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Is Poetry a Dead Art? (Part 4)
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mr. mustard
27-01-2014
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.


©
Biz
27-01-2014
Originally Posted by McMahauld:
“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.
Biz
27-01-2014
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“Wreck of a Tea Clipper

©”

I didn't know you were a diver Musty - was this during your holidays from the office?
mr. mustard
27-01-2014
Originally Posted by Biz:
“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
Biz
27-01-2014
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“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.
mr. mustard
28-01-2014
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.


©
mr. mustard
28-01-2014
Originally Posted by Biz:
“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
Biz
28-01-2014
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“She wasn't actually wearing a duffel coat Biz - I added that ”

The plot thickens.
Biz
28-01-2014
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“Barley-Gold Annie

©”

Did you know she's a cousin of the flower fairies?
archiver
28-01-2014
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.

mr. mustard
28-01-2014
Originally Posted by Biz:
“Did you know she's a cousin of the flower fairies? ”

Yep, they're all connected Biz

Originally Posted by archiver:
“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
Biz
28-01-2014
Originally Posted by archiver:
“Inspired by the "Do you see yourself as a whole body or a brain in a protective suit?" thread and cross posted there.

Me.
”

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.
archiver
28-01-2014
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..."
mr. mustard
28-01-2014
Originally Posted by archiver:
“"Daisy Daisy..." ”

I agree with your point John, but I don't get the Daisy quote
archiver
28-01-2014
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“I agree with your point John, but I don't get the Daisy quote ”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEN5TjYRCE

mr. mustard
28-01-2014
Originally Posted by archiver:
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEN5TjYRCE ”

Of course! The film sits proudly among my top 101 movies on the shelf
Biz
28-01-2014
Originally Posted by archiver:
“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuEN5TjYRCE

”

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.
mr. mustard
29-01-2014
Originally Posted by Biz:
“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
Biz
29-01-2014
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“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.
mr. mustard
29-01-2014
Originally Posted by Biz:
“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
Biz
29-01-2014
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“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.
mr. mustard
29-01-2014
Originally Posted by Biz:
“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
mr. mustard
30-01-2014
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
Biz
30-01-2014
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“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.
mr. mustard
30-01-2014
Thanks Biz
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