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Old 27-01-2014, 19:20
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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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Old 27-01-2014, 19:27
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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?
Aaahh! But ye' see, I have a problem; we don't know who this girl is. For all I know, she was a terrorist and had a bomb in her rucksack.......or it was full of stolen goods. I might be the victim of her next burglary...........i DON'T THINK I'LL SLEEP TONIGHT.
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Old 27-01-2014, 19:32
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Wreck of a Tea Clipper

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I didn't know you were a diver Musty - was this during your holidays from the office?
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Old 27-01-2014, 19:53
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I didn't know you were a diver Musty - was this during your holidays from the office?
Yeah, I had to give it up after I saw Jaws Biz

I love how Mac's appraisal of duffle-coated Hannah has developed
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Old 27-01-2014, 20:01
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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
Hahaha!

If she only knew how dangerous it is to walk down a street.
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Old 28-01-2014, 01:10
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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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Old 28-01-2014, 01:12
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If she only knew how dangerous it is to walk down a street.
She wasn't actually wearing a duffel coat Biz - I added that
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Old 28-01-2014, 12:17
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She wasn't actually wearing a duffel coat Biz - I added that
The plot thickens.
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Old 28-01-2014, 12:19
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Barley-Gold Annie

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Did you know she's a cousin of the flower fairies?
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Old 28-01-2014, 16:06
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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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Old 28-01-2014, 18:25
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Did you know she's a cousin of the flower fairies?
Yep, they're all connected Biz

Me.

I am potato made flesh
Enjoyable and thought-provoking as ever John 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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Old 28-01-2014, 18:35
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Well, Mr Potato, I'd say "You can't have one without the other" - to live a bearable life that is. I know that when my brain goes I want my body to go with it.
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Old 28-01-2014, 19:08
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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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Old 28-01-2014, 20:54
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I agree with your point John, but I don't get the Daisy quote
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Old 28-01-2014, 21:45
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I agree with your point John, but I don't get the Daisy quote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEN5TjYRCE

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Old 28-01-2014, 22:02
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Of course! The film sits proudly among my top 101 movies on the shelf
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Old 28-01-2014, 22:38
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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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Old 29-01-2014, 13:01
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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.
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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Old 29-01-2014, 14:15
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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
Thank you for that - hmmm a man in a gorilla suit smashing up an animal skeleton......verry interresting.
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Old 29-01-2014, 14:38
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Thank you for that - hmmm a man in a gorilla suit smashing up an animal skeleton......verry interresting.
Didn't you see the cut at 2:30 seconds? It's still mind-blowing

Maybe I'm just odd
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Old 29-01-2014, 15:53
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Didn't you see the cut at 2:30 seconds? It's still mind-blowing

Maybe I'm just odd
I'm not sure whether you mean the bit where the bones turn into the animal, 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?

There are so many magic film tricks these days, that they seemed quite ordinary. I'm so blasé.
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Old 29-01-2014, 21:13
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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?
Correct Biz 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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Old 30-01-2014, 17:38
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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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Old 30-01-2014, 19:05
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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
Good luck.
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Old 30-01-2014, 19:55
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Thanks Biz
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