Poetry?

Saffron · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 7:01 am Post subject:

Will,
Quite a beautiful little summer poem, your contribution. I especially like this stanza --

And it matters little now that fall will come
To turn the beach cold and spoil our fun.
For you taste like salt and wear the August flowers
That bloom upon the bluff.

Who is the poet?

Saffron

Penelope · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 11:18 am Post subject:

There is a programme on BBC Radio every week called 'Poetry Please' but I think 'Poetry Dammit' is much better!!!

Yes - Please Sir, Can we have 'Poetry Dammit'?

It makes us sound much more swashbuckling and thigh slapping -YOHO -
than Poetry Please - which sounds quite limp wristed and fragile.

Or what about 'It's Bloody Poetry - OK'? No, only kidding!!!

I've got my Shropshire Lad clutched in my hot little hand and quivering with anticipation. No I shall rephrase that.....I have got my copy of Shropshire lad....etc.

Laughing

DWill · Senior Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 379 Gender:

Penelope · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:53 am Post subject:

DWill

I don't mind what the Poetry Forum's called - so long as it's up and running. I am so pleased it is here and that Shropshire Lad is the first book. Smile

Look at all your Karma Points!!!!!!! You do realise that you are the most popular poster on the whole website, don't you?

DWill · Senior Joined: 31 Jan 2008 Posts: 379 Gender:

There's no accounting for taste!

Steingerd · Almost a regular Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 33 Gender:

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began,
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow if I can,

Pursuing it with weary feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet,
And whither then? I cannot say.

J R R Tolkien

Steingerd · Almost a regular Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 33 Gender:

Troll sat alone on his seat of stone

Troll sat alone on his seat of stone,
And munched and mumbled a bare old bone;
For many a year he had gnawed it near,
For meat was hard to come by.
Done by! Gum by!
In a cave in the hills he dwelt alone,
And meat was hard to come by.

Up came Tom with his big boots on.
Said he to Troll: 'Pray, what is yon?
For it looks like the shin o' my nuncle Tim.
As should be a-lyin' in the graveyard.
Caveyard! Paveyard!
This many a year has Tim been gone,
And I thought he were lyin' in the graveyard.'

'My lad,' said Troll, 'this bone I stole.
But what be bones that lie in a hole?
Thy nuncle was dead as a lump o' lead,
Afore I found his shinbone.
Tinbone! Skinbone!
He can spare a share for a poor old troll,
For he don't need his shinbone.'

Said Tom: 'I don't see why the likes o' thee
Without axin' leave should go makin' free
With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;
So hand the old bone over!
Rover! Trover!
Though dead he be, it belongs to he;
So hand the old bone over!'

'For a couple o' pins,' says Troll, and grins,
'I'll eat thee too, and gnaw thy shins.
A bit o' fresh meat will go down sweet!
I'll try my teeth on thee now.
Hee now! See now!
I'm tired o' gnawing old bones and skins;
I've a mind to dine on thee now.'

But just as he thought his dinner was caught,
He found his hands had hold of naught.
Before he could mind, Tom slipped behind
And gave him the boot to larn him.
Warn him! Darn him!
A bump o' the boot on the seat, Tom thought,
Would be the way to larn him.

But harder than stone is the flesh and bone
Of a troll that sits in the hills alone.
As well set your boot to the mountain's root,
For the seat of a troll don't feel it.
Peel it! Heal it!
Old Troll laughed, when he heard Tom groan,
And he knew his toes could feel it.

Tom's leg is game, since home he came,
And his bootless foot is lasting lame;
But Troll don't care, and he's still there
With the bone he boned from its owner.
Doner! Boner!
Troll's old seat is still the same,
And the bone he boned from its owner!

-- J. R. R. Tolkien

Funny, eh?

Saffron · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject:

Steingerd,
Yes, funny. Was a time I loved JRR Tolkien. Thank for the reminder.

Saffron

Steingerd · Almost a regular Joined: 05 Aug 2008 Posts: 33 Gender:

Is your screen name after the Donovan Song "Mellow Yellow?" GROOVY!!!!!!

Saffron · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2008 9:36 pm Post subject: Re: Quite Rightly!


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