Poetry!!!
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Montreal Wanderer wrote:I think I understand it (no doubt being less stupid than Sponge ) but it could well go in to Private Eye's Pseuds' Corner if that still exists. The point could have been made in simpler and less confusing language.Sponge wrote:Wandering Willy wrote:Sponge wrote: "Do poets approach language as the neutral instrument for confessional themes, on occasion themes of perjury? Or do they, in the very act of writing, manifestly reveal language itself, particularly language twisted into poetic shapes, as a substance of imagination radically perjured?"
I've read this twice and can't decide if:
a) it's pretentious rubbish, or
b) I'm stupid.
I'll accept there is a possibility c) - that both are true.
What don't you understand?
Not got the hang of this poetry lark have you Monty ?
In a world that has decided
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
That it's going to lose its mind
Be more kind, my friends, try to be more kind.
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have a go for us then...Montreal Wanderer wrote: I think I understand it (no doubt being less stupid than Sponge ) but it could well go in to Private Eye's Pseuds' Corner if that still exists. The point could have been made in simpler and less confusing language.
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Don't worry - I thought it rather pretentious too.Wandering Willy wrote:Oh - don't you start.
"If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names. " Elbert Hubbard.
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I'm off here tomorrow - weather permitting...
http://www.devon.gov.uk/es/index/enviro ... ytrail.htm
http://www.devon.gov.uk/es/index/enviro ... ytrail.htm
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There was an old vicar from Devon.thebish wrote:I'm off here tomorrow - weather permitting...
http://www.devon.gov.uk/es/index/enviro ... ytrail.htm
Who told everyone about Heaven.
But after a while,
Made everyone smile,
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Any offers for the last line ? Entries by Wednesday.
Not advocating mass-murder as an entirely positive experience, of course, but it had its moments.
"I understand you are a very good footballer" ... "I try".
"I understand you are a very good footballer" ... "I try".
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there was an old welshman called Bobo
who was frightfully good on the oboe
when caught unawares
he would put on his flares
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entries by midnight!
who was frightfully good on the oboe
when caught unawares
he would put on his flares
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entries by midnight!
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there was an old welshman called Bobothebish wrote:there was an old welshman called Bobo
who was frightfully good on the oboe
when caught unawares
he would put on his flares
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entries by midnight!
who was frightfully good on the oboe
when caught unawares
he would put on his flares
And take up with TW's Hobo
May the bridges I burn light your way
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thebish wrote:
there was an old welshman called Bobo
who was frightfully good on the oboe
when caught unawares
he would put on his flares
And shoot off to Whiskey-a-go-go.
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Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?
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bobo the clown wrote:There was an old vicar from Devon.thebish wrote:I'm off here tomorrow - weather permitting...
http://www.devon.gov.uk/es/index/enviro ... ytrail.htm
Who told everyone about Heaven.
But after a while,
Made everyone smile,
On his motor-bike, when he went rev ing.
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Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos?
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Shouldn't it rhyme?TANGODANCER wrote: There was an old vicar from Devon.
Who told everyone about Heaven.
But after a while,
Made everyone smile,
On his motor-bike, when he went rev ing.
May the bridges I burn light your way
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There was an old vicar from Devon.
Who told everyone about Heaven.
But after a while,
Made everyone smile,
By driving his bike in the Severn.
Who told everyone about Heaven.
But after a while,
Made everyone smile,
By driving his bike in the Severn.
"If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names. " Elbert Hubbard.
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Sharon Olds, perhaps my favourite living poet, has won the T S Eliot Award for her collection Stag's Leap. I have the collection - a Christmas present from my youngest daughter, but i haven't yet started it.
It was wonderful to hear her on the Today programme this morning.
It was wonderful to hear her on the Today programme this morning.
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And now I have read two heart-breaking poems from the collection, which is the story of a betrayal and divorce after (I think) a 30 year marriage...
Powerful, moving, truthful... The work of a great poet...
Powerful, moving, truthful... The work of a great poet...
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Sounds familiar somehow.William the White wrote:And now I have read two heart-breaking poems from the collection, which is the story of a betrayal and divorce after (I think) a 30 year marriage...
Powerful, moving, truthful... The work of a great poet...
"If you cannot answer a man's argument, all it not lost; you can still call him vile names. " Elbert Hubbard.
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Hoe cakes by Mf Doom.
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Seamus Heaney, the most beautiful, gentle poet, died today.
A brief tribute:
The poem was over,
the poet had performed, a pleasant murmer
started on the benches, stewards did the rounds
with wine in splendid jugs...
From Heaney's award-winning 1999 translation of Beowulf.
A brief tribute:
The poem was over,
the poet had performed, a pleasant murmer
started on the benches, stewards did the rounds
with wine in splendid jugs...
From Heaney's award-winning 1999 translation of Beowulf.
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Stolen.
Fireflies scar black twilight tonight,
Removed from sight and sat aside my lonely light,
Faithful darkness come collect me quickly,
Be swift to lift me from this pain inflicted,
I'd put no woman above you, Trust me, I love you.
With haste displace this taste I face from lies with kisses sweet as apple pies,
I find my mind aligned with lines, I ryhme in time and laugh as I still try to justify how you can cry,
When I have been the victim of this crime you seem to have to hide,
I need this time alone to try and figure out where I survive,
I will not leave you, You are mine, And I without you would surely die.
You have to understand what we have planned is sacred to this man,
So how could you go back on what you promised me, I cannot stand,
my knees will rest upon the floor, My eyes will produce tears, I'm sure,
But I love you Still, Forvever more, I swear I will not let you go.
I am not mad, Upset and Sad are more the words I'd choose to paint,
Your honesty is all I ask, But lies you mask with ill restraint,
I see you shine I swear I feel your soul within me all the time,
My stomachs pit is filled with sick and stolen kisses spring to mind.
I fear to lose you more than any other fear I've ever known,
I've ripped my pages out and without doubt the most to you I've shown,
You know I'm patient, I could wait until the the days no longer wake,
I won't forsake you, Never break you, But Lies I just can't seem to shake.
You have to know that I'm prepared for you to share my every thought,
My every smile, My every tear, My life and Death,
I'm so distraught.
Fireflies scar black twilight tonight,
Removed from sight and sat aside my lonely light,
Faithful darkness come collect me quickly,
Be swift to lift me from this pain inflicted,
I'd put no woman above you, Trust me, I love you.
With haste displace this taste I face from lies with kisses sweet as apple pies,
I find my mind aligned with lines, I ryhme in time and laugh as I still try to justify how you can cry,
When I have been the victim of this crime you seem to have to hide,
I need this time alone to try and figure out where I survive,
I will not leave you, You are mine, And I without you would surely die.
You have to understand what we have planned is sacred to this man,
So how could you go back on what you promised me, I cannot stand,
my knees will rest upon the floor, My eyes will produce tears, I'm sure,
But I love you Still, Forvever more, I swear I will not let you go.
I am not mad, Upset and Sad are more the words I'd choose to paint,
Your honesty is all I ask, But lies you mask with ill restraint,
I see you shine I swear I feel your soul within me all the time,
My stomachs pit is filled with sick and stolen kisses spring to mind.
I fear to lose you more than any other fear I've ever known,
I've ripped my pages out and without doubt the most to you I've shown,
You know I'm patient, I could wait until the the days no longer wake,
I won't forsake you, Never break you, But Lies I just can't seem to shake.
You have to know that I'm prepared for you to share my every thought,
My every smile, My every tear, My life and Death,
I'm so distraught.
It ain't easy, Sleazy even, Deceiving those we, Believe in.
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You're not really a man of the cloth, are you?thebish wrote:splendid jugs, you say?
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