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  1. #1651

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    I've just got to the nice violins in the middle. Soon on to the mad end!
    we are listening in unison!....cool

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    Re: Today's poet

    it has just finished.

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    Quote Originally Posted by freckle View Post
    we are listening in unison!....cool
    After 3, press START

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    2


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    GO!

  4. #1654

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    Now this man could drink (but not in a good way...)

    Do you drink?

    washed-up, on shore, the old yellow notebook
    out again
    I write from the bed
    as I did last
    year.
    will see the doctor,
    Monday.
    "yes, doctor, weak legs, vertigo, head-
    aches and my back
    hurts."
    "are you drinking?" he will ask.
    "are you getting your
    exercise, your
    vitamins?"
    I think that I am just ill
    with life, the same stale yet
    fluctuating
    factors.
    even at the track
    I watch the horses run by
    and it seems
    meaningless.
    I leave early after buying tickets on the
    remaining races.
    "taking off?" asks the motel
    clerk.
    "yes, it's boring,"
    I tell him.
    "If you think it's boring
    out there," he tells me, "you oughta be
    back here."
    so here I am
    propped up against my pillows
    again
    just an old guy
    just an old writer
    with a yellow
    notebook.
    something is
    walking across the
    floor
    toward
    me.
    oh, it's just
    my cat
    this
    time.

    Charles Bukowski

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    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    After 3, press START

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    2


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    GO!
    oh sorry i am behind (as per usual...) always back of the pack (poor me....)

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    Happy xmas all!

    What shall we do with a drunken santa?
    What shall we do with a drunken santa?
    What shall we do with a drunken santa?
    Ear-ly in the morning

    Knock him down and steal his presents
    Knock him down and steal his presents
    Knock him down and steal his presents
    Ear-ly in the morning

    Way, hey, and up she rises
    Way, hey, and up she rises
    Way, hey, and up she rises
    Ear-ly in the morning

    What shall we do with a drunken reindeer? [x3]
    Ostracize him like poor Rudolph [x3]


    What shall we do with a drunken Jesus?…
    Turn the wine back into water…


    What shall we do with a drunken snow man?
    Put him in the sun and let it melt him

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    Ode To Wine

    Day-colored wine,
    night-colored wine,
    wine with purple feet
    or wine with topaz blood,
    wine,
    starry child
    of earth,
    wine, smooth
    as a golden sword,
    soft
    as lascivious velvet,
    wine, spiral-seashelled
    and full of wonder,
    amorous,
    marine;
    never has one goblet contained you,
    one song, one man,
    you are choral, gregarious,
    at the least, you must be shared.
    At times
    you feed on mortal
    memories;
    your wave carries us
    from tomb to tomb,
    stonecutter of icy sepulchers,
    and we weep
    transitory tears;
    your
    glorious
    spring dress
    is different,
    blood rises through the shoots,
    wind incites the day,
    nothing is left
    of your immutable soul.
    Wine
    stirs the spring, happiness
    bursts through the earth like a plant,
    walls crumble,
    and rocky cliffs,
    chasms close,
    as song is born.
    A jug of wine, and thou beside me
    in the wilderness,
    sang the ancient poet.
    Let the wine pitcher
    add to the kiss of love its own.

    My darling, suddenly
    the line of your hip
    becomes the brimming curve
    of the wine goblet,
    your breast is the grape cluster,
    your nipples are the grapes,
    the gleam of spirits lights your hair,
    and your navel is a chaste seal
    stamped on the vessel of your belly,
    your love an inexhaustible
    cascade of wine,
    light that illuminates my senses,
    the earthly splendor of life.

    But you are more than love,
    the fiery kiss,
    the heat of fire,
    more than the wine of life;
    you are
    the community of man,
    translucency,
    chorus of discipline,
    abundance of flowers.
    I like on the table,
    when we're speaking,
    the light of a bottle
    of intelligent wine.
    Drink it,
    and remember in every
    drop of gold,
    in every topaz glass,
    in every purple ladle,
    that autumn labored
    to fill the vessel with wine;
    and in the ritual of his office,
    let the simple man remember
    to think of the soil and of his duty,
    to propagate the canticle of the wine.

    Pablo Neruda

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Harry H Howgill View Post
    Happy xmas all!

    What shall we do with a drunken santa?
    What shall we do with a drunken santa?
    What shall we do with a drunken santa?
    Ear-ly in the morning

    Knock him down and steal his presents
    Knock him down and steal his presents
    Knock him down and steal his presents
    Ear-ly in the morning

    Way, hey, and up she rises
    Way, hey, and up she rises
    Way, hey, and up she rises
    Ear-ly in the morning

    What shall we do with a drunken reindeer? [x3]
    Ostracize him like poor Rudolph [x3]


    What shall we do with a drunken Jesus?…
    Turn the wine back into water…


    What shall we do with a drunken snow man?
    Put him in the sun and let it melt him
    Is this your handiwork HHH?

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    You are off looking at classy poetry web sites, and I've ended up reading drunken sea shanties. I won't trouble you with any, and I'll change my tack me hearties. Aaaarggh Jimm Laaad



    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Ode To Wine

    Day-colored wine,
    night-colored wine,
    wine with purple feet
    or wine with topaz blood,
    wine,
    starry child
    of earth,
    wine, smooth
    as a golden sword,
    soft
    as lascivious velvet,
    wine, spiral-seashelled
    and full of wonder,
    amorous,
    marine;
    never has one goblet contained you,
    one song, one man,
    you are choral, gregarious,
    at the least, you must be shared.
    At times
    you feed on mortal
    memories;
    your wave carries us
    from tomb to tomb,
    stonecutter of icy sepulchers,
    and we weep
    transitory tears;
    your
    glorious
    spring dress
    is different,
    blood rises through the shoots,
    wind incites the day,
    nothing is left
    of your immutable soul.
    Wine
    stirs the spring, happiness
    bursts through the earth like a plant,
    walls crumble,
    and rocky cliffs,
    chasms close,
    as song is born.
    A jug of wine, and thou beside me
    in the wilderness,
    sang the ancient poet.
    Let the wine pitcher
    add to the kiss of love its own.

    My darling, suddenly
    the line of your hip
    becomes the brimming curve
    of the wine goblet,
    your breast is the grape cluster,
    your nipples are the grapes,
    the gleam of spirits lights your hair,
    and your navel is a chaste seal
    stamped on the vessel of your belly,
    your love an inexhaustible
    cascade of wine,
    light that illuminates my senses,
    the earthly splendor of life.

    But you are more than love,
    the fiery kiss,
    the heat of fire,
    more than the wine of life;
    you are
    the community of man,
    translucency,
    chorus of discipline,
    abundance of flowers.
    I like on the table,
    when we're speaking,
    the light of a bottle
    of intelligent wine.
    Drink it,
    and remember in every
    drop of gold,
    in every topaz glass,
    in every purple ladle,
    that autumn labored
    to fill the vessel with wine;
    and in the ritual of his office,
    let the simple man remember
    to think of the soil and of his duty,
    to propagate the canticle of the wine.

    Pablo Neruda

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Is this your handiwork HHH?
    no no no

    I'm just a fast googler

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