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8-Mar-07/5:52 PM |
To boldly go where no oneâs gone before, said the man, sticking his head inside the camelâs ass. Bad case of history repeating.
Had a friend of mine read this. He served as a commando in Afghanistan and Iraq. It made him yawn. He doesnât give a shit about poetry.
When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An' go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier _of_ the Queen!
-- Rudyard Kipling
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21-Mar-07/4:21 PM |
I like the first part. After 'Of course, I miss', you start filling in the space that the poem has created. You could even drop the of course line too, I think. It's evident that you're going to miss that shot. That's what the poem's about.
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Re: Untitled by Dovina |
21-Mar-07/4:37 PM |
haiku should be left to japanese.
western haiku always has this slight touch of sentiment, morality or metaphor.
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21-Mar-07/5:20 PM |
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Re: Unsung American Dream by SupremeDreamer |
22-Apr-07/3:06 PM |
time for a commercial break.
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Re: Ein Kampf by Sasha |
22-Apr-07/3:33 PM |
better not have kids, then.
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Re: Summer Loving by Christof |
6-Jul-07/1:49 PM |
I like the image of the bottled wasp very much. I think it's possible to explore an image, or take it further, but you should never explain it - which is exactly what you're doing in the lines following the wasp: "Lured by sweetness, buzzing and wrestling And crawling the walls of the great empty vessel
In which she is trapped."
Ow! Guess I was to dumb to get it.
The first part is pretty nice (skip one morning though), up to the lover's arrival. The rhythm goes out the window there and the whole poem becomes a bit lazy and self satisfied with stuff like 'fantasy girl' and such. And the grease doesn't do it any good either.
Still, there's the wasp.
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Re: What the log book doesn't show by INTRANSIT |
6-Jul-07/2:22 PM |
Very good poem. Top of the scale. Worth all the rereads. And so forth.
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Re: In the maybe by INTRANSIT |
8-Jul-07/8:14 AM |
There is a good line in here, the one about chrismas I mean, but on the whole it drifts off in the âI make some kind of statementâ direction. You know, this and that: is nobodyâs fault, no one knows, all I have, all I can, undsoweiter. Itâs like generalising the personal in order to express an all too poetic mood of inconclusiveness. Perhaps. I could be completely wrong here. But one does have that liberty in the warm wet womb of the internet.
Anyway, speaking of teachers â I just watched Taylor Mali perform âwhat teachers makeâ. I think your logbook poem is better, but this one is worse. So much for comparisons.
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Re: scene by Dental Panic |
8-Jul-07/8:24 AM |
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Re: Prescription of Pain by Miggy |
10-Aug-07/1:33 PM |
yeah, chirp is great. Sounds like Bush talkin' bout Yurp.
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Re: Forever Moving On by Absorbed Intellect |
24-Oct-07/4:24 PM |
I, as a member of the FMO, am simply stupified by the sublime accuracy of your poem.
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Re: INTELLIGENCIA by INTRANSIT |
24-Oct-07/4:41 PM |
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Re: a bit of theory by pete |
26-Oct-07/6:07 AM |
I like it â especially the first line.
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26-Oct-07/6:10 AM |
I don't think you really need a 'you' to be an idiot.
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26-Oct-07/7:09 AM |
Great. Fun to memorize.
"But for the eyes' imperious intent
To see the battered self, and not to weep"
and
"He stared into the eyes he could not rule."
Brilliant staging. Yep, I'm gonna have fun with this one. I'll put you right next to Shelley's Ozymandias, how about that?
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Re: In the berth by INTRANSIT |
29-Nov-07/5:57 AM |
the sound effects make it an infant thing - don't know if that's intentional. It's wasted on me, that's for sure.
I like the cat though. prrrr prrrrrrrrrrr
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Re: Easter Egg Hunt by Dovina |
29-Nov-07/6:14 AM |
While freestrolling through comments here and there, I read a line of yours, going something like: did I see you in Kansas, staring at daisies?
Maybe you should try to write more by accident - this is one big deliberate bulk.
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Re: I had no idea it could be so good by A. Nomaly |
29-Apr-08/1:19 AM |
I like it too.
Great works on your homepage.
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Re: Cinematic Indulgence by nentwined |
22-Jul-08/1:18 PM |
Pretty good flow but ending too soon.
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