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Topic: If you were a poem...
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26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 21, 2007 03:59 PM
or just a line or two from one, which would it be?IP: Logged |
juniperb Knowflake Posts: 6590 From: Blue Star Kachina Registered: Mar 2002
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posted November 21, 2007 04:33 PM
The earth laughs in flowers Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------ ~ What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~ - George Eliot IP: Logged |
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 21, 2007 04:39 PM
Yep, that about sums you up! IP: Logged |
juniperb Knowflake Posts: 6590 From: Blue Star Kachina Registered: Mar 2002
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posted November 21, 2007 05:49 PM
What would your pleasure beMs 26T ? ------------------ ~ What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~ - George Eliot IP: Logged |
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 21, 2007 10:14 PM
Mrs juniperB, I'm really not sure. What do you See? (been reading some poems trying to pick one ) IP: Logged |
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 21, 2007 10:35 PM
or,If _________ were a poem or just a line or two from one, it/she/he would have be: fill in the blank and continue. IP: Logged |
NosiS Moderator Posts: 414 From: ) Registered: Apr 2004
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posted November 22, 2007 12:37 AM
When dusting the matter The issues spring forth. The tissues are lorn By the fissures there born. Receipt the precept As there is no such thing, For matter is fatter From a fine strand of string. And if there such thing be, Then forgive you not me For the instance brings distance That could really not be. There is no such rope Save with flat, listless mopes And this scattering flatter Gives no proof to such hope.Yeah, that about sums it up. IP: Logged |
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 22, 2007 12:50 AM
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26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 22, 2007 01:09 AM
Very clever!IP: Logged |
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 22, 2007 01:24 AM
I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand and stamp on the world's head with my foot.~Attar IP: Logged |
Heart--Shaped Cross Knowflake Posts: 5591 From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA Registered: Aug 2004
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posted November 22, 2007 01:24 AM
TO LUNA ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe SISTER of the earliest light, Type of loveliness in sorrow, Silver mists thy radiance borrow, Even as they cross thy sight. When thou comest to the sky, In their dusky hollows waken, Spirits that are sad, forsaken, Birds that shun the day, and I. Looking downward far and wide, Hidden things thou dost discover. Luna! help a hapless lover, Lift him kindly to thy side! Aided by thy friendly beams, Let him through the lattice peeping, Look into the room where, sleeping, Lies the maiden of his dreams. Ah, I see her! Now I gaze, Bending in a trance Elysian, And I strain my inmost vision, And I gather all thy rays. Bright and brighter yet I see Charms no envious robes encumber; And she draws me to her slumber As Endymion once drew thee.
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Heart--Shaped Cross Knowflake Posts: 5591 From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA Registered: Aug 2004
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posted November 22, 2007 01:29 AM
quote: I shall grasp the soul's skirt with my hand and stamp on the world's head with my foot. ~Attar
You are so cool.
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26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 22, 2007 01:47 AM
ooo! That poem is luminescent. IP: Logged |
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 22, 2007 02:21 AM
(the Truth)____________________________ O bird of my heart, Fly on, fly on. Look not behind. Whatever the world gives Is meaningless, useless And utterly false. Sri Chinmoy IP: Logged |
NosiS Moderator Posts: 414 From: ) Registered: Apr 2004
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posted November 22, 2007 12:29 PM
26taurus,I hope my poem didn't seem too bleak or dispirited. I noticed your blue heart and reread my poem to notice that it could actually take on a disheartening tone if read in a different perspective than the one I wrote it in. That was really cool to notice that, though. Thanks for your presence, once again! IP: Logged |
juniperb Knowflake Posts: 6590 From: Blue Star Kachina Registered: Mar 2002
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posted November 22, 2007 10:35 PM
If my Mother were a poem or just a line or two or three from one, she would have to be: The Solitary Reaper
Behold her, single in the field, Yon solitary Highland Lass! Reaping and singing by herself; Stop here, or gently pass! William Wordsworth
------------------ ~ What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world is immortal"~ - George Eliot IP: Logged |
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 23, 2007 07:57 PM
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26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 23, 2007 07:58 PM
Thanks NosiS. Yes, I read it in "lowlight" the first time. Then read it again, in a higher light hence second comment. You shine! IP: Logged |
teaselbaby Knowflake Posts: 1290 From: Northeast Ohio Registered: Sep 2002
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posted November 27, 2007 09:46 AM
I don't really know.. the first poem that sprang to mind was The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry. The last three lines would fit, at least on good days. The Peace of Wild Things When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children's lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light. For a time I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. ~ Wendell Berry IP: Logged |
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 27, 2007 09:47 AM
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MysticMelody Knowflake Posts: 2698 From: Registered: Dec 2005
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posted November 27, 2007 08:17 PM
And all that's best of dark and bright Meets in her aspect and her eyesIP: Logged |
26taurus Knowflake Posts: 12141 From: * Registered: Jun 2004
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posted November 30, 2007 01:42 AM
To A Butterfly STAY near me--do not take thy flight! A little longer stay in sight! Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art! A solemn image to my heart, My father's family! - William Wordsworth IP: Logged |
NosiS Moderator Posts: 414 From: ) Registered: Apr 2004
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posted November 30, 2007 09:52 PM
Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?-Shel Silverstein IP: Logged |