Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: KB in Iowa Date: 13 Aug 08 - 02:54 PM LH, are you comparing sonnets to something else, something each of us have and they all stink? |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 08:07 AM LH objects to my sonnets- I think he is just jealous that some of us can still rhyme. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: KB in Iowa Date: 14 Aug 08 - 12:38 PM So it would seem. I do think comparing your sonnets to Walkaboutsverse verse was a bit harsh. Have you ever read any of his 'verse'? It doesn't exactly flow off the tongue. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 12:45 PM I write the style that I like, feel comfortable with, and enjoy writing. I would expect others to do the same, without demanding that I comply with their style. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 12:47 PM Sonnet 09/05/01 DXLVIII I read your words, and my dreams try to feel The coolness of soft silk, and warmth of skin: I would reach out, and with sweet kisses seal My heart, that I might heart's desire win. As soft, and subtle scented as a rose, But without thorns, you pull me to your soul. I touch, with lips and tongue, yet hope heart knows How much these dreams can of my hopes take toll. I reach to touch you, but words do not hold The softness of your lips, nor feel of hair. How can I taste skin, or let fingers fold With yours, when only written words we share? Would you, then, drive me crazy with desire When distance and some years prevent love's fire? |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Aug 08 - 12:48 PM I don't demand that you comply with my poetic style. I doubt that you're even capable of it. ;-D |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: KB in Iowa Date: 14 Aug 08 - 12:49 PM I could rhyme if I wanted to. It's easy, just |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: KB in Iowa Date: 14 Aug 08 - 12:52 PM How can I taste skin, or let fingers fold With yours, when only written words we share? That wasn't directed at LH was it? I didn't think so. He is already spoken for anyway. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Aug 08 - 12:54 PM I not only can spin a great rhyme I can function in multiple climes When I'm dining in Cuba I pretend it's Aruba And cool off with a lemon and lime |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 12:57 PM I cannot feel another's thoughts, unless they're dopplered down away from blue from green from yellow, down to deeper, weaker lambdas. I only feel the longer wavelengths of emotion; deep in the red, where warmth leaks out of radiation, 6220 angstroms, or so, and more. I see only what rushes away. 1/3/76 |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 12:58 PM LH,, You have no idea what I am capable of. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Aug 08 - 01:00 PM Hey! I like that one from 14 Aug 08 - 12:57 PM Brilliant! I may have indeed underestimated you, BB. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 01:00 PM What shit! The thoughts lie on the pages, as salted slugs in spring, waiting for an image, passing by, to notice them. Read my mind! They seem to shout: Guess what I am. If I could read minds, would I waste time on you? If I knew what you said, would I read your verse? A little honesty, perhaps: Don't hide behind that smoke. 18/3/76 |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 01:02 PM Doe at 2AM She froze, staring into the light Thinking the eyes unseen could see The apprehension inside. Night Seemed so secure: Darkness would be Welcome, to hide within. How might She in this brightness hope to flee Back to the shadows? Time stands still: A moment that the tensions fill. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Aug 08 - 01:05 PM Hmm. I like this other stuff better than your sonnets, I must say. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 01:09 PM A Prayer for Barbara - Spring May all your days be filled with wonder, And may all your nights be filled with dreams of heart's desire. May you dwell amidst flowers and growing plants, And rest under bright stars. But I like writing the sonnets. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Aug 08 - 01:12 PM Fair enough. I enjoy poking fun at your sonnets for some reason, perhaps because they are so romantic in what seems a rather archaic style, but I'm just kidding around when I do that. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 01:13 PM Good to know... |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: KB in Iowa Date: 14 Aug 08 - 01:13 PM LH, is it perhaps just the sonnet form that you don't care for? |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 01:16 PM "In the old days a poet used to sweat turning out a sonnet, say. Very difficult form. Exactly 14 lines, all of them hung together with rhyme, rhythm, meter, perfectly. It was too much work for the poet, so blank verse and then free verse came in. And then anarchy. The new poet never bothered to learn how to write a sonnet, or to measure his lines in correct meter and to follow a rhythm system. He dashed off his inspired poem in a matter of a half hour and was surprised when after a few decades of this people stopped reading poetry." Among the Bad Baboons, by Mack Reynolds Copyright 1968 Galaxy Publishing Corp. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 01:20 PM Terza Rima to A.S. Are you Persephone, that half the year You rule the underworld? Could that be why Those of us nearer death find you so dear? Are you an angel who would wings deny That we not know how close to heaven's goal One might approach? Should we not seek to try? Or, are you Faerie queen, to steal the soul Of those who taste your kiss? Should I now fear That dreams give Sidhe the right to demand toll? 12 May 2005 |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 01:29 PM Cinquain IV Are you So cruel, that you Should wonder when I left? Would you prefer that I had stayed, And cried? 26 Sept 76 |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 02:23 PM A Sonnet A Sonnet is a moment's monument,- Memorial from the Soul's eternity To one dead, deathless hour. Look that it be, Whether for lustral rite or dire portent, Of its own arduous fullness reverent: Carve it in ivory or in ebony, As Day or Night may rule; and let Time see Its flowering crest impearl'd and orient. A Sonnet is a coin: its face reveals The soul, - its converse, to what power 't is due: - Whether for tribute to the august appeals Of Life, or dower in Love's high retinue, It serve; or, 'mid the dark wharf's cavernous breath, In Charon's palm it pay the toll to Death. Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( 1828-1882) |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Bill D Date: 14 Aug 08 - 03:00 PM It is obviously time to remind everyone of my threat from WAY back in the first 100 posts! ahem: if this thread reaches the proportions of the "MOABS" thread, I shall personally drive to Mudcat Central (only 2 hours from me) and hold Max at bay with a Dobro tuned in BAGDAD while I switch the lines from his washing machine with those for the server, so you all get water spurting out of your screens when you log on! Hah! That'll make you think twice about fooling with the logical parameters of the involuntary cortical ramifications in midweek with no tolerance for abstempious indulgences that are currently being ignored in all the modular nuances we were promised when this administration first pulled the wool over our collective...what?...No, I haven't taken any pills this morning...why? wait...no...I have more to say on MANY things pertinant to this discussion which |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 03:03 PM You faded, BillD. Want to come back on and continue your comment? "I switch the lines from his washing machine with those for the server, so you all get water spurting out of your screens " I've used water-cooled ( IBM 360) machines before- they don't scare me. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 03:04 PM Besides, we are still an order of magnitude low, down here where the Obama threads grow... |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Aug 08 - 04:26 PM Now you're talkin', Bill! More! More! I must say that that sonnet by Dante is an extremely fine one. I am beginning to more fully appreciate the structure of the sonnet. This thread may be serving a higher purpose than I had guessed at its inception. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 04:30 PM "This thread may be serving a higher purpose " For the greater Glory of Mudcat... It lets me post all of my sonnets- what higher purpose could there be??? 8-{E |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Little Hawk Date: 14 Aug 08 - 04:42 PM Hard to imagine... ;-D |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 14 Aug 08 - 04:54 PM Well, *I* can't think of one, offhand... |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 18 Aug 08 - 11:59 AM Still have not thought of one... |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Little Hawk Date: 18 Aug 08 - 12:32 PM I have, but I'm not saying... |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 18 Aug 08 - 12:58 PM well, let me post a sonnet here, to encourage you to share... Sonnet 23/7/01 DLXVIII I think about your words, and dream of smile, Though I have little cause to hope for care. My age does not allow pursuit, and while I may desire, I cannot your soul share. I wonder what you dream, and know I seek Beyond even concern: My heart has played Out past desires, and found faint hope. I speak But cannot say, though I have for words paid. I know only you seem to understand The passions of my past. I try to tell My dreams, but few care to listen. I hand You verse, and pray you understand, as well. All of my words try to tell how I feel: Will your reading of verse make my dreams real? |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: GUEST,beardedbruce Date: 25 Nov 08 - 06:51 PM still last... Anyone want more sonnets?? |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Little Hawk Date: 25 Nov 08 - 11:24 PM Oh, crap. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 26 Nov 08 - 10:12 AM Not HERE! |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: KB in Iowa Date: 26 Nov 08 - 10:45 AM yes, please, more sonnets. I made the mistake of listening to WAV attempt to sing "O COME ALL YE FAITHFUL" and need something to cleanse my mind. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 26 Nov 08 - 11:04 AM As long as I am asked... an older one: Sonnet 28/04/01 DXLIII How can I write, without vision of you To give some form to my dreams? I know Too little for my lines to give a true Reflection of your soul. I cannot show My unknown feelings: Would you have me guess Future desires? My words might hopes convey, To hold as muse, but I cannot confess You have more than my interest. Shall I say What I might feel? I hope to find out more Of you, to see if you would light my dreams. Yet, hope cannot reality ignore: I do not know if wish is what it seems. How can I know if you are muse, or write, Save you offer vision that brings me light? |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Bill D Date: 26 Nov 08 - 11:52 AM Gratuitously self-indulgent, dissembling vicissitudes, foisted on our indolent psyches with little regard for abstemious peregrination! What recourse have we beyond belligerent concatenations, leading to deluges of lachrymal excess! Ha! and that's WITH my meds working! |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Little Hawk Date: 26 Nov 08 - 01:03 PM Oh, well put, Bill, well put! I've been trying to tell him the same for what seems like years, but he just won't listen. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 26 Nov 08 - 01:10 PM Okay, this is the last post to this thread. If anyone else posts, he or she is going to turn into a large glob of runny green snot. There's no "might" or "probably" about it. It's a guaranteed hard cold fact. It WILL happen. You've been warned. If you don't want to turn into a large glob of runny green snot, do NOT post anything additional to this thread. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Bill D Date: 26 Nov 08 - 01:18 PM Ok! That's scary! I promise not to...oh, my God! |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: Little Hawk Date: 26 Nov 08 - 01:57 PM Oh, that is just gross! I guess I won't be visting you any time soon, Bill. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 02 Dec 08 - 04:01 AM So, I need to post another sonnet??? OK, since you insist. Sonnet 20/10/04 CMXLIV A muse remains forever: Part of heart That forms the core of soul. Could I forget What you have meant to me? Thoughts of you start To weave new dreams, though they must past regret. That we have parted ways does not require I do not care about you: You are one That helped heart heal, and some of dream inspire, Though I may think that you will my dreams shun. Thought of you still has power: You stir mind With just hello. Should I chance of smile fear? I cannot ask that you be more than kind, But hope you understand: Are concerns clear? At least for now, I know that you are well: Is that enough, or might heart feelings tell? |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 22 Jan 09 - 04:41 PM I thought I would bring this up to the top again... I'll be away for a while, so it will be ... interesting... to see what shows up here. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: heric Date: 22 Jan 09 - 04:46 PM That was a bold move BB. Kudos. |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 03 Feb 09 - 07:03 AM So, nothing here at all... |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 17 Mar 09 - 04:17 PM another month, another post... Sonnet 13/01/06 To Annie MXLI If you are only dream, I dare not wake And lose this vision. Should I seek to find If you have muse's power? Could it make Dreams real, to write of what is in my mind? Those silken curls cascade around your face: How can I not want to such riches touch? Yet, I dare not approach, nor can I trace Your lips: I know even hopes are too much. I wait, to see you laugh, and I desire More than I tell: You are Beauty, beyond Reach of my dreams, or heart. Still, you inspire A longing: I could of your smile be fond. Can I hope that you continue to share Your laugh, and smile, that I might some dreams dare? |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: beardedbruce Date: 07 Apr 09 - 06:58 AM Since Bobert wants more BS... HOT ROD LINCOLN, as written by Charlie Ryan & W.S. Stevenson: Well you've heard the story of the hot-rod race that fatal day, when the Ford and the Mercury went out to play. This is the inside story I'm here to say, I was the kid that was a-drivin' that Model-A. It's got a Lincoln motor and it's really souped up, and that Model-A body makes it look like a pup. It's got twelve cylinders, and uses them all, with an overdrive that just won't stall. It's got a four-barrel carb and dual exhaust, 4-11 gears, she can really get lost. Got safety tubes and I'm not scared, the brakes are good and the tires are fair. We left San Pedro late one night, the moon and the stars were shining bright, everything went fine up the Grapevine hill, we was passin' cars like they was standin' still. Then all of a sudden, like a flick of an eye, a Cadillac sedan had passed us by. The remark was made "there's the car for me," but by then the taillights were all you could see. Well the fellers ribbed me for bein' behind, so I started to make that Lincoln unwind. I took my foot off the gas and man alive, I shoved it down into overdrive. Well I wound it up to a hundred and ten, twisted the speedometer cable off the end. I had my foot keyed clear to the floor, said "that's all there is, there ain't no more." I went around a corner and I passed a truck, I whispered a prayer, just for luck. The fenders was clickin' a guardrail post the guys beside me were white as a ghost. I guess they'd thought I'd lost my sense, the telephone poles looked like a picket fence. They said "slow down, I see spots," the lines on the road just looked like dots. Smoke was rollin' outta the back, when I started to gain on that Cadillac. I knew I could catch him, and hoped I could pass, But when I did, I'd be short on gas. We went around a corner with the tires on the side, you could feel the tension, man what a ride! I said "hold on, I got a license to fly," and the Cadillac pulled over and let me go by. Then all of a-sudden, the rods started knockin', when down in the dip, she started a-rockin'. I looked in my mirror 'n' red lights was blinkin'. The cops was after my hot rod Lincoln. Well, they arrested me, and put me in jail. I called my pop to go my bail. He said "son, you're gonna drive me to drinkin' if you don't stop drivin' that hot rod Lincoln." |
Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last! From: KB in Iowa Date: 07 Apr 09 - 10:14 AM BB, did you not notice that your last post was 2899 making this one 2900 |