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Well I thought I'd just read a few pages of poetry before I drifted off to sleep. I was expecting the usual erudite contributions to fuel my dreams.
All was going well and then... .... Archibald the Trumper turned up ! ![]() Really like your last few Archiver, especially the 'Sugar Puff ' last line . I must say Scottie your poems are wonderful. You have inspired and written some great words here Musty, keep at it for as long as you can ..... chat up the librarian and see if she will give you some free internet hours
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I been fine by the way
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Archibald the Trumper
Musty. Archibald, what a trooper windy trumper
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I've written a raft of new material but I don't get much time to post here. One day I'm going to pay for a two-hour session
![]() The new stuff has strengthened the book I feel. Among them are: The Loves of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Northern Debbie ![]() The Pink Dalek Realm of Druids Looking Back She Walked Among the People (Tracy's Tale) New Wave Breaking Speak soon my friends ![]()
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I'm not so sure you're right.
The eternal plight can not last for ever. Soon we must sever our need to know from our need to grow and then time will come to pass when this mortal looking glass sees no reason to say more. But not for long for sure. ![]() to follow the lead where few and seldom go a kindness of words along with genuinity show |
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Cheers John
The Dawn of Man is an oldie I've revamped. The first part of the book is a chronology of history, from creation and the dinosaurs up to 9/11 and a glimpse of the future.Quote:
Great write John
Quarks - now there's a word ![]() When I first heard about quarks strangeness and charm, I thought what absolutely brilliant words for "things".Quote:
I fear for the world at the moment. Maybe the majority are kind but there's a massive and savage minority.
Yeah, but they're only people just like us. Good at heart.Quote:
Another cracker John - I love the last verse, it's so positive
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Really like your last few Archiver, especially the 'Sugar Puff ' last line .
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Understanding the need
to follow the lead where few and seldom go a kindness of words along with genuinity show No creed is right to lead. The danger is severe and more to come, I fear. Mmm, genuinity ![]() rhymes with consanguinity. To me we're all the same. Somewhat insane.
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![]() I said before will say again that history repeating stop there wait a minute rhymes on time |
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You think you're the only one who feels like
A million metal hammers Rusty and real Have thrashed your chest And crushed the heart inside like a nasty cockroach But every time One of them slams into you I feel the vibrations I shield you from all the harm Or at least I try to Because I don't want any hammer To crush your delicate soul You heard me, delicate It doesn't matter if you're a man Delicacy is manliness Just like strength is So don't go around thinking You're the only one depressed Because every morning you wash your face with water-- I wash mine with fire, and it burns Now don't think you're all alone Because we all are And that's the cold hard truth |
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![]() I said before will say again that history repeating and death and pain and noisy central heating! Quote:
stop there It's almost too latewait a minute rhymes on time to ponder and wait. "Writing birthday card rhymes from the scene of the crimes." (wrote that last couplet when I was about twelve. Still like it )
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Hopeless.
So hard to make a decent tune when everybody in my room is dancing to the kind of beat from which I feel I must retreat. Time to kill? Blood to spill? Martyrdom such a thrill? Taken to its full extreme kills my beautiful dream. It absolutely must end here. No place in space for us I fear. Time to make a big decision; lose all man made religion. |
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It's almost too late
to ponder and wait. to sit and wait |
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Why so late
to sit and wait to leave to fate. |
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Have a sarnie
not a barney
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Have a sarnie
not a barney ![]() If you're feeling fickle ... |
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Have a sarnie
not a barney ![]() Quote:
And don't forget the pickle
If you're feeling fickle ... ![]() Now back to bile.
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You have inspired and written some great words here Musty, keep at it for as long as you can ..... chat up the librarian and see if she will give you some free internet hours
![]() Funny you should say that - today's librarian I haven't seen before She's rather nice and keeps bringing CDs over to file away near where I'm sitting ![]() Sorry to everyone for my long absence again, I've been working flat-out on the book ![]() The thread's rocking big time, which is great! I have a poem to send, then I'll try to answer as many posts as possible
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Tintagel, Tintagel
Tintagel, Tintagel, with lofty crags bearing The DNA of a disturbed reverie, How thrilling it feels on the precipice staring Out at the horizon where winds tend to be Exceedingly violent and spend their time tearing Tintagel's peninsula down by the sea. The first heroes vanished but they were succeeded By others who built the great fortress on high And now it's abandoned, a ruin unheeded Except for the hardy who visit like I, Aware of the wisdom that Camelot needed, The sorcery Merlin was glad to supply. I wanted to go there, I wanted to burn all My bridges on entering King Arthur's Court, Where sea is unfriendly and storms are infernal, But when eventide makes a calming red vault Tintagel, Tintagel, a moment eternal Envelopes my soul in celestial thought. © |
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I said before
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But now there's war
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And don't forget the pickle
If you're feeling fickle ... Once commonplace in the early days of the thread - great to see it again
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Because every morning you wash your face with water--
I wash mine with fire, and it burns Thanks for sharing
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Hopeless.
So hard to make a decent tune when everybody in my room is dancing to the kind of beat from which I feel I must retreat. I differ with you on religion John but that never impedes my enjoyment of the material. Frank's an atheist and I always enjoy his work too
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Musty. Archibald, what a trooper windy trumper![]() ![]() The intellectuals would class it as 'juvenalia' but I'm middle-aged. I like to stay young at heart (that was a good song too )
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I don't usually quote whole verses but I had to make an exception here. A perfect quartet of lines. This sort of says it all for me and it applies to many 'social' situations I wander into. I accepted my Outsider status long ago, but it's still hard at times.
I differ with you on religion John but that never impedes my enjoyment of the material. Frank's an atheist and I always enjoy his work too ![]() ![]() Inspired by posts I read on here (again): Sorted. I've got all I need. I've lost my greed. Plenty is my pension. My virtual place is like outer space like some new dimension. With my wherewithal I'm having a ball. Sonic circumspection. With utter delight I'll play all night with no sense of direction. Adrift in a scape like velvet drape enveloping my mind. To pastures new and morning dew and lovely mankind. |
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Poetic sparring
Once commonplace in the early days of the thread - great to see it again ![]() ![]() Poetical joviality |
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