2013-09-01 – Poets Ride

Less than a week to go!

1. Miss Mouse
   
2. YAL
   
3. mands
   
4. BN
   
5. skydancer (has no answer) +1
   
6. HairyChris (lowly musician, lousy lyricist, great beard)
   
7. alexanderb
   
8. Stonehedge (piss artist)
   
9. Hairnet
   
10. anothersam
    
11. Jayson (crap poet, interested in London & history, if that helps), lol
    
12. Eleanor P (not on here)
    
13. Peter W (not on here)
    
14. Francis S (on here but doesn't do lists)
    
15. Branwen (maybe)
    
16. Lynx
    

1. Miss Mouse
   
2. YAL
   
3. mands
   
4. BN
   
5. skydancer (has no answer) +1
   
6. HairyChris (lowly musician, lousy lyricist, great beard)
   
7. alexanderb
   
8. 
   
9. Hairnet
   
10. anothersam
    
11. Jayson (crap poet, interested in London & history, if that helps), lol
    
12. Eleanor P (not on here)
    
13. Peter W (not on here)
    
14. Francis S (on here but doesn't do lists)
    
15. Branwen (maybe)
    
16. Lynx
    
    

Out! Remembered that poetry isn't as good as football.

MS Paint is so limiting. Anway here's the spokecard

Has the route been finalised yet?

^^^ DTM

^^ Dan that's awesome!

^ Yes, we haven't updated the map though. Now ending in Bunhill Fields.

Yeah it's all sorted. Here's the route to give you an idea

1. Miss Mouse
   
2. YAL
   
3. mands
   
4. BN
   
5. skydancer (has no answer) +1
   
6. HairyChris (lowly musician, lousy lyricist, great beard)
   
7. alexanderb
   
8. 
   
9. Hairnet
   
10. anothersam
    
11. Jayson (crap poet, interested in London & history, if that helps), lol
    
12. Eleanor P (not on here)
    
13. Peter W (not on here)
    
14. Francis S (on here but doesn't do lists)
    
15. Branwen (maybe)
    
16. Lynx
    
17. Shoosh (planning to meet you at the last stop, but on 2 wheels)
    

This sounds really fun, I'm in.

1. Miss Mouse
   
2. YAL
   
3. mands
   
4. BN
   
5. skydancer (has no answer) +1
   
6. HairyChris (lowly musician, lousy lyricist, great beard)
   
7. alexanderb
   
8. jakemcree
   
9. Hairnet
   
10. anothersam
    
11. Jayson (crap poet, interested in London & history, if that helps), lol
    
12. Eleanor P (not on here)
    
13. Peter W (not on here)
    
14. Francis S (on here but doesn't do lists)
    
15. Branwen (maybe)
    
16. Lynx
    
17. Shoosh (planning to meet you at the last stop, but on 2 wheels)
    

Yeah it's all sorted. Here's the route to give you an idea

Awesome! It's almost cock-shaped. I'm sure that was an accident.

HairyChris, plz - if that was the shape of your {insert euph of choice} or even close, you'd be running to your doctor faster than you can say "one trapped mind".

^One trapped *something-else *shirley?

I'd not read anything by William Stafford before ( him and all the other poets ), but I like this one.

After Arguing Against The Contention That Art Must Come From Discontent

                                       Whispering to each handhold, “I'll be back,”   

I go up the cliff in the dark. One place
I loosen a rock and listen a long time
till it hits, faint in the gulf, but the rush
of the torrent almost drowns it out, and the wind—
I almost forgot the wind: it tears at your side
or it waits and then buffets; you sag outward. . . .

I remember they said it would be hard. I scramble
by luck into a little pocket out of
the wind and begin to beat on the stones
with my scratched numb hands, rocking back and forth
in silent laughter there in the dark—
“Made it again!” Oh how I love this climb!
—the whispering to stones, the drag, the weight
as your muscles crack and ease on, working
right. They are back there, discontent,
waiting to be driven forth. I pound
on the earth, riding the earth past the stars:
“Made it again! Made it again!”

• William E Stafford
  

Ok Alex, you win.

Mine didn't have a kitteh picture :-(

Whoops, sorry Pete. Didn't refresh so I missed your post there! Nice poem :)

I disagree

The Stafford one wins as it's about bouldering. In the dark. Probably while semi-naked, as all bouldering is, obvs.

Exploration, bouldering - same difference.

1. Miss Mouse
   
2. YAL
   
3. mands
   
4. BN
   
5. skydancer (has no answer) +1
   
6. HairyChris (lowly musician, lousy lyricist, great beard)
   
7. alexanderb
   
8. jakemcree
   
9. Hairnet
   
10. anothersam
    
11. Jayson (crap poet, interested in London & history, if that helps), lol
    
12. Eleanor P (not on here)
    
13. Peter W (not on here)
    
14. Francis S (on here but doesn't do lists)
    
15. Branwen (maybe)
    
16. Lynx
    
17. Shoosh (planning to meet you at the last stop, but on 2 wheels)
    
18. fasih
    

:)

Sadly Seamus Heaney won't be with us on Sunday :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23898891

Maybe a special tribute?

i texted this to my colombian lady, yesterday
#blushes

soy el oxígeno al fuego
soy el viento bajo sus alas
Yo soy el amor en tus ojos
soy Alancito

'you are the wind beneath my wings'? Al my goodness.

Awful news about Heaney.

By the way this is on Sunday and I'm very excited.

sorry fella, i didn't want to dump you this way...
she loves my corny poems, what can i say..
#shrugsshoulders

RIP Heaney :(

Sadly Seamus Heaney won't be with us on Sunday :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23898891

Maybe a special tribute?
Shoosh, perhaps you'd like to choose a few lines of his poetry to read to us at Bunhill Fields?

And in an Irish accent.

Al, only you could use lyrics made famous by Bette Midler, and get away with it.

Now I know for sure you're going to be just fine :)