BS: In every thread someone has to be last!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 02 Oct 04 - 08:26 AM

some of us have lives- some 12 hour shifts and a need to stay awake...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MBSLynne
Date: 02 Oct 04 - 08:44 AM

The world may end
Before this thread
And when, my friend,
The World is dead,
Who will know we've reached the end
Anyway?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Oct 04 - 12:07 PM

...but she breaks...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 02 Oct 04 - 06:39 PM

29 of 181...


Sonnet 01/11/02                           DCCLXI

All Hallows Eve approaches, and my soul
Flies free, to seek for heart's desires. I fear
That dreams outrun reason, and hopes control
Words and desires, yet heart by dreams must steer.
Will stars send vision to become my guide
For paths to woods and wonder? Can I see
My hopes within your smile, or do hopes hide
From all attempts to try to set heart free?
You are dear muse, but dare I try to bind
All my desires to one I do not hold?
I know you care, and all your words are kind,
But I am less than love, and far too old.
I care too much to offer less than all:
Yet, dare I dream that you would for me call?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 08:35 PM

30 of 181...


Sonnet 01/11/02 Alexandrines to My Dryad DCCLXII

How shall I tell you of the power that smile shows?
I would take all the colors from the stars, and leaves,
And seal them in my verse, to give you when it snows,
And still not have palette to paint what heart receives.
Should you now dance with moon shadows, what would you find?
What would you see, within the mirror of your thought,
That I might hope to have heart understand your mind?
How will I know if I offer what you have sought?
Kisses are petals from rose, soft, fleeting and sweet,
But more than brush of lips. I dream that I might reach
To soul, and find a heart that makes my own complete:
How shall I my own soul of forest muse beseech?
Should I ask if you might my soul to heart embrace?
Will you be more than muse, to more than my dreams grace?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 08:57 PM

Just like a little girl.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 09:04 PM

Little Hawk's opus, so far...


Nobody...feels any...
pain....
...tonight...
...as I stand...
...inside the rain.
Everybody knows...
...that Baby's got...
new clothes...
...but lately...
...I see...
her ribbons
and her bows
have fallen
Just like a woman...
and she aches...
just like a woman...
just like a woman
...but she breaks...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Morticalia
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 09:12 PM

and back he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky, with the white road smoking behind him, and his rapier brandished high, blood red were his spurs in the gold noon, wine red was his velvet coat, when they shot him down on the highway, down like a dog on the highway, and he lay in his blood on the highway, with the bunch of lace at his throat...

has anyone ever heard Loreena McKennitt's rendition of Alfred Noyes' The Highwayman? it is the best.

there ya go, my random post in an attempt to be LAST

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 09:31 PM

BB, you left out the parts that were posted under "the voice of Bob". I guess you didn't know it, but I am the voice of Bob around here. :-) Be sure to put those parts back in.

Ahem!

"Queen Mary..."

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 09:33 PM

ah, but if it posted under another name, it becomes a joint work... even if the other name is you.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 09:46 PM

Okay, then, call it a joint work. I don't mind.

Ahem!

"...she's my friend..."

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 10:48 PM

lemme out of this joint and lead me to a smoking one.
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 Oct 04 - 11:03 PM

bad for the lungs...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 Oct 04 - 02:31 AM

The opus of Little Hawk, and the voice of Bob.


Nobody...feels any...
pain....
...tonight...
...as I stand...
...inside the rain.
Everybody knows...
...that Baby's got...
new clothes...
...but lately...
...I see...
her ribbons
and her bows
have fallen
from...her...curls...
ah...she takes...
Just like a woman...
and she aches...
just like a woman...
and she makes...love...
just like a woman
...but she breaks...
Just like a little girl.
Queen Mary...
...she's my friend...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 Oct 04 - 02:35 AM

31 of 181


Sonnet 05/11/02                            DCCLXIII

Dryad dances with moon shadows: I find
My dreams chase after. Stars guide steps, this night:
Should dreams trace patterns from the sky, to bind
All future hope, or shall I hold heart tight?
Does mirror'd pool show image that I see,
Of soft concern, and sensual green eyes?
Can verse give view of what I hope might be,
That dreams are true, and thoughts of passion wise?
I seek her smile, and touch, and kiss, to hold
All time suspended. Can my desires trace
Her lips, and can my arms in love enfold
This forest muse? Does hope this vision grace?
May all her dreams be warm, and mornings bright:
Thought of her gives me hope, and my soul's light.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 01:00 AM

..yes, I believe I'll...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 07:36 AM

Well, LH...how many verses does this have?
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Oct 04 - 12:45 PM

It has 3 verses, followed by a harmonica instrumental.

Ahem:

...go see her...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 05:54 PM

sorry to derail your train of thought.

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,the voice of Bob
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 06:04 PM

...again...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 06:33 PM

really? I thought it was the first time!
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 06 Oct 04 - 11:32 PM

32 of 181...

Sonnet 06/11/02                         DCCLXIV

I cannot match the gems that nature gives,
With frost on trees, and stars set into sky;
Nor can my words capture the shade that lives
Upon blossom, or lips, though they may try.
I cannot keep from dreaming of your eyes,
Thinking of smile, and hoping for your touch.
How can I ask desires? Are my dreams ties
To future, or illusion? Does heart dreams clutch?
I cannot leave unsaid my dreams of muse,
That you are now the center of all thought.
Yet, words do not tell all heart thinks it views:
All of my lines have not this vision caught.
You are dryad, and forest muse, and yet,
I would far more than laurel on brow set.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,skipy
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 06:14 AM

zygomart (look it up!)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 08:32 AM

...nobody has to guess...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 10:52 AM

another day, another sonnet




33 of 181...

Sonnet 07/11/02                        DCCLXV

To each day comes a night, when stars appear,
In promenade across the sky. I see
Those fixed forms, and dream that I might free
Just one, to offer muse: A beacon, near
To hope's harbor, that heart might use to steer
Desires. Thoughts wander without course, to be
Tossed upon page. How can I ask that she
Be what I seek, when I still heart-wreck fear?
To each night comes a dawn, when sun returns,
With harsh illumination. Is the sight
More real than night's desires? This soul now spurns
Cold fact: I would for dreams of passion fight.
In muse I find my focus: My heart learns
Of sun and stars, Love is the greater light.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: miss.rebecca
Date: 07 Oct 04 - 07:51 PM

muse has lost her smile,
it's burried underneath fallen leaves....

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 12:23 AM

...that Baby can't be blessed...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 05:35 PM

34 of 181...


Sonnet 16/11/02                              DCCLXVI

Should I seek for your hopes, to know desire,
And offer reasons you might your smile send?
Has heart a chance to dream, or do you tire
Of words that can but talk of comfort lend?
And shall I try to reach out, with a rose,
To brush away your sadness? Can my dream
Be soft enough to capture tears? Hope grows
With winter night, but heart must past redeem.
What gift would bring you cheer, that I might touch
Some part of muse? Would book or candle light
A gleam in eye? Are hopes to give you such
Illusion, that my visions have no sight?
I cannot know of sadness, and ignore:
My heart demands I try to smile restore.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 07:09 PM

...till she finally...sees that...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Janie
Date: 08 Oct 04 - 07:45 PM

There! Just because I haven't yet....

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 12:57 AM

35 of 181...


Sonnet 04/12/02                                 DCCLXVIII

Shall I weave words around my muse, to knit
A dream, on chill and windy afternoon?
Thought of your eyes warms heart, yet do hopes fit
To your desires, that I should seek you soon?
Can I find phrase to fold you in my lines,
And wrap my hopes about us, as if down?
How can I share your dreams, when past defines
Each image? How am I to banish frown?
Can my verse offer passion's heat, to hold
You in warm arms, near to my heart, and seal
Some part of soul as token of hopes told?
Might I ask if you would wish my dreams real?
The miles too far to reach, yet my desire
Finds you within my heart, and dreams, entire.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 02:34 PM

#1 of 1   Sonnet in Need of Resolution


I give up on the last two lines and offer them freely to anyone who'd like to contribute.

jen

Is there a page or metre fit to speak
The chilly memory of an autumn day?
Where passion spent its fury on my shore
Wrenched anchor on the tide and sailed away.
Am I to toss and follow on its wake
Or rest alone in sun drenched misery?
How, then, am I to wrestle with this ghost
Contend with myriad dangers of the sea.
Where fettered, joy and sorrow search for grace,
Crave silence, peace and respite from the gale
To be, at last, by loving arms embraced;
Safe harbour 'neath the surface of this veil.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 02:48 PM

My tiller given over to another hand
That I know will guide us safely to our berth

Or something

Giok

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 04:27 PM

...she's like all the rest...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 06:51 PM

42... your rhyme needs some work...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 07:00 PM

..in her fog...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 07:09 PM

speak / shore                 nope
day? / away.                ok
Wake / ghost                nope
misery? / sea.                ok
grace, / embraced;        weak
gale / veil                ok

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 07:10 PM

...with her ampetamine...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 07:31 PM

John 'Giok' MacKenzie


"My tiller given over to another hand
That I know will guide us safely to our berth"

rhyme AND meter...

hand / berth

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Oct 04 - 07:34 PM

and the first line, while quite good, is NOT iambic PENTAMETER.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 02:46 AM

36 of 181...

Sonnet 07/12/02                               DCCLXIX

Had I fair words to fairer feelings show
I might let these few lines be all I send,
These cold and lonely evenings. Yet, you know
My hopes: For true friend, love, and muse to lend
Words to desire. I seek your smile, to light
My dreams, that I could give heart rest. I ask
For chance to think I might spend future night
Looking in eyes, and in affection bask.
Had I a chance to hold you, I would seize
To vision with my soul: You offer all
That heart desires, yet would my passions please?
Can I ask for my dreams, to let lines call
For what words cannot hold? Could winter ease
Heat of desire, or will I to hope fall?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 06:26 AM

thanks all,

i know it's supposed to rhyme but I'm a free verse afficionado/songwriter currently referred to as the "rhyme nazi" in my songwriters' group and this is as good as the rhyming likely to get. It might make a song though.

i'll keep working at it.
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 10 Oct 04 - 10:55 AM

...and her pearls...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 11 Oct 04 - 12:48 AM

37th of 181...

Sonnet 19 /12/02                         DCCLXXI

How shall I send you season's wish, to hold
Muse in warm arms, and look in eyes to see
Bright stars? Thought of you gives heart hope, that we
Might one day share a dream: Is hope too bold?
I offer all I seek: Have my words told
How much your friendship means? You are a rose
I cherish, for beauty, and hope that grows
From dream to longing I might dream enfold.
How shall I reach out towards desire, to find
My dreams within your smile? Can I seek light
With closed eyes, or hope that hopes will bind
A muse too far to touch, or to hold tight?
I seek, and offer, dreams, to share in mind:
What can I give to give a future bright?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 12:03 AM

mmmmmmmmm!
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 12:46 AM

38 of 182...

Sonnet 30/12/02                         DCCLXXII

Sweet dryad, offer me some part of hope
That I might year begin with smile. Your eyes
Enough to hold me, might words extend scope
Of dreams, so heart will seem to act as wise?
Dear friend, lend me a quiet look, to heal
The wounds of passing year. Can I afford
To offer heart? How not, when dream is real?
Am I a fool, to be by hope assured?
Soft rose, you are beauty enough to please
Even my dreams. Should I desire more?
You offer in your eyes the stars, and trees
Against dark sky, and hope I'll not ignore.
To hold you, more than I deserve, but less
Than dream desires: Might you some of hopes bless?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 06:58 AM

a new year's sonnet and it's only October! I guess it does feel over -
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:13 PM

last sonnet written ( completed) 30 Dec 2002

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:53 PM

: Ballad (37)

Is mage now worthy of his muse?
How can he know, for sure?
His efforts cannot questions lose,
Nor hopes his dreams assure.

He spends dark nights alone and cold,
In study, seeking wit.
He finds no spell to her heart hold,
Nor words to feelings fit.

All he can do is wait, and see
If he has earned her smile:
He wonders if muse might agree
To share the night a while.

He sees the moon, but knows it's glow
Reflects but her dreams' light:
The stars are gems that serve to show
That muse shares beauty's sight.

Can he place heart aside, and learn
All that his muse desires?
Can mind away from passions turn,
And think bare fact inspires?

She is far more than visions know,
And all that mage would need.
Yet, should he let his passions grow,
And not know where hopes lead?

18 Dec. 2003

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 12 Oct 04 - 07:53 PM