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Hope you don't mind Musty but I've come up with
'Barges on ripply flowy waters as Enid Blyton's Noddy saunters' ![]() It has to be 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 if you know what I mean I'm keeping Enid Blyton's Noddy tales. 'Barges floating free of sails' is my current solution but it may be a bit too blatantly obvious, as everyone is surely aware that barges don't have sails
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The Few
The snow hides the past covered, a blanket of white The sun shows the light ice, melts upon the few as tears fall and flow then, until it is gone. |
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Originally Posted by mr. mustard
I like the lines Sandy but they're too long
It has to be 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 if you know what I mean I'm keeping Enid Blyton's Noddy tales. 'Barges floating free of sails' is my current solution but it may be a bit too blatantly obvious, as everyone is surely aware that barges don't have sails ![]() ![]() A barge may not have a sail but it still travels, albeit a straight one
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Interesting, temporary is brief and fleeting so are we a moment too.
![]() ![]() Life has the momentum, but that too may look momentary on some time scales.
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Drat, I hate leaving confusion and I can see those unaware of the single Waterloo Sunset may be baffled Biz. Time to think again 'Tales and canals' has always bugged me too but focussing on Noddy's pals alone leaves him out of the equation. Thus the solution must be to change the word canals. I'll be back later - I love problem-solving in poetry ![]() EDIT: Sunny singles by the Kinks I like that as it absorbs Waterloo Sunset, Sunny Afternoon and nineteen-sixties optimism 'Barges floating free of sails' has just come to me ![]() ![]() Waterloo Sunset did come to mind, but I didn't know whether that was The Kinks. Norfolk wherries were barges with sails, if that helps.
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Drat, I hate leaving confusion and I can see those unaware of the single Waterloo Sunset may be baffled Biz. Time to think again 'Tales and canals' has always bugged me too but focussing on Noddy's pals alone leaves him out of the equation. Thus the solution must be to change the word canals. I'll be back later - I love problem-solving in poetry ![]() EDIT: Sunny singles by the Kinks I like that as it absorbs Waterloo Sunset, Sunny Afternoon and nineteen-sixties optimism 'Barges floating free of sails' has just come to me ![]() Mind you there wouldn't be any pals if there wasn't Noddy.Waterloo Sunset did come to mind, but I didn't know whether that was The Kinks. Norfolk wherries were barges with sails, if that helps. ![]() https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norfolk_wherry Apparently a few have been saved according to this. Ooops! I seem to have had afterthoughts. |
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Could drop part of her name, like:
Barges on remote canals Blyton's Noddy and his pals, (Or Enid's Noddy...) |
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Could drop part of her name, like:
Barges on remote canals Blyton's Noddy and his pals, (Or Enid's Noddy...) ![]() Place your bets now................. |
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as tears fall and flow
then, until it is gone. Melting ice here becomes a thing of emotion, what a great portrayal fleeting sadness.Quote:
Barges on remote canals
Blyton's Noddy and his pals, Thanks for your help Quote:
I wonder what Musty will decide on.
![]() Place your bets now................. Last night I came up with another solution but I still can't decide. So it's between:Barges floating free of sails Barges on slow river trails Can we have a vote?
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Wow Biz, this is turning into a communal effort! Thanks to everyone for their suggestions
Last night I came up with another solution but I still can't decide. So it's between:Barges floating free of sails Barges on slow river trails Can we have a vote? ![]()
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I'd go for the former, but only you can decide.
![]() I'm piecing together another very English type of poem, the idea for which came ages ago. It's drab, wet and grey here - perfect conditions for the mood I need
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Completely beautiful as ever Sandy
Melting ice here becomes a thing of emotion, what a great portrayal fleeting sadness.Barges floating free of sails Barges on slow river trails Can we have a vote? ![]() ![]() Which line did you decide on?
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Which line did you decide on?
![]() Enid Blyton's Noddy tales Thanks Sandy and everyone for your help and interest
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The Jamboree
Sweet jam on the stands and the clapping of hands Were just part of the jamboree fête, The Morris Men danced and the villagers glanced But the vicar of Dewdrop was late. They fought tug-of-war and in barrels the chore Was to dip poems out of the water, A band did them proud and with rhubarb allowed Stackridge cheered up each good son and daughter. Ned sold tails to pin on a pink harlequin, While the sight tickled Daisy the lamb The Cheshire Cat grinned then sloped off on the wind And the sad boy crooned Happy I Am. The Odd Twins were there, or a similar pair And the likeness was rather uncanny, A Tom Sawyer fan skipped the day with his plan To elope with young barley-gold Annie. Some were so adroit at propelling a quoit They could hoop every silver pole right, The Paperman stared but he’d never have dared, For the Paperman cometh at night. And Peter O’Toole skinny-dipped in a pool Dressed as Lawrence, exceedingly blonde And a book of verse closed Edith Sitwell composed, Read by beautiful Verity Bond. Next morning would bring copper kettles that sing, Breakfast menus and stories they traded Of the fun and last tea at the big jamboree Where the dusk hugged the sun till it faded. © |
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Barges floating free of sails
Enid Blyton's Noddy tales Thanks Sandy and everyone for your help and interest ![]() Glad to be of assistance.
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Glad to be of assistance.
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You were Sandy - I'm off to do a bit of shopping in the rain now
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I never have much luck with umbrellas
![]() If anyone was wondering (which they probably weren't) Stackridge, who I name-checked in The Jamboree, were a real band in the seventies. Wielding sticks of rhubarb and dustbin lids at concerts, their fans were few but intensely loyal. Despite an album produced by ex-Beatles devotee George Martin, they never had a hit. It was nice slotting Stackridge into a poem and their Pinafore Days inspired it in some ways. All lovers of olde England should enjoy Pinafore Days ![]() http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySh9MJHe74Q |
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Aaarghhh!! Sorry Musty, but I could only endure about 30 seconds of that one. I expect it gets better, but I couldn't prolong my agony lol. Taste eh.
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Aaarghhh!! Sorry Musty, but I could only endure about 30 seconds of that one. I expect it gets better, but I couldn't prolong my agony lol. Taste eh.
![]() Some of my favourite things are very obscure, unlike Julie Andrews'
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Timeliness
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Anyone for tennis? Wimbledon is on. So is the media's annual obsession whose gross set of knowledge has as many holes as the average net. When Murray is done so is their bit a fortnight's fun. Not alas a lack of space-fillers for Rooney'll surely be back doing nil of consequence to report on but we always will yet. Oh and the Royals they never go away hip hooray hooray! Cheers and beers all round ye happy hacks, Pyms done its bunk for a year. Such a small (Katy) price to pay keep taking the tabloids every day, Page 3 will never die still poking in the eye. Now if there was a British Sharapova and they didn't all look like yer Clare Balding and a bit more like Will's tasty bird. Rats and drainpipes matey all day ... werrhay. |
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You clasp into regrets – crow, picking at dead meat, claws fixed, locked deep, head twitching side to side, watching, rotted carrion, fit for teasing along one piece at a time. |
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I was wondering if, similarly to our dear friend Frank, I could get you (and maybe Biz too
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Oh and the Royals
they never go away I'm dreading the pathetic tidal wave of mush when the latest royal brat arrives I'll be using the same tactics that helped me to avoid the Olympics completely. Going out for more walks, keeping the telly tuned to news-free channels and keeping the radio switched off I don't like being brainwashed.Quote:
crow,
picking at dead meat, |
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Excellent Scottie - this reminded me so much of the Crow poems by Ted Hughes. Are you familiar with the book at all? |
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Crows can be great motifs.
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It has to be 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 if you know what I mean
I'm keeping Enid Blyton's Noddy tales. 'Barges floating free of sails' is my current solution but it may be a bit too blatantly obvious, as everyone is surely aware that barges don't have sails 
I'll be using the same tactics that helped me to avoid the Olympics completely. Going out for more walks, keeping the telly tuned to news-free channels and keeping the radio switched off