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Wreck of a Tea Clipper
Here the fabric of a ship Succumbed to time and tide, Hordes of nature came to grip, Devouring wood To death for good. Angry thunderbolts converged, The clipper, proudly manned Listed starboard and submerged Towards the fort Of briny salt. In the spread of hungry cells Her cabins all became Parasitic citadels; The deck is dim Where fishes swim. Like the crew’s abandoned bones The rigging and the mast Gave themselves to Davy Jones, The clipper lies, A relished prize. © |
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Not quite sure, Biz...
"Lateral thinking is solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic." Wikipedia ... I don't have a 'problem' with it. Oh! - I know - let's call it 'literal thinking'. How's that? ![]() |
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I didn't know you were a diver Musty - was this during your holidays from the office?
![]() ![]() I love how Mac's appraisal of duffle-coated Hannah has developed
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Yeah, I had to give it up after I saw Jaws Biz
![]() I love how Mac's appraisal of duffle-coated Hannah has developed ![]() If she only knew how dangerous it is to walk down a street.
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Barley-Gold Annie
Barley-gold Annie’s a Somerset sprite, Every haystack she flies over, Barley-gold Annie is pretty and slight, Wearing a leaf-dress of clover. After the farmer has finished his toil And the sun’s halo is falling, Just as the shadows envelope the soil She casts a spell, softly calling. I did a portrait but she chose to flee, Making me fail at the easel, She befriends creatures that we rarely see, Water vole, dormouse and weasel. Barley-gold Annie is doubted of course, Science explains certain factors Yet for a farm-sprite it has no resource; Best stick to what’s inside tractors. She helps the seasonal cycle of crops And with the harvest perfected, Barley-gold Annie lands weary and stops Next to a stream undetected. © |
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If she only knew how dangerous it is to walk down a street.
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She wasn't actually wearing a duffel coat Biz - I added that
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Inspired by the "Do you see yourself as a whole body or a brain in a protective suit?" thread and cross posted there.
Me. I am potato made flesh surviving in a mesh of temperate vibrations. My main considerations are concepts made of lies and horrible ties. I'm honed to near perfection by natural selection. I think I am in love, but by all the stars above I'll soon be dead and gone. Or my name isn't John.
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Did you know she's a cousin of the flower fairies?
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I am potato made flesh I haven't seen the thread in question, it sounds like a minefield ![]() I like the rhymes in this - mesh and flesh, not to mention gone and John. Good to see you back here mate
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Inspired by the "Do you see yourself as a whole body or a brain in a protective suit?" thread and cross posted there.
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Thanks Musty. Biz; perhaps it wouldn't be too bad to be one or the other as long as one had never known both. To lose the functioning of mind or body would indeed be terrible and I can't decide which would be worse...
"Daisy Daisy..."
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"Daisy Daisy..."
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I agree with your point John, but I don't get the Daisy quote
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Of course! The film sits proudly among my top 101 movies on the shelf
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Hahaha! That was the only "Daisy, Daisy" song I could think of, but couldn't quite see how it fitted in with the subject - but I'm now guessing it had something to do with the film (I'm clever like that), which I know nothing about.
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Hahaha! That was the only "Daisy, Daisy" song I could think of, but couldn't quite see how it fitted in with the subject - but I'm now guessing it had something to do with the film (I'm clever like that), which I know nothing about.
![]() 2001: A Space Odyssey gets name-checked in one of my Avebury poems. Watching the clip below may spoil the film for you, just a warning. It contains arguably the best cut in the entire history of cinema.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSxI0OOjR0Y |
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Hi Biz
2001: A Space Odyssey gets name-checked in one of my Avebury poems. Watching the clip below may spoil the film for you, just a warning. It contains arguably the best cut in the entire history of cinema.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSxI0OOjR0Y
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Thank you for that - hmmm a man in a gorilla suit smashing up an animal skeleton......verry interresting.
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Didn't you see the cut at 2:30 seconds? It's still mind-blowing
Maybe I'm just odd ![]() There are so many magic film tricks these days, that they seemed quite ordinary. I'm so blasé.
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or when the falling bone changes to a spaceship in orbit round ..... the earth?....the moon? Is it saying we've gone from this to this in an incredibly short time?
Bear in mind this was ages before computers. Stanley Kubrick bottles the progress of humanity in a few seconds - from ape-men to space travel in one cut.I think that's genius
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I'm off to London tomorrow, it's time to find a format for my Big Book of Poetry
It's going to dwarf The Designer - with hindsight that was very much trial and error. Comments on DS and from people I know have been taken into account. The same mistakes won't happen again
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I'm off to London tomorrow, it's time to find a format for my Big Book of Poetry
It's going to dwarf The Designer
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Thanks Biz
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