Okay I found your house on the site, now Tommy. Nice! Out in nature, too. Sometimes I really do miss my parent's house/hometown for that reason. Better weather, more nature. Good for you!
Hey...just realized the song I'm listening to is called "Carry Me Ohio"!!!
New Poem by kitten
APRIL is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering 5
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 10
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie, 15
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering 5
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee
With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade,
And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, 10
And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.
Bin gar keine Russin, stamm' aus Litauen, echt deutsch.
And when we were children, staying at the archduke's,
My cousin's, he took me out on a sled,
And I was frightened. He said, Marie, 15
Marie, hold on tight. And down we went.
In the mountains, there you feel free.
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
LOL!!!
Tommy's "Your cat poetry is shite" comments
I hope Kitten doesn't take offense to the fact that I've found it terribly hilarious that Tommy seems to slaughter anyone who even dares to write a word of poetry.
Come to think of it, are there poems made of only one word, and what would Tommy think of such poems?
I need another beer. I'm not making sense yet.
Yes Sloth we should hang out more. Problem is I have to get up Sunday morning for work. So we should get together early tomorrow if at all. Bake in the sun sipping beverages outside...the noodle cafe near my house?
Tommy's "Your cat poetry is shite" comments
I hope Kitten doesn't take offense to the fact that I've found it terribly hilarious that Tommy seems to slaughter anyone who even dares to write a word of poetry.
Come to think of it, are there poems made of only one word, and what would Tommy think of such poems?
I need another beer. I'm not making sense yet.
Yes Sloth we should hang out more. Problem is I have to get up Sunday morning for work. So we should get together early tomorrow if at all. Bake in the sun sipping beverages outside...the noodle cafe near my house?
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As I have sort of mentioned previously I'm living with my in-laws at present. They have a bad network link and it is tough to get the opportunity to respond as I would like. Iwill try address as many things involving me as possible.
TS Eliot. Well what can you say that other brighter souls have not already pointed out ?
R2D2 and the other one are coming to live in cincinnati. Brett can not bring a surfboard unless he brings two and makes them into a cross.
Mav, look at www.gregtassone the house is 3175 Victoria. We sign the papers in all probability in the next 48 hours and move in round about July 16.
Martino - no time to talk about MLK and Ghandi but will get round to it some time. Can't tell you how sad it made me to see that picture of Mark E Smith. He never looked good to begin with but corky o'rourkey.
Marky. I don't slag off poetry as a matter of course. I did it once a while ago and I think it was justified. I remember explaining the process. I wasn't really having a go at the last poem. I was annoyed that there was a picture posted. You really do frame the poem if you do that. It was the subject matter in the picture that got me going.
Here is the ten cents worth....with icons or folk in the public eye there is a tendency to go with the projected persona. Subsequently, all behaviour is filtered through this persona. In short, to quote a hero of mine, "We judge the actions by the reputaion and not vice versa." In fact we are in a classic week for such. Ronald Reagan will be remembered through his impeccable personal manners not the actions he took that wasted and obliterated lives.
I haven't got time or space to get into Ronnie now but getting back to Kurt....he is always presented as this guy who was suffering so much who was selfless etc. The hard physical evidence is that at the time of his death he was a multi millionaire rock star who could have given his child everything (or even just staples like love and his time and presence) yet chose to pursue drugs and then abandon his/her? future. I find this selfish in the extreme. Indeed I'm hard pressed to think of ways outside of direct physical abuse where a parent could hurt a child more. So, I look at the actions and then form the reputation. Kurt Cobain was a selfish twat and if he was a live and I met him and got the chance I would smash his fucking teeth in. Then he could write a song about how awful that was.
Having said that he made some great records. Art and life don't get the two confused.
TS Eliot. Well what can you say that other brighter souls have not already pointed out ?
R2D2 and the other one are coming to live in cincinnati. Brett can not bring a surfboard unless he brings two and makes them into a cross.
Mav, look at www.gregtassone the house is 3175 Victoria. We sign the papers in all probability in the next 48 hours and move in round about July 16.
Martino - no time to talk about MLK and Ghandi but will get round to it some time. Can't tell you how sad it made me to see that picture of Mark E Smith. He never looked good to begin with but corky o'rourkey.
Marky. I don't slag off poetry as a matter of course. I did it once a while ago and I think it was justified. I remember explaining the process. I wasn't really having a go at the last poem. I was annoyed that there was a picture posted. You really do frame the poem if you do that. It was the subject matter in the picture that got me going.
Here is the ten cents worth....with icons or folk in the public eye there is a tendency to go with the projected persona. Subsequently, all behaviour is filtered through this persona. In short, to quote a hero of mine, "We judge the actions by the reputaion and not vice versa." In fact we are in a classic week for such. Ronald Reagan will be remembered through his impeccable personal manners not the actions he took that wasted and obliterated lives.
I haven't got time or space to get into Ronnie now but getting back to Kurt....he is always presented as this guy who was suffering so much who was selfless etc. The hard physical evidence is that at the time of his death he was a multi millionaire rock star who could have given his child everything (or even just staples like love and his time and presence) yet chose to pursue drugs and then abandon his/her? future. I find this selfish in the extreme. Indeed I'm hard pressed to think of ways outside of direct physical abuse where a parent could hurt a child more. So, I look at the actions and then form the reputation. Kurt Cobain was a selfish twat and if he was a live and I met him and got the chance I would smash his fucking teeth in. Then he could write a song about how awful that was.
Having said that he made some great records. Art and life don't get the two confused.
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Oh yeah, almost forgot. The poem. Note to all poets extreme care should be used when swearing in poems. These words are very popular and have had just about all the meaning drained out of them unless they are handled by a master of the art. As a primer in this area look at any bad punk rock lyrics. Anyway if in doubt stay away from a word like fuck. It just draws attention to itself. Outside of that Marky I just said the poem wasn't all that great.
Your cat poetry is shite....reminds me of the second volume of autobiography from Anthony Burgess (You've had your time) He goes on about how the widow of old TS only let him reference his work (in a libretto I think) a couple of times only to performed live in certain settings for a handful of performances. As Burgess points out this was only a couple of years before the musical Cats.
Your cat poetry is shite....reminds me of the second volume of autobiography from Anthony Burgess (You've had your time) He goes on about how the widow of old TS only let him reference his work (in a libretto I think) a couple of times only to performed live in certain settings for a handful of performances. As Burgess points out this was only a couple of years before the musical Cats.
Not really a one-word poem but a poem with 2 commas. It was by a poet named Jose Garcia Villa. Here it is:marky wrote:LOL!!!
Tommy's "Your cat poetry is shite" comments
I hope Kitten doesn't take offense to the fact that I've found it terribly hilarious that Tommy seems to slaughter anyone who even dares to write a word of poetry.
Come to think of it, are there poems made of only one word, and what would Tommy think of such poems?
The Bashful One
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It was about someone who was never noticed by the people around him. More of someone who lived the life of a wallflower just as how we would treat commas in sentences. We would just look at commas while reading and pause for a sec and go on. This is like having "the man who wasn't there" in your epitaph. Whatever. I have to get drunk. Bye.
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a shit cat poem by McCutcheon
the cat sat on the hat
the hat went flat
because that cat was fat
green eggs and ham
the cat went on Atkins
the hat went flat
because that cat was fat
green eggs and ham
the cat went on Atkins
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