FabSwingers.com forum: Words that stop you in your tracks.....

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

We've got a music thread so this one is for words. It can be song lyrics, prose, poetry, speeches, anything.

My first is A.A. Milne and gives me a lump in my throat almost every time I read it.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.

"Pooh!" he whispe_ed.

"Yes, Piglet?"

"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you."

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

"We've got a music thread so this one is for words. It can be song lyrics, prose, poetry, speeches, anything.

My first is A.A. Milne and gives me a lump in my throat almost every time I read it.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.

"Pooh!" he whispe_ed.

"Yes, Piglet?"

"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.""

That is lovely, so simple but so effective.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Roy Batty's soliloquy at the end of Bladerunner..

"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-Beams glitter in the dark at the Turnhauser Gate.

All those moments will be lost, in time.

Like tears in the rain.

Time to die"

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By *icecouple561Couple
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over a year ago

East Sussex

A line from a Larkin poem always makes me stop and think

"We should be careful of each other. We should be kind, while there is still time."

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I would love this is it wasn't Pooh Bear. The local leach had a tattoo of Winnie the Pooh on the top of his inner thigh and used to ask us as teenagers if we wanted to see his Winnie

Sorry to derail...

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over a year ago

I'm a bit of a star gazer and continually marvel at the universe. Carl Sagan wrote....

"The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries."

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I would love this is it wasn't Pooh Bear. The local leach had a tattoo of Winnie the Pooh on the top of his inner thigh and used to ask us as teenagers if we wanted to see his Winnie

Sorry to derail..."

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

This is from Sebastian Faulks' Charlotte Gray, and us from a chapter that describes the journey of two Jewish boys in France from their home to a concentration camp. They are just being loaded onto a train:

André looked up, and in a chance angle of light he saw a woman’s face in which the eyes were fixed with terrible ferocity on a child beside him. Why did she stare as though she hated him? Then it came to André that she was not looking in hat_ed, but had kept her eyes so intensely open in order to fix the picture of her child in her mind. She was looking to remember, for ever.

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By *edMan
over a year ago

cambridgeshire

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By *edMan
over a year ago

cambridgeshire

"[Removed by poster at 24/10/15 09:40:05]"

When all is said and done, a wise person will say no more and do no more.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"We've got a music thread so this one is for words. It can be song lyrics, prose, poetry, speeches, anything.

My first is A.A. Milne and gives me a lump in my throat almost every time I read it.

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.

"Pooh!" he whispe_ed.

"Yes, Piglet?"

"Nothing," said Piglet, taking Pooh's paw. "I just wanted to be sure of you.""

aw, that's lovely x

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I want you now!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

A poem Iv just come across in my memory box ....

I'm sat in a space in the middle of the garden my feelings for you will you beg my pardon

I've got a picture of you on my phone baby together we could make a home

Shivers cover my body it's you I love

Like an angel sent from the Lord above

I want to hold you in my arms and cuddle because without you my life is a muddle

My feelings for you are strong and continue to grow my words are flowing but can never truly show

How much you mean to me dearest when you wake in the morning I want to be nearest

Baby you are the one that can make me whole again a life without you would bring misery and so much pain

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

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By *iewMan
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over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

I Love Being Me

I can't run the fastest

I can't swim the sea

I can't type the quickest

but I love being me

I can't kick a ball

or even climb a tree

I can't roll in the grass

but I still love being me

You see, this is my life

as others would see

they don't know what it's like

to really be me

So next time I'm about

rolling down the street

don't think of me disabled

but someone cool to meet

I have lots I can teach you

I have loads I can share

you will never gain my wisdom

if you just point and stare

So maybe I can't run the fastest

maybe I can't kick a ball

but I wouldn't change being me

not for you, not at all

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By *edMan
over a year ago

cambridgeshire

Many years ago as a teenager I bought a gf a pair of black stockings sumptuously presented in a packet with a folding cover which had on it a poem, which was romantic, sensual and erotic.

I wish I could remember it.

So, why post in this thread?

Because she liked it. She liked it so much she showed it to her Mum n Dad while I was there.

The look her Dad gave me stopped me in my tracks..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I Love Being Me

I can't run the fastest

I can't swim the sea

I can't type the quickest

but I love being me

I can't kick a ball

or even climb a tree

I can't roll in the grass

but I still love being me

You see, this is my life

as others would see

they don't know what it's like

to really be me

So next time I'm about

rolling down the street

don't think of me disabled

but someone cool to meet

I have lots I can teach you

I have loads I can share

you will never gain my wisdom

if you just point and stare

So maybe I can't run the fastest

maybe I can't kick a ball

but I wouldn't change being me

not for you, not at all"

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

She should have died hereafter;

There would have been time for such a word.

-To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,

To the last syllable of recorded time;

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools

The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more. It is a tale

Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury

Signifying nothing.

A bit obvious maybe, but I do love the Bard.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I'm a bit of a star gazer and continually marvel at the universe. Carl Sagan wrote....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My tears are like the quiet drift

Of petals from some magic rose;

And all my grief flows from the rift

Of unremembe_ed skies and snows.

I think, that if I touched the earth,

It would crumble;

It is so sad and beautiful,

So tremulously like a dream.

by Dylan Thomas

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One of my favs :

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves ... William Shakespeare

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By *ibbyhunterCouple
over a year ago

keighley

1940 Berlin a young Jewish woman comes out of a shop owned by her father she is set upon by some Nazi brown shirts she is beaten and forced to clean the pavement with her tongue , she does this till her tongue bleeds ,a crowd of Berliners gather round to mock her she pleads for help. Years later the girl now an old woman comes out of the same shop trips and falls to the ground lots come round to her aid , she looks at the people and tells them if only you had come to my aid all those years ago.

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By *edMan
over a year ago

cambridgeshire

"One of my favs :

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves ... William Shakespeare "

Don't let the bingo sites hear you saying that!

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