Cloch Mor
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Feb 14, 2006, 17:15
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Megalithic Poems..hmmm lots of replies there..
I think it's anoraks for everyone in the audience
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nigelswift
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Feb 14, 2006, 17:41
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"Poets are anoraks,
Not trendy, like Megaraks"
???
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Feb 14, 2006, 21:59
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>Megalithic Poems..hmmm lots of replies there..
I think it's anoraks for everyone in the audience<
I'm feeling in a slightly irascible, irritable mood this evening Cloch Mor and can feel one of my put-downs bubbling up and just looking for some place to go. Please do me the courtesy therefore of explaining your above two lines of gobbledygook so I'll know exactly what the f*ck you're on about and can respond accordingly. Failing that I might need to direct my irritation to the squabbling hordes of Stonehenge do-gooders who I fear couldn't organise their way out of a paper bag let alone agree on a simple and unified way forward for the future of Stonehenge.
PS Unlike some, who seem to think it their god-given right to publicise their various books and publications with each and every one of their posts here and elsewhere, I now rarely mention my illustrated site devoted to <b>Megalithic Poems</b> at http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/ but, as I have now done so, please feel free to drop in sometime and enjoy, as others have done before, the poems you will find there.
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PeterH
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Feb 14, 2006, 22:17
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Just a troll, my friend. Ignore.
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PeterH
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Feb 14, 2006, 22:20
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"Failing that I might need to direct my irritation to the squabbling hordes of Stonehenge do-gooders who I fear couldn't organise their way out of a paper bag let alone agree on a simple and unified way forward for the future of Stonehenge"
Sad but true. At least we tried. Requiescat in pace.
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Feb 14, 2006, 22:36
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It remains, still, one of my favourites; and as the dream of Stonehenge disintegrates...
<b>A Dream of Solstice</b>
<i>Qual è colüi che sognando vede,
che dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa
rimane, e l'altro a la mente non riede,
cotal son io...</i>
Dante, <i>Paradiso</i>, Canto xxxiii
Like somebody who sees things when he's dreaming
And after the dream lives with the aftermath
Of what he felt, no other trace remaining,
So I live now, for what I saw departs
And is almost lost, although a distilled sweetness
Still drops from it into my inner heart...
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nigelswift
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:36
Nigel Swift: The Quarryman's Lament
Feb 21, 2006, 15:25
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"The Quarryman's Lament"
or
"How George Chaplin took on Tarmac plc over Thornborough Henges - and won".
Yes, I know I'm audacious,
It's 'cos I'm voracious
And can't get enough
Of the knobbly stuff.
I crave a repast
That'll cost you your past.
So I've spun a fine tale
That works without fail
(If it doesn't unravel,
I'll gobble that gravel.)
Nearly time to begin,
Can't wait to dig in,
It's crunchy, it's munchy,
Here comes my lunchy….
But who's this damn Charlie?
Chaplin's his name.
He's picked it apart
And ruined my game!
Oh Blessed Profit,
I have to admit
I've been outclassed,
He's the one with the grit,
He's rescued the past
And the world thinks I'm shit.
Are there grounds for appeal?
What was wrong with my meal?
I think it's worth betting
I neglected the setting.
So I'll try a new angle
On this mega-wangle
And just for a laugh
I'll settle for half.
I'll say digging's worthwhile
Beyond half a mile,
If I go that far out
I guess George will say nowt….
(To be continued).
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BrigantesNation
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:30
Barbara Tomlinson: The Henge Stones
Mar 09, 2006, 01:23
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This one is from a friend of mine:
THE HENGE STONES
Atte nyte
They walke
Ye did not noe
That they could goe
They talke
And nod theyr Grizl'd Heads
Leave theyr Mossie Beds
To whisper antient Lore
While the Moone flees from the Shore
And Darknesse reigns as afore.
They maun't be seene
By Mortal Eie
'Tis Death to spie
But when the Sunne
Hath his Race begun
They Silent fale
Stand stille and tall
Agaynst the Skie
None noweth why
Their Secrets they doe keepe
When we waxe wide awake
They
Slepe.
[Barbara Tomlinson 2005]
(No relation to Jane I think)
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PeterH
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Mar 09, 2006, 04:19
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I do like that! Talented tribe those Tomlinsons
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Mar 09, 2006, 13:35
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Thanks BN.
What more can you tell us about Barbara Tomlinson?
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