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"dales" poems
Come live with me, and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove, That hills and valleys, dales and fields, And all the craggy mountain yields. There we will sit upon the rocks, And see the shepherds feed their flocks By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals. And I will make thee beds of roses, With a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers and a kirtle Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle; A gown made of the finest wool, Which from our pretty lambs we pull; Fair lined slippers for the cold, With buckles of the purest gold; A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs; And if these pleasures may thee move, Come live with me, and be my love. The shepherd swains shall dance and sing For thy delight each May morning: If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me, and be my love.
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The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
On the bank of a rushing brook I sat for hours watching its course. Peered into the clear gurgling mass That cascaded down from a mountainous source Like a slithering snake, it slinks and slips It babbles downhill night and day Rolling and gliding through plains and dales It winds its way to the wider bay. Dipping my fingers in its icy chill How my hand got repelled as from a shock! In its ripples stirred by the kissing breeze, I saw trees, clouds and the jutting rock- All floating in queer, fanciful shapes, Shuddering, trembling and standing still And the fishes leaving zigzag trails, Swishing and swimming in the winding rill. As I quietly watched her speedy flight With her ***** rising in mournful heaves, In my ears fell her whispering soft Orchestrated by the rustle of quivering leaves I hardly knew the time speeding by Nor noticed the birds’ homeward flight Or the Sun moving to the west end side And the Sky reddening at his sight As the brook thus continued her headlong ride To be mingled finally with the ocean wide I walked, brooding over man’s relentless stride To be merged eventually with the Cosmic Guide.
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May 24, 2017
May 24, 2017 at 9:10 AM UTC
By the Side of a Brook
Oh, my Father in Heaven Guarding me from all perils and trials   And sets my heart free of all clutter For you, my songs of praise, I reserve All my life, I shall sing Without fail, in bloom or gloom On every unfolding day Through months and years Till death and beyond Let my songs sail across the skies And with the chorus of the heavenly band, unite Oh, the benevolent Lord of all creation Custodian of all wealth Contriver of birth and death The Master Crafts man Everything is your handiwork. The lofty mounts Veiled in misty snow The verdant dales Lush and still The fathomless deep Where mysteries peep All the flowers That bloom and wither All things Bright and beautiful Everything, above and below In all, Let me behold thy grace And sing Thee praise! Oh! Redeemer of Mankind Guide me through the dark Guard my steps where dangers lurk Hold my hand And never loosen your grip Make me face the light Illumine me with wisdom serene And fill me with love divine; So that you be glorified Here, on Earth And in Heaven be!
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Nov 14, 2016
Nov 14, 2016 at 7:12 AM UTC
Sing Praise unto the Lord
*This is one of the racier "Memories" poems by the great Barry Hodges, my alter ego. It might well make you come involuntarily in your ****** How happy was I once with the wind in my hair Wandering o'er the dales with joyousness unmeasur'd, In the sweet long passed innocent days of platonic love When stolen gropes and kiss were to be treasured. But all good and true things come to a sad close And my poor first love lies in her grave so sorrowfully Having been crushed to death by a runaway steamroller Before I managed to go all the way quite thoroughly. What a waste of delightful teenage flesh was that Yet perhaps I had a narrow escape from the derangement Which might have been mine had our trysting Led to a semi-permanent matrimonial arrangement. For I recall one afternoon in the old ABC cinema In the delighful Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate, Sitting next to my gorgeous love in the back row, Exploring her not so very private parts on a hot date. How I cursed the management's niggardly folly In not showing a film with hot romantic blood But saving pathetic pennies by putting on Daffy ******** Duck and Elmer ******* Fudd. But yet I perserved with my digital explorations Unaware that the throbs my fingers felt were no dream But darling Elsie laughing like a proverbial drain At Daffy's hilarious anatine adventures on-screen. 'Twas then I began to wonder about the viscous liquid I had hitherto imagined was Elsie's lovejuice flowing *(dear, dear reader, cease your perusal of my tale forthwith if you are of a nervous disposition or prone to food up-throwing)*. It was only a careful examination of my sopping knuckles In the dimly lit gents after old Daffy's film was done and dusted Which revealed that my dearly beloved had leaked Big time out of both ends, leaving my fingers well encrusted. O to think that, but for Daffy, I might have been lumbered With a different kind of bird for whom double incontinence Was a way of life (thus, the fatal steamroller she encountered The very next day was a blessing from kindly Providence).
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Aug 16, 2015
Aug 16, 2015 at 5:07 PM UTC
Memories of Harrogate and the Yorkshire Dales
*This is one of the racier "Memories" poems by the great Barry Hodges, my alter ego. It might well make you come involuntarily in your ****** How happy was I once with the wind in my hair Wandering o'er the dales with joyousness unmeasur'd, In the sweet long passed innocent days of platonic love When stolen gropes and kiss were to be treasured. But all good and true things come to a sad close And my poor first love lies in her grave so sorrowfully Having been crushed to death by a runaway steamroller Before I managed to go all the way quite thoroughly. What a waste of delightful teenage flesh was that Yet perhaps I had a narrow escape from the derangement Which might have been mine had our trysting Led to a semi-permanent matrimonial arrangement. For I recall one afternoon in the old ABC cinema In the delighful Yorkshire spa town of Harrogate, Sitting next to my gorgeous love in the back row, Exploring her not so very private parts on a hot date. How I cursed the management's niggardly folly In not showing a film with hot romantic blood But saving pathetic pennies by putting on Daffy ******** Duck and Elmer ******* Fudd. But yet I perserved with my digital explorations Unaware that the throbs my fingers felt were no dream But darling Elsie laughing like a proverbial drain At Daffy's hilarious anatine adventures on-screen. 'Twas then I began to wonder about the viscous liquid I had hitherto imagined was Elsie's lovejuice flowing *(dear, dear reader, cease your perusal of my tale forthwith if you are of a nervous disposition or prone to food up-throwing)*. It was only a careful examination of my sopping knuckles In the dimly lit gents after old Daffy's film was done and dusted Which revealed that my dearly beloved had leaked Big time out of both ends, leaving my fingers well encrusted. O to think that, but for Daffy, I might have been lumbered With a different kind of bird for whom double incontinence Was a way of life (thus, the fatal steamroller she encountered The very next day was a blessing from kindly Providence).
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someone out in cyber-land might just be copying a poem which they'll attribute to their own tee unscrupulous replicators have no qualms on flagrantly stealing the lines from genuine arms when they take a fancy to your brilliance of verse they'll naff off with all or part of it and stow it within their purse piracy is rife around online writing dales and dells it's the pilfering of an authentic author's heart and soul bells they say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but an alternate opinion would say plagiarists are bereft of an original wordage battery
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Aug 2, 2018
Aug 2, 2018 at 8:15 PM UTC
Original Wordage Battery
Where be ye going, you Devon maid? And what have ye there i' the basket? Ye tight little fairy, just fresh from the dairy, Will ye give me some cream if I ask it? I love your meads, and I love your flowers, And I love your junkets mainly, But 'hind the door, I love kissing more, O look not so disdainly! I love your hills, and I love your dales, And I love your flocks a-bleating; But O, on the heather to lie together, With both our hearts a-beating! I'll put your basket all safe in a nook, Your shawl I'll hang up on this willow, And we will sigh in the daisy's eye, And kiss on a grass-green pillow.
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Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid?
He was known as the local Mycophagist In the dales, the woods and the hills, What happened was sad, for he wasn’t so bad Just a tad underdone, Toby Gills, They say that the cord was around his neck, He was born with a carroty mop, And a pale white head, he was almost dead When the doctor had called out ‘Stop!’ They cut the cord and they let him breathe, The damage was already done, The blood had been stopped to his carroty top So they said that he’d always be dumb. But he found a niche where the fungi creeps And went out collecting the spore, In a year or two he knew more than you And the college Professor next door. He studied his mushrooms with loving intent, He knew about hen of the woods, He knew about bracket and shaggy manes, magic And paddy straw, they were the goods; He fostered his lobster and hedgehog and oyster And coral fungi and stinkhorns, But didn’t discern between fly agarics And toadstools that grew in the lawn. He grew his spore in a deep, dark cellar And sold to the folk who came by, And never would judge between Widow Weller And the ordinary witches of Rye, He’d sell death caps, and pigskin puffballs Not thinking to question them why, Or who would be eating his laughing Jim’s And whether they knew they would die. The air was thick and the air was damp And he fell in the dark one day, Scattering toadstools into the air And their spores had floated away, He breathed the spores right into his lungs For he hadn’t been wearing a mask, But ****** them in right over his tongue And they came to his lungs, at last. I happened to see him out in the street He was finding it hard to breathe, He could only take a couple of steps Then sit on the kerb, to heave, I tried to help but he waved me away And his eyes were yellow and cruel, Then I saw what he’d thrown up on the kerb Some yellow and red toadstools. The man was a walking toadstool spore They were popping up out of his hair, Pushing their way though his carroty top In a bid to get to the air, And his skin was blotched like a puffball, he Looked up at me, and he cried, As a giant toadstool grew from his throat And he lay on his side, and died. David Lewis Paget
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Dec 7, 2013
Dec 7, 2013 at 5:22 AM UTC
The Toadstool Man
He was known as the local Mycophagist In the dales, the woods and the hills, What happened was sad, for he wasn’t so bad Just a tad underdone, Toby Gills, They say that the cord was around his neck, He was born with a carroty mop, And a pale white head, he was almost dead When the doctor had called out ‘Stop!’ They cut the cord and they let him breathe, The damage was already done, The blood had been stopped to his carroty top So they said that he’d always be dumb. But he found a niche where the fungi creeps And went out collecting the spore, In a year or two he knew more than you And the college Professor next door. He studied his mushrooms with loving intent, He knew about hen of the woods, He knew about bracket and shaggy manes, magic And paddy straw, they were the goods; He fostered his lobster and hedgehog and oyster And coral fungi and stinkhorns, But didn’t discern between fly agarics And toadstools that grew in the lawn. He grew his spore in a deep, dark cellar And sold to the folk who came by, And never would judge between Widow Weller And the ordinary witches of Rye, He’d sell death caps, and pigskin puffballs Not thinking to question them why, Or who would be eating his laughing Jim’s And whether they knew they would die. The air was thick and the air was damp And he fell in the dark one day, Scattering toadstools into the air And their spores had floated away, He breathed the spores right into his lungs For he hadn’t been wearing a mask, But ****** them in right over his tongue And they came to his lungs, at last. I happened to see him out in the street He was finding it hard to breathe, He could only take a couple of steps Then sit on the kerb, to heave, I tried to help but he waved me away And his eyes were yellow and cruel, Then I saw what he’d thrown up on the kerb Some yellow and red toadstools. The man was a walking toadstool spore They were popping up out of his hair, Pushing their way though his carroty top In a bid to get to the air, And his skin was blotched like a puffball, he Looked up at me, and he cried, As a giant toadstool grew from his throat And he lay on his side, and died. David Lewis Paget
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Through the sunlit valley they dance and sing smiling with constant purity in the arms of spring in the dales, new born lambs are bleating daffodils push up to the sun, kindly beating The buttercup pixies start to find worm holes to pop there little seeds in threes into then by night and day they watch the seedlings grow underneath the shelter of a nearby toadstool Then at six in the morning when most folks are yawning they gather their red hats as a team and skip to the nearby crystal stream Then with hats in hand scoop up the water no more then just over a quarter then bound back to water their seedlings sweetly fastidious and tending with feeling By Christos Andreas Kourtis aka NeonSolaris
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Dec 5, 2013
Dec 5, 2013 at 11:39 AM UTC
The Buttercup Pixies
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? What little town by river or sea shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden **** Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
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Ode On A Grecian Urn
Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fring'd legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair! Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? What little town by river or sea shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of this folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return. O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden **** Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
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Slowly it slides on sub zero waters trying to find a pathway to the sea sheet of pure blue and heaven white lumbers discreetly for aquiline is quite From the top of the world frozen fingers reach down claws frantic on solid ground No religion no sage no saviour just age and the relentless pull of gravity will take it from mountain to the sea This sculptress of valleys and dales and fjords that can be seen for miles travels without sound onward bound By Christos Andreas Kourtis aka NeonSolaris
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Nov 29, 2013
Nov 29, 2013 at 7:53 PM UTC
Glacier
Fat midnight bats feast, gnawing gnats, and flit away serene while on the trails in distant dales the lonesome wolverine sate appetites as dawn alights and daytime's crystalline. A migrant feeds on rotting seeds with fingers far from clean and thereby’s blessed with barren breast (the easier to wean) - her baby ***** an arid flux and fades away unseen.
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Jul 3, 2013
Jul 3, 2013 at 4:14 PM UTC
Daytime Crystalline
*Stellar spirit, fearless flier to high skies, your wings are gifts of freedom, your florid songs, tug at my heart as much as those plumage, your elan, though subdued a bit by harsh weather, takes new shoots, never in disquiet, indomitable, your inner lamp, now burns with camphor light. I see you fly above the storm clouds, singing anthem of your soul, spectacular, in clear weather, cheered by your dear ones near, the hillsides, valleys and dales resound with your dulcet tunes.*
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Jun 4, 2013
Jun 4, 2013 at 9:37 PM UTC
The bird of paradise on wings of freedom, arises
Let me inspire you to go higher: Lost among the stars. Our universe glitters, spread across the sky. The world keeps turning, Resplendent with hills and mountains, Dales and plains. Continents surrounded with seas and oceans And clothed by grass and trees. Mother Earth is blessed with flora and fauna: Sentient beings of every shape and size, From mighty whales and elephants, Through furry friends like dogs and cats, Tall giraffes, slithery snails, right down To scattering ants and pesky flies. Smell that fresh sea breeze, Hear those rolling waves, Screams of gulls And twittering sparrows. Feel the warm moist air Of an Indian Summer. Be mindful of all that is around, Yet let imagination wonder, For out there There is more So much more. Dark Monsters of The Id Are out there too, We all know that. But Life in all its splendour And determination Is there for all to see. Oh to live forever with such things. Paul Butters © PB 16\10\2018.
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Oct 16, 2018
Oct 16, 2018 at 11:52 AM UTC
Inspired
Inflow of confetti, brings happiness and fun Newly wed romance in the November sun From the valley of dreams, mid the hills and dales Azure the sky and green the vales Tantalizing melodies in the afternoon air Unaware of love lingering everywhere Against the backdrop of a cloudless sky The snow capped mountain stands so high Infatuation or love? A beautiful sight Oblivious of day turning into night Nostalgia enters, and music plays in the moonlight. © Hazel
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Nov 29, 2012
Nov 29, 2012 at 8:42 AM UTC
INFATUATION
Loosing gravity, I hovered above, The fields and woods, hills and dales, Egrets and cranes sensing  a competetor Near gave a chase, that was nice though. 'Just a metaphor that means a search For beauty and lasting meaning' I heard, Who said it; unknown commentator viewing Every movement, each moment, of universe! What a mystery, I thought for a moment, Not the 'I' before, but one that is aggragated, Above the narrow limits of me,my and mine, The cranes and herons keeping me company Had bid goodbye, I saw palms wave  hands. Feeling comfortable with the new fecility I flew high easy, couldn't find where I end And the multiverse of wonders takes me over "Aĺl I thought of me was as a visitor to this Island of time and space, part of a whole, But I have  my sweetheart close to my heart Near and dear, friends all over the world Many of us never met but neighbours of My heart, I hear them from afar and their Heartbeat I felt mine; was an adventure this, Love prompted, a lilting poem  in progress, Now  a flow with the wind circling universe I am ecstacy itself, time is the essence in this Tale, told  by many eyes" whispered I to My invisible companions, winging with me. And loomed large in my being my beloved Moon with whom I fell madly in love in an Age of unreason and wild infatuation. She felt compelled to hold me close to her ***** and kissed my sweaty brows gently A moment of oblivion, now I am one with The sprit of universe, in thought and deed When being becomes nothingness, bliss! The starry nights, embellished in darkness And light  is my domain till eternity, I have No loss or gain, what 'I was' cherished is not Taken from me a bit, in this wingless flight The stars, a billions lighted souls dancing In time line far near and eternal began To hum a celestial tune that becomes all, That makes the universe, it moves in waves Holds all together with love and compassion All the rest are just tales,elements create You and I, all the rest are myths illusory Apparition of one and only music eternal.
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Aug 17, 2020
Aug 17, 2020 at 10:50 AM UTC
LOOSING GRAVITY, I HOVERED ABOVE
Loosing gravity, I hovered above, The fields and woods, hills and dales, Egrets and cranes sensing  a competetor Near gave a chase, that was nice though. 'Just a metaphor that means a search For beauty and lasting meaning' I heard, Who said it; unknown commentator viewing Every movement, each moment, of universe! What a mystery, I thought for a moment, Not the 'I' before, but one that is aggragated, Above the narrow limits of me,my and mine, The cranes and herons keeping me company Had bid goodbye, I saw palms wave  hands. Feeling comfortable with the new fecility I flew high easy, couldn't find where I end And the multiverse of wonders takes me over "Aĺl I thought of me was as a visitor to this Island of time and space, part of a whole, But I have  my sweetheart close to my heart Near and dear, friends all over the world Many of us never met but neighbours of My heart, I hear them from afar and their Heartbeat I felt mine; was an adventure this, Love prompted, a lilting poem  in progress, Now  a flow with the wind circling universe I am ecstacy itself, time is the essence in this Tale, told  by many eyes" whispered I to My invisible companions, winging with me. And loomed large in my being my beloved Moon with whom I fell madly in love in an Age of unreason and wild infatuation. She felt compelled to hold me close to her ***** and kissed my sweaty brows gently A moment of oblivion, now I am one with The sprit of universe, in thought and deed When being becomes nothingness, bliss! The starry nights, embellished in darkness And light  is my domain till eternity, I have No loss or gain, what 'I was' cherished is not Taken from me a bit, in this wingless flight The stars, a billions lighted souls dancing In time line far near and eternal began To hum a celestial tune that becomes all, That makes the universe, it moves in waves Holds all together with love and compassion All the rest are just tales,elements create You and I, all the rest are myths illusory Apparition of one and only music eternal.
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’Tween hither and thither we wended our way skipping, dancing through sand dunes, in seascape croquet. While woven in waves watching dolphins at play I first tasted her lips in the ocean’s wild spray. Mystic moonbeams, suffusing clouds’ shimmering sails, unleashed us and whisked us down sensuous trails, soon evoking the trills of untamed nightingales as our passions pervaded green valleys and dales. Being spectres of splendour in wanton sashay we mastered our meaning in love’s matinee – the breezes, in passing, slowed down to survey blazing bodies embraced in youth’s blooming bouquet. With the wind as our wings, till the Never we flew, two gypsies, on junkets through dusk’s residue gently floating like pollen to everywhere new, so eluding pearled teardrops that paint the past blue. Yes, we gamboled and gambled, two waifs led astray, with our shackles afire and anchors aweigh – rising higher and higher, the sun lured our sleigh, teasing time was our temptress, night’n day after day. Having stars in our eyes and all time as our view, we’ve drifted, like dreamers where sprites rendezvous and feasted on laughter and sipped morning dew while rambling forever as one made of two.
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Nov 5, 2013
Nov 5, 2013 at 4:07 AM UTC
Ramblers
Those dog days of summer Near forgotten and gone, Are stored for the winter, And remembered in song. The dogs' days of winter Tell a different tale, Of dogs pulling sleds In Alaska for mail; Or searching the Alps Bringing whiskey and ale, Panting and pulling In hills, waters and dales. Siberian Huskies, The Great Pyrenees, The Alaskan Malamute, Run off their tails Battling death and disease. The Keeshond   Doesn't wear Wooden clogs, Like the Newfie And Wolfhound, They're winter work dogs. If working in snow Isn't enough to freeze fur, Look to the Lab, In frigid waters In layers of warm flab Helping fishermen, Or retrieving a lad. These warm furied friends Will work til their end. The dog days of summer Ran off with the pack, Leaving the dogs Of our winters To haul, trail and track.
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Jan 13, 2015
Jan 13, 2015 at 12:13 PM UTC
The Dogs' Days of Winter
Where have all the Juliet’s gone. The princess' to rescue, the maids to save. A woman’s gift use to be so more defined. As was the part I had to play. Not that I was a very good actor. Was never much of a factor on the main stage? If I could go back to the days of Arthur, when chivalry was alive. Joust with evil princes and slay fire breathing dragons to ride, on an steed through the meadows and dales. Listening to minstrels sing my story accompanied by a lyre. Guinevere wouldn't run from this mans passion. Exalibur would be pulled from the stone. Alas I live in the technology age the dark ones are well past gone. What is good for only some, never ever lasts. I still have my pen which lets me sit and fret and lament for a sweet Juliet.
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Jan 2, 2013
Jan 2, 2013 at 7:15 AM UTC
Teleport a Princess
oh, rising sun on east horizon, shine your light through purple hues; sunbeam fingers reaching long, spreading warmth ‘cross mountains blue. awake, oh towering pine majestic, for deep below your roots flows pure crystal liquid falls in dance,  fills each pool with nature's mirror. this my Oregon, i call her home, where skies of grey and winter long chills milder souls to the bone, yet hardy stock from which i come know her best, still to be sung. her rocky crags where eagles soar, her mountain lakes, her breaking shores, her rapid’s ripple, current strong, her open skies and painted rocks, from each she springs alive with flame, floral tapestry, her fields ablaze, here streams cascade through canyons tall, tumbling long in waterfall, through rock and mountain, a gorge cut deep, a bridge to history, the gods they speak  (1 a people weary, journey long, struggling forward they sang their song. first the solo, small band of men discovery's chorus, brave brethren;  (2 a choir growing, families joined,  came for land, they stayed for joy  by beauty smitten, they wrote her lore.  (3 today her wonder, her majesty sings to her young, *“come, walk with me, come taste my bounty from forests green, from lakes, from streams, from ocean deep, from waving fields of amber grains, abundant yields, endure my rains., come sip my wines, my vineyards flow, come drink my waters, winter’s snow, drawn from my wells, my streams below, my plains and valleys, my hills and dales, i offer richness within my veil. when journey’s burden becomes too great find respite in my sunset’s slate, my star-kissed skies they offer thee, my arms, my breast, thy comfort be."*
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Dec 5, 2013
Dec 5, 2013 at 3:02 AM UTC
my Oregon
oh, rising sun on east horizon, shine your light through purple hues; sunbeam fingers reaching long, spreading warmth ‘cross mountains blue. awake, oh towering pine majestic, for deep below your roots flows pure crystal liquid falls in dance,  fills each pool with nature's mirror. this my Oregon, i call her home, where skies of grey and winter long chills milder souls to the bone, yet hardy stock from which i come know her best, still to be sung. her rocky crags where eagles soar, her mountain lakes, her breaking shores, her rapid’s ripple, current strong, her open skies and painted rocks, from each she springs alive with flame, floral tapestry, her fields ablaze, here streams cascade through canyons tall, tumbling long in waterfall, through rock and mountain, a gorge cut deep, a bridge to history, the gods they speak  (1 a people weary, journey long, struggling forward they sang their song. first the solo, small band of men discovery's chorus, brave brethren;  (2 a choir growing, families joined,  came for land, they stayed for joy  by beauty smitten, they wrote her lore.  (3 today her wonder, her majesty sings to her young, *“come, walk with me, come taste my bounty from forests green, from lakes, from streams, from ocean deep, from waving fields of amber grains, abundant yields, endure my rains., come sip my wines, my vineyards flow, come drink my waters, winter’s snow, drawn from my wells, my streams below, my plains and valleys, my hills and dales, i offer richness within my veil. when journey’s burden becomes too great find respite in my sunset’s slate, my star-kissed skies they offer thee, my arms, my breast, thy comfort be."*
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There walks no Daphnis with his mournful song Blinded by the vengeful nymph, whose love was unrequited He does not wander in the hills above this place Playing his pipe and singing of his sadness Aphrodite can punish him no more For he is gone to the quiet land of shadows Taken by Hermes, herald and messenger Of the mightiest of gods, to cross the river Styx His soul guided by his father’s loving hand, to Hades and the final still of time and season. In the quartz sculpted gorge, beneath the waterfall Naiads lithe and languorous once bathed Alabaster skinned, in the crystal brook Auburn ringlet tresses were shaken free When they stepped among the mossy rocks and ferns Their peachy cheeks flushed vital rose Their strawberry ******* raised and glistening Their teasing laughter that once echoed in these dales Through verdant pastures and the bluebelled wood Is heard no more, for they have passed into memory. It is silent now, the Jackals are not howling The threat of Wolves and Lions gone This pastoral world of goatherds pining Is but a world of dust and dreams.
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Nov 26, 2014
Nov 26, 2014 at 7:08 AM UTC
Past Idyll
Cycling past buisness girls on his way through Camden town between towering grey buildings and tourists that frown The lights turns to red and like a one legged man at the curb he drifts off to a land that to some, seems absurb Where honey-eyed tales of piglet and Pooh are driven  by toads tooting, **** **** poo Peddling along the reeling, rolling,rambeling road some drunkard guy made on famiular BBC air waves his voice often played Through rich green ridings, wild moor and dales 2-50 stands the church clock that so sweetly never fails Hatless on Ilkley, bathed and bathed in York tea-time fancies at Harrogate, whilst watching like some Kes pearched hawk Nodding and humming to  sounds of the Brighouse and Rastric bands and still finding time to paddle a little, on sun drenched Gigglewick sands Red turns to green as he wobbles and peddles away down Boris's yellow brick road To Settel, for supper with                                                        Raty                                                                      Mole                                                                                      Badger                                                                                                            and Toad
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Feb 25, 2011
Feb 25, 2011 at 8:59 AM UTC
The talking in Alan's head
Cycling past buisness girls on his way through Camden town between towering grey buildings and tourists that frown The lights turns to red and like a one legged man at the curb he drifts off to a land that to some, seems absurb Where honey-eyed tales of piglet and Pooh are driven  by toads tooting, **** **** poo Peddling along the reeling, rolling,rambeling road some drunkard guy made on famiular BBC air waves his voice often played Through rich green ridings, wild moor and dales 2-50 stands the church clock that so sweetly never fails Hatless on Ilkley, bathed and bathed in York tea-time fancies at Harrogate, whilst watching like some Kes pearched hawk Nodding and humming to  sounds of the Brighouse and Rastric bands and still finding time to paddle a little, on sun drenched Gigglewick sands Red turns to green as he wobbles and peddles away down Boris's yellow brick road To Settel, for supper with                                                        Raty                                                                      Mole                                                                                      Badger                                                                                                            and Toad
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Churning Boisterous to me life a high powerful stormy sea will I ever see land again those peaceful Dales the trees so deeply rooted in there canopy the swaying seems as undersea waves so softly they Stir as at play deep valleys and hills below above aluminous sun light makes a rich glow in its tow I go Ever so slow the sea grass moves in a musical undulating fashion the same as the grass on the plains Colors diverse with coral markers at depths that unrest at the surface doesn’t reach the frothing foam As it were a great goblet filled for god to drink a offering of thanks for such wonder that can be a Complexity at once filling heights of emotional strands then instantly terrifying foreboding illustrious Without equal so vast stretching all the bounds you have ever known by the sea blown tales that are As voluminous as the sea itself adventure in the raw highlighted with charm by the cawing of the seagull With the same speed they dive and climb on the surface races the dolphin the embodiment of joy and Laughter the sea rescuers has been some of their duties to the blessing of many lost mariners in cold Chilly waters these bubbly ones was the difference between life and death the sea does spray as with Glory unbound in this all concluding vesture that is seamless all consuming tiring but invigorating once The sea salt has entered your blood there is no escape its lore hypnotic unbreakable break waters will Carry you inland by that she granted your greatest desire after she has reared her head and gave you The Undeniable look at deaths watery jaws but when on her mercy you survive or in some fashion are Flung on the shore you lose your emotional tiller and blubber like a baby then the manly part curses all She Put you through you know one thing for certain never will she catch you a float but little do you Know her winsome call withers all about so you hungrily crave the sea tossed tempest its excitement is a Drug that a ****** has no cure for it puts robust living in your path all of your days while the timid land Dwellers only look on in awe and admiration
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Jan 9, 2012
Jan 9, 2012 at 6:54 PM UTC
Churning
Churning Boisterous to me life a high powerful stormy sea will I ever see land again those peaceful Dales the trees so deeply rooted in there canopy the swaying seems as undersea waves so softly they Stir as at play deep valleys and hills below above aluminous sun light makes a rich glow in its tow I go Ever so slow the sea grass moves in a musical undulating fashion the same as the grass on the plains Colors diverse with coral markers at depths that unrest at the surface doesn’t reach the frothing foam As it were a great goblet filled for god to drink a offering of thanks for such wonder that can be a Complexity at once filling heights of emotional strands then instantly terrifying foreboding illustrious Without equal so vast stretching all the bounds you have ever known by the sea blown tales that are As voluminous as the sea itself adventure in the raw highlighted with charm by the cawing of the seagull With the same speed they dive and climb on the surface races the dolphin the embodiment of joy and Laughter the sea rescuers has been some of their duties to the blessing of many lost mariners in cold Chilly waters these bubbly ones was the difference between life and death the sea does spray as with Glory unbound in this all concluding vesture that is seamless all consuming tiring but invigorating once The sea salt has entered your blood there is no escape its lore hypnotic unbreakable break waters will Carry you inland by that she granted your greatest desire after she has reared her head and gave you The Undeniable look at deaths watery jaws but when on her mercy you survive or in some fashion are Flung on the shore you lose your emotional tiller and blubber like a baby then the manly part curses all She Put you through you know one thing for certain never will she catch you a float but little do you Know her winsome call withers all about so you hungrily crave the sea tossed tempest its excitement is a Drug that a ****** has no cure for it puts robust living in your path all of your days while the timid land Dwellers only look on in awe and admiration
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From Clee to heaven the beacon burns, The shires have seen it plain, From north and south the sign returns And beacons burn again. Look left, look right, the hills are bright, The dales are light between, Because 'tis fifty years to-night That God has saved the Queen. Now, when the flame they watch not towers About the soil they trod, Lads, we'll remember friends of ours Who shared the work with God. To skies that knit their heartstrings right, To fields that bred them brave, The saviours come not home to-night: Themselves they could not save. It dawns in Asia, tombstones show And Shropshire names are read; And the Nile spills his overflow Beside the Severn's dead. We pledge in peace by farm and town The Queen they served in war, And fire the beacons up and down The land they perished for. "God save the Queen" we living sing, From height to height 'tis heard; And with the rest your voices ring, Lads of the Fifty-third. Oh, God will save her, fear you not: Be you the men you've been, Get you the sons your fathers got, And God will save the Queen.
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A Shropshire Lad I: From Clee to heaven the beacon burns
The highest market town in the land and I've been there, sat in the town square looked down across the valley and marvelled at the peaks, wondered how the sheep survive so high in Hawes. The summer pours its Yorkshire sun on those who come to visit Hawes, ideal for those who like to pause amidst the scenery **** in the greenery and just be still. I will return to watch the seasons burn the land in colours bright and I, hold tight to this my dream for I have seen Gods handiwork at work among the dales.
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Nov 10, 2013
Nov 10, 2013 at 6:10 PM UTC
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