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Recommend me some poetry?
#12424518 - 04/20/10 01:21 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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I dont really know any besides some of the stuff from the Beat movement. I really like spoken "slam" poetry... but i am open to anything.
Hit me.
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stedenko
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Re: Recommend me some poetry? [Re: PDU]
#12424534 - 04/20/10 01:26 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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The bible isnt really popular here, but ecclesiastes is cool.
This too.
"Stephen Crane
In the Desert
In the desert I saw a creature, naked, bestial, Who, squatting upon the ground, Held his heart in his hands, And ate of it. I said, "Is it good, friend?" "It is bitter bitter", he answered, "But I like it Because it is bitter, And because it is my heart." "
Edited by stedenko (04/20/10 02:04 AM)
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Arden
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Re: Recommend me some poetry? [Re: stedenko]
#12424622 - 04/20/10 01:55 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Rainer Maria Rilke
You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to recognize you in the surging wave of the next moment. All the immense images in me-- the far-off, deeply-felt landscape, cities, towers, and bridges, and unsuspected turns in the path, and those powerful lands that were once pulsing with the life of the gods- all rise within me to mean you, who forever elude me.
You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house--, and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon,-- you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening...
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Re: Recommend me some poetry? [Re: PDU]
#12424625 - 04/20/10 01:55 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Rumi
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Aleph1
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Re: Recommend me some poetry? [Re: Viveka]
#12424644 - 04/20/10 02:05 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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the shoelace by Charles Bukowski.
a woman, a tire that's flat, a disease, a desire: fears in front of you, fears that hold so still you can study them like pieces on a chessboard...
it's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse. death he's ready for, or murder, incest, robbery, fire, flood... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies that send a man to the madhouse...
not the death of his love but a shoelace that snaps with no time left ...
The dread of life is that swarm of trivialities that can kill quicker than cancer and which are always there - licence plates or taxes or expired driver's license, or hiring or firing, doing it or having it done to you, or roaches or flies or a broken hook on a screen, or out of gas or too much gas, the sink's stopped-up, the landlord's drunk, the president doesn't care and the governor's crazy.
lightswitch broken, mattress like a porcupine; $105 for a tune-up, carburetor and fuel pump at sears roebuck; and the phone bill's up and the, market's down and the toilet chain is broken, and the light has burned out - the hall light, the front light, the back light, the inner light; it's darker than hell and twice as expensive.
then there's always crabs and ingrown toenails and people who insist they're your friends; there's always that and worse; leaky faucet, christ and christmas; blue salami, 9 day rains, 50 cent avocados and purple liverwurst.
or making it as a waitress at norm's on the split shift, or as an emptier of bedpans, or as a carwash or a busboy or a stealer of old lady's purses leaving them screaming on the sidewalks with broken arms at the age of 80.
suddenly 2 red lights in your rear view mirror and blood in your underwear; toothache, and $979 for a bridge $300 for a gold tooth, and china and russia and america, and long hair and short hair and no hair, and beards and no faces, and plenty of zigzag but no pot, except maybe one to piss in and the other one around your gut.
with each broken shoelace out of one hundred broken shoelaces, one man, one woman, one thing enters a madhouse.
so be careful when you bend over.
-------------------- Who you jivin' with that cosmic debris?
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Re: Recommend me some poetry? [Re: Aleph1]
#12424653 - 04/20/10 02:09 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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I really like this kind of thing. I've heard references to bukowski and have been meaning to check him out. - thank you for posting that.
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Todcasil
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Re: Recommend me some poetry? [Re: PDU]
#12424782 - 04/20/10 03:19 AM (13 years, 10 months ago) |
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Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit (1979) Bukowski Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions, and General Tales of Ordinary Madness (1972) Bukowski (short stories) A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems (1958) ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti (one of my all time favorites)
Those two are a good start, and the short stories by bukowski are pretty amazing (you could pick up anything authored by him and I bet if you don't like it, your best friend will.)
-------------------- Men look at themselves and they see flawed humans, we look at women and we see perfect GODDESSES Women look at themselves and they seem utterly human, when looking at men they see proud GODS. ~Casil
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