Poetry Please ...

[Keith]

'I must go down to the sea again,
to the lonely sea and the sky;
I left my shoes and socks there -
I wonder if they're dry?'

Spike Milligan

Ahh ... Spike the master!

Things that go bump in the night,
should not really give one a fright.
It's only each ear
that lets in the fear,
that and the absence of light.

 

[ruby.monkey]

At my office desk
Saw poetry forum thread
wrote a short haiku

For those who have ever owned a Konica IIIA:

Camera put down;
Click of latch, opening back.
Curses tear the calm.

 

[Sparrow]

At my office desk
Saw poetry forum thread
wrote a short haiku

can't do haiku
tried many a time
mine just rhyme

😉

 

[ruby.monkey]

Tried to write haiku.
Too many syllables in one of the lines.
Turns out I can't count.

 

[Mr_Flibble]

Here I sit broken-hearted,
Dropped my Leica
The lens departed

 

[daveleo]

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves to the Leica store at dawn . . .

🙄 (forgive me Allen G.)
.
.

 

[Pherdinand]

pirosbetus ujsag
pirosbetus napon halcsont, meg egy oldal szalonna-
oda se neki, uticelom Antananarivo!

🙂

 

[helen.HH]

Helen--super! No doubt you'll be awarded the RFF poetry prize of the year...
Paul

Haha funny... I think I'm better at shooting than the poetic prose

"the rat race choir" was an effort to get there but worth it 🙂 That's a good name for a band.

Pleased you liked it Dan... The whole piece in writing was an effort with The chimes of the rat race choir echoing from behind
The cluck of a shutter is far easier 😉

 

[Sparrow]

__ __

there is a high mountain called Neritum, covered with forests;
not far from it there is a group of islands very near to one another
Dulichium, Same, and the wooded island of Zacynthus.
It lies squat on the horizon, all highest up in the sea towards the sunset
while the others lie away from it towards dawn.
It is a rugged island, but it breeds brave men,
and my eyes know none that they better love to look upon.
__ __


No 20 par Sparrow ... Stewart Mcbride, on ipernity

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[Gareth Rees]

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

 

[helen.HH]

A lament:
Oh Silly,Silly you who is now 'Just Joe', why oh why must you Go

 

[Ljós]

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.

Really?
Not of one of Horace's finest moments, in my opinion.

Wilfred Owen agreed, and he knew a thing or two about war:

"[...]
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori."

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dulce_et_Decorum_est_(Stallworthy_edition)