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[NickFitz]

Purely by chance, I listened to Poetry Please on Radio 4 this evening for the first time ever. It was their 30th anniversary edition. I enjoyed it far more than I expected.

They finished it with a poem from the current poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy. The poem was Prayer and it made me think of NickFitz:

Prayer

Some days, although we cannot pray, a prayer
utters itself. So, a woman will lift
her head from the sieve of her hands and stare
at the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.

Some nights, although we are faithless, the truth
enters our hearts, that small familiar pain;
then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youth
in the distant Latin chanting of a train.

Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scales
console the lodger looking out across
a Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone calls
a child's name as though they named their loss.

Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer -
Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

Carol Ann Duffy

Beautiful poem :wipestearfromeyeandpretendsitsbecauseofthewindblo wingroundthecornerofspecs:

I think I've mentioned before that I interviewed Carol Ann Duffy - nearly thirty years ago, it appears from a quick check of the calendar - and that she's a wonderful person, as poets so often are.

Ah, it wasn't in TPD though - in the RESTful spirit of hypertext as the engine of application state, I shall enhance TPD by providing a link to my reminiscences concerning our beloved Poet Laureate, rather than quoting

[BrilloPad]

Morning all

[Churchill]

Morning all

Good morning BP!

Morning all!

Morning CM!

[zeitghost]

Morning all



Goodness me, we have been busy.

[zeitghost]

If that isn't a euphemism for cunnilingus I'd like to know what is.

If so, she's my kinda girl...

Where does 'showing an interest' end and 'stalking' start?

Around about here, at a guess.

I'd guess that stalking would involve sitting in one's car outside her house.

Or something similar.

[zeitghost]

So she knows you're stalking her on Twitter now?

She gave me her twitter address name thingie.

Sounds more like she enjoys eating at the Y to me.

I'm sure ZG could show her the rror of her ways though. Given half a chance. Or even a 16th.

Have discussed the L thing with her; apparently not that way inclined

[Bunk]

I'd guess that stalking would involve sitting in one's car outside her house.

Or something similar.

Have you found out where she lives?

Have discussed the L thing with her; apparently not that way inclined

How does she feel about inter-species mating though?

[zeitghost]

Rather alarmingly, she used the pc this thread was open on last week.

I forget if there was anything particularly graphic displayed.

[zeitghost]

Have you found out where she lives?



How does she feel about inter-species mating though?

I know where she lives.

Dunno about the inter-species mating. Not even sure about the in-species mating experience.

[zeitghost]

In a word: frottage.