General Chat

Two short ones , the first by William Walton. The second for clever people like wot you is.


A MOTHERS LAMENT

There were very few casualties, they said,
Our losses, they said, were small;
In taking a vital strategic position.
What's fifty after all?

One was my son, my only son -
All that I had at all'
And I must go on alone, alone,
But our losses they said, were small.

.................

FEATHERED FEDERATION

A member of the feathered federation,
A prisoner by your palm and digits made;
Is worth at least a couple of its brethren,
Who in leafy arbour seek the shade.

...............
Happy days

Love that put down Dermot !

what about this from Pam Ayres

My baby's eyes are bluer than yours,
He's got more hair and he's stronger
He's ever so bright,
He sleeps through the night
And of our two I'd say mine is longer.
I swear its the truth,
Mines cutting a tooth
And he's obviously going to be tall,
No, its hard to explain,
Now I;ve looked at your Wayne,
Why did you bother at all !!

The ladies out there will recognise this sort of show off mum !!

"You are lower than a snake's belly".

(A put-down I heard on the radio recently & therefore not applicable to anyone on this thread! Ok?)

I do like that prose very much Spanish Eyes.

I found this in a book I'm reading about the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn and would like to share it with you.

Defiled is my name fiullsore
Through cruel spite and false report,
That I may say for evermore,
Farewell to joy, adieu comfort.
For wrongfully you judge of me
Unto my fame a mortal wound,
Say what ye list, it may not be,
Ye seek for thats shall not be found.

I think Anne was almost certainly innocent of the crimes of which she was accused, and that Henry just became fed up with her., What had once entranced him now bored and angered him, mind you she did have a very sharp tongue, and that alone can be quite trying!!! This is just my opinion!

Backbone is the hardest to grow

and the quickest to snap

Don't get confused between my personality & my attitude.
My personality is who I am,my attitude depends on who you are.

A poem for May

For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the season of snows and sins;
The days dividing lover and lover,
The light that loses, the night that wins;
And time remembered is grief forgotten,
And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,
And in green underwood and cover
Blossom by blossom the spring begins.


Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909)
Atalanta in Calydon (1865)

Hope you like this prose

Bridget

I feel quite ashamed that as the person who started this super thread I have not added anything for a while :-0 :-0 :-\
I will find something today or tomorrow !

Mean while thank you to each and everyone who has kept this alive

Bridget

How sharper than a Serpents tooth,
It is to have a thankless child.

where there's a will there's a relative

a friend in need is a pain in the >>>>>>>>

She had a tongue sharp enough to cut a hedge.

She who from April dates her years,
Diamonds shall wear, lest bitter tears
For vain repentance flow; this tone
Emblem of innocence, is known

Gregorian birthstone calendar

Cheer up! Things are never so bad that they can't get worse.

Mountains can talk about a range of hills.

When all else fails be an actor my friend.

If the fates decree your'e going to lose always give them a damn good fight.

Love all
Trust few
Always paddle your own canoe

'Children can be taught by the eloquent silence of example'.

In a world that preaches an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,it's just a matter of time until we are ll blind and toothless

"These days, a man has to be ready to defend himself against being rich as if it were one of the worst of crimes".