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bjbdbest
Master Cruncher Joined: May 11, 2007 Post Count: 2333 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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It's almost too difficult to read her work. Such an anguished, tortured soul.
----------------------------------------I wonder what became of Amy Louise Kerswell? Thanks for your contribution, OldChap. Please visit again to share poems and your perceptive side with an appreciative audience. P.S. No mistakin' Not fakin' Love bacon  |
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David Autumns
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Don't mean to trample I just thought I would share this
----------------------------------------http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/9855...-only-a-poem-will-do.html "it is that poetry is a special kind of communication, liable to produce the most powerful reaction. The critic and poet Samuel Johnson described poetic language as that “which calls new power into being, which embodies sentiment and animates matter”. Whether we are coping with the death of a loved one or struggling with unrequited passion, sometimes only a poem will do"  |
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bjbdbest
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Trample away, Dave ;)
----------------------------------------"Whether we are coping with the death of a loved one or struggling with unrequited passion, sometimes only a poem will do" --- that says it all... Great article and thanks for introducing me to veteran poet Brian Turner. He writes of loss - home, family, limbs, life in a simple, yet powerful way. Words are the emotional release of his rifle's discharge and the stress of war. Here, Bullet If a body is what you want, then here is bone and gristle and flesh. Here is the clavicle-snapped wish, the aortaâs opened valves, the leap thought makes at the synaptic gap. Here is the adrenaline rush you crave, that inexorable flight, that insane puncture into heat and blood. And I dare you to finish what youâve started. Because here, Bullet, here is where I complete the word you bring hissing through the air, here is where I moan the barrelâs cold esophagus, triggering my tongueâs explosives for the rifling I have inside of me, each twist of the round spun deeper, because here, Bullet, here is where the world ends, every time. |
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NAP2614
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A Fragment
----------------------------------------But, under all, my heart believes the day Was not diviner over Athens, nor The West wind sweeter thro' the Cyclades Than here and now; and from the altar of To-day The eloquent, quick tongues of flame uprise As fervid, if not unfaltering as of old, And life atones with speed and plenitude For coarser texture. Our poor present will, Far in the brooding future, make a past Full of the morning's music still, and starred With great tears shining on the eyelids' eaves Of our immortal faces yearning t'wards the sun. Unknown  |
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bjbdbest
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A Fragment ---
----------------------------------------What a lovely poem I glean about resurgence. It's both timeless and timely for Valentine's Day. Thank you, NAP2614! Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die, Life is like a Broken-winged bird That cannot fly Happy Valentine's Day to all!  ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by bjbdbest at Feb 15, 2013 5:35:38 PM] |
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yoro42
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Man conforms
----------------------------------------_ to the earth The earth conforms _ to the sky The sky conforms _ to the Way The Way conforms _ to it's own nature ______ Lao Tzu  |
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bjbdbest
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Thanks, yoro42 for your philosophical contribution :)
----------------------------------------Though each of us travels separately The Way is Life To find it is to Belong What more precious "Way"? |
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NAP2614
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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. |
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bjbdbest
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Love Shel Silverstein - Bought all his books which I read
----------------------------------------with delight to my granddaughter. Here are some favorites: “Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings, And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go? How did it go?” “The Little Boy and the Old Man Said the little boy, "Sometimes I drop my spoon." Said the old man, "I do that too." The little boy whispered, "I wet my pants." I do that too," laughed the little old man. Said the little boy, "I often cry." The old man nodded, "So do I." But worst of all," said the boy, "it seems Grown-ups don't pay attention to me." And he felt the warmth of a wrinkled old hand. I know what you mean," said the little old man.” When I am Gone When I am gone what will you do? Who will write and draw for you? Someone smarter—someone new? Someone better—maybe YOU! |
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NAP2614
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Nature — the Gentlest Mother is,
----------------------------------------Impatient of no Child — The feeblest — or the waywardest — Her Admonition mild — In Forest — and the Hill — By Traveller — be heard — Restraining Rampant Squirrel — Or too impetuous Bird — How fair Her Conversation — A Summer Afternoon — Her Household — Her Assembly — And when the Sun go down — Her Voice among the Aisles Incite the timid prayer Of the minutest Cricket — The most unworthy Flower — When all the Children sleep — She turns as long away As will suffice to light Her lamps — Then bending from the Sky — With infinite Affection — And infiniter Care — Her Golden finger on Her lip — Wills Silence — Everywhere — Emily Dickinson Nature, The Gentlest Mother |
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