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TheCroutonFuton
- Mr. Setlists -
USA
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 Posted - 12/15/2003 : 20:54:01
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Oh rose, thou are sick;
The invisible worm
That flies in the night
In the howling storm
Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy,
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.
- William Blake
 "Join the Cult of Gunn / And Then You'll Be Destined to be a Rock and Roll Star of Epical Proportions!" |
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glacial906
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1738 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2003 : 21:50:49
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Closer yet I approach you;
What thought you have of me, I had as much of you—I laid in my stores in advance;
I consider’d long and seriously of you before you were born.
It's not nearly all of it, but this is one of my favorite verses from "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" by Walt Whitman. It achieves the desired effect that Whitman was trying to go for: to transcend time and enviornment, and to really correlate the experiences and emotions that he, and whoever was reading his poem in the far future, felt, and show that they were not so different despite their difference in time and circumstance.
For the rest of the poem: http://www.bartleby.com/142/86.html
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2003 : 21:59:51
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"Bath" by Carl Sandburg
A man saw the whole world as a grinning skull and
cross-bones. The rose flesh of life shriveled from all
faces. Nothing counts. Everything is a fake. Dust to
dust and ashes to ashes and then an old darkness and a
useless silence. So he saw it all. Then he went to a
Mischa Elman concert. Two hours waves of sound beat
on his eardrums. Music washed something or other
inside him. Music broke down and rebuilt something or
other in his head and heart. He joined in five encores
for the young Russian Jew with the fiddle. When he
got outside his heels hit the sidewalk a new way. He
was the same man in the same world as before. Only
there was a singing fire and a climb of roses everlastingly
over the world he looked on.
I also really like "Honey and Salt" and "Speech" from his 1963 book Honey and Salt, but I don't have the book, so I can't type up the poems. EXCELLENT THREAD TOPIC. |
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glacial906
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1738 Posts |
Posted - 12/15/2003 : 22:15:54
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Tell me what you think of this poem:
When I was in the third grade
I hunted buffalo on the high plains.
The clouds were spotted calves
Racing across the tan-domed land,
And I pursued on swift ponies
Searching for a lung cast.
While the doeskin fringe fluttered
On my lance arm;
And, the sun-wheeling eagle
Saw my kill in some nameless hollow
And watched my blood-hands
Pare away the flesh to dry
On Willow scaffolds for my hunger.
Around Thanksgiving I was snow-bound
In a dugout with an old trapper.
We starved on avid dreams and winter elk
In its scrawny presence, and we roasted
Better times on the thin spittle of our fire.
"Hey kid," the old man drawled, "Meat's meat,
But painter-meat is best of all."
I gnawed a feline leg joint
And scratched at fleas while hell's wind outside
Drove waves of snow across the pararies;
The sun was memory and cold
Was a brittle thought among
The drifted cottonwoods in the creek valley.
At Christmas I vaguely knew that there was
A thing called a common denominator,
And that 4 times 4 was something,
And that Christ's memory was born at
This junction of weather and hump meat;
And huddled in my buffler robes,
I added fuel to the flames and thought how
Snow piled high against earthen walls
Insulated like no glass-walled
Classroom ever could...
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan
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Owen
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USA
165 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2003 : 08:11:07
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This poem means something to me:
quote:
"A Life"
Innocence?
In a sense.
In no sense!
Was that it?
Was that it?
Was that it?
That was it.
-- Howard Nemerov (1970)
To me, this poem means that all modern/po-mo poetry is shit. I'm pretty sure that's what the author was getting at here. Look at that! Is there no clearer indictment?! |
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STITCHES
= Cult of Ray =
USA
915 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2003 : 11:37:22
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there's one that always brings a tear to my eye and a smile to my face....I"m sure you all know it. It starts out, "There once was a man from Nantucket..."
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2003 : 12:00:14
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Originally posted by TheCroutonFuton
Oh rose, thou are sick....- William Blake
Crouton, have you heard the Coil song with this poem in it? It's "Love's Secret Domain" on the album of the same title, 1991. Very good song, and album, if you like the Skinny Puppy-ish music genre...
 Swedish Chef's "Dumpling of Wisdom": Øder tis moodle in der noggin tu smacken der ouchey und vinger-slingers ur to smacken-backen und fix de morkin, yøobetcha! |
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2003 : 12:02:42
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Originally posted by Owen
To me, this poem means that all modern/po-mo poetry is shit. I'm pretty sure that's what the author was getting at here. Look at that! Is there no clearer indictment?!
eh, who knows?... perhaps. But even so it's usually a heck of alot better than "Friends". ;)
Swedish Chef's "Dumpling of Wisdom": Øder tis moodle in der noggin tu smacken der ouchey und vinger-slingers ur to smacken-backen und fix de morkin, yøobetcha! |
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Useyourname
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185 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2003 : 12:09:00
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Me Chinese
Me Play Joke
Me Put Pee Pee
In Your Coke
- Some Sneaky China Man
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STITCHES
= Cult of Ray =
USA
915 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2003 : 12:10:47
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jimmy??? jimmy bin laden?!?!?!?!!
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TheCroutonFuton
- Mr. Setlists -
USA
1728 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2003 : 12:31:47
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apl4eris...no I have not. MK-Ultra uses the poem in a short 30 second song. "Sick Rose". hehe.
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Cheeseman1000
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Iceland
8201 Posts |
Posted - 12/16/2003 : 16:03:00
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He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Had I the heaven's embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
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realmeanmotorscutor
* Dog in the Sand *
USA
1764 Posts |
Posted - 12/17/2003 : 09:28:31
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Originally posted by STITCHES
there's one that always brings a tear to my eye and a smile to my face....I"m sure you all know it. It starts out, "There once was a man from Nantucket..."
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MAMASAYMAMASAMAMACOOSA
Believe it or not I have never actually heard the end to that. I mean I know pretty much what it leads up to but I don't know all of the words that follow.
 "I joined the Cult of Popeye / The CoF required my good eye" |
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jujube
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Kiribati
29 Posts |
Posted - 12/17/2003 : 10:44:29
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the unemployed dreamers
I pity
people
who are not
employed
at dreaming.
Richard Brautigan |
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STITCHES
= Cult of Ray =
USA
915 Posts |
Posted - 12/17/2003 : 10:52:59
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Originally posted by realmeanmotorscutor
quote:
Originally posted by STITCHES
there's one that always brings a tear to my eye and a smile to my face....I"m sure you all know it. It starts out, "There once was a man from Nantucket..."
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MAMASAYMAMASAMAMACOOSA
Believe it or not I have never actually heard the end to that. I mean I know pretty much what it leads up to but I don't know all of the words that follow.
shall I email it to you? there's no sense in forcing the entire board to read something that a) they've probably already heard one too many times, and b) that's just dumb and offensive
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Carolynanna
>> Denizen of the Citizens Band <<
Canada
6556 Posts |
Posted - 12/17/2003 : 10:58:00
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STITCHES
= Cult of Ray =
USA
915 Posts |
Posted - 12/17/2003 : 11:10:08
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not exactly
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ED IS DEAD
- FB Fan -
Australia
6 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2004 : 02:09:45
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apl4eris
~ Abstract Brain ~
USA
4800 Posts |
Posted - 01/03/2004 : 10:00:28
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I think it is about the Sneaky Butcher, and how he, in golden days of yore, "snuck it"
Swedish Chef's "Dumpling of Wisdom": Øder tis moodle in der noggin tu smacken der ouchey und vinger-slingers ur to smacken-backen und fix de morkin, yøobetcha! |
Edited by - apl4eris on 01/03/2004 10:02:41 |
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IceCream
= Quote Accumulator =
USA
1850 Posts |
Posted - 01/04/2004 : 20:08:25
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SPEECH
There was
what we call “words”,
a lot of language,
syllables,
each syllable made of air.
Then there was
s i l e n c e,
no talk at all,
no more syllables
shaped by living tongues
out of wandering air.
Thus all tongues
slowly talk themselves
into s i l e n c e .
-Sandburg
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ED IS DEAD
- FB Fan -
Australia
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Posted - 01/05/2004 : 02:55:06
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O I LOVE YOU MUCH TOO MUCH
Oh I love you much too much
Slow-talking pain
comes on like a rolling grub,
Smothers like a snail's foot
Would a tiny lady bug,
Robs my yellow garden bright
Of it's spring-time sunshine breath
Hairy stalk, pod, bud, seed, bead
Loving bee, gnome, elf, self: Death.
-NICK CAVE
i love this poem much to much. nick...
....he's just so woemantic. 
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andyn
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United Kingdom
169 Posts |
Posted - 01/05/2004 : 04:02:56
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Originally posted by STITCHES
there's one that always brings a tear to my eye and a smile to my face....I"m sure you all know it. It starts out, "There once was a man from Nantucket..."
As Homer Simpson pointed out, the stories about him are very exaggerated.
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