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ToTheSummit
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#8344253 - 04/29/08 10:39 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Robert Service
I have many of his pieces put to memory, including many of the famous ballads he wrote like The Cremation of Sam McGee
My Grandpa used to tell me poems as a kid and it just kinda stuck. I've been writing/memorizing/reciting all my life.
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GnuBobo
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#8344264 - 04/29/08 10:41 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Just keep Ginsberg out of this thread--I think that's fair ground rules.
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Madtowntripper
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: GnuBobo]
#8344392 - 04/29/08 11:10 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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People will probably say it's cliche or whatever, but I'm a huge Emily Dickinson fan. Much of her stuff is really dark, but she has just as many funny poems as she does sad ones. And most of her poems are pretty short and accessible, for whatever that is worth.
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I taste a liquor never brewed – From Tankards scooped in Pearl – Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol!
Inebriate of air – am I – And Debauchee of Dew – Reeling – thro' endless summer days – From inns of molten Blue –
When "Landlords" turn the drunken Bee Out of the Foxglove's door – When Butterflies – renounce their "drams" – I shall but drink the more!
Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats – And Saints – to windows run – To see the Tippler Leaning against the – Sun!
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Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag today Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory
As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear!
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A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.
The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs: A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings!
Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, "you're hurt" exclaim
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: jewunit]
#8344586 - 04/29/08 11:56 PM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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jewunit said: Shel Silverstein purely for nostalgia.
i understadnd that but i dig him for all sorts of resons his adult stuff is a hoot as welll as where the side walk ends, a light in the attic .ect
also dr.seuss
but thats just like....duh
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8344715 - 04/30/08 12:44 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Quote:
Madtowntripper said: People will probably say it's cliche or whatever, but I'm a huge Emily Dickinson fan. Much of her stuff is really dark, but she has just as many funny poems as she does sad ones. And most of her poems are pretty short and accessible, for whatever that is worth.
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I taste a liquor never brewed – From Tankards scooped in Pearl – Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol!
Inebriate of air – am I – And Debauchee of Dew – Reeling – thro' endless summer days – From inns of molten Blue –
When "Landlords" turn the drunken Bee Out of the Foxglove's door – When Butterflies – renounce their "drams" – I shall but drink the more!
Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats – And Saints – to windows run – To see the Tippler Leaning against the – Sun!
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Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.
Not one of all the purple host Who took the flag today Can tell the definition, So clear, of victory
As he, defeated, dying, On whose forbidden ear The distant strains of triumph Break agonized and clear!
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A wounded deer leaps highest, I've heard the hunter tell; 'Tis but the ecstasy of death, And then the brake is still.
The smitten rock that gushes, The trampled steel that springs: A cheek is always redder Just where the hectic stings!
Mirth is mail of anguish, In which its cautious arm Lest anybody spy the blood And, "you're hurt" exclaim
That's shit.
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: GnuBobo]
#8344791 - 04/30/08 01:24 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Gaius Valerius Catullus (ca. 84 BC – ca. 54 BC) was a Roman poet of the 1st century BC. His work remains widely studied, and continues to influence poetry and other art.
Catullus 97 (metre: comic anapests)
I'll be damned if I thought that it mattered a bit if I smelled Emil's mouth or his anus No more maculate this nor immaculate that; Yes, I'd label his anus less heinous! 'Cause it's toothless, but sesquipedalian fangs fill his gob, and his sagging gums flutter. And his gangrenous grin makes me think of the cunt of a jenny in rut making water. So he fucks all the girls and he plays mr. cool, and he's not mucking mules as a gangman? Any female who'd touch him, why shouldn't we think she'd lick ass on a pox-rotten hangman?
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GnuBobo
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: blackegg]
#8344821 - 04/30/08 01:43 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Nice translation.
It's good to see people standing up for human nature through the ages of distant Empires.
People just want to fuck, basically. Have a home and a family.
Well done, sir. Thank you for your contribution.
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: GnuBobo]
#8344868 - 04/30/08 02:14 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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"My dear Cato, it was quite funny, So bend an ear and hear my tale Of the farm boy I found fucking His lady love on yonder vale. My tunic up, I fell upon him Before the lad had yet pulled out And thrust myself right up his backside; You really should have heard him shout!"
-------------------- 'Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain and leave the Shroomery.' ~ Jim Morrison
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: blackegg]
#8344915 - 04/30/08 03:09 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Henry Rollins is kinda funny in an I-take-myself-way-too-seriously way. Observe: "I wish I could meet a woman that could show me something One who could make my blood stop screaming It feels good to kill a mosquito A female that sucks your blood Smashed against a wall, legs broken
I want to fall in love with a woman One who loved me One who could show me I could trust her One who showed me That I don't have to be on my guard all the time Don't touch me I'll feel too good I'll fall apart The only thing holding me together is my pain " Henry Rollins
hahaha, that's guys a ton of fun I tell ya'.
-------------------- 'Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain and leave the Shroomery.' ~ Jim Morrison
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Madtowntripper
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: GnuBobo]
#8344961 - 04/30/08 03:50 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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GnuBobo said:
That's shit.
Because it rhymes?
That's pretty elitist of you.
-------------------- After one comes, through contact with it's administrators, no longer to cherish greatly the law as a remedy in abuses, then the bottle becomes a sovereign means of direct action. If you cannot throw it at least you can always drink out of it. - Ernest Hemingway If it is life that you feel you are missing I can tell you where to find it. In the law courts, in business, in government. There is nothing occurring in the streets. Nothing but a dumbshow composed of the helpless and the impotent. -Cormac MacCarthy He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. - Aeschylus
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: Madtowntripper]
#8344974 - 04/30/08 04:07 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Here's some modern verse, from Benjamin Zephaniah
Bought and Sold
Smart big awards and prize money Is killing off black poetry It's not censors or dictators that are cutting up our art. The lure of meeting royalty And touching high society Is damping creativity and eating at our heart.
The ancestors would turn in graves Those poor black folk that once were slaves would wonder How our souls were sold And check our strategies, The empire strikes back and waves Tamed warriors bow on parades When they have done what they've been told They get their OBE's.
Don't take my word, go check the verse Cause every laureate gets worse A family that you cannot fault as muse will mess your mind, And yeah, you may fatten your purse And surely they will check you first when subjects need to be amused With paid for prose and rhymes.
Take your prize, now write more, Faster, Fuck the truth Now you're an actor do not fault your benefactor Write, publish and review, You look like a dreadlocks Rasta, You look like a ghetto blaster, But you can't diss your paymaster And bite the hand that feeds you.
What happened to the verse of fire Cursing cool the empire What happened to the soul rebel that Marley had in mind, This bloodstained, stolen empire rewards you and you conspire, (Yes Marley said that time will tell) Now look they've gone and joined.
We keep getting this beating It's bad history repeating It reminds me of those capitalists that say 'Look you have a choice,' It's sick and self-defeating if our dispossessed keep weeping And we give these awards meaning But we end up with no voice.
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: theorganicdomino]
#8345004 - 04/30/08 04:44 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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ASJ Tessimond has some cool stuff. kindof a romantic poet. some pretty naturalistic stuff though
Birch Tree
The birch tree in winter Leaning over the secret pool Is Narcissus in love With the slight white branches, The slim trunk, In the dark glass; But, Spring coming on, Is afraid, And scarfs the white limbs In green.
Black Morning Lovesong
In love's dances, in love's dances One retreats and one advances, One grows warmer and one colder, One more hesitant, one bolder. One gives what the other needed Once, or will need, now unheeded. One is clenched, compact, ingrowing While the other's melting, flowing. One is smiling and concealing While the other's asking kneeling. One is arguing or sleeping While the other's weeping, weeping.
And the question finds no answer And the tune misleads the dancer And the lost look finds no other And the lost hand finds no brother And the word is left unspoken Till the theme and thread are broken.
When shall these divisions alter? Echo's answer seems to falter: 'Oh the unperplexed, unvexed time Next time...one day...one day...next time!'
into a lot of beat poets too of course... keats and yeats and wilde as well, for sure.
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Edited by HeadTripVertigo (04/30/08 04:46 AM)
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: blackegg]
#8345211 - 04/30/08 07:27 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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blackegg said: Henry Rollins is kinda funny in an I-take-myself-way-too-seriously way. Observe: "I wish I could meet a woman that could show me something One who could make my blood stop screaming It feels good to kill a mosquito A female that sucks your blood Smashed against a wall, legs broken
I want to fall in love with a woman One who loved me One who could show me I could trust her One who showed me That I don't have to be on my guard all the time Don't touch me I'll feel too good I'll fall apart The only thing holding me together is my pain " Henry Rollins
hahaha, that's guys a ton of fun I tell ya'.
I've always thought Rollins never took him self seriously.
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: HeadTripVertigo]
#8345243 - 04/30/08 07:41 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Speaking of getting drunk and reading poetry...(a drunk WILL TALK, there's no stopping that...)I used to have this sauced friend who'd come over and we'd read Nabokov's Pale Fire for hours.
-------------------- 'Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain and leave the Shroomery.' ~ Jim Morrison
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#8345463 - 04/30/08 09:25 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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William Blake.
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superblingtheory
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: Adden]
#8345484 - 04/30/08 09:33 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein There is a place where the sidewalk ends And before the street begins, And there the grass grows soft and white, And there the sun burns crimson bright, And there the moon-bird rests from his flight To cool in the peppermint wind.
Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To the place where the sidewalk ends.
Yes we'll walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And we'll go where the chalk-white arrows go, For the children, they mark, and the children, they know The place where the sidewalk ends.
-thanks for reminding me jewunit.
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Re: Which poets do you enjoy the most? (If you're into that sorta thing.) [Re: superblingtheory]
#8345496 - 04/30/08 09:39 AM (15 years, 10 months ago) |
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Bluebird there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.
Charles Bukowski
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