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Wed, Nov 27, 1996 (06:51) |
Paul Terry Walhus (terry)
Welcome
Whilst some of you may just like to read and appreciate all the poetry
that has passed, classics, inspirational traditional works, others just
want to write it, others scouring the cities looking for coffee lounges
and small cafes to share their work in a live environment, others like
me finding ways to create it for the new multimedia on cd-rom and on the
internet, others will just want to talk about it, why it affects them,
what is good and what is bad poetry, and what will poetry look like in
the future. whatever! - komninos konstantinos zervos
75 responses total.
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Response 1 of 75: Mixu (Mixu) * Thu, Dec 5, 1996 (09:10) * 8 lines
Yum.
I like Chinese poetry, and of course haikus and tankas
(I've heard that Finnish is the only language to which
they can be translated preserving the syllable count).
And yes, I do write poetry. All the time. That's why I
always have pen and paper with me.
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Response 2 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Dec 5, 1996 (11:11) * 1 lines
Will you be the first to post in the topic for this!
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Response 3 of 75: Mika-Petri Lauronen (Mixu) * Tue, Dec 10, 1996 (09:41) * 7 lines
Running busy
I noticed my footsteps
Not going anywhere
So I stopped, too.
(DAMN, it is hard to translate poetry)
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Response 4 of 75: Fatty's 50 and mighty pooped (fattymoon) * Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (12:40) * 36 lines
Fatty Moon here, first time. Brain very mushy after marathon 50th bash Saturday in the hills of North Alabama. Too zonked to say much, so I'll just drop a couple old things on ya. Fatty come back. Off two weeks for Christmas. Hoo ha!
To pimp or not to pimp?
God's bodikin, man! Course I'm gonna pimp!
Tis better to be a living dead man than to die - you get my drift?
Ahh, the world is grown so bad.
You see that gold Lexus outside?
Got it from pimpin'.
Here, share a plate of worms with me.
We'll frog our sides and talk of whores.
Look around the room.
Pimps and whores is what we are. We bear our birthright proudly on
our buttocks.
Mark me well, I'll not play the fool for no chump change.
Real money's in beavers.
Face it, Jack - I was born to pimp.
Got a T-shirt says so.
The Other Half
To whore or not to whore.
That's the question?
Puleeze!
You think I could maybe be a brain surgeon? Or maybe you think I
should get my sweet ass to a nunnery.
Ever think I might like whoring?
I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offenses at my
beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them
shape,
or time to act them.
O sweet heavens, do look at the time.
Pray you, before I take my leave,
think on this - let my candied tongue lick your absurd frankfurter, and
you'll wonder why Germany ever lost the war.
Leave me now.
Twit!
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Response 5 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Dec 15, 1996 (12:45) * 1 lines
Stands up on chair and applauds. The fatty has landed!
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Response 6 of 75: Catherine (cat) * Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (14:31) * 15 lines
Gone Away
My friends have all gone away
What reason? To have a good time.
I almost went myself. But stayed behind.
They went in an overcrowded car.
I was behind them. My car then broke down.
Then it happened.
They made a U turn at 90 mph.
How stupid! How dumb I was.
For I had almost gone in that car.
That car then overturned.
My friends have all gone away.
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Response 7 of 75: Catherine Briggs (cat) * Fri, Dec 20, 1996 (15:28) * 1 lines
Hi Terry! It is me Cat from the hopeless addicts of P&P2. As you know I am eighteen and am a senior in highschool. I enjoy many sports such as soccor, horseback riding, basketball, and presently am a cheerleader. I take piano and singing lessons and as i did not mention there like to write poetry. It is something I don't really share with others. As Terry already knows I am a HOPELESS addict of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice". I have two younger brothers and plan to become a vet.
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Response 8 of 75: Grace (Grace) * Sun, Jan 26, 1997 (17:01) * 12 lines
This is such a lonely topic! Could it be that most people are afraid to post....feeling 'Fatty' is just too tough an act to follow????
I shall dare to offer a bit of Shelley to compete with Fatty:
The fountains mingle with the river
And the rivers with the ocean;
The winds of heaven mix for ever
With a sweet emotion;
Noting in the world is single;
All things, by a law divine,
In one another's being mingle--
Why not I with thine?
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Response 9 of 75: Grace (Grace) * Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (09:22) * 12 lines
Such a wonderful topic.....but still so empty. Here is more of Shelley's 'Love's Philosophy':
See, the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another,
No sister flower would be forgiven
If it disdained its brother;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea: -
What are all the kissings worth,
If thou kiss not me?
(P.S. We should be noting that the 'noting' in response 8 is 'nothing! ;-)
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Response 10 of 75: Mika-Petri Lauronen (Mixu) * Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (09:35) * 32 lines
One of my own love poems:
(Not sure if I've posted this already)
(Sorry, you NEVER should translate poems)
***
Show me your true self
So that I can
Shout it in the woods
And see the trees bow
Tell me your name
So that I can
Shout in on the seashore
And hear the waves stop
Point me yourself
So that I can
Shout it on the mountains
And feel the stones crack
For you are
Taller than trees
Fresher than water
More timeless than rock
***
(It does lose something
in the translation,
I'm afraid)
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Response 11 of 75: Grace (Grace) * Mon, Jan 27, 1997 (22:14) * 3 lines
Lovely, Mika-Petri.
Thank you.
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Response 12 of 75: Catherine (cat) * Tue, Mar 4, 1997 (13:51) * 28 lines
My God! Doesn't anyone come here?
Have pity!
Love is a certain something
that brings me to despair.
When my beloved comes
to see his sad love
the sunny shore will be covered
with pretty flowers.
But I do not see him,
alas, my beloved is not coming.
When he tells the breezes
of his passion and lamenting
gentle birds, he will teach you
a sweeter song.
But I do not hear him. Who has heard
him?
My love has fallen silent.
You, pitiful and weary echo
of my tears,
return to him and he will gently
ask for his bride.
Hush, he is calling me, hush, alas!
No, he is not calling me,o God he is
not there.
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Response 13 of 75: Marion I. Donegan (Literati) * Tue, Apr 8, 1997 (21:03) * 1 lines
How am I to respond? With a poem? I have many I have written.
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Response 14 of 75: Marion I. Donegan (Literati) * Tue, Apr 8, 1997 (21:32) * 17 lines
Last Love
I know that I will never love again
My heart has lost its fickle wish for change.
My eyes not longer look at other men
And find them fascinating, new, and strange.
I will not live in dreams and memories
With mournful sighs because they are not true,
Or try to capture vanished ecstasies,
Because my heart is quite content with you.
Like ashes....... I scatter my unimportant past.
You are my first love........ you are my last.
Written and Copyrighted 1989
By Marion I. Donegan
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Response 15 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Tue, Apr 8, 1997 (23:08) * 3 lines
Very fine Marion. I hope it's the start of more postings. I'd love
to read more of your poems. And welcome aboard the Spring's poetry
conference.
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Response 16 of 75: mpoet (mpoet) * Thu, Jun 12, 1997 (21:51) * 14 lines
A very interesting place here. A lovely forum with far too few poems. Really liked the works I've read so far.
I'm a performance poet out of Chicago. I shoot poetry videos and have a band that plays around the city. Terry waved at my friend Tom while cruising through Electric Minds and the Unofficial Soup Kitchen and invited folks to drop in.
I've heard nothing but good stuff about the poetry scene in Austin and would love to stop in for a day or two and read at a venue.
a short poem
d'you ever stop to notice a bubble?
the delicious cacophony of melted rainbows
madly encircling its globe.
recombinant, glistening.
burning itself into gray skin.
exploding into evaporated shards.
scattered breath mating with the afternoon sun.
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Response 17 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 13, 1997 (08:23) * 4 lines
Is there anything we can do to help you get connected to
the local Austin poetry scene or hep set up a gig?
Do you know Thom the poet?
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Response 18 of 75: Smoky (MademoiselleJayh0) * Sun, Jun 15, 1997 (19:34) * 19 lines
Here's one I wrote a few years ago:
Soaked
To hold the face
To kiss the eyes
To press the lips
Behind the lies
To wade in the water
To start to be drowned
To fall softly under
Without breathing a sound
To grab for the wall
To watch as it disappears
To feel so timeless
Showered with tears
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Response 19 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jun 15, 1997 (21:02) * 1 lines
Thank you Smoky.
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Response 20 of 75: carmen hermosillo (hummie) * Fri, Jun 20, 1997 (16:19) * 10 lines
i'm a poet specializing at the moment in
translating spanish to english. i started
doing this because i was more or less
enraged to see what robert bly had done to
the work of lorca and neruda. then, i started
to write spanish stuff of my own.
i love poetry.
and i have passionate opinions about it.
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Response 21 of 75: Joseph Zitt (jzitt) * Fri, Jun 20, 1997 (17:09) * 1 lines
You may be interested in some of Leonard Cohen's adaptations of Lorca. I know that his "Take this Waltz" is adapted from a Lorca poem, and I think he's done others.
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Response 22 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jun 20, 1997 (18:47) * 1 lines
Did you like il postino carmen?
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Response 23 of 75: Larry (mpoet) * Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (18:58) * 3 lines
Hello Smoky, nice poem. Hi Carmen....
Terry - thanks for the offer. As soon as I can save up some cheap airfare, you're on!
I'm not really familiar with the names of the poetry venues in Austin; what's their names?
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Response 24 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Jun 22, 1997 (23:05) * 3 lines
The main venue right now seems to be BookPeople, the largest bookstore in North
America. They've had some packed events. It's a terrific atmosphere for poetry
jams.
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Response 25 of 75: carmen hermosillo (hummie) * Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (13:53) * 11 lines
i have not yet seen il postino, but i bought the
little book of poems that seems attached to the film.
i'd like to see il postino very much, though, as soon
as my schedule permits.
things being as they are in my head, i have much
more faith in leonard cohen's ability to translate
lorca than i have in robert bly's.
is there a corner around here for posting poems?
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Response 26 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Mon, Jun 23, 1997 (14:25) * 2 lines
Sure is. Or you are welcome to create your own topic for
your own poetry. It would be very welcome, hummie.
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Response 27 of 75: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Thu, Aug 28, 1997 (23:45) * 3 lines
Does anyone live here anymore?
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Response 28 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Aug 29, 1997 (00:00) * 3 lines
Yep, most of the excitement is in bronte, drool and apps. Check 'em out.
What's your current interest in poetry? What are you reading?
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Response 29 of 75: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Sun, Aug 31, 1997 (00:36) * 18 lines
Lately I've been attempting to create it. Always been my passion, though. My
tastes are rather pedestrian, I'm afraid, by many lights...Yeats, Auden, Keats,
Burns, Swinburne, etc...Don't know many contemporary poets, but my mind is
always open to good poetry. I sort of participate in one poetry site on the net, but I thought it would be cool to interact with some local wannabe poets,
like myself. Where are you, wannabe poets?! Anyway, I'll post something, anyway (have site- will post)...
Merely earth, Oscar...
What she was is here. Do refrain
from "treading lightly", though.
She cannot hear even a drop of rain,
much less a daisy grow.
I cannot feel her presence, you see.
It is her absence that I know.
The lack of her is what fills me
now. The void has consumed
the whole.
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Response 30 of 75: Tom Digby (bubbles) * Sat, Nov 8, 1997 (23:17) * 5 lines
I'm physically in Silicon Valley. There is some poetry on my Web
site at http://www.well.com/user/bubbles/
I'm presently in via a browser (lynx) that isn't always too good
at pasting in text, so maybe I'll post some actual poetry later.
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Response 31 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Sun, Nov 9, 1997 (01:00) * 3 lines
You're welcome to a shell account here Tom, if you'd like one.
It might beat lynx.
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Response 32 of 75: david scott (dscott259) * Wed, Nov 26, 1997 (09:47) * 2 lines
I'm trying to find out if anyone knows anything about William Matthew's. I read in the New Yorker this week a new poem and at the end it had his dates.Does anyone know if and if so how he died?
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Response 33 of 75: Rudy R. Martinez Jr. (josetizoc) * Thu, Dec 11, 1997 (00:55) * 22 lines
I live in Austin and am looking for a poet's group. Started with love poems and such. Moving to the mundane of every day and reality. As follows:
Slamming heads pitch and sway to the beat of the bass.
Easing subjects slowly into walking comas.
Sliding back and forth over the casserole of vomit and verve.
Surrounded by a symphonic aroma of compact flesh.
This is the lair of rebelious adolescence.
No one questions right,wrong or indifference.
Considered blatantly banal amidst comrades.
Instead feed the ravenous appetite of id and ego.
Tomorrow is too distant a concept.
Yesterdays matter only to those who master memories.
Today is only slightly closer to fathomed reality.
Now, right now, occupies brain cells numbed from chemical stimulation.
See them put right foot out, left foot out, shaking all about.
Sinewy strands of chaotic citizenry slither toward exits.
Remnants of plastic cutlery and foam plates attached to survivors.
Ready to escape the next last temptation of fate.
Casting out to exist with pointed passivity in sheltered society.
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Response 34 of 75: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Mon, Dec 15, 1997 (12:51) * 3 lines
cool new poetry site... Diogenes Bob's Poetry Planet...
http://www.angelfire.com/la/diogenesbob/index.html
(it rocks)
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Response 35 of 75: Amanda (Vanessa) * Thu, Dec 25, 1997 (20:09) * 29 lines
I love writing poetry. I used to think poetry wasn't good unless it rhymed.
And now I can't write rhyming poetry anymore myself! I hope it's no too boring for anyone.
"Thread of Hope"
holding on with only a thread of hope
Products of circumstance,
We roam our streets searching for what we shouldn't have
Dangling above the cold, common
ground of an understanding of
a life that could never be
But we will it to be
And so it becomes the truth of
our existance together
An existance forbidden to be initiated
but we're careless
Throwing caution to the wind as always
Breaking the rules, but keeping that common bond
So closed to everyone, but so open to each other
A decision so easy for anyone but me
Anyone without my reason and my values
If only this were easy,
But it isn't and never will be
And so the thread breaks and I fall
It hurts--no lie
But that's life
And time passes without our permission
Our hearts hoping for that which our minds wish us to forget
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Response 36 of 75: Wolf (Wolf) * Thu, Dec 25, 1997 (21:32) * 1 lines
Very nice, Amanda, welcome and Merry Christmas.......
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Response 37 of 75: nick a'hannay (pmnh) * Fri, Dec 26, 1997 (03:29) * 1 lines
i like it very much...
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Response 38 of 75: Amanda (Vanessa) * Fri, Dec 26, 1997 (09:49) * 1 lines
Thank you and Happy holidays to everyone.
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Response 39 of 75: Riette Walton (riette) * Sun, Jul 5, 1998 (01:55) * 1 lines
Wolf, great to see the new hostess has landed! If I had more time to read, I'd defenitely stay, but at the moment books are absolute strangers to me, so please forgive me if I don't stay long. I must start reading again - I'll make it poetry, so I can start coming here.
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Response 40 of 75: Wolf (Wolf) * Sun, Jul 5, 1998 (10:27) * 1 lines
you're always welcome (and give me some time and this place will be happening!)
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Response 41 of 75: Riette Walton (riette) * Mon, Jul 6, 1998 (08:39) * 1 lines
Oh, no doubt!
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Response 42 of 75: Riette Walton (riette) * Sat, Jul 11, 1998 (01:53) * 1 lines
GREAT HOMEPAGE, Wolf!
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Response 43 of 75: Wolf (wolf) * Sat, Jul 11, 1998 (14:18) * 1 lines
thanks reitte!
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Response 44 of 75: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Sun, Nov 15, 1998 (13:43) * 1 lines
Robert Frost and e e cummings are my favorite poets although I haven't read anything by either of them in several years.
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Response 45 of 75: Wolf (wolf) * Sun, Nov 15, 1998 (16:27) * 1 lines
well, now you have an excuse to do just that! welcome to poetry, tim....
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Response 46 of 75: Tim Guenther (TIM) * Sun, Nov 15, 1998 (18:40) * 1 lines
Thank you, wolf.
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Response 47 of 75: Dawnis (dawnis) * Wed, Jul 14, 1999 (18:52) * 2 lines
Hello my name is Dawnis in here but in the real world.....or is it the other way around.... it is Debra Tenney. To read some of my poems check:
http://members.tripod.com/~poetry_suite/poetry_of_debratenney.html
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Response 48 of 75: wer (KitchenManager) * Wed, Jul 14, 1999 (23:41) * 4 lines
Welcome, Dawnis!!!
and do please post some here...I will be off to read
your site tomorrow...
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Response 49 of 75: Barry Kort (moulton) * Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (06:52) * 1 lines
Hi Dawnis! Nice to see you here. Dawnis is my poetry coach. I'm just now learning about poetry, at the age of 54. With the help of Dawnis, some of my prose is now finding a new incarnation in the form of poetry.
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Response 50 of 75: Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (07:51) * 1 lines
explore away! welcome and do come back often!!
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Response 51 of 75: Dawnis (dawnis) * Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (13:32) * 3 lines
(((((((Moulton))))))) Moulton already had the heart of a poet...he just didn't know it. (Dawnis giggles)
Thanks folks It's good to be here. I look forward to posting and exploring. Is this the topic to post original stuff in? If not, point the way.
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Response 52 of 75: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (13:38) * 5 lines
anywhere is fine as we usually aren't much of a picky bunch...
poetry corner is the open original one...and if the poems fit
any particular topic listed, then they are welcome there...
(did I actually answer anything you were asking?)
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Response 53 of 75: Dawnis (dawnis) * Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (14:32) * 92 lines
Yep Yep Yep! But how do I find Poetry corner? I am having problems navigating in here since this is a new format.
Below find my latest three poems. Written at Utne in the ongoing poetry game. I find the format there creates an incentive to write, which in my world I need or I get lazy. (Grin).
Each poem contains 10 words chosen each week by one of the poets in the group. We write using the 10 words and then post our results and comment on each other's work. It is fun to see the vastly varied results that each of us come up with.
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On Second Thought
Tar Black,
laconic platitudes
slaughter
reason. circling
the downtrodden,
turning away from
suffering, stark
naked before
unseeing eyes.
An invasion of
armies desecrating
sacred ground,
in quest of
the silver chalice,
imposing a fatal
reality, like silt
enveloping fertile
soil, slowly
suffocating the
divine center,
until our
planet is gasping
for breath,
as through
a hollow reed.
Myopic Reverie
Laughter like Spanish moss
drifts amidst balmy
southern twilights.
Dazzling jewels of
vermilion and ginger
pepper the sky,
coddling fantasy
like ice cubes floating
among mint juleps.
Silk in pastel shades,
rose and lilac billowing
above lace and crinoline
as nubile pale skinned
youth experiment,
scrounging signatures
in cotillion books
History drained of ugly
of hand-me-down
calico dresses and cotton
bankrupted
with each punch,
each bull whip, and chain.
A legacy, built on sorrow.
High School Sweethearts
Summer tenses
chafing between
the beat of
monsoon rain and
anvil heat
Desert willows bloom,
extravagant chaperons
of Devil1s Claw and and sandstone,
returning every summer
to bridge the space
between my heart
and commitment bagged
beneath that desert bluff.
Like a trapped animal
something of me
was lost
in that first flurry of
naive fervor,
something more
than innocence
was lost
as you walked away.
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Response 54 of 75: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (14:59) * 1 lines
do you telnet in or come in from the web?
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Response 55 of 75: Dawnis (dawnis) * Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (15:41) * 1 lines
The Web.
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Response 56 of 75: wer (KitchenManager) * Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (15:48) * 2 lines
cool...go to
http://tvnight.org/yapp-bin/restricted/read/poetry/2
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Response 57 of 75: Dawnis (dawnis) * Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (18:35) * 1 lines
Whew!!!!! I fanally found this place again. Thanks I found it and posted, Just learning how to get around in this new format. We used Motet before and then ended up in Yahoo while we looked for a new and everytime I finaaly get the basics dwon we are up and running.
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Response 58 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Jul 15, 1999 (22:12) * 8 lines
Glad you found us again and hope you find us again and again! We run
something called (oddly) Yapp, which is a clone of Picospan which the WELL
and the River run. So folks that have been on the WELL, like Ray and
Barry, should instantly be familiar with the interface here. And if you
need it, I can provide you and Barry with shell accounts if you want to
zoom along in a text only world.
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Response 59 of 75: Nan Williams (moonbeam) * Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (00:19) * 44 lines
Hello, I'm new here -- migrated with Barry and Debra, and am finding it a most simpatico place.
Letter to me from myself, at 80...
Oh darling one,
what can I tell you
from this wheelchair
locked on the porch,
my eyes dimmed,
music mostly a memory --
that you don't know already?
When your life is so uprooted
and you've been so brave
to get this far, yet
not far enough
to escape --
oh beloved, don't rush it
no matter who pushes.
There is time.
Nothing but time
and memories of vanilla pines
and the salty Pacific,
and fresh-mown hay under humid skies
and night air rolling cool and damp
over the prairie
and through the stars.
Breathe.
Pray.
You will answer your prayers.
We all do.
We are in this together
in this wild mind,
Loving and aching
and in the end,
sitting
and feeling it all go by.
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Response 60 of 75: wer (KitchenManager) * Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (02:44) * 2 lines
and we welcome you as well, Nan,
and I thank you for sharing!
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Response 61 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (06:41) * 1 lines
Welcome Nan, but you're not quite 80 yet, right?
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Response 62 of 75: Wolf (wolf) * Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (09:49) * 1 lines
nice piece, come back!
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Response 63 of 75: N Williams (moonbeam) * Fri, Jul 16, 1999 (11:49) * 7 lines
Yoikes...
Sorry 'bout that being posted in the wrong topic!
*blush*
But thanks for the welcomes, and no, I'm not 80 yet -- that was a response to an writing exercise that wanted a letter to myself NOW from myself at 80, which happened to come out as poetry.
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Response 64 of 75: Debra Tenney (dawnis) * Thu, Oct 14, 1999 (20:10) * 2 lines
Hey Guys I posted in topic 8 and it did not show up on the topic list indicating new posts. I have to hit *all* and go in and find the topic to see if I got any responses...
Was I mistaken when I thought posting brought it up on the front poetry page to alert others of a new post?
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Response 65 of 75: Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Oct 14, 1999 (20:41) * 1 lines
no you weren't. we run into glitches like this all the time. like, when you've read everything in a topic but the topic stays like you've not read anything.
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Response 66 of 75: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Oct 14, 1999 (20:43) * 5 lines
It just might be easier for you to do as I do and use this to tell what has been entered recently under all categoties
http://tvnight.org/yapp-bin/restricted/confifty/poetry
or for just poetry:
http://tvnight.org/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/poetry/all/new
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Response 67 of 75: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) * Thu, Dec 9, 1999 (09:02) * 3 lines
Dorothy Epp is the newest contributor to the poetry conference, in the
newest topic. She's orginally from Canada, but has lived in Austin for
many years and is active in a flesh based poetry discussion group.
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Response 68 of 75: Wolf (wolf) * Thu, Dec 9, 1999 (18:48) * 1 lines
then let us welcome her: dorothy, already found your topic *grin* please post away!
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Response 69 of 75: Marcia (MarciaH) * Thu, Nov 9, 2000 (04:37) * 1 lines
Since I cannot do this for me, will you please create "AncientChinese Poetry" for me? Neil sends it with each email and it is so remarkable I want to share it with more than just my own eyes. Thanks, Wolfie!!!
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Response 70 of 75: Poetic Person of Power (wolf) * Fri, Nov 10, 2000 (19:01) * 1 lines
done!
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Response 71 of 75: Marcia (MarciaH) * Sat, Nov 11, 2000 (00:39) * 2 lines
Thank you, Wolfie. The man is truly a gentlman and a scholar and an extraordinary friend who actually logged into Spring at my gentle urging. I am delighted and add another of his lovely offerings if he did not already do so.
*Big Hugs* to you both!
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Response 72 of 75: Samm Blob (AlFor) * Fri, Feb 8, 2002 (21:43) * 7 lines
Well, I write poetry and I have always wanted to sell a book of poems, but I have shelved that idea because I don't know anyone (including me) who buys poetry...
I think the greatest contribution to the decline of conventional poetry in the twentieth century was recorded sound. This lead to the rise of the recording industry and singers became superstars as a result. This led anyone who could make sense in rhyme and meter (and even many who couldn't) to turn toward songs either for profit or to find an audience for their ideas, or both.
Let's face it: Bob Dylan had/has a much wider audience than W.H. Auden. Auden's poetry may be wildly superior poet to Bob Dylan's but I don't know 'coz I've never read Auden. (I have, however, read at least one poem by Dylan Thomas...) Auden's singing voice might be better than Dylan's; most people's singing voices are better than Dylan's!
Having said that, I find that many of Dylan's lyrics do speak to me, much as the poetry of Kipling or Poe or Landor does.
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Response 73 of 75: Samm Blob (AlFor) * Fri, Feb 8, 2002 (21:47) * 10 lines
Actually, I only know two Landor poems; here's one of them:
ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY
I strove with none, for none was worth my strife,
I loved nature, and next to nature, art;
I warmed both hands before the fire of life
It sinks, and I am ready to depart.
(Poor guy lived to be 83...)
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Response 74 of 75: Poetic Person of Power (wolf) * Sat, Feb 9, 2002 (12:51) * 11 lines
thanks for coming here sam *HUGS*
jewel is an artist who turns her poetry into music but she did publish a book filled with her words.
though rare, there are folks out there who buy poetry books and literature (i am one)
since music is a universal language, it is a good (safe) way to express poetry(though classical poets may consider it otherwise).
U2 writes some serious stuff and expresses it through their music. Dave Matthews also writes some serious stuff expressed through music. take yourself to their lyric pages and you will be wowed!
bob dylan, hmmmm.....being a child during the 70's, i'm not very familiar with his work (though i do know of it and have heard it)--i never got to know what he was about.
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Response 75 of 75: Samm Blob (AlFor) * Sat, Feb 9, 2002 (15:06) * 17 lines
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/index.html#L
An alphabetical list of songs sung by Bob Dylan, with links to lyrics for those he actually wrote. There are also links to those he didn't write but you won't find the lyrics in those links.
Here's a particularly heavy example:
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/hardrain.html
...a much lighter one:
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/befree10.html
...and a rather uncharacteristic love song:
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/lay.html
OBTW, I was born in 1971, after all these songs were recorded...
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