Re: poetry
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06/28/05 12:20 AM
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I like my skin it holds me in it keeps me "organ"ized!
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 12:55 AM
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James Joyce
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How about "Ode on a Grecian Urn" by the immortal John Keats:
Thou still unravished bride of quietness! Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flow'ry tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy?
Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endeared, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone: Fair youth, beneath the trees, thou canst not leave Thy song, nor ever can those trees be bare; Bold Lover, never, never canst thou kiss, Though winning near the goal -yet, do not grieve; She cannot fade, though thou hast not thy bliss, For ever wilt thou love, and she be fair!
Ah, happy, happy boughs! that cannot shed Your leaves, nor ever bid the Spring adieu; And, happy melodist, unwearied, For ever piping songs for ever new; More happy love! more happy, happy love! For ever warm and still to be enjoyed, For ever panting and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloyed, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
Who are these coming to the sacrifice? To what green altar, O mysterious priest, Lead'st thou that heifer lowing at the skies, And all her silken flanks with garlands drest? What little town by river or sea-shore, Or mountain-built with peaceful citadel, Is emptied of its folk, this pious morn? And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and not a soul to tell Why thou art desolate, can e'er return.
O Attic shape! Fair attitude! with brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty, -that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."
Or "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne:
As virtuous men pass mildly away, And whisper to their souls to go, Whilst some of their sad friends do say, "Now his breath goes," and some say, "No."
So let us melt, and make no noise, No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move ; 'Twere profanation of our joys To tell the laity our love.
Moving of th' earth brings harms and fears ; Men reckon what it did, and meant ; But trepidation of the spheres, Though greater far, is innocent.
Dull sublunary lovers' love —Whose soul is sense—cannot admit Of absence, 'cause it doth remove The thing which elemented it.
But we by a love so much refined, That ourselves know not what it is, Inter-assurčd of the mind, Care less, eyes, lips and hands to miss.
Our two souls therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to aery thinness beat.
If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two ; Thy soul, the fix'd foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th' other do.
And though it in the centre sit, Yet, when the other far doth roam, It leans, and hearkens after it, And grows erect, as that comes home.
Such wilt thou be to me, who must, Like th' other foot, obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And makes me end where I begun.
...yes I said yes I will Yes.
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 03:03 AM
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do u have any masculinity flowing through ur veins???
You must be a magician cuz ur nuttin but a trick.
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 11:56 AM
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TCarmona
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I shall read that every night before I go to bed..........it put me to sleep!
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 04:46 PM
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maybe is hould try cuz i think i have sleep depression.
You must be a magician cuz ur nuttin but a trick.
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 05:49 PM
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James Joyce
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I almost put Paradise Lost by John Milton, but that would've taken too much space.
Yes, my blood is 53.7% masculinity.
...yes I said yes I will Yes.
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 05:50 PM
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that poem had to of dropped u down some.
You must be a magician cuz ur nuttin but a trick.
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 05:59 PM
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I tried to read it againg and I just could do it.
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 07:17 PM
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James Joyce
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Both Keats and Donne had a masterful command of the English language. I guess I miss the correlation between words and masculinity.
...yes I said yes I will Yes.
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 07:21 PM
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I like to experience many things not caring if it will make me less masuclin, but good gravey man I just can't keep focus reading that long @$$ boring......not caring if it is masterful english. I was told the best things are said short and sweet.
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 07:24 PM
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John Keats' poetry brings back too many bad memories.
Maybe you're not an ugly human, but a good looking ape.....with exceptional verbal skills.
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 07:38 PM
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jumpin jack flash
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There was a bird with a yellow bill, Sitting on my window sill, I coaxed him in with bits of bread, Then I smashed his fricking head.
a little brutal but has always been a favorite
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 07:43 PM
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 08:02 PM
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A heap of broken images, where the surf beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, Come under the shadow of this red rock, And I will show you something different from either Your shadow in the morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust. -T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land"
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 08:08 PM
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chewbacca
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April is the cruellest month Alabama Man.
Maybe you're not an ugly human, but a good looking ape.....with exceptional verbal skills.
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 08:09 PM
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tyler rice
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 08:25 PM
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chewbacca
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that's the first line of The Wasteland
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kids these days
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 08:28 PM
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A heap of broken images, where the surf beats, / \ no i'm pretty sure that is | |
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 08:33 PM
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Tyler where have you been
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Re: poetry
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06/29/05 08:33 PM
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chewbacca
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normally im against copying and pasting huge posts, but to prove somebody wrong about poetry, i'll have to make an exception. im apologizing ahead of time to everyone for posting this, and im gonna go ahead and give 1000 forum points to anybody who reads the whole thing.
Maybe you're not an ugly human, but a good looking ape.....with exceptional verbal skills.
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