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Is Poetry a Dead Art? (Part 4)
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belly button
24-02-2015
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
sandydune
27-02-2015
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“ I been fine by the way ”

Jolly good
sandydune
27-02-2015
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“Archibald the Trumper


”

Musty. Archibald, what a trooper windy trumper
sandydune
27-02-2015
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“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 ”

Interesting poem titles
sandydune
27-02-2015
Originally Posted by archiver:
“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. ”

Understanding the need
to follow the lead
where few and seldom go
a kindness of words
along with genuinity show
archiver
27-02-2015
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“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.”

I'm so looking forward to it, having followed the bits of the story of its creation here. It'll be good to recall the ones I've read which you include and find new ones too.

Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“Great write John Quarks - now there's a word ”

I know. 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.

Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“Another cracker John - I love the last verse, it's so positive ”

Thanks again.

Originally Posted by belly button:
“Really like your last few Archiver, especially the 'Sugar Puff ' last line .”

Lol Thanks bb.
archiver
27-02-2015
Originally Posted by sandydune:
“Understanding the need
to follow the lead
where few and seldom go
a kindness of words
along with genuinity show”

No need fulfilled by greed.
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.
sandydune
28-02-2015


I said before
will say again
that history repeating

stop there
wait a minute
rhymes on time
Cosin
28-02-2015
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
archiver
28-02-2015
Originally Posted by sandydune:
“

I said before
will say again
that history repeating”

But now there's war
and death and pain
and noisy central heating!

Quote:
“stop there
wait a minute
rhymes on time”

It's almost too late
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 )
archiver
28-02-2015
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.
sandydune
01-03-2015
Originally Posted by archiver:
“It's almost too late
to ponder and wait.”

Why so late
to sit and wait
archiver
01-03-2015
Originally Posted by sandydune:
“Why so late
to sit and wait”

Too much on the plate
to leave to fate.
sandydune
01-03-2015
Have a sarnie
not a barney
flower 2
01-03-2015
Originally Posted by sandydune:
“Have a sarnie
not a barney”

And don't forget the pickle
If you're feeling fickle ...
archiver
01-03-2015
Originally Posted by sandydune:
“Have a sarnie
not a barney”

Originally Posted by flower 2:
“And don't forget the pickle
If you're feeling fickle ...”

You made me smile
Now back to bile.
mr. mustard
02-03-2015
Originally Posted by belly button:
“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 ”

Thanks very much BB 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
mr. mustard
02-03-2015
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.


©
mr. mustard
02-03-2015
Originally Posted by sandydune:
“I said before
will say again”

Originally Posted by archiver:
“But now there's war
and death and pain”

Originally Posted by flower 2:
“And don't forget the pickle
If you're feeling fickle ...”

Poetic sparring Once commonplace in the early days of the thread - great to see it again
mr. mustard
02-03-2015
Originally Posted by Cosin:
“Because every morning you wash your face with water--
I wash mine with fire, and it burns”

Brilliant Cosin! Harsh and brutal throughout, this boils with the energy of Blake in my opinion. I love poetry that shoots from the hip and this is an emotional anvil of an ode.

Thanks for sharing
mr. mustard
02-03-2015
Originally Posted by archiver:
“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 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
mr. mustard
02-03-2015
Originally Posted by sandydune:
“ Musty. Archibald, what a trooper windy trumper”

Archibald didn't quite make the final cut for the book Sandy

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 )
mr. mustard
02-03-2015
Originally Posted by sandydune:
“Have a sarnie
not a barney”

archiver
05-03-2015
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“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 ”

Thanks again. Haven't seen a post from Frank for a while. Hoping he's well and poetic.

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.
sandydune
06-03-2015
Originally Posted by mr. mustard:
“Poetic sparring Once commonplace in the early days of the thread - great to see it again ”



Poetical joviality
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