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03-04-2017, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Longdogs ->
I have always enjoyed this particular line from The rime of the ancient mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!'
Interesting LD, I was struck by this verse ........

"I fear thee, ancient Mariner!
I fear thy skinny hand!
And thou art long, and lank, and brown,"

Dunno what it means?
PS

I wrote this next piece after an unsettling encounter

From nowhere strode the tattooed harbinger
Long black trailing coat flying at will
Straight through the crowd
Caught in his dark path
Slow raised long arm and bony finger
Pointing way ahead intently
Grim faced and pursuing his latest task
Is it me he’s looking for?
Or you?
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03-04-2017, 02:35 PM
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I enjoyed reading your poems, Robert.
Here's one I wrote similar to you last one. In the style loosely of Edgar Allen Poe, for a competition.

Dark the ancient woodland pathway,
leading to I knew not where,
Something drew me ever onward,
strange power had me in it's spell
Terrified I fought against it,
tried my will against it's might.
"Who are you"? Demanded loudly,
"Bent on sending me to Hell.
"Why won't you say why I'm here"?
"This pain I'm going through is Hell"
But no answer, none would tell.
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03-04-2017, 02:46 PM
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It's lovely to read your poems again Robert, I hope they continue .... well done!
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03-04-2017, 03:39 PM
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'Twas early in November,
or it may have been December.
I was walking down the street in drunken pride.
When my knees began to stutter
so I lay down in the gutter.
And a pig came up and lay down at my side.

As I lay there, in the gutter, with my head all of a flutter
I chanced to hear a passing Lady say
"you can tell a man who boozes
By the Company He Choses"

And the pig got up

and slowly walked away.
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03-04-2017, 06:18 PM
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That had me chuckling, Ted.
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03-04-2017, 06:21 PM
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A BIRMINGHAM CHILDHOOD REMEMBERED

Oh deeply missed, you Bull Ring, miscellany of stalls,
A youth remembered, clutching coat hem, wide-eyed.
Wigs, salami, gaudy rings, old shoes, the raucous Brummie calls,
Bouncing off the walls.

“’ ’andy carrier!” Thickly yelled, and “Apples a pound pears!”
A language understood by all, a Midlands code in grey old Brum
Co-existent with the church
Cups of orange tea, chips, prayers.

The big red buses veering madly through the melee, blocking roads
The smell of diesel, dripping raincoat, Hippodrome –
“One Night Only – Frankie Laine!”
Peered at through the rain.

Lewis’s with its rubber road and magical roof top gardens
Where Uncle Holly Christmas time dispensed largesse
Along with tiny Brummie elves
Playing themselves.

Further back again, the smog, a grey-green poison, part of play;
Where we would hide and breathe in death
And smell its fumes in muffled day.
And creep and grope our homeward way.
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03-04-2017, 06:21 PM
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CAT

Dogs are slaves
At your command.
They squirm and roll,
They lick your hand.

Dogs die of love
If you should leave –
Refuse to eat
And whine and grieve.

Dogs only ask
To be thrown sticks,
Ingratiating
With their tricks.

Man’s fragile self
Loves sycophants,
And how well dogs
This self enhance.

But take a cat –
A slave to none,
A haughty
Enigmatic one.

You give, it takes,
Secure in grace –
And in my heart
A special place.
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03-04-2017, 06:53 PM
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Great poems everyone
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04-04-2017, 03:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Tiffany ->
That had me chuckling, Ted.
Actually was a genuine recorded Track.

See the full version here:-

http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/so...piggotup.shtml

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I thought you wrote that, Ted.
 
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