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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post


    WHEN WE TWO PARTED

    Lord Byron

    When we two parted
    In silence and tears,
    Half broken-hearted
    To sever for years,
    Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
    Colder thy kiss;
    Truly that hour foretold
    Sorrow to this.

    The dew of the morning
    Sunk chill on my brow ---
    It felt like the warning
    Of what I feel now.
    Thy vows are all broken,
    And light is thy fame;
    I hear thy name spoken,
    And share in its shame.

    They name thee before me,
    A knell to mine ear;
    A shudder comes o'er me ---
    Why wert thou so dear?
    They know not I knew thee,
    Who knew thee too well: ---
    Long, long shall I rue thee,
    Too deeply to tell.

    In secret we met ---
    In silence I grieve,
    That thy heart could forget,
    Thy spirit deceive.
    If I should meet thee
    After long years,
    How should I greet thee? --- With silence and tears.
    That's so very sad, I can't really bear to read it again.
    Am Yisrael Chai

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Thoughts @ 4:48 pm
    <snip>
    those tidal forces of our lives
    did we choose or, too late,
    find ourselves stranded ?
    Marooned among our own rocky clefted worlds
    which vie with a multiple of others,
    possibilities; missed-taken-overlooked
    -or-chosen, at some point we're all
    irrevocably beached

    how strange life is
    did we imagine it would be like this?
    Little fish, darting flecks of silver,
    in our own diminishing rock pools
    until, inevitably
    the grand press of Tide
    overruns and spills us all out.
    Very nice Mossdog. I like your second to last verse especially. You have to reach a certain age and stage to realise there's no going back, and it creeps up on you quicker than expected. It does me anyway!

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    Re: Today's poet

    I found your poem really beautiful, sad and poignant Mossy. Life is never how I imagined it would be, sometimes infinitely better and sometimes harder.

    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    how strange life is
    did we imagine it would be like this?
    Little fish, darting flecks of silver,
    in our own diminishing rock pools
    until, inevitably
    the grand press of Tide
    overruns and spills us all out.

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Poor old William wasn't very good at spelling was he? ha ha ha
    That made me laugh. He wouldn't pass his English Lit GCSE with spelling like that!

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Don't leave us on such a cliff hanger! What happens in Part 2?:w00t::w00t:
    The original poem is over 6,000 lines long!:sneaky::closed:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Poor old William wasn't very good at spelling was he? ha ha ha
    Or spelling has degenerated consideably since the 14th century:w00t:

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    Good point! It would be interesting to know how spelling will degenerate in the future with regards to the 'text speak' shenanigans!
    Quote Originally Posted by XRunner View Post
    Or spelling has degenerated consideably since the 14th century:w00t:

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    Flipping heck! I can't find the head space to write two lines of poetry. That quite amazing.
    Quote Originally Posted by XRunner View Post
    The original poem is over 6,000 lines long!:sneaky::closed:

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Thoughts @ 4:48 pm

    I'm gazing
    through the window
    a steady summer rain
    gentle to the skin
    falls quietly earthwards
    the clouds are singing
    a life song for our meadows
    now hastily cleared of hay
    such a timeless bounty,
    the stave against that which
    we really don't like to speak of,
    not just yet: winter

    far to the south
    I see your toes,
    treading through warm sand
    prickly seaweed and sticks
    you notice,
    the slosh-wash of wavelets
    charging high along the sandline
    lose their momentum, and spent,
    retreat languidly;
    voices call to you
    and for a moment, maybe,
    you focus on the gentle salty
    breeze which smoothes your cheek,
    squint at the horizon,
    then smile and call back;
    a dozen thoughts clatter
    for your attention

    those tidal forces of our lives
    did we choose or, too late,
    find ourselves stranded ?
    Marooned among our own rocky clefted worlds
    which vie with a multiple of others,
    possibilities; missed-taken-overlooked
    -or-chosen, at some point we're all
    irrevocably beached

    how strange life is
    did we imagine it would be like this?
    Little fish, darting flecks of silver,
    in our own diminishing rock pools
    until, inevitably
    the grand press of Tide
    overruns and spills us all out.
    the word
    on the street is
    mossy has written
    an awesome poem
    and i happen to think
    the word
    is right!

    I love the way you weave themes of mortality, choices, the inevitability of the "grand press of time" and the sense of surreality that one feels when it dawns ....."this is it".....truly awesome mossy, well impressed !

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    Re: Today's poet

    There is a nice piece in the Guardian about Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the poem The Road Not Taken. I know it is a favourite of some people. It is America's most popular apparently.

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011...-thomas-poetry

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