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Re: Post a poem you like [Re: pineninja] * 1
    #26106560 - 07/13/19 06:51 PM (4 years, 6 months ago)

lol...yeah


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Re: Post a poem you like [Re: DividedQuantum] * 4
    #26125864 - 08/07/19 04:03 PM (4 years, 5 months ago)

Someone who goes with half a loaf of bread
to a small place that fits like a nest around him,
someone who wants no more, who's not himself
longed for by anyone else,

He is a letter to everyone. You open it.
It says, Live.

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The mystery does not get clearer by repeating the question,
nor is it bought with going to amazing places.

Until you've kept your eyes
and your wanting still for fifty years,
you don't begin to cross over from confusion.

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What is form in the presence of reality?
Very feeble. Reality keeps the sky turned over
like a cup above us, revolving. Who turns
the sky wheel? The universal intelligence.

And the motion of the body comes
from the spirit like a waterwheel
that's held in a stream.


Rumi


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Re: Post a poem you like [Re: DividedQuantum] * 3
    #26131698 - 08/11/19 11:51 PM (4 years, 5 months ago)

Oh my name it ain't nothin'
My age it means less
The country I come from
Is called the Midwest
I was taught and brought up there
The laws to abide
And that land that I live in
Has God on its side

Oh, the history books tell it
They tell it so well
The cavalries charged
The Indians fell
The cavalries charged
The Indians died
Oh, the country was young
With God on its side

The Spanish-American
War had its day
And the Civil War, too
Was soon laid away
And the names of the heroes
I was made to memorize
With guns in their hands
And God on their side

The First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side

The Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now, too
Have God on their side

I've learned to hate the Russians
All through my whole life
If another war comes
It's them we must fight
To hate them and fear them
To run and to hide
And accept it all bravely
With God on my side

But now we got weapons
Of chemical dust
If fire them, we're forced to
Then fire, them we must
One push of the button
And a shot the world wide
And you never ask questions
When God's on your side

Through many a dark hour
I've been thinkin' about this
That Jesus Christ was
Betrayed by a kiss
But I can't think for you
You'll have to decide
Whether Judas Iscariot
Had God on his side.

So now as I'm leavin'
I'm weary as Hell
The confusion I'm feelin'
Ain't no tongue can tell
The words fill my head
And fall to the floor
That if God's on our side
He'll stop the next war

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Re: Post a poem you like [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #26135715 - 08/14/19 02:22 PM (4 years, 5 months ago)

Jackson Browne - For A Dancer

don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
Crying as they ease you down
'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(Right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(There's nothing you can do about it anyway)

Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone


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Re: Post a poem you like [Re: broshammy] * 3
    #26145367 - 08/20/19 08:02 PM (4 years, 5 months ago)

as the poems go

by Charles Bukowski


as the poems increase into the thousands you
realize that you've created very
little.

it all comes down to rain, the sunlight,
the traffic, the nights and the days of the
years, the faces.

leaving this will be easier than living
it.

typing one more line now as
a man plays a piano through the radio.

the best writers have said very
little
and the worst,
far too much.


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    #26167189 - 09/03/19 03:52 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

The hands move, the lips move--
Ideas gush from his words,
And his eyes devour!
He is an island of Selfdom.

                         
                                --from "A Manual of Muad'Dib," Dune


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Re: Post a poem you like [Re: DividedQuantum] * 2
    #26180449 - 09/10/19 07:51 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

A wise old owl sat on an oak;
The more he saw the less he spoke,
The less he spoke the more he heard --
Why aren't we like that wise old bird?                      (unknown)


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Re: Post a poem you like [Re: DividedQuantum] * 1
    #26188712 - 09/14/19 07:44 PM (4 years, 4 months ago)

…The wise in heart
Mourn not for those that live, nor those that die.
Nor I, nor thou, nor any one of these,
Ever was not, nor ever will not be,
For ever and for ever afterwards.
All, that doth live, lives always!
That which is
Can never cease to be; that which is not
Will not exist.

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I am not known
To evil-doers, nor to foolish ones,
Nor to the base and churlish; nor to those
Whose mind is cheated by the show of things,
Nor those that take the way of Asuras.*
Four sorts of mortals know me: he who weeps,
Arjuna! and the man who yearns to know;
And he who toils to help; and he who sits
Certain of me, enlightened.
Of these four,
O Prince of India! highest, nearest, best
That last is, the devout soul, wise, intent
Upon "The One." Dear, above all, am I
To him; and he is dearest unto me!
All four are good, and seek me; but mine own,
The true of heart, the faithful--stayed on me,
Taking me as their utmost blessedness,
They are not "mine," but I--even I myself!
At end of many births to Me they come!
Yet hard the wise Mahatma is to find,
That man who sayeth, "All is Vasudev!"**


* Beings of low and devilish nature.
** Krishna.


selections from the Bhagavadgita, trans. by Sir Edwin Arnold


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Re: Post a poem you like [Re: DividedQuantum] * 2
    #26216857 - 09/28/19 07:04 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

To See a World...
(Fragments from "Auguries of Innocence")

by William Blake


To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.

A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions.
A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus’d upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.

He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar.
The Beggar’s Dog and Widow’s Cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.
The Gnat that sings his Summer song
Poison gets from Slander’s tongue.
The poison of the Snake and Newt
Is the sweat of Envy’s Foot.

A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know
Thro’ the World we safely go.

Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.


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Re: Post a poem you like [Re: DividedQuantum] * 2
    #26217013 - 09/28/19 08:19 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

Love Songs in Age
by Philip Larkin


She kept her songs, they kept so little space,
The covers pleased her:
One bleached from lying in a sunny place,
One marked in circles by a vase of water,
One mended, when a tidy fit had seized her,
And coloured, by her daughter-
So they had waited, till, in widowhood
She found them, looking for something else, and stood

Relearning how each frank submissive chord
Had ushered in
Word after sprawling hyphenated word,
And the unfailing sense of being young
Spread out like a spring-woken tree, wherein
That hidden freshness sung,
That certainty of time laid up in store
As when she played them first. But, even more,

The glare of that much-mentioned brilliance, love,
Broke out, to show
Its bright incipience sailing above,
Still promising to solve, and satisfy,
And set unchangeably in order. So
To pile them back, to cry,
Was hard, without lamely admitting how
It had not done so then, and could not now.


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    #26217479 - 09/29/19 03:59 AM (4 years, 3 months ago)

I know it's not a poem, rather a short story but have never found an opportunity to share this. It defies summation.
R. H Blyth included it in his 'Zen in English Literature and oriental classics' as an illustration of a man living by zen, constantly yelling at his Mind / oddity, 'Lie thee down, oddity!'
It may have resonated more with me having read it in context of Blyth's explanation, but would love to read it for the first time again, the ending is somewhat unusual and unexpected but beautiful and brought me to a spiritual LOL. Like the sort of chuckle when caught in awe before a majestic landscape.

"Lie Thee Down, Oddity" by T.F. Powys

http://tonymusings.blogspot.com/2007/01/lie-thee-down-oddity.html


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Re: Post a poem you like [Re: NewAccount] * 3
    #26221524 - 10/01/19 12:25 AM (4 years, 3 months ago)

Arthur Rimbaud - After the Deluge

As soon as the idea of the Deluge had subsided,
A hare stopped in the clover and swaying flowerbells,
and said a prayer to the rainbow,
through the spider's web.

Oh! the precious stones that began to hide,--
and the flowers that already looked around.
In the dirty main street, stalls were set up
and boats were hauled toward the sea,
high tiered as in old prints.

Blood flowed at Blue Beard's,--
through slaughterhouses, in circuses,
where the windows were blanched by God's seal.
Blood and milk flowed. Beavers built.

'Mazagrans' smoked in the little bars.
In the big glass house, still dripping,
children in mourning looked
at the marvelous pictures.

A door banged; and in the village square
the little boy waved his arms,
understood by weather vanes
and cocks on steeples everywhere,
in the bursting shower.

Madame *** installed a piano in the Alps.
Mass and first communions were celebrated
at the hundred thousand altars of the cathedral.
Caravans set out. And Hotel Splendid was built
in the chaos of ice and of the polar night.

Ever after the moon heard jackals howling
across the deserts of thyme,
and eclogues in wooden shoes growling in the orchard.
Then in the violet and budding forest,
Eucharis told me it was spring.

Gush, pond,-- Foam, roll on the bridge and over the woods;--
black palls and organs, lightening and thunder, rise and roll;--
waters and sorrows rise and launch the Floods again.
For since they have been dissipated--
oh! the precious stones being buried and the opened flowers!--
it's unbearable! and the Queen, the Witch who lights her fire
in the earthen pot will never tell us what she knows,
and what we do not know.


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Re: Post a poem you like [Re: seraphnz] * 3
    #26227395 - 10/03/19 01:08 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

Aztec poetry
by Nezahualcoyotl (1402-72), polymath philosopher and ruler of the city of Texcoco


My friends, stand up!
The princes have become destitute,
I am Nezahualcoyotl,
I am a Singer, head of macaw.
Grasp your flowers and your fan.
With them go out to dance!
You are my child,
you are Yoyontzin.*
Take your chocolate,
flower of the cacao tree,
may you drink all of it!
Do the dance,
do the song!
Not here is our house,
not here do we live,
you also will have to go away.


*[daffodil]


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    #26228301 - 10/03/19 08:09 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

He makes the Eagles and Ocelots dance with him! 
Come to see the Huexotzinca: 

On the dais of the Eagle he shouts out, 
Loudly cries the Mexica. 

The battlefield is the place: where one toasts the divine liquor in war, 
where are stained red the divine eagles, 
where the tigers howl, 
where all kinds of precious stones rain from ornaments, 
where wave headdresses rich with fine plumes, 
where princes are smashed to bits. 

There is nothing like death in war, 
nothing like the flowery death 
so precious to Him who gives life: 
far off I see it: my heart yearns for it! 

And they called it Teotihulcan 
because it was the place 
where the lords were buried. 
Thus they said: 

'When we die, 
truly we die not, 
because we will live, we will rise, 
we will continue living, we will awaken 
This will make us happy.' 

Thus the dead one was directed, 
when he died: 

'Awaken, already the sky is rosy, 
already dawn has come, 
already sing the flame-coloured guans, 
the fire-coloured swallows, 
already the butterflies fly.' 

Thus the old ones said 
that who has died has become a god, 
they said: 'He has been made a god there, 
meaning 'He has died.' 

Even jade is shattered, 
Even gold is crushed, 
Even quetzal plume are torn . . . 
One does not live forever on this earth: 
We endure only for an instant! 

Will flowers be carried to the Kingdom of Death: 
Is it true that we are going, we are going? 
Where are we going, ay, where are we going? 
Will we be dead there or will we live yet? 
Does one exist again? 

Perhaps we will live a second time? 
Thy heart knows: 
Just once do we live!. 
Like a quetzal plume, a fragrant flower, 
friendship sparkles: 
like heron plumes, it weaves itself into finery. 

Our song is a bird calling out like a jingle: 
how beautiful you make it sound! 
Here, among flowers that enclose us, 
among flowery boughs you are singing. 


the earth is a grave and nothing escapes it, nothing is so perfect 
that it does not descend to its tomb. Rivers, rivulets, fountains and 
waters flow, but never return to their joyful beginnings; anxiously 
they hasten on the vast realms of the rain god. As they widen their 
banks, they also fashion the sad urn of their burial. 


Filled are the bowels of the earth with pestilential dust once flesh and bone, 
once animate bodies of man who sat upon thrones, decided cases, presided in 
council, commanded armies, conquered provinces, possessed treasure, destroyed 
temples, exulted in their pride, majesty, fortune, praise and power. Vanished 
are these glories, just as the fearful smoke vanishes that belches forth from 
the infernal fires of Popocatepetl. Nothing recalls them but the written page.

by Nezahualcoyotl


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    #26228312 - 10/03/19 08:14 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

Do you have a link that I can check out for him?
I'm finding bits and Bobs.


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    #26228399 - 10/03/19 08:47 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

Nah, I found that in some random news article about Aztec philosophy pertaining to routes to happiness. Wish I knew more. The poem just above is sweet.


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    #26234316 - 10/06/19 09:53 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

The Tree

by Ezra Pound


                    I stood still and was a tree amid the wood,
                    Knowing the truth of things unseen before;
                    Of Daphne and the laurel bough
                    And that god-feasting couple old
                    That grew elm-oak amid the wold.
                    'Twas not until the gods had been
                    Kindly entreated, and been brought within
                    Unto the hearth of their heart's home
                    That they might do this wonder thing;
                    Nathless I have been a tree amid the wood
                    And many a new thing understood
                    That was rank folly to my head before.


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    #26240452 - 10/09/19 02:17 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

There was a faith-healer of Deal,
Who said, "Although pain is not real,
        When the point of a pin
        Goes into my skin,
I dislike what I fancy I feel."


                                                (unknown)


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    #26240801 - 10/09/19 05:18 PM (4 years, 3 months ago)

:wonka:


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    #26250999 - 10/14/19 01:48 AM (4 years, 3 months ago)

Charles Bukowski - Traffic Signals

the old folks play a game
in the park over looking the sea
shoving markers across cement
with wooden sticks.
four play, two on each side
and 18 or 20 others sit in
the sun and watch.
I notice this as I move
towards the public facility
as my car is being repaired.

an old cannon sits in the park
rusted and useless.
six or seven sail boats ride
the sea below.

I finish my duty
come out
and they are still playing.

One of the woman is heavily rogued
wearing flash eyelashes and smoking
a cigarette.
The men are very thin
very pale
wear wrist watches that hurt
their wrists.

The other woman is very fat
and giggles
each time a score is made.

Some of them are my age.

They disgust me
the way they wait for death
with as much passion
as a traffic signal.

these are the people who believe advertisments
theres are the people who buy dentures on credit
these are the people who celebrate holidays
these are the people who have grandchildren
these are the people who vote
these are the people who have funerals

These are the dead
the smog
the stink in the air
the Lepers.

seagulls are better
seaweed is better
dirty sand is better

If I could turn that on cannon on them
and make it work
I would.

They disgust me.


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