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Is Poetry a Dead Art? (Part 4)
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Future Rider.
In tomorrowmorrow land; everything will be grand and exactly half price. Everyone will be nice. All the bad eliminated. All the sad rejuvenated. Nothing but the very best and as high as Everest. Replicating machines build the finest limousines. Then drive us to our dreams of when we were has beens. Like roller coaster clowns we survive the ups and downs casting pitfalls in our stride. In future - we ride. (Inspired by the What Will Happen In The Future? thread. ) |
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look Musty, it's moved.
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Thanks DS. Honoured to start a part.
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Are we wiser as we get older?
always looking over our shoulder. Should we spend time, a few minutes a day, just watching and listening to the children at play? |
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It's grooving, moving on a friday night
the poems of the past onwards new find a place such a new thread part4 already how time flew.
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Is poetry a dead art?
(Parts One To Three) Were made to depart By the powers that be. Not long before came A Part Four that most People reading Gen D. Shall de rigeur ignore. Let's face those facts: Poetry impacts on few, It's chacun à son gout. |
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I go away for a while and look what happens
Who'd have thought the love of poetry would create such a lengthy thread? I think we all deserve a tipple and the first round's on me By the way I've thoroughly enjoyed the recent contributions and there'll be a multi-quote about them a bit later on ![]() The mods have sanctioned new art for DS and us in you, part four.
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look Musty, it's moved.![]() It's always a bit of a shock, but this new gaff looks alright My Tears is stunning, it's like a beautiful sad memory. I've read it four times and I didn't know which bit to quote ![]() round and round there as it falls like the sea as along with the tide Quote:
Honoured to start a part.
I think you were quoted at the start of another poetry thread too Archiver. Future Rider's great, it has really strong images. Time travel's always fascinated me and the poem puts forward some interesting possibilities. I also love the idea of being inTomorrowmorrowland ![]() Quote:
Should we spend time, a few minutes a day,
just watching and listening to the children at play? Quote:
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Shall de rigeur ignore. I enjoyed this but I need a translation for the last line
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I'm getting a bit concerned about Biz, I hope she's alright
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My Tears is stunning, it's like a beautiful sad memory. I've read it four times and I didn't know which bit to quote
![]() round and round there as it falls like the sea as along with the tide
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I'm getting a bit concerned about Biz, I hope she's alright
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As the actress said to Frankenstein's monster
I think you were quoted at the start of another poetry thread too Archiver. Future Rider's great, it has really strong images. Time travel's always fascinated me and the poem puts forward some interesting possibilities.Quote:
I also love the idea of being in Borrowed from Beyond Thunderdome. I hope they don't mind. Tomorrowmorrowland
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I'm getting a bit concerned about Biz, I hope she's alright
![]() I meant to respond at the time, but forgot: I promise!
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I go away for a while and look what happens
Who'd have thought the love of poetry would create such a lengthy thread? I think we all deserve a tipple and the first round's on me
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Fear Of Clowns
You danced the clown in front of my face and told me lies about the way the baby clowns are born with chalk-white skin, a seared grin beneath a rounded red-horn nose. You pulled at his strings for a crazy dance while holding my fear in the palm of your hand. Beware the clown whose painted face hides nothing, yet masks the truth: he makes us laugh at a ridiculous soul. And you told me how they were kept from sight with their skinned heads and tragic eyes, old-man’s jowls, stretched feet, fat-bottomed seats and dressed, from birth, in motley clothes. And that night the clowns came while I was asleep, with rainbow gums and needle teeth, tear-daubed plaster cheeks, star-crossed eyes, custard pies, honking horns, stamping feet. They spun me around to a circus beat, tumbled and tripped me over their over-stretched feet and under a shower of paper strip rain they passed me along, one from one, and cast me back to my bed to sleep. That morning I took your clown and cut his strings, left him dead to repent for your sins. Then in the mirror I painted my face etched tears of joy into this clown-boy, as my smile cracked over the death of a clown. |
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Borrowed from Beyond Thunderdome. I hope they don't mind.
![]() I nick things too, it's inevitable really. The thread about the future is great by the way Thanks for the quote by Biz too.Quote:
Can I have a J20 with ice please.
![]() Maybe I'm getting concerned over nothing with Biz. Archiver's quote doesn't give any clues but it's unlike her to stay away this long, especially on a new thread ![]() Quote:
Fear Of Clowns
And that night the clowns came while I was asleep, with rainbow gums and needle teeth,
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The Waterfall
The path I walked was serpentine Where I first heard a sonnet Read out by nature's voice divine, Then soon I came upon it; A waterfall with waves like milk Foamed white and undefended, Its water seemed as rich as silk, How lovely it descended. Surrounded by the forest sheen Its secret home was hooded, An overlooked and pleasant scene In regions thickly wooded. Tides fell in colonnades onto A stream where they collected More splashing drops of silver-blue, Like diamonds all connected. My mind recalls the waterfall And after having been there I felt as if I'd heard the call Of god within his green lair. © |
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A bit of an indulgence - I posted The Waterfall at the end of the last thread. Just now I gave it a few teaks in the file and this is the final version, hopefully
I don't re-post anything that quickly as a rule but this is part four
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Wow, it's gone a bit quiet - lucky I've got a brand new poem to post later
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Quiet you say
Well here's one with shouting in it:Drinki. Drinking down the strongest ale. To prove I am the hardest male. Drinki you under the table. 'Til you are well unable. Down the hatch and Bob's yer uncle. Red nose, gout and huge carbuncle, don't stop me from drinking more than all those flat out on the floor. Market days were best of all. By 10 am I'd watch them fall, then rise again for skinfull two. You taught me well - what Men do. So pull that tag and hear the fizz. Then fall down shouting what it is. |
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So pull that tag and hear the fizz.
Then fall down shouting what it is. And for the first coincidence of Part 4, this evening I wrote a poem on a very similar subject To be posted later on tonight
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The Geezer
As warming as a freezer, The loudest in the pub, Come in and meet the geezer Whose mates think it’s their club. Nobody ever muzzles The geezer, he’s that type, The Ship is where he guzzles And spouts his endless tripe. How weird a woman picked him, Her sentence feels like life, Poor Brenda is the victim Who chose to be his wife. For cheap laughs he will work all The evening and by far In his pathetic circle He stays the crudest star. Why talk at normal levels When you can shout it out? A fool enjoys the revels, Though boozing makes you stout. Red-faced and fat and wearing A horrid bulging shirt, When his act turns to swearing You should be on alert. With stale jokes getting dumber An awful beer-gut shakes, He’ll also taint the summer With fashion’s worst mistakes. The geezer’s donned his flip-flops, In shorts he looks so bad And only when The Ship stops At closing time feels sad. Rolls home from one more bender, Too drunk for any cares He goes up, waking Brenda Who moans and goes downstairs. The geezer is soon sleeping, Snores underlining this: The motto’s his for keeping, Yes, ignorance is bliss. © |
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A bit of an indulgence - I posted The Waterfall at the end of the last thread. Just now I gave it a few teaks in the file and this is the final version, hopefully
I don't re-post anything that quickly as a rule but this is part four ![]() very good Musty.Today's weather is like a waterfall, good weather for ducks.
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Come in and meet the geezer Whose mates think it’s their club. © funny MustyGeezer with his Bacardi Breezer
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Excellent Archiver, a hilarious look at the pissheads of this world
And for the first coincidence of Part 4, this evening I wrote a poem on a very similar subject To be posted later on tonight ![]() I've known a few Geezers in my time
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look Musty, it's moved.
By the way I've thoroughly enjoyed the recent contributions and there'll be a multi-quote about them a bit later on 