A Poem Thread

Discussion in 'Art & Culture' started by Angelus, Nov 9, 2002.

  1. Jenyar Solar flair Valued Senior Member

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    Silken skin on rough material
    Softly you ask me if I am ethereal
    But as long as you stay --
    warm sunshine on a chilly day,
    moonlight on a misty meadow --
    I will knock upon your door
    and sit with you
    on your bedroom floor...

    (A first for me: I posted this from my cellphone! Couldn't see the formatting on the small screen, so I fixed it now. ©1999 or later)
     
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  3. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    To touch is to take
    from time, from dust, from a place, from space,
    from saints, from forgotten, from untold;
    To touch is to face
    eternity embodied in a second, a flash!,
    a lightning strike through brain!

    ---
    © 2005 Avatar
     
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  5. Avatar smoking revolver Valued Senior Member

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    I think this is appropriate for Sciforums. © 2006 Andris Krastins (Avatar)

    [The fish return to the desert]


    Breaking the sands..
    walking, walking upon a dried up sea,
    walking, breaking, slowly crying,
    laughing in a dried up sea.

    Slowly filling the dried up sea
    with the wind from laughter
    and the water from tears, salt..
    salt in tears, the fish return.

    Empty sand! - it's a crying land,
    body is breaking - no life!, it's a dying land,
    I give all from my breaking body, take!

    In your ears, in my ears from memories
    can hear the fish return to the sea,
    wind and water breaking the sands,
    covering my footsteps, breaking my bones.

    The fish, the fish return to the sea,
    seaweeds covering my hands
    and the last I see is the fish
    where there was just empty sand.

    Life!

    -----
    This song is dedicated to the <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/678898.stm"><u>Aral sea</u></a>.
    Let us be better than our fathers. No such works of horror again!
    -----


    <em>Here once was sea and life</em>:
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    <img src="http://enrin.grida.no/aral/aralsea/images/picture/aral2.jpg" alt="" />
    </div>
     
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  7. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    Concomitance

    Revolution
    Absolution
    Bound in spite
    Unchained in delight
    Elevate
    Consecrate
    Wrapped in glitter-gloss
    Unravelled in timeless-loss
    Declaration
    Observation
    Locked in keyless
    Break in needless
    Designate
    Infiltrate
    Tied in control-type
    Loosened in endless-hype
    Condemnation
    Resuscitation
    Restrained in cord
    Freedom in our lord
    Desecrate
    Congregate
    Burnt in sacrifice
    Crowned in cowardice
     
  8. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    Ahem. (Thats the title, dammit!)

    Let me spread some words across this page,
    Sit back, exhale, and upon them gaze.
    Wonder, ponder, rustle them around,
    Blink, compute, and see what is found.

    I notice that amongst them there is a word,
    Not silly, or frivolous or necessarily absurd.
    But a sweetie, a honey, some letters in array,
    Let me see, where’s my specs, what does it say?

    Ah, now I see, it is much clearer to me,
    It says ‘love” and my dear, I give it to thee.
     
  9. water the sea Registered Senior Member

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    abstraction


    abstraction
    abstractio
    abstracti
    abstract
    abstrac
    abstra
    abstr
    abst
    abs
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    Z
     
  10. kziglu_bey Registered Member

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    The asimetric field

    The moon above is wet in wind
    and sorrow in the eye of dust.
    I speak of god and man and mad...
    I hope to crush and to rebound.
    The likes of which i never knew,
    a man of wind is here to grow,
    to live within the fountain flow
    and to submit.
    He speaks of golden Atalantas
    and of the music here without,
    I hear and cry and am proturbed
    in wind therein and in without.
    O , God how empty you remaine,
    when all one is, is turned to dust !
    I hope and pray that you will find
    the man within the mad without.

    Copyright T.C.T. - aka Kziglu_bey, Today 22 feb. year 7514 from the founding of
    the world.
    Local time 01:43 AM
     
  11. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    Ode to Ancamna

    Water water everywhere,
    And not a drop to drink
    I sincerely hope to get a taste,
    Perhaps before I sink.

    Lulling by this riverside,
    The silky liquid whispers sweet
    I wish I could become a drop,
    Flowing fast yet remain discreet.

    And better see what seems unclear,
    Swirling liquid distorting sense
    Splashing smatter sullen stream,
    Engulfing flow of thoughts immense.
     
  12. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    The System…

    Was I ever going to reach the space?
    Were ready hand meets ready grace
    I never would have said I should,
    But now I have, yet knew I could.

    Was I ever going to beat the norm?
    Of steady effort with honesty born
    Of lasting calm and serene expression,
    My hands unbound in eager recession.

    Was I ever going to bear the fruit?
    The growth of vine in a business suit
    Of achieved awards and attained status,
    Vacuum wrapped in balloons that deflate us.

    Was I ever of a knowing so certain?
    That the next act awaits the final curtain
    I now leave the worldly to its sad delusion,
    And draw into myself my profound conclusion.
     
  13. Cottontop3000 Death Beckoned Registered Senior Member

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    Nice, stretched. Don't leave without me, you hear?
     
  14. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    No worries Cotton, facing ones fears crushes their power. Besides, I wouldnt` leave you alone in this jungle!

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  15. Cottontop3000 Death Beckoned Registered Senior Member

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    Yes, facing ones fears definitely crushes their power, and thanks for not leaving me alone in this jungle we call the modern age. I couldn't stand it alone.

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  16. sargentlard Save the whales motherfucker Valued Senior Member

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    heh...nice

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  17. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    Song for Dr Dee.

    Running in the darkness,
    Nay … hiding from the light.
    Lest the glare of slow revelation,
    Does sear the seer … and far too bright.

    Walking in the shadows,
    Nay … peeping through the glass.
    Lest the awareness of the awakener,
    May catch a glimpse … of the future past.

    Standing in the first rays,
    Nay … slowly raising up thy head.
    Lest the invisible seeks unfair gain,
    And taste the promise … in fresh new bread.

    Laying in the midday glare,
    Nay … holding court and self aware.
    Lest the dues paid to the keeper,
    In vain misplaced … and in essence bare.
     
  18. hug-a-tree Live the life Registered Senior Member

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    I read this poem in "perks of being a wallflower" I thought it was really nice.

    Perks layout

    Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines
    he wrote a poem
    And he called it "Chops"
    because that was the name of his dog
    And that's what it was all about
    And his teacher gave him an A
    and a gold star

    And his mother hung it on the kitchen door
    and read it to his aunts
    That was the year that Father Tracy
    took all the kids to the zoo
    And he let them sing on the bus
    And his little sister was born
    with tiny toenails and no hair
    And his mother and father kissed a lot
    And the girl around the corner sent him a
    valentine signed with a row of X's
    and he had to ask his father what the X's meant
    And his father always tucked him in bed at night
    And was always there to do it

    Once on a piece of white paper with blue lines
    he wrote a poem
    And he called it "Autumn"
    because that wsa the name of the season
    And that's what it was all about
    And his teacher gave him an A
    and asked him to write more clearly
    And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door
    because of its new paint
    And the kids told him
    that Father Tracy smoked cigars
    And left butts on the pews
    And sometimes they would burn holes
    That was the year his sister got glasses
    with thick lenses and black frames
    And the girl around the corner laughed when he asked her to go see Santa Claus
    And the kids told him why
    his mother and father kissed a lot
    And his father never tucked him in bed at night
    And his father got mad when he cried for him to do it.

    Once on a paper torn from his notebook
    he wrote a poem

    And he called it "Innocence: A Question"
    because that was the question about his girl
    And that's what it was all about
    And his professor gave him an A
    and a strange steady look
    And his mother never hung it on the kitchen door because he never showed her
    That was the year that Father Tracy died
    And he forgot how the end of the Apostle's Creed went
    And he caught his sister making out on the back porch
    And his mother and father never kissed or even talked
    And the girl around the corner wore too much makeup That made him cough when he kissed her but he kissed her anyway because that was the thing to do
    And at three A.M. he tucked himself into bed
    his father snoring soundly

    That's why on the back of a brown paper bag
    he tried another poem
    And he called it "Absolutely Nothing"
    Because that's what it was really all about
    And he gave himself an A
    and a slash on each damned wrist
    And he hung it on the bathroom door
    because this time he didn't think
    he could reach the kitchen.
     
  19. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    That is an interesting poem hug-a-tree. It sort of reminds me of Tom Waits.
     
  20. hug-a-tree Live the life Registered Senior Member

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    Yeah, it's interesting. Sorry I don't know who Tom Waits is.
     
  21. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    TOM WAITS - "9th & Hennepin"
    (from "Rain Dogs" - 1985)

    Well it's 9th and Hennepin
    And all the donuts have
    Names that sound like prostitutes
    And the moon's teeth marks are
    On the sky like a tarp thrown over all this
    And the broken umbrellas like
    Dead birds and the steam
    Comes out of the grill like
    The whole goddamned town is ready to blow.
    And the bricks are all scarred with jailhouse tattoos
    And everyone is behaving like dogs.
    And the horses are coming down Violin Road
    And Dutch is dead on his feet
    And the rooms all smell like diesel
    And you take on the
    Dreams of the ones who have slept here.
    And I'm lost in the window
    I hide on the stairway
    I hang in the curtain
    I sleep in your hat
    And no one brings anything
    Small into a bar around here.
    They all started out with bad directions
    And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear,
    One for every year he's away she said, such
    A crumbling beauty, but there's
    Nothing wrong with her that
    $100 won't fix, she has that razor sadness
    That only gets worse
    With the clang and thunder of the
    Southern Pacific going by
    As the clock ticks out like a dripping faucet
    Till you're full of rag water and bitters and blue ruin
    And you spill out
    Over the side to anyone who'll listen
    And I've seen it
    All through the yellow windows
    Of the evening train.
     
  22. hug-a-tree Live the life Registered Senior Member

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    OH, okay cool. Thanks. Maybe Tom Waits wrote the poem I posted as well.
     
  23. johny_israel Registered Senior Member

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    theres many sides to me no one could understand
    its difficult for myself, understand the son of man
    theres more than only one but the earths filled with fakes
    it hurts to see the truth until i race to kill a race
    ive maybe lost all my logic, you call my psycotic
    but its all real in my world, eyes in my sockets
    pull them rigth the fuck out with my pride in my pockets
    take a look at myself yo im disguised as neurotic
    narcotics changed my brain but its balanced with disciplined pain
    i train myself to hurt and all my talents are driven the same
    i pick change, listen up the worlds fuckin sick mayne
    i focus on myself, im self centred like rick james
    dimension to dimension im escapign this sick game
    mixed strange worlds all colliding in this brain
    ill access shit that no creatures ever scene
    im feasting in the truth and yo ill teacha better scene
    taking over all my life and every particle in it
    every bolder in my sight will either rise or diminish
    this is my game motehrfucker lies of the wicked
    will be obvious for everyone im guidign the timid
    just let me choose my own death so when im left out of breath
    i'll be fealing no regrets just a wretched fuckin hex
    is this a test? or will i experience treachory
    the learning never stops and no abilities impress me
    but actions do because directly they test me
    to push myself further the sucess recipe
    lifes about what ya bin through, the learning never stops
    im discerning my sins to create some better crops
     

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