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Andy Edwards
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quotePosted at 17:49 on 20th March 2009
Great to see you back Harry!!
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Richard Sellers
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quotePosted at 18:13 on 20th March 2009
Such wonderful readings.....
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quotePosted at 16:59 on 24th March 2009
The Lark Ascending


As thou ascendeth from meadowsweet &
idle poppies,
morn doth shine
upon thy sonnets

wreath'd all who hear

Inspired by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Anna Hawthorne


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Krissy
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quotePosted at 17:16 on 24th March 2009

Anna...I love The Lark Ascending. It's my favorite piece of music!!! Thank you for that!!

Here is a fav of mine although a bit dark, I'm afraid...

Stop all the Clocks.

 

 


Selected Poems of W.H. Auden
by W. H. Auden
Vintage

I
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public
    doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one;
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun;
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

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Stephanie Jackson
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quotePosted at 17:20 on 24th March 2009

That's lovely Anna.

I love that one too Krissy - did you see "Four Weddings and a Funeral" where he read that poem at his partner's funeral - gets me every time!

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Krissy
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quotePosted at 17:22 on 24th March 2009

That's were I first heard it Steph!!!!  Gets me everytime too!!!

I wish someone loved me that much...ooo morbid..sorry!!! LOL!!



Edited by: Krissy at:24th March 2009 17:23
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Stephanie Jackson
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quotePosted at 17:24 on 24th March 2009
The one who "died" in that film walked past us when we were taking pictures at my friend's wedding at Birmingham Registry Office! I really regretted not having the cheek to ask him to pose with the bride and groom - it would have made a great wedding picture!
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quotePosted at 17:25 on 24th March 2009
wow,fogot about that one
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Krissy
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quotePosted at 17:27 on 24th March 2009
On 24th March 2009 17:24, Stephanie Jackson wrote:
The one who "died" in that film walked past us when we were taking pictures at my friend's wedding at Birmingham Registry Office! I really regretted not having the cheek to ask him to pose with the bride and groom - it would have made a great wedding picture!


I love him!!! I loved him and his partner in the movie so much!!
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quotePosted at 18:41 on 24th March 2009

Curious how a few lines may inspire! My favourite movie is 'A Month in the Country'...adapted from a story by J.L.Carr.  Colin Firth and Kenneth Branaugh..and the dear Natasha Richardson..

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Black & Red Chalk



Sifting clues, movement of warm stars

circling on their skin

where are they now? grains of sand

their compass needles stilled

on a tattooed map of miracles where


hexagrams, wheels and weights etched

across a Florentine drawing

common ground of aviators

in monasteries

palimpsest fingertips brushing

quietly now, your silent code

bowing in prayer as you enter


silhouetting a shape remaining

humanist impression forming there

on the planes of your bed by the sea

engraving seal imprinted when

your dusty, coloured hands held me
Anna Hawthorne
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Let's go back to another place and time...perhaps to the studio of a 14th C Florentine lover
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