"Soil" by Roger McGough (poetry reading)

[thissong4you]

This is still one of my very favorite of your readings, Tom. And I'm still a cockeyed optimist.and a huge fan :0)

[thissong4you]

I am grateful that "(your) plan is to wake up tomorrow and keep on inflicting (your) "wisdom" on (me) and telling (me) stuff (you) think I ought to know."

"For the merry-hearted boys make the best of old men." - from "The Bard of Armagh," an old Irish ballad.

[thissong4you]

Thank you for another beautiful reading.

I am saddened for you by your commentary. If you knew you had just one day left, would you just sit and wait for it to be over? At least go buy a pair of shoes and a new tie.

"It is the evening of the day

I sit and watch the children play

Doin' things I used to do

They think are new

I sit and watch

As tears go by " - Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

[SpokenVerse]

@thissong4you Spoken like a true shopaholic. I'll tell you a secret. There is only one day left.

[thissong4you]

@SpokenVerse Actually, I'm not a shopaholic, just a cockeyed optimist determined to enjoy my one day left. I used your shoes and tie reference because it was shorter than your travel reference, but I strongly recommend travel to a long-pined-for destination to revitalize even your tired old bones. :0) Thanks for your reply. I am a huge fan.

[TheAmphitheatre]

Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Henry David Thoreau

[TheAmphitheatre]

"My life has been the poem I would have writ,

But I could not both live and utter it." - Henry David Thoreau

[beaulieu4008]

"Most men lead lives of quiet desparation and go to the grave with the songs still in them." - Henry David Thoreau

[beaulieu4008]

Hi mate, thank you for posting these wonderful recites. I enjoy them. We are connected - our souls, regardless of who we - we feel and think and aspire to do great things. I also enjoy your side notes, this one in particular. I often wonder about what you've wondered for I can imagine myself at old age. I can also imagine myself back to when I was young. I have not lived the life you've lived, none of us do; but I hear the truth in your account, which are reflected in my own experiences.

[lenarita1]

thanks.

[dhannyboy86]

thanks for all the great poems you have set before me.

[twinnumber3]

5* and fav for the sidebar :) Was trying to express these ideas to a younger friend last night- but you gave me the words. Thanks!