Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou amongst the leaves hast never known The weariness, the fever, and the fret Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last grey hairs Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies Where but to think is to be […]
I view the evening bonfires of the sun On hills where morning rains have hissed; The eyeless countenance of the mist Pallidly rising when the summer droughts are done. by Thomas Hardy 1840-1928 . . . Saturday 6th December 2014 FA Carlsberg Vase k.o.:- 3.00pm 3rd Round Bradford Town […]
Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning: silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; […]
Edina! Scotia’s darling seat! All hail thy palaces and tow’rs, Where once, beneath a Monarch’s feet, Sat Legislation’s sov’reign pow’rs: From marking wildly scatt’red flow’rs, As on the banks of Ayr I stray’d, And singing, lone, the lingering hours, I shelter in they honour’d shade. (Robbie Burns 1759 – 1796) . . . Before the […]
Dream Football Dream Football is the harder game The grass is devilishly long And growing Fish appear in the trainers bucket Your mother has set up a small shop On the halfway line You are obliged to play in your underpants. by Allan Ahlberg (1938 – ) . . . Friday 26th Sept 2014 Chromasport […]
‘Dragon’ Inhale and flare the nostrils. Then expand the lungs. Exhale; smoke and fire. I am the dragon and I never tire. I tap my horny toes on the grass, and weave my dragon neck. Grooving to spring’s new tune, I jig and jive till just about noon. Do not get me wrong, I could […]
On The Ning Nang Nong On the Ning Nang Nong Where the cows go bong! And the monkeys all say Boo! There’s a Ning Nang Nong Where the trees go ping! And the tea pots Jibber Jabber Joo. On the Ning Nang Nong All the mice go Clang! And you just can’t catch em when […]
Space Age Ships float up forever out Pilots who once sailed seas find new spirit Airborne crafts fill the air Children grow into machines that take them away Earth was once their only home And now the universe in endless boundaries is theirs Geared up for foreign playgrounds, gone in an instant Eternity is […]
The End Not every man knows what he shall sing at the end, Watching the pier as the ship sails away, or what it will seem like When he’s held by the sea’s roar, motionless, there at the end, Or what he shall hope for once it is clear that he’ll never go back. ______________ […]
