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As this is Mother's Day I thought that I would add this:


In the quiet moments when the hurt is hard to bear,
May love become your shelter,
And may the beauty of precious memories be your comfort.

Exactly and we all need to exercise those little grey cells, tomorrow I'll dig out my old school poetry book, there are some good ones in there

I hope this thread continues as well. I have been going through a lot of poetry books, most of which belonged to my mother,as well as 'The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations' and have found some real gems, as well as refreshing my memory at the same time!!

Glad I made you laugh Spanish Eyes...heres another gem from Oscar


Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much !

Loved the two poems nigglienellie

Lets hope this thread continues, it is amazing how much variety there is and poems that I haven't heard of before

Spanish Eyes. You might like this one or perhaps you already know it. It's called 'Nod' by Walter De La Mare.

Softly along the road of evening,
In a twilight dim with rose,
Wrinkled with age, and drenched with dew,
Old Nod, the shepherd, goes.

His drowsy flock streams on before him,
Their fleeces charged with gold,
To where the sun's last beam leans low
On Nod the shepherd's fold.

The hedge is quick and green with brier,
From their sand the cronies creep;
And all the birds that fly in heaven
Flock singing home to sleep.

His lambs outnumber a noon's roses,
Yet, when night's shadows fall,
His blind old sheep-dog, Slumber-soon,
Misses not one of all.

His are the quiet steeps of dreamland,
The waters of no more pain,
His ram's bell rings 'neath an arch of stars,
'Rest, rest, and rest again'

Nigglynellie

I did not know this one, thank you. Do you have anymore?

I have just found this called 'Pippa's Song', which I would like to share with you:

The year's at Spring,
The day's at the morn,
Morning's at seven;
The hill-side's dew-pearl'd;
The Lark's on the wing;
The snail's on the thorn;
God's in his heaven-
All's right with the world.

Green fingers, you made me laugh out loud...oh so right.

I wonder if this has now come to an end, what do you think. If so any ideas as to what could be next as I feel that there are a small group of us who would stay in touch

I have to go out now but will be back this evening or tomorrow.

Have a good day everyone

This quotation came to mind and I'll let you fathom out why !!!!!

Oscar Wilde said

The play was a great success, the audience was a disaster

Come on you lot don't let the side down, cannot have a poll with just three of us !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PLEASE WILL SOME OTHER MEMBERS POST THEIR FAVOURITES

THANK YOU

15.35hrs Spain

nudge

I have decided to post my favourites


Poems

1. The Life that I have

2. If, by Rudyard Kipling

3. How do I love thee, by Elizabeth Barret Browning.


Quotes

1. Oscar Wilde Life is to important to take life seriously

2. "Bill" Oct 1942 For Love is Eternal

3. Tolstoy "If you are not enjoying your work you should either change your attitude or change your job"

It has taken me several days to decide which to choose!!!! No wonder it is taking time for people to choose and then add.

08.10hrs Spain

Just about to send my favourites when I wondered if I should as I started the thread....?....? What do you all think?


22.15 hrs. Spain

Here ar my choices


1) Tiger, Tiger

2) If

3) I wandered lonely as a cloud

QUOTES

1) Oscar Wildes deathbed quote.. Either that wallpaper goes or I do !

2) Mae Wests quote I am only as old as the man that I feel !

3) Zsa Zsa Gabor siad I am an excellent housekeeper...each time I remarry I keep the house !!

I chose If especially as it reminds me of my dad he had the quote in his bedrooom as a child and believed if he could live up to half of it he would be a man....he was and had no reason to look up to the poem for inspiration.

It wasn't easy picking only 3 of each, wipes brow !!!!!!!!!!!

3.28 pm Norfolk

These are my choices:
POEMS:

1) The Life that I Have.
2) Moving House is the Ultimate Stress.
3) What You Find.....

QUOTES

1) For Life is Eternal....
2) Remember Friend as You Walk By....
3) Deathbed Quote from Oscar Wilde.

Oh my goodness I cannot decide which order to put my three in......I will though make up my mind by the end of tomorrow!!
Come on everyone have you started making your choices...

17.55hrs Spain where the sun is shining and it is a very warm day....at last!!

I will post my choices either this afternoon or tomorrow morning. I hope that most people will join in this bit of fun.
Today the weather is beautiful, and the sun is shining ,there is a very slight breeze and the sea is blue and calm. Today we had a visitor, a relative of one of the ladies I cared for when I was last working. He had asked for my address some time before I left the UK and was delighted when he called a few days ago to ask if he could drop bye to say hello.

Hope everyone is well

14.06Hrs

Will join in with this but having difficulty in deciding which poems to include
in the parlance of Arnie I will be back



8.47am

I wonder what everyone is doing today. I have been lazy and very sleepy because I had a few to many G&Ts yesterday and also went to bed very late...I should know better!, still it was good fun.