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
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> On 13 August 2014 11:33, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> 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
>>
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