melancholy

[Nee Bother]

Obscured by
gloomy dark
clouds, pressing
heavy, suffocating,
pressure building,
enclosing, crushing,
depressing, then,
suddenly
a shaft of light,
a bud, a shoot
and a small spring
flower appears to
awake me again.

Thank you my friend.
NB

[Mountain Goatess]

Obscured by
gloomy dark
clouds, pressing
heavy, suffocating,
pressure building,
enclosing, crushing,
depressing, then,
suddenly
a shaft of light,
a bud, a shoot
and a small spring
flower appears to
awake me again.

Thank you my friend.
NB

Awww that's lovely NB!
Sunglasses donned for my run today! :thumbup:

[Nee Bother]

Awww that's lovely NB!
Sunglasses donned for my run today! :thumbup:

Cheers MG, hope you combined yer thermals wi yer glasses today??
It was cauld oot there!!!