Tweed Run London bike ride evokes spirit of yesteryear
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THE NAKED APE GETS DRESSED. For those who strive for better things and who understand, as did Ben Jonson, that: "the pipe marks the point at which the orang-utan ends and man begins". - And those who understand S T Coleridge's: "While Fate tramples on things of beauty, the indignant human heart shall utter them."
About three or four years ago i cycled unwillingly into a hedge on my way to the railway station; when i arrived in the coffee shop on platform 1 very disshevelled and affronted; an essex man said to me, you wanna keep to the roads love.
ReplyDeleteSo on to you, stay out of wet places Storey; then by Gad you won't fall in
Wishful thinking?
ReplyDeleteDrowning by numbers
ReplyDeleteFar too dangerous to swim off this beach so rest assured (acknowledgements to Stevie Smith): not drowning but waving.
ReplyDeleteA penguin?! Wow! Now I understand why you moved to Brazil...
ReplyDeleteYes I understand (not drowning but waving).
ReplyDeleteI wrote "this is for her" because she was something - we all loved her work because we could read it and then breathe it; so much of poetry over here is oxbridge; or completely clever and dull.
Over here i went to the TUC event yesterday; on the news they compare and contrast our meek mild mannered "protests" to those in France at the moment;
I didnt really understand the question, about wishful thinking; I don't wish anymore for things; mostly i read (just like Gore!!!!!!)
Exogamous, sententious aphorisms
febrile chaffering
the acme of the poem
Wear me like a soft diamond-encrusted
chain around your neck.
Skip over every syllable of confusion and
grow to love the wordless images
Then hang me, suspended, woebegone
amidst their wilful cracked and cranky scraps.
I think that I still get confused between the anons and I appeal again for some small distinguishing feature in anon posts.
ReplyDeleteAndrey - The only penguins that come ashore here are dead ones - they drift up the coast from Argentina (and beyond). Sometimes there are large numbers of them - victims of global warming. Not that I am saying that mankind is necessarily responsible for it - as the evidence isn't really there - it could all just be part of the earth's natural cycles.
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