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Noted! I heard an outtake from Robin Williams at the comedy store in London. Anyway astronauts in the space station as WWIII starts. One says something like "Did you hear a noise?" I don't normally laugh at RW but the timing was just right then L On 17 August 2014 03:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Perhaps, L, it is only no postings from Raynes Park which will indicate > eradication of the British Isles. With Pat on hols this week, I'd watch out > if I were you. > > Bill > > > On 15/08/2014, at 2:05 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote: > > > It has been claimed, and denied, that the failure of BBC's Radio 4 Today > > programme (6 a.m. - 9 a.m.) to broadcast would be taken as an alert > signal > > for UK's Trident submarines, suggesting that UK had been "taken out" > > > > I wonder if the Captain of HMS Teapot ever worries that postings on > > PoetryEtc have dropped: "not much poetry coming out of the UK - little > bit > > from Raynes Park and that's it - I do hope they're all right. Keep an eye > > on it Number One. If there's nothing next time we check, maybe we ought > to > > consider lobbing one towards Moscow" > > > > (HMS Teapot is cartoonist Steve Bell's name for a UK expeditionary > > force.Teapot it was which went to the Falklands) > > > > L > > > > > > > > > > On 13 August 2014 11:33, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > >> poetryetc at this time of year is always quiet, I seem to remember - > >> > >> holiday and travel time for the northern hemisphere... > >> > >> Otherwise I expect by now someone would have wondered aloud whether > >> pouchily > >> and > >> springlessly > >> were maybe uncomfortable coinages from Bill. > >> But let them pass... > >> > >> I have some difficulty with eye sockets changing > >> probably because for me a socket is made of bone. > >> The turn at line nine is welcome, yet - > >> eight lines of 'concreteness' seem to me to call for a turn > >> that does not lapse into a big abstraction - > >> Hopkins poems have similar problems shifting from the experiential to > the > >> abstract. > >> Is there a way for 'beauty' to be held over until we can sense what > might > >> bring it to mind. > >> Lines ten to twelve don't quite do this. > >> Choughs? fussing and fossicking? > >> sinister birds with sharp beaks. > >> For you, Bill, but not for me. > >> > >> (Earlier today in the park I noticed a dead magpie - handsome but very > >> dead.) > >> > >> Oddly I am about to post a verse snap with 'beauty' in it. > >> > >> Max in Melbourne > >> > >> On 13 Aug 2014, at 8:04 am, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> > >>> Compensations > >>> > >>> Cheeks hang baggy. > >>> Face spills onto pillow. > >>> Eye sockets fold and droop > >>> forgetting former close bone cling > >>> > >>> Skin sags pouchily from shoulder > >>> bone, as if from Brahman cow. > >>> Muscles think before flexing, > >>> withdraw springlessly. > >>> > >>> Yet beauty still bounces, > >>> choughs fuss and fossick. > >>> And tonight - so they say, > >>> The moon will be Super. > >>> > >>> bw > >> > > >