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Poetry
March 26, 2009 at 5:49 am
I think we lack poetry in here, personally I suck at writing it, and absolutely *hated* it in school because it was all forced and unoriginal. But, I appreciate a well written poem, especially when it's on my favourite topic of discussion. I have a few that are actually pro-religion but, given the focus of the forum I'll leave them on the shelf for now but, anyone else wanting to share a poem, do not feel you have to use the same restraints. all are welcome.
I'll start, a poem I found online by a user named Brian37.
Brian37 - How great thour art.
How great thou art,
To let them suffer
Pestulance and famine
And wars that linger
How great thou art
Your ambiguous hands
Threaten with fear
We all be damned
The wallet is love
And you have the gun
Aimed at our heads
Refusing to give
Will make us all burn
What kindly thoughts
To frighten us
To bow to you
Because it's love?
I have a choice
This much is true
Discarding myth
Is that I value
Discard the pitchforks
And halo's due
Just like red noses
And sugarplums too
How great the farce
And fantacy
A D&D game
Deadly reality
How great thou art
To give us this orb
Full of desease
And hateful hords
I know thy name
It is not divine
Tis a creation
Of ancient minds
Thor and Isis
Marduke extinct
Their magical spells
Have the same link
How great thou arnt
And nothing new
History is full
Of claims like you
A day may come
When we Cruise by
A statue of Hubbard
Billions rely
How great thou arnt
In Genisis
You stole your story
From polytheists
Ugartic text
Is older motif
So too the flood
In Gelgimesh
Hardly original
Nor does it prove
That spirts knock up girls
Gabriel "Mary, God is in the mood".
Thot cured an eye
Long before Jesus
Rabbits and hats
Are still slight of hand
How great thou arnt
This human mind
The mental slight
Is the bind
It's fuzzys are warm
And grandious
The lure of a promise
That doesn't exist
How fake thou art
By any name
Apollo to Allah
It's all the same
It's in their heads
And all made up
The past is the present
And they don't give up
How great thou arnt
This tribalism
Leading to death
Over fiction
Magic and myth
In the span of time
Change their colors
But never decline
How great the mind
When set free
From the binds
Of mythology
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RE: Poetry
March 26, 2009 at 11:58 am
No offence, but I think it is rather mediocre. Personally, I perfer Byron, Shelly, Keats, Yeats, Milton, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Blake, Burns and even Edgar Alan Poe. Frost, Shakespeare and the 1st World War poets are really good too, but I have to be in the mood.
That brings up another subject; who is everyones favorite poet? Mine is Lord Byron.
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RE: Poetry
March 26, 2009 at 1:17 pm
(March 26, 2009 at 11:58 am)dagda Wrote: That brings up another subject; who is everyones favorite poet? Mine is Lord Byron.
The guy who wrote "Here I sit so broken hearted".
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RE: Poetry
March 26, 2009 at 3:41 pm
(March 26, 2009 at 11:58 am)dagda Wrote: No offence, but I think it is rather mediocre. Personally, I perfer Byron, Shelly, Keats, Yeats, Milton, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Blake, Burns and even Edgar Alan Poe. Frost, Shakespeare and the 1st World War poets are really good too, but I have to be in the mood.
That brings up another subject; who is everyones favorite poet? Mine is Lord Byron.
Shelley.
Not for his lyrical poems but for his political stuff. He was a revolutionary and early socialist.
His epic " Queen Mab " does it for me.
 A man is born to a virgin mother, lives, dies, comes alive again and then disappears into the clouds to become his Dad. How likely is that?
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RE: Poetry
March 26, 2009 at 4:50 pm
A boat beneath a sunny sky
by Lewis Carroll.
A boat beneath a sunny sky,
Lingering onward dreamily
In an evening of July
Children three that nestle near,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Pleased a simple tale to hear
Long has paled that sunny sky:
Echoes fade and memories die:
Autumn frosts have slain July.
Still she haunts me, phantomwise,
Alice moving under skies
Never seen by waking eyes.
Children yet, the tale to hear,
Eager eye and willing ear,
Lovingly shall nestle near.
In a Wonderland they lie,
Dreaming as the days go by,
Dreaming as the summers die
Ever drifting down the stream
Lingering in the golden dream
Life, what is it but a dream?
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RE: Poetry
March 27, 2009 at 9:33 am
(March 26, 2009 at 3:41 pm)bozo Wrote: (March 26, 2009 at 11:58 am)dagda Wrote: No offence, but I think it is rather mediocre. Personally, I perfer Byron, Shelly, Keats, Yeats, Milton, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Blake, Burns and even Edgar Alan Poe. Frost, Shakespeare and the 1st World War poets are really good too, but I have to be in the mood.
That brings up another subject; who is everyones favorite poet? Mine is Lord Byron.
Shelley.
Not for his lyrical poems but for his political stuff. He was a revolutionary and early socialist.
His epic " Queen Mab " does it for me.
I have to say, I do like Shelley. I prefer The Mask of Anarchy to Queen Mab right enough. In my opinion, Shelley is not given enough recognition as the brilliant poet. One of the great tradgeties of the English lanuage.
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RE: Poetry
March 27, 2009 at 11:40 am
(March 26, 2009 at 11:58 am)dagda Wrote: No offence, but I think it is rather mediocre. Personally, I perfer Byron, Shelly, Keats, Yeats, Milton, Chaucer, Wordsworth, Blake, Burns and even Edgar Alan Poe. Frost, Shakespeare and the 1st World War poets are really good too, but I have to be in the mood.
That brings up another subject; who is everyones favorite poet? Mine is Lord Byron.
No offense taken, I didn't write it lol. I never got into it enough to particularly care who the author was. It's more like, I read a bunch and some will sound good to me. A very similar poem may sound terrible to me so, it's not like certain styles or authors is a major thing, just how well it feels to me.
I'd have to say if in the right mood I enjoy shakespheares works but, at the moment I am particularly enjoying Tim Michin's 'Storm'.
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RE: Poetry
April 7, 2009 at 6:04 am
Don't read poetry and have never written things like that. I prefer rather to play music or write , I've acctually written a book that will probably be published in my country, quite proud of that  . Just needed to brag a little, it's has quite the same style as Terry Pratchett.
But anyway, about the poetry. Why don't people write their own poems here instead of quoting other?Even though that perhap are quite nice to read. I think it would be a good way of getting some response.
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RE: Poetry
April 7, 2009 at 8:16 am
Here's a Poem from A Bit of Fry and Laurie that I like. I quite like comic poems - I haven't really read much poem to be fair though...
- I've read poetic writings...writings that are also kind of a bit poetic, but no some much poetry. Anyway I like the following strange and amusing poem from ABOFAL -
Hugh's Poem
'Underneath the bellied skies
Where dust and rain find space to fall
To fall and lie and change again
Without a care or mind at all
For art and life and things above
In that there look just there
No right left up down past or future
We have but ourselves to fear.'
Lol.
P.S: Here's the non-embeddable link to the BBC youtube clip of the sketch that the poem is from - and the poem is included right at the start. He goes on to two shorter poems after and they are both also part of the overall sketch 'about poems': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nTmSu6v0LA
'Suitable poetry'.
...I quite like strange poetic musings. Or strange poetic philosophical musings. They are also welcome.
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RE: Poetry
May 11, 2009 at 8:25 am
Quote:The blacksmith slave
Captive in the rainforests of the West
they brought you to Rome, slave,
they gave you the blacksmith work
and you make chains.
The red iron that you carry out the oven
can be adapted as you want,
you can make swords
in order that your people could break the chains,
but you, this slave,
you make chains, more chains.
:Joseba Sarrionandia
In basque:
Quote:Esklabu erremintaria
Sartaldeko oihanetan gatibaturik
erromara ekarri zinduten, esklabua,
erremintari ofizioa eman zizuten
eta kateak egiten dituzu.
Labetik ateratzen duzun burdin goria
nahieran molda zenezake,
ezpatak egin ditzakezu
zure herritarrek kateak hauts deitzaten,
baina zuk, esklabu horrek,
kateak egiten dituzu, kate gehiago.
:Joseba Sarrionandia
- Science is not trying to create an answer like religion, it tries to find an answer.
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