Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: January 09, 2012 10:17AM I thought I'd share a poem. Feel free if you'd like. Please keep them kind of short though if you do.
when rockets cry and babies buy oh and the world's a tumultuous place what can we do to abide the human race? sing out, our Lord throught he prayers of the songs until in everyone we see God's face God, the unknowable concept, whom none shall put a face upon. Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
Tamukha
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Date: January 09, 2012 03:09PM Yes, there is a poetry thread--any la_veronique post!
P.S. Nice poem. Maybe add a few more stanzas and it could be a new gospel song? Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: January 09, 2012 08:43PM There was a young man from Nantucket...
(Seriously, I love poetry and used to participate in slams back in the day. Maybe I'll grace you with some of my stuff some day...) Re: Is there a poetry thread?
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Anonymous User
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Date: January 09, 2012 10:09PM Banana, do you know that whole limerick? Not a lot of people actually do. Like the joke about the 12 inch pianist, now that one's funny!
I've never been that into poetry myself aside from a few poems. In general it doesn't do much for me though I wish I could find more appreciation for it. Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: January 09, 2012 10:20PM There once was a man from Hadoo
who had so many limes he didn't know what to do so he raked up his ho, scratched up some dough and threw a party outside the loo. Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: January 10, 2012 09:57AM You know, now that I'm thinking about it, some of those words may have come from a song I heard before already. Oh well. I swear I didn't have any typos. Is someone altering posts!? Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: January 10, 2012 06:51PM There was a young lady named Jeannie
Who made pasta from strips of zucchini Another name is aubergine But you knew what I mean And it's all better than eating panini! (I will say it first: *grown*) Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: January 10, 2012 07:05PM *homegrown* (where they can't take possession of your property) Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: January 11, 2012 05:19PM rawalice Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > *homegrown* (where they can't take possession of > your property) LOL! Uh oh...I hope that all the years on the Internets reading poor spelling hasn't finally caused me to become one of them... I meant GROAN! Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: January 13, 2012 12:04AM rawalice Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > How about loan. Go ask Alice...I think she'll know... Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: January 17, 2012 11:10PM Mary had a little pig, little pig, little pig,
mary had a little pig, it's face was sure to go, mary had a little pig, little pig, little pig, mary had a little pig, alas, evreywhere she'd go. Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: January 17, 2012 11:53PM Just thought I'd share a last poem before I go.
June 22, 2010 Hathor in the Night Sky I want to see a sky like milk dripping God's love like it was before hubris came in the form of man in his pride and glory I want to see a sky like milk shooting a star like a little lamb before it grows to be angry haughty ram's in God's glory I want to see a sky like milk pooled into nature's coming and going like a round earthen pail reflecting our faces when filled to overflowing <Hathor cries, she may deny> <in the raw power of a bullheaded knowing> <as she fondles the delicate ewe by her side> <love and joy are hers to deny> <I warn you, don't deny your twin> you may become tormented vegan you may become tormented vegan Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: January 28, 2012 03:37PM Anyone want to read my boyfriend's poem?
Whether my hopes and dreams be denied, Is measured by the countless times I’ve lied, To thy own self be true, Be pure at heart do unto others as you would have them do unto you, Tired and weak of this tough façade this rough charade, Tired of using my fists when my hearts engaged, The countless times I’ve been enraged, As words are put down on this notebook page, I think of all the second chances I’ve gotten, Have they been in vain? But, then again I’ve made progress, a tamer brain, Less ungodly thoughts have to be repressed, Therefore less need to be confessed, In turn less resentment at self, Time to swallow my pride the old life goes up on the shelf. Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: January 29, 2012 10:41AM There once was a man from Kazoo
He had so many children he didn't know what to do So he fed them some bran, ran off with a man And his wife didn't know what to do. Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
rawalice
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Date: January 29, 2012 11:41AM daffodills in winter
I like to watch the clover bloom happy bees lollygag Re: Is there a poetry thread?
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Anonymous User
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Date: February 03, 2012 05:16PM For Strong Women By Marge Piercy
A strong woman is a woman who is straining. A strong woman is a woman standing on tiptoe and lifting a barbell while trying to sing Boris Godunov. A strong woman is a woman at work cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose. A strong woman is a woman in whose head a voice is repeating, I told you so, ugly, bad girl, bitch, nag, shrill, witch, ballbuster, nobody will ever love you back, why aren't you feminine, why aren't you soft, why aren't you quiet, why aren't you dead? A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done. She is pushing up on the bottom of a lead coffin lid. She is trying to raise a manhole cover with her head, she is trying to butt her way through a steel wall. Her head hurts. People waiting for the hole to be made say, hurry, you're so strong. A strong woman is a woman bleeding inside. A strong woman is a woman making herself strong every morning while her teeth loosen and her back throbs. Every baby, a tooth, midwives used to say, and now every battle a scar. A strong woman is a mass of scar tissue that aches when it rains and wounds that bleed when you bump them and memories that get up in the night and pace in boots to and fro. A strong woman is a woman who craves love like oxygen or she turns blue choking. A strong woman is a woman who loves strongly and weeps strongly and is strongly terrified and has strong needs. A strong woman is strong in words, in action, in connection, in feeling; she is not strong as a stone but as a wolf suckling her young. Strength is not in her, but she enacts it as the wind fills a sail. What comforts her is others loving her equally for the strength and for the weakness from which it issues, lightning from a cloud. Lightning stuns. In rain, the clouds disperse. Only water of connection remains, flowing through us. Strong is what we make each other. Until we are all strong together, a strong woman is a woman strongly afraid. Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
riverhousebill
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Date: March 27, 2012 12:31AM This poem keeps going thru my head after what happened in Fla.
rip Travor. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore-- And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
banana who
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Date: March 27, 2012 01:01AM Did you mean Trayvon? Re: Is there a poetry thread?
Posted by:
Trive
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Date: March 27, 2012 01:06AM Langston Hughes, I think.
Powerful poetry that. Thanks for posting it, riverhousebill. My favorite raw vegan Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.
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