Littlestone
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The Flagstone of MacKinley
Sep 19, 2006, 07:33
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Thanks FW, a new one on me and duly added to stack (will get back to you soon for and illustration ;-)
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moss
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:22
Thoger Larsen
Sep 22, 2006, 06:01
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Found this, its a sort of little poem to all those people buried at the feet of standing stones and under barrows;- its a nice morbid little ditty first thing in the morning ;(
Yet they were made of earth and fire as we,
The selfsame forces set us in our mould;
To life we woke from all that makes the past.
We grow on Death's tree as ephemeral flowers.
Thoger Larsen
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nigelswift
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:23
Re: Thoger Larsen
Sep 22, 2006, 06:27
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And another, about the same people -
And so, here we lie at last,
Our brief bright story ended.
Know us by these marks –
We loved our world, and yours.
And even at our passing
Committed no offence.
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Littlestone
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:23
The Owl
Sep 22, 2006, 07:02
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Well you're a cheery couple for a Friday morning and no mistake. What with the dark dank day outside I might as well finish it now ;-) On second thoughts, I'll top the two of you and not m'self with the remaining lines from The Owl, recently suggested for Jane's painting of Oxford; it continues sadly thus -
Poacher of the darkness rising
sees his rival gently gliding
removes a blackened barb propelling
to the heart of freedom flying
Down the owl
stricken lowly
to earth's rust not far below thee
There to dream his love's
dreams only.
There to flutter
at death's door lonely.
(Going back to bed for half an hour until the melancholy passes :-) but thanks for the two great additions, now duly added to the stack.
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nigelswift
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:24
Death
Sep 22, 2006, 07:21
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Here's a couple of cheery ones then -
If fall I must in the field, raise high my grave, Vinvela. Grey stones, and heaped-up earth, shall mark me to future times. When the hunter shall sit by the mound, and produce his food at noon, "some warrior rests here," he will say; and my fame shall live in his praise. Remember me, Vinvela, when low on earth I lie!
and, for a real belly laugh -
Death.
Thou wealthy man of large possessions here,
Amounting to some thousand pounds a year,
Extorted by oppression from the poor,
The time is come that thou shalt be no more;
Thy house therefore in order set with speed,
And call to mind how you your life do lead.
Let true repentance be thy chiefest care,
And for another world now, now prepare.
For notwithstanding all your heaps of gold,
Your lands and lofty buildings manifold,
Take notice you must die this very day;
And therefore kiss your bags and come away.
;)
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moss
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Edited Oct 09, 2006, 11:24
Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
Sep 22, 2006, 08:19
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Keats - "Ode to a Nightingale" beats that one; half in love with easeful death......
http://www.everypoet.com/Archive/Poetry/John_Keats/keats_ode_to_a_nightingale.htm
Don't know why Littlestone does'nt start a "death" theme in his poems ;)
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nigelswift
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Re: The Flagstone of MacKinley
Sep 22, 2006, 08:58
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Don't know why Littlestone does'nt start a "death" theme in his poems ;)
Absolutely. There's far too much optimism and cheerfulness in the world, IMHO. And it tends to get worse on Fridays. It make people flighty. Don't they realise that weekends are just slippery slopes towards Monday mornings?
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Littlestone
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Re: The Flagstone of MacKinley
Sep 22, 2006, 09:16
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Absolutely. There's far too much optimism and cheerfulness in the world, IMHO. And it tends to get worse on Fridays. It make people flighty.
LOL!
That's it, I'm going back t' bed 'til October!
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Littlestone
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On Death's tree
Sep 22, 2006, 19:51
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Don't know why Littlestone doesn't start a "death" theme in his poems ;)
Tis done @ http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/ :-)
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moss
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Re: On Death's tree
Sep 23, 2006, 06:49
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Glad you got over your gloom and decided not to hibernate....;) wood was the first material to be ritualised, think of the mesolithic post holes/totems at Stonehenge, stone came second. If they did indeed cut down enormous trees at Woodhenge as well, these would have been from the wildwood - great giant trees.
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