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OfflinePDU
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Recommend me some poetry?
    #12424518 - 04/20/10 01:21 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

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.

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Re: Recommend me some poetry? [Re: PDU]
    #12424534 - 04/20/10 01:26 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

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."
"


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Re: Recommend me some poetry? [Re: stedenko]
    #12424622 - 04/20/10 01:55 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

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)

Rumi


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Re: Recommend me some poetry? [Re: Viveka]
    #12424644 - 04/20/10 02:05 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

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.


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Re: Recommend me some poetry? [Re: Aleph1]
    #12424653 - 04/20/10 02:09 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

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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Re: Recommend me some poetry? [Re: PDU]
    #12424782 - 04/20/10 03:19 AM (13 years, 10 months ago)

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.)


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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.


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