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« Reply #675 on: 22:24:47, 27-03-2007 » |
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At t-p's request..... the 'other' Larkin mowing poem:
The mower stalled, twice: kneeling, I found
A hedgehog jammed up against the blades,
Killed. It had been in the long grass.
I had seen it before, and even fed it, once.
Now I had mauled its unobtrusive world
Unmendably. Burial was no help:
Next morning I got up and it did not.
The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.
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« Reply #676 on: 22:38:45, 27-03-2007 » |
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I love this poem. I feel the same as Larkin about the subject. We never know what our actions lead to.
The first day after a death, the new absence is always the same.
I feel this poem is a little like Japanese poetry I once read. I don't remember the author, but it was similar.
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« Reply #677 on: 22:57:40, 27-03-2007 » |
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Well Baz, where would you like me to begin ??    A I don't know A - at the beginning perhaps? Baz 'Are you sitting comfortably? Then I'll begin...once upon a time..........' |
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« Reply #678 on: 08:36:20, 28-03-2007 » |
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I don't care how it beginns, as long as it has a happy ending.
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« Reply #679 on: 09:40:41, 28-03-2007 » |
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Oh yes t-p , it has a very happy ending !!  A  |
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« Reply #680 on: 09:55:59, 28-03-2007 » |
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Not in this room it doesn't! Grumps only here please. Get thee to the Happy Room, and tell Mort and her grass woes to come over here  (sorry, that should be  ) Tommo |
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #681 on: 10:14:19, 28-03-2007 » |
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Sorry tommo, I put the wrong picture on  A and him |
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« Reply #682 on: 10:21:54, 28-03-2007 » |
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Lovely poem, George, I hadn't seen it before. Cant stop crying now, it has set me off.  (I should probably be onthe "Life's upsets and challenges" thread today, but not enough energy to get there...) x Jan x I'll go back and look at the Muppet photos, that may lighten my spirit. |
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Live simply that all may simply live
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« Reply #683 on: 13:35:24, 28-03-2007 » |
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Not in this room it doesn't! Grumps only here please. Get thee to the Happy Room, and tell Mort and her grass woes to come over here (sorry, that should be ) Tommo Tommo, I`m kind of inbetween the Happy Room and the Grump Room with this one. The grass that No Longer Is, stares accusingly at me every time I look out of the window, but ......... I discovered the Highgate Garden Centre yesterday, fabulous herb selection. And I came home and hurled money at Dobies! Hopefully today I will get my paws on some grass seed. Profligate Mort, tsk, tsk. |
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« Reply #685 on: 14:29:39, 28-03-2007 » |
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Not in this room it doesn't! Grumps only here please. Get thee to the Happy Room, and tell Mort and her grass woes to come over here (sorry, that should be ) Tommo Tommo, I`m kind of inbetween the Happy Room and the Grump Room with this one. The grass that No Longer Is, stares accusingly at me every time I look out of the window, but ......... I discovered the Highgate Garden Centre yesterday, fabulous herb selection. And I came home and hurled money at Dobies! Hopefully today I will get my paws on some grass seed. Profligate Mort, tsk, tsk. Mort - I've just spent £20 on seeds at Clifton Nurseries. Can't wait to get to my pots and trays tomorrow! Cornflowers and Larkspurs, etc. but most interesting are Cerinthe and Cigar Plant Tommo |
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« Reply #686 on: 14:30:27, 28-03-2007 » |
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Oh Darn it! That wasn't a grumpy post.
But hang on.... this is!
Tommo
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« Reply #687 on: 14:46:40, 28-03-2007 » |
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Oh dear. Sorry Jan (Msg 684). I know that feeling. It wasn't meant to do that. Rowlf has asked to serenade you in the hope it might cheer you up a bit.  George XXX |
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« Reply #688 on: 14:56:13, 28-03-2007 » |
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Some more serenading for Jan  |
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« Reply #689 on: 14:57:22, 28-03-2007 » |
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I really like the way that poem teeters between pathos and bathos. I have a different reaction to it each time I read it. I'm getting a cold.  |
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