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Re: The Poetry Thread
« Reply #105 on: October 27, 2016, 04:31:05 am »

Double post in apology for that.
Here's a poem I quite enjoyed recently.
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Re: The Poetry Thread
« Reply #106 on: October 27, 2016, 09:02:08 am »

 There's no need to apologize for the first poem - well, in my opinion.

 Also in my opinion: The tempo is pretty terrible  :P
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Re: The Poetry Thread
« Reply #107 on: October 28, 2016, 07:29:05 am »

The poem inspired by LYRICAL GENIUS KATY PERRY, or the GENIUS LYRICS OF KATY PERRY, themself?
If it's the latter, that's why the poem's is entirely different. :P
If it's the former, don't read it to the tune of Perry's and it rolls a spot better.
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Re: The Poetry Thread
« Reply #108 on: October 28, 2016, 07:46:22 am »

Pop-poetry?

Dear God, what have you created.
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« Reply #109 on: October 28, 2016, 08:11:08 am »

You can embrace the future, or you can be left behind!!!

In seriousness, you do tempt me to attempt something of that nature...
If I don't post something of an attempt within a week, it failed dismally. Or I was lazy.
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Re: The Poetry Thread
« Reply #110 on: October 28, 2016, 04:27:56 pm »

Ten thousand fathoms underneath
Cruel currents pull the shaded leaf
Magic trembles the ocean brine
Where water meets the gloaming heath.

Take heart, the moon full beams
And gives the ocean lustre fair -
See how enchantment gleams!
Each wave to touch the killing air.

Oh fie, fie, fie! That so ensnared
We leave the trembling deeps
Escape the current, find we cared
Too late. Oh, fie, how sorrow weeps!

Ten thousand fathoms underneath
Ten thousand miles above the clouds
It's all the same, be ocean or be heath
We walk alone, though trapped by crowds.

Glisten the fairy mound above the Sound,
Magic and water mixing with empty air.
So sad, so sweet the hollow tune we came
And found that love bound us, and was our snare.
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« Reply #111 on: October 29, 2016, 06:50:59 pm »

Hey look I did it!

Love me like you do.
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Re: The Poetry Thread
« Reply #112 on: October 29, 2016, 07:06:39 pm »

Hey look I did it!

Love me like you do.
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Huh, that's pretty cool!
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Re: The Poetry Thread
« Reply #113 on: November 10, 2016, 05:52:30 am »

So here's a poem I wrote a month or three ago.
Forgive the politics, but every man and his dog has criticism for progressives after some election somewhere, and I want in too. :P
To those fortunate enough to be unenlightened, Pauline Hanson is an anti-immigration anti-establishment politician here in Australia. She won some seats in the last election, much to the ire of progressives.

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Re: The Poetry Thread
« Reply #114 on: November 12, 2016, 02:50:29 am »

So, I was walking down the alleyway of idle thought. and was jumped by inspiration:

 Life is bitter as lemon, and bitter as a lemon's, too
(For flowers bring forth fine fruit which sours into yellow hue).
 I've heard the proverb uttered, that life should into juice be made,
 So I've done it - squeezed life dry - and made my bitter lemonade.
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« Reply #115 on: November 12, 2016, 04:13:05 am »

I suppose the other one can be called "bitter lemonade," if we're still keeping track:

 To Absent Friends
 By myself

In manor dark, a dining room
frozen by night is watched by moon
as high as sun in afternoon.

It's table sits with sixteen chairs.
On it lay sixteen shining pairs
of knives and forks. The silverware
serves the fifteen signs standing there.

From each cushion - but one - extends
a silver rod, atop which bends
to hold a card, "To absent friends."

The chair from which the sign did steal
Has seen use. Before it, a teal
handkerchief a cold bowl conceals:
The salt-stained soup; A bitter meal.

The glass - drained more than bowl - that's blue
with stain, and bottle, empty too,
bears witness to that one phrase, true.
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« Reply #116 on: November 16, 2016, 01:22:37 am »

Two poems about death that I found. I find them both bitter-sweet.

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« Reply #117 on: November 16, 2016, 01:04:04 pm »

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A well known one of Blake's. Similar in general thing to Brooke's
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« Reply #118 on: November 16, 2016, 01:39:59 pm »

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A well known one of Blake's. Similar in general thing to Brooke's
Great poem! I like how the "Bring me..." section adds a bit of change in the poem.
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« Reply #119 on: November 16, 2016, 01:43:39 pm »

I wrote thing instead of theme and didn't notice....damn, I'm tired.
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