Today is...

[Flighty]

National Poetry Day with the theme Work.
I thought that I'd celebrate it here with this succinct gardening poem by an unknown author...

I plant the seed
You make it grow,
You send the rain,
I work the hoe.

[Suzanne]

Seasonal one........

No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one Autumnall face.


John Dunne

[Froglegs]

There was an old woman from Leeds
who eat a packet a seed
in less than an hour her breasts where a flower
and her knees where covered in weeds.

 Froglegs

[thifasmom]

There was an old woman from Leeds
who eat a packet a seed
in less than an hour her breasts where a flower
and her knees where covered in weeds.

 Froglegs

ROFL

[Georgie]

Nice thread, Flighty.    How about this from Hilaire Belloc:

Lord Finchley

Lord Finchley tried to mend the electric light
Himself.  It struck him dead: And serve him right!
It is the business of the wealthy man
To give employment to the artisan.

G x

[Flighty]

Thanks Georgie that's a good one!
It's something I do on my blogs every year.  xx

http://flightplot.wordpress.com/2008/10/09/today-is/

[flossy]

 

  Hi Flighty,

  Sorry I havn't got a poem for you [ must try harder ! ]   

  I just wanted to say how moved I was by the poem about ' companion robin ' got goose bumps
  and felt  all emotional  --   lovely.

  Also gazed at the photo of the bumblebee on the blossom  - a long time , how beautiful .

  I love bumbles, have you noticed how they raise a front leg if you come too close -
  as if to say ' thats enough pal ! ' [ respect ]

  floss xxx

[sawfish]

Here's my favourite poet....

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LddPuhzt0F4

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=H5fA184R6EA&NR=1

[Rhubarb Thrasher]

I wandered lonely as a cloud,
and whistled through my blue lips............

forgot the rest

[caroline7758]

Really, Sawfish? I'd never have guessed. He was a one-off wasn't he? Sadly missed.

[Flighty]

Flossy that's okay! As you say it's a lovely poem.
I've seen some very large, and dozy, bumble bees lately. I suppose that they get fed up being peered at and photographed!  xx


Rhubarb Thresher the much missed Geoff Hamilton said...When Wordsworth's heart with pleasure filled at a crowd of golden daffodils it's a safe bet that he didn't see them two weeks later!

[sawfish]

Do you ever feel lonely,
of course I do,
then think of Billy,
he's lonely too,
lives in a city,
population 1

 

I wrote a poem in the break when I went to see John Hegley once, he read it out at the end as the winner. I won a piece of string.

It had to be about the difference between sheds and dogs. 

[Georgie]

Oooh, another John Hegley fan here too.  I like his one about the difference between dogs and yule logs, but let's not hijack the thread.   

G x

[Amazin]

Thanks for those links, Sawfish, another huge Ivor Cutler fan here