http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/if-the-earth-had-a-pocket Just another bbPress community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 05:37:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/if-the-earth-had-a-pocket#post-292163 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 22:15:14 +0000 mcelderrypoems 292163@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>It&#39;s a bit late for St Valentine&#39;s Day but here goes anyway:</p> <p>If The Earth Had A Pocket</p> <p>If the Earth had a pocket for spare change,<br /> a place where all its superfluities<br /> could be safely stuffed as it scrambles<br /> round the heavens like a giddy schoolboy,<br /> playing marbles with the planets and the Sun,<br /> with space for crumbled cliffs, salt-laden lakes,<br /> bolt-blasted forests, dried up river-beds,<br /> mile-wide herds of hopeless wildebeest,<br /> stranded without water, ice mountains<br /> fleeing from Antarctic shores, Pacific<br /> islands sinking under rising seas –<br /> if there were such a compendious place,<br /> all-embracing in its vastness, then it<br /> could just about fit in my love for you,<br /> with, right on the top, just room enough<br /> for a single, heartfelt kiss: x </p>