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M. Fokker Guest
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Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 16:05 Post subject: Safe as Poem |
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Anyone got any poems to share with us, if so, just put 'em here. Well since i came up with the idea, i guess i'll go first. Here it goes: There once sat a woman on a stump and a spider came crawling up her cunt, so the woman asked, "Spider, what are you doing in my cunt?" so the spider said, " I was just having a little fun, spinning my spider-web over your young." |
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Bev
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 843 Location: Nottingham
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Setareh Juventina
Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 1415 Location: Norrköping, Sweden
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Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 16:38 Post subject: |
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I sent my soul through the invisible
Some letter of that after life to spell
And by and by my soul return'd to me
And answer'd "I myself am heav'n and hell"
by Omar Khayam
That's my tattoo, and my last post of 2004...HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Love & Peace _________________ Man is the only animal clever enough to build The Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump from it. |
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Bev
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 843 Location: Nottingham
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Setareh Juventina
Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 1415 Location: Norrköping, Sweden
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 08:06 Post subject: |
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Read about him in brief at
http://www.okonlife.com/
L&P _________________ Man is the only animal clever enough to build The Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump from it. |
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Bev
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 843 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 08:55 Post subject: |
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Interesting on that site how different the 3 English 'translations' are... _________________ Scattershot Writing: www.jameseverington.blogspot.com |
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Setareh Juventina
Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 1415 Location: Norrköping, Sweden
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Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 17:10 Post subject: |
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Yeah, but the Fitzgerald one is the most 'official'. I however speak the original language as well so I can understand the original.
Love & Peace _________________ Man is the only animal clever enough to build The Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump from it. |
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Bev
Joined: 25 Aug 2002 Posts: 843 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 19:44 Post subject: |
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A spoonful of Imagism to help the medicine go down:
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in a crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
Ezra Pound
A 'seminal' poem (and quick to type in too..!) _________________ Scattershot Writing: www.jameseverington.blogspot.com |
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Setareh Juventina
Joined: 01 Dec 2002 Posts: 1415 Location: Norrköping, Sweden
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 08:06 Post subject: |
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This one is also an old Persian poet, Saadi Shirazi (although there are other longer variations of his name). The English version is at the entrance of the Hall of Nations in New York.
Of one Essence is the human race,
Thusly has Creation put the Base;
One Limb impacted is sufficient,
For all Others to feel the Mace.
Always found it beautiful.
Love & Peace _________________ Man is the only animal clever enough to build The Empire State Building and stupid enough to jump from it. |
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Anon Guest
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:34 Post subject: |
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The reason I like Edna St Vincent Millay
Is that her name
sounds like a basketball
falling down stairs.
The reason I like Walt Whitman
Is that his name
sounds like Edna St Vincent Millay
falling down stairs. |
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bravecaptain
Joined: 08 Feb 2003 Posts: 859
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Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2005 14:06 Post subject: |
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we have a winner
mx |
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CiaranMac
Joined: 03 Sep 2002 Posts: 460 Location: Sligeach
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Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2005 14:59 Post subject: |
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W B Yeats poem The Second coming I find to be very resonant with my current disillusioned world view. As I found Francis Wheen's excellent book 'How mumbo jumbo conquered the world' Here's the first verse of Yeats effort...
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
It inspired this composition about constipation
The Log (of the Magi)
In the dying embers of December someone is crouching
And a fat bolus of Santy-shit is per-istal-tical-ly slouching
Towards a foul January birth.
Midwifed by paraffin
Are the first signs of the turtle grin.
And the color is tainted
Like original sin
Peekaboo!
I see you
It teases so mockingly
Before
hanging um-bili-cally it’s vacating so softly
Dropping with dignity
Into its cold ceramic cot.
Phut it goes
Phut it goes
Plop
Phoot it goes
Phoot it goes
Plop
The Creator rejoices to see what he’s done
A monster is born into weak January sun
_________________ www.myspace.com/storkboychoons
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nathanptm
Joined: 19 Sep 2002 Posts: 10 Location: london
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Posted: Fri Jan 14, 2005 15:58 Post subject: live poetry |
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If anyone out there wants to see some great live spokenword and lives in London, come down to SHORTFUSE - a weekly fusion of stand-up poetry, performance comedy and spokenword.
Always a fantastic range of acts - last night saw the one and only Simon Munnery performing some old Alan Parker - Urban Warrior songs, accompanied by a full drum kit, plus Alistair Cook of Channel 5's 'Monkey Magic' fame...
for current listings check out
www.20six.co.uk/shortfuse
Every Thursday @ The Camden Head, Camden Walk, Islington, London, N1
Tube: Angel. Doors: 8.30pm. Admission: £5 waged / £3 concessions. |
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