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    Re: Today's poet

    Part II:

    Although there’s one occasion
    When I did transgress
    In Cockermouth….v. City
    Unfortunate, I confess!

    I think Karen is attached now
    To seats in Revies Stand
    Cheering on Becchio
    As he treads that hallowed land

    She loves to see him charging
    Wind in his hair
    Leaping like a salmon
    Scoring goals with flair

    So here I am, what can I do
    A married man at last
    Karen is my wife
    And all the stress is passed

    We had a lot of bother
    Sorting out the cars,
    The photographer, the flowers....
    And beer for all the bars!

    I’d like to thank our kid
    For being my best man
    He isn’t Billy Bremner
    But he’s done the best he can

    And also the bridesmaids
    Who all look very sweet
    As back fours go, they’ve done real well
    And all scrubbed up a treat

    Our mothers need no thanking
    They understand us all
    Ian, Frank, our families
    They’ve seen us both grow tall

    And finally, just one more thing
    Before I sit back down
    A toast to Karen, my new wife
    My joy, my love, my crown

    To Karen



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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy View Post
    Part II:

    Although there’s one occasion
    When I did transgress
    In Cockermouth….v. City
    Unfortunate, I confess!

    I think Karen is attached now
    To seats in Revies Stand
    Cheering on Becchio
    As he treads that hallowed land

    She loves to see him charging
    Wind in his hair
    Leaping like a salmon
    Scoring goals with flair

    So here I am, what can I do
    A married man at last
    Karen is my wife
    And all the stress is passed

    We had a lot of bother
    Sorting out the cars,
    The photographer, the flowers....
    And beer for all the bars!

    I’d like to thank our kid
    For being my best man
    He isn’t Billy Bremner
    But he’s done the best he can

    And also the bridesmaids
    Who all look very sweet
    As back fours go, they’ve done real well
    And all scrubbed up a treat

    Our mothers need no thanking
    They understand us all
    Ian, Frank, our families
    They’ve seen us both grow tall

    And finally, just one more thing
    Before I sit back down
    A toast to Karen, my new wife
    My joy, my love, my crown

    To Karen


    Hi that_fjell_guy. Welcome to the thread. And what a brilliant introduction. Really enjoyed your poem, made me smile ear to ear
    Am Yisrael Chai

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mossdog View Post
    Hi that_fjell_guy. Welcome to the thread. And what a brilliant introduction. Really enjoyed your poem, made me smile ear to ear
    Thank you! Its not great art but it did a job on the day!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alf View Post
    For the Kinder Trespassers

    Taken from ‘A Man in Assynt '


    Who owns this landscape?
    Has owning anything to do with love?
    For it and I have a love-affair, so nearly human
    we even have quarrels. –
    When I intrude too confidently
    it rebuffs me with a wind like a hand
    or puts in my way
    a quaking bog or a loch
    where no loch should be. Or I turn stonily
    away, refusing to notice
    the rouged rocks, the mascara
    under a dripping ledge, even
    the tossed, the stony limbs waiting.

    I can’t pretend
    it gets sick for me in my absence,
    though I get
    sick for it. Yet I love it
    with special gratitude, since
    it sends me no letters, is never
    jealous and, expecting nothing
    from me, gets nothing but
    cigarette packets and footprints.


    Norman MacCaig
    I like this poem a lot. I keep coming back to it - it seems to capture the elusive nature of what is compelling about the wild moors and high peaks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by wormstone View Post
    I like this poem a lot. I keep coming back to it - it seems to capture the elusive nature of what is compelling about the wild moors and high peaks.
    We will have to go back there, the poem is made all the more special when you have experienced Assynt.

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    Re: Today's poet

    I have been a stranger to my favourite thread lately! Just had a quick scan through the last couple posts and would just like to say both welcome and also well done to that_fjell_guy on your wedding poem. What a lovely gesture!
    Last edited by Hes; 11-05-2012 at 12:50 AM.

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    This is an odd little poem but I like it and it reminded me that on my run on Monday I was raced by a white male peacock along the road near my house...it was quite a bizarre experience and had a feel of the exotic about it.

    My First Peacock

    I keep a white peacock behind my ear,
    a wasn't, a fantail of wasn'ts,
    nevered feathers upon evered
    falling all over the grass.
    When a green peacock landed
    on my shoulder to shimmy
    its iridescent trills, everyone asked
    if it was my first peacock.
    It's impolite to speak of the translucent tail
    hanging down behind your ear
    like a piece of hair brushed back
    in a moment lost to thought.
    To make the well-wishers uncomfortably shift
    their weight by saying, No,
    first I had this white peacock.
    Because it's not anyone's fault
    who can't see the glaucoma
    eyes on mist plumes
    that don't see them back.
    So I say, Yes. And I say
    how very emerald joy is,
    how very leafed with lapis and gilding.

    Kate Nuernberger

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    Quote Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy View Post
    Part II:

    Although there’s one occasion
    When I did transgress
    In Cockermouth….v. City
    Unfortunate, I confess!

    I think Karen is attached now
    To seats in Revies Stand
    Cheering on Becchio
    As he treads that hallowed land

    She loves to see him charging
    Wind in his hair
    Leaping like a salmon
    Scoring goals with flair

    So here I am, what can I do
    A married man at last
    Karen is my wife
    And all the stress is passed

    We had a lot of bother
    Sorting out the cars,
    The photographer, the flowers....
    And beer for all the bars!

    I’d like to thank our kid
    For being my best man
    He isn’t Billy Bremner
    But he’s done the best he can

    And also the bridesmaids
    Who all look very sweet
    As back fours go, they’ve done real well
    And all scrubbed up a treat

    Our mothers need no thanking
    They understand us all
    Ian, Frank, our families
    They’ve seen us both grow tall

    And finally, just one more thing
    Before I sit back down
    A toast to Karen, my new wife
    My joy, my love, my crown

    To Karen


    thats so sweet and welcome (again) to the thread! :-)

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    Hes I loved the image of you running alongside a peacock! I hope you are keeping well :-)

    I found this poem, not sure if i have posted it before, from the forward book of poetry 2010...

    Palimpsest
    Meghan O’Rourke

    So the days go by, and the singing at night continues.
    The summer passes like horses.
    Wisdom arrives on a piece of paper, blown
    Through wide glass windows:
    “This page intentionally left blank”.
    I talk to my friends more than I used to.
    I sleep less. This is the point of life:
    You really care. The tendons slacken,
    The fat honeycombs beneath the skin,
    A fox paces in the town courtyard,
    Until, passing a mirror, on the phone,
    Laughing, you see yourself again
    As you are, as you are not.
    The snow creaks underfoot.
    Touch me, I am still here,
    Like the humming bee, like the mayrope
    Wrapped around a tree.
    The song was never mine to sing.
    It lives beneath the skin.
    It speaks in every bone.

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    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    Hes I loved the image of you running alongside a peacock! I hope you are keeping well :-)

    I found this poem, not sure if i have posted it before, from the forward book of poetry 2010...

    Palimpsest
    Meghan O’Rourke

    So the days go by, and the singing at night continues.
    The summer passes like horses.
    Wisdom arrives on a piece of paper, blown
    Through wide glass windows:
    “This page intentionally left blank”.
    I talk to my friends more than I used to.
    I sleep less. This is the point of life:
    You really care. The tendons slacken,
    The fat honeycombs beneath the skin,
    A fox paces in the town courtyard,
    Until, passing a mirror, on the phone,
    Laughing, you see yourself again
    As you are, as you are not.
    The snow creaks underfoot.
    Touch me, I am still here,
    Like the humming bee, like the mayrope
    Wrapped around a tree.
    The song was never mine to sing.
    It lives beneath the skin.
    It speaks in every bone.

    Very good that freckle.
    "Poetry please" is back on Radio 4 on Sundays if you hadn't noticed by the way. 1st one was last Sunday still available on Iplayer.

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