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    Re: Today's poet

    Just been reading through today's poems again. I loved the Frost stuff selected by freckle and that sublime Edward Thomas selection from Hes and the excellent poems penned by NB



    Adlestrop

    Yes, I remember Adlestrop --
    The name, because one afternoon
    Of heat the express-train drew up there
    Unwontedly. It was late June.

    The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
    No one left and no one came
    On the bare platform. What I saw
    Was Adlestrop -- only the name

    And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
    And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
    No whit less still and lonely fair
    Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

    And for that minute a blackbird sang
    Close by, and round him, mistier,
    Farther and farther, all the birds
    Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

    Edward Thomas

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    Great stuff NB

    Quote Originally Posted by Nee Bother View Post
    (after a few beers wi me mate Ter and best spoken in canny ard Sun'land twang!!)

    Lent

    Me days of religion
    are probably spent
    But me n wor lass
    Wer still foller Lent

    Dint think ah believe
    but still gan alang
    What divva give up
    it last seeee lang

    She sat me down
    sez dinnit be vexed
    This year for Lent
    wer given up sex!!

    Ah telt me mates
    they thowt it wer funny
    'ye gi up sweets chocklat
    or spending yer money'

    Ah asked wor Ter
    He's a bit of a lad
    Hails frem Castle Hilton
    in a posh council pad

    He sez tell you'er lass
    Mind look strite inna eye
    'yer'll give summit up
    but she has t' comply'

    'Ahl meet yer halfway
    me gorgeous hinny
    we'll av touchy feely
    but nee sticky inny!!'

    :w00t: NB

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    Great stuff NB
    Cheers HHH, enjoying playing with words again.

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    Bowfell

    Huge rough boulders
    sharpened with frost
    shattered and broken
    lie atop the unforgiving
    slabs of Bowfell.

    Dangerously dark
    imtimidating black crags
    severed by slivers
    of untouched snow
    defending its plateau.

    Windswept barren cold
    naked raw but beautiful
    twixt Mickledore and Gimmer
    alone but proud
    thats Bowfell
    NB

    (written sunday evening after cold scramble to the top)

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    What a treat for this sunny March morning, thanks Alf.

    There was an interesting article in the Guardian Review section at the weekend with writers saying which book they would regularly give as a gift and Andrew Motion chose The Works of Edward Thomas. I bought my copy when I was a student and it is a cheap one so has gone all yellowed and dogeared. If I ever find a nicely bound edition, I'll treat myself.

    Quote Originally Posted by Alf View Post
    Just been reading through today's poems again. I loved the Frost stuff selected by freckle and that sublime Edward Thomas selection from Hes and the excellent poems penned by NB



    Adlestrop

    Yes, I remember Adlestrop --
    The name, because one afternoon
    Of heat the express-train drew up there
    Unwontedly. It was late June.

    The steam hissed. Someone cleared his throat.
    No one left and no one came
    On the bare platform. What I saw
    Was Adlestrop -- only the name

    And willows, willow-herb, and grass,
    And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry,
    No whit less still and lonely fair
    Than the high cloudlets in the sky.

    And for that minute a blackbird sang
    Close by, and round him, mistier,
    Farther and farther, all the birds
    Of Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire.

    Edward Thomas

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    You are definitely on a roll NB. Maybe we should consider putting some more fell poems together for The Fellrunner. Its been a year since the last article.

    Quote Originally Posted by Nee Bother View Post
    Bowfell

    Huge rough boulders
    sharpened with frost
    shattered and broken
    lie atop the unforgiving
    slabs of Bowfell.

    Dangerously dark
    imtimidating black crags
    severed by slivers
    of untouched snow
    defending its plateau.

    Windswept barren cold
    naked raw but beautiful
    twixt Mickledore and Gimmer
    alone but proud
    thats Bowfell
    NB

    (written sunday evening after cold scramble to the top)

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    Great stuff NB. Keep them coming.

    Quote Originally Posted by Nee Bother View Post
    Bowfell

    Huge rough boulders
    sharpened with frost
    shattered and broken
    lie atop the unforgiving
    slabs of Bowfell.

    Dangerously dark
    imtimidating black crags
    severed by slivers
    of untouched snow
    defending its plateau.

    Windswept barren cold
    naked raw but beautiful
    twixt Mickledore and Gimmer
    alone but proud
    thats Bowfell
    NB

    (written sunday evening after cold scramble to the top)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    You are definitely on a roll NB. Maybe we should consider putting some more fell poems together for The Fellrunner. Its been a year since the last article.
    Blimey! It is a year isn't it. Should we do something similar to last time? We only had 600-odd posts to trawl through last time, but we've got 11,000 now. Any suggestions anyone on a format?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nee Bother View Post
    Bowfell

    Huge rough boulders
    sharpened with frost
    shattered and broken
    lie atop the unforgiving
    slabs of Bowfell.

    Dangerously dark
    imtimidating black crags
    severed by slivers
    of untouched snow
    defending its plateau.

    Windswept barren cold
    naked raw but beautiful
    twixt Mickledore and Gimmer
    alone but proud
    thats Bowfell
    NB

    (written sunday evening after cold scramble to the top)
    Just spotted this, brilliant, love it Auld Ken, poetic genius hiding under that hat:thumbup:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    Blimey! It is a year isn't it. Should we do something similar to last time? We only had 600-odd posts to trawl through last time, but we've got 11,000 now. Any suggestions anyone on a format?
    i think each fell poet should propose one of their own poems and nominate a favourite one of another fell poet. When you say format do you also mean theme? I think the last time we agreed they had to be fell running related ? there have been a lot about nature and our relationship with it this year, may also want to think of seasonal ones? Not sure it would make publication but could collate some of the wintry ones? just a few ideas....

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