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Old 24-02-2015, 00:01
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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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Old 27-02-2015, 21:30
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Originally Posted by mr. mustard
I been fine by the way
Jolly good
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Old 27-02-2015, 21:37
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Originally Posted by mr. mustard
Archibald the Trumper


Musty. Archibald, what a trooper windy trumper
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Old 27-02-2015, 22:09
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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
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Old 27-02-2015, 22:24
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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
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Old 27-02-2015, 23:28
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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.
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.

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".

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.

Another cracker John - I love the last verse, it's so positive
Thanks again.

Really like your last few Archiver, especially the 'Sugar Puff ' last line .
Lol Thanks bb.
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Old 27-02-2015, 23:41
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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 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.
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Old 28-02-2015, 00:22
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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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Old 28-02-2015, 00:51
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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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Old 28-02-2015, 01:01
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I said before
will say again
that history repeating
But now there's war
and death and pain
and noisy central heating!

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 )
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Old 28-02-2015, 01:58
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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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Old 01-03-2015, 12:37
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Originally Posted by archiver
It's almost too late
to ponder and wait.
Why so late
to sit and wait
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Old 01-03-2015, 12:49
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Why so late
to sit and wait
Too much on the plate
to leave to fate.
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Old 01-03-2015, 12:58
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Have a sarnie
not a barney
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Old 01-03-2015, 14:17
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Have a sarnie
not a barney
And don't forget the pickle
If you're feeling fickle ...
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Old 01-03-2015, 14:27
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Have a sarnie
not a barney
And don't forget the pickle
If you're feeling fickle ...
You made me smile
Now back to bile.
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Old 02-03-2015, 09:23
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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
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
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Old 02-03-2015, 09:35
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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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Old 02-03-2015, 09:40
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I said before
will say again
But now there's war
and death and pain
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
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Old 02-03-2015, 09:44
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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
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Old 02-03-2015, 09:50
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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 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
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Old 02-03-2015, 09:53
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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 )
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Old 02-03-2015, 09:53
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Have a sarnie
not a barney
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Old 05-03-2015, 01:50
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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
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.
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Old 06-03-2015, 20:39
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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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