http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT: well versed en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:07:13 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=6#post-345228 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 11:57:54 +0000 gembo 345228@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>She did buy me the new box of Tiger matches and indeed ordered a few more packets as gifts for others. So she sees that I like them. I think it is perhaps the preowned, reduced striking power she is querying. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=6#post-345225 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 10:48:55 +0000 I were right about that saddle 345225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Mrs Garto's loss is my gain. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=6#post-345222 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:58:48 +0000 gembo 345222@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have a refill pack for you in part payment. Mrs Garto thinks little of a pre-loved tiger match box with little strike left in it. You just cant please all of the people all of the time </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=6#post-345220 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:48:19 +0000 I were right about that saddle 345220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Whisky is for drinking and New Year is for whisky. Thought you might appreciate the nod in the oversize Lucifer. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=6#post-345219 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 09:43:12 +0000 gembo 345219@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Excellent film. I see the Ledaig has taken what can only be described as a Hammerin’. Nice match action by the way big man. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=6#post-345215 Sat, 30 Jan 2021 08:19:36 +0000 I were right about that saddle 345215@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I made this for my friend who translated Burns <em>To a Haggis</em> into French. He is the foremost French exponent of the Scots language and a poet in his own right.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnSXxQ5h3V4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnSXxQ5h3V4</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=6#post-344520 Wed, 20 Jan 2021 20:46:50 +0000 wingpig 344520@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/20/amanda-gorman-poem-biden-inauguration-transcript?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/20/amanda-gorman-poem-biden-inauguration-transcript?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=6#post-342134 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:33:20 +0000 I were right about that saddle 342134@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>+1 </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=6#post-342133 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:12:18 +0000 gembo 342133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Quite like that minimal poem but have had to report to the Haiku Police as infringes many of the laws of Haiku </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=6#post-342119 Wed, 16 Dec 2020 14:59:41 +0000 steveo 342119@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'm sure someone will appreciate 2020 reviewed in haiku</p> <p><a href="https://semi-rad.com/2020/12/20-haiku-about-2020/" rel="nofollow">https://semi-rad.com/2020/12/20-haiku-about-2020/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=6#post-340543 Sat, 21 Nov 2020 21:29:00 +0000 gembo 340543@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice</p> <p>But Sam The Skull is my fave. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-340535 Sat, 21 Nov 2020 20:15:50 +0000 I were right about that saddle 340535@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45306/to-a-cat-56d224c386c3a">This has moved me.</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-335018 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:12:27 +0000 unhurt 335018@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><strong>Wild Geese</strong> </p> <p>You do not have to be good.</p> <p>You do not have to walk on your knees </p> <p>for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.</p> <p>You only have to let the soft animal of your body</p> <p> love what it loves. </p> <p>Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.</p> <p>Meanwhile the world goes on.</p> <p>Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain</p> <p>are moving across the landscapes,</p> <p>over the prairies and the deep trees,</p> <p>the mountains and the rivers.</p> <p>Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,</p> <p>are heading home again.</p> <p>Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,</p> <p>the world offers itself to your imagination,</p> <p>calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting—</p> <p>over and over announcing your place</p> <p>in the family of things.</p> <p>- Mary Oliver </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-332896 Sun, 28 Jun 2020 11:10:41 +0000 gembo 332896@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Nice metre</p> <p>Did the I will spit on your grave event get Covidded? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-332894 Sun, 28 Jun 2020 10:33:24 +0000 JELBERENCE 332894@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>THEY GATHER</p> <p>Where crowds most densely cluster<br /> Their freedom sought in droves<br /> The price of their attendance<br /> Greater than they may suppose</p> <p>By heat and light, they gather<br /> Drawn to meet again<br /> To experience together<br /> What they should, alone, contain </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-322634 Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:59:48 +0000 fimm 322634@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I don't know. "Two weeks time" says her facebook post. I saw it and thought of you, to coin a phrase. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-322625 Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:24:53 +0000 I were right about that saddle 322625@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Boris Vian is the author of <em>J'irai cracher sur vos tombes</em>, 'I Spit On Your Grave'.</p> <p>But aye, potentially. Where and when? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-322621 Fri, 14 Feb 2020 12:06:16 +0000 fimm 322621@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@IWRATS would you and Madame IWRATS (or anyone else who is bilingual enough) be interested in (I quote) <em>"a bilingual English/French show around the delightful poetry of Jacques Prevert and Boris Vian"</em> entitled "Si les poetes etaient moins betes (if poets were less stupid)"?<br /> (Apologies for the complete lack of accents in that.)</p> <p>It is being done by a French acquaintance &amp; her friends and that's really all I know. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-322193 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 17:06:00 +0000 I were right about that saddle 322193@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Auto-haiku for our house;</p> <p><em>Feeling good in City of Edinburgh<br /> Blades of grass<br /> Flies and maggots</em></p> <p>Clearly spring is here and clearly I didn't bury my last victim deep enough. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-322190 Fri, 07 Feb 2020 15:54:42 +0000 unhurt 322190@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>From a colleague:</p> <p>Map-based haiku generator!</p> <p><a href="https://satellitestud.io/osm-haiku/app/#17/55.94097/-3.17936" rel="nofollow">https://satellitestud.io/osm-haiku/app/#17/55.94097/-3.17936</a></p> <p>And an explanation of how <a href="https://satellitestud.io/blog/post/openstreetmap-haiku/" rel="nofollow">https://satellitestud.io/blog/post/openstreetmap-haiku/</a></p> <p>ETA aw, doesn't seem to work away from Edinburgh and gets a bit repetitive after a while. Still! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-321480 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 01:25:02 +0000 minus six 321480@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i hear no sound in your house<br /> silence in the empty rooms</p> <p>i drown at night in your house<br /> pretending to swim, pretending to swim<br /> in your house</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JccTTo7NJxU" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JccTTo7NJxU</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-319381 Thu, 12 Dec 2019 15:34:52 +0000 I were right about that saddle 319381@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Edwin Morgan, The Coin</p> <p><em>We brushed the dirt off, held it to the light.<br /> The obverse showed us Scotland, and the head<br /> of a red deer; the antler-glint had fled<br /> but the fine cut could still be felt. All right:<br /> we turned it over, read easily One Pound,<br /> but then the shock of Latin, like a gloss,<br /> Respublica Scotorum, sent across<br /> such ages as we guessed but never found<br /> at the worn edge where once the date had been<br /> and where as many fingers had gripped hard<br /> as hopes their silent race had lost or gained.<br /> The marshy scurf crept up to our machine,<br /> sucked at our boots. Yet nothing seemed ill-starred.<br /> And least of all the realm the coin contained.</em> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-317673 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 09:55:40 +0000 Arellcat 317673@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>Daft gowk, in macaroni dress</em></p> <p>Interesting. This must be the same use of <em>macaroni</em> as in Yankee Doodle – stylish, fashionable, indeed proto-dandyish, from the well travelled men in the 18th c. who extravagantly imitated continental fashions and culinary tastes, and thus were said to belong (or possibly claimed membership of) 'the Macaroni Club'. Macaroni were originally small Italian dumplings but later became the name for tubular pasta. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-317672 Wed, 13 Nov 2019 09:33:12 +0000 I were right about that saddle 317672@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Stumbled on this looking for other stuff. Oor ain dear Robert Ferguson's On Seeing a Butterfly in the Street. </p> <p><em>Daft gowk, in macaroni dress<br /> Are ye come here to shaw your face,<br /> Bowden wi' pride o' simmer gloss,<br /> To cast a dash at Reikie's cross;<br /> An glowr at mony a twa-legg'd creature,<br /> Flees, braw by art, tho' worms by nature?</em></p> <p>My first crime thriller will be called 'Worms by Nature'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-311363 Wed, 24 Jul 2019 22:19:59 +0000 unhurt 311363@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>HIGH TREASON<br /> By José Emilio Pacheco </p> <p>I do not love my country. Its abstract splendor<br /> is beyond my grasp.<br /> But (although it sounds bad) I would give my life<br /> for ten places in it, for certain people,<br /> seaports, pinewoods, fortresses,<br /> a run-down city, gray, grotesque,<br /> various figures from its history<br /> mountains<br /> (and three or four rivers). </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-305689 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:47:26 +0000 Rosie 305689@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is the Cosmic one really a "poetry garden"? </p> <p>(Really chuffed I have managed to see that one.) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-305670 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:38:24 +0000 gembo 305670@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I saw Paul Muldoon for free in Golden Hare plus free coffee and free croissant plus Paul read some Johnny Cash too.</p> <p>Top trump that</p> <p>Las Meninas is the best painting BTW. F'Godssakes Foucault write an entire book about it.</p> <p>The Best Poetry Garden is Little Sparta at Dunsyre. Don't be fooled by ones that only open once a year down Dumfries way even if they use the word Cosmic</p> <p>THe scene in Gregory's Girl where they lie down to dance and Forsyth swings the camera vertical but they don't fall off is one of the sweetest scenes in cinema.</p> <p>In Cumbernauld related mirth, the photoshop of David Bowie in the Cumbernauld shopping centre (see our own David Bowie thread) is the greatest photoshop ever.</p> <p>All of this can easily be revised over beer. This is what loosens relativists up and allows them to be absolute empiricists (beer) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-305660 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 12:04:48 +0000 unhurt 305660@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Verse versus verse? She<br /> who lays down with fleas<br /> may be bit by doggerel. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-305605 Tue, 30 Apr 2019 08:11:40 +0000 I were right about that saddle 305605@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I used to work with a guy who flatly declared that he knew which was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beaneater#/media/File:Annibale_Carracci_The_Beaneater.jpg">the best painting in the world</a> and I used to wonder where such confidence could come from in one human life.</p> <p>I think we should have a CCE poetry thread this summer. New works tangentially themed on bicycles. No secret that @gembo is a poet of some renown. We must have others. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18169&page=5#post-305586 Mon, 29 Apr 2019 20:30:09 +0000 gembo 305586@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Walcott dead. He was knighted and won Nobel.</p> <p>Les more republican outsider so would I presume turn down knighthood. Was mentioned for Nobel.</p> <p>Means Muldoon has it. </p>