BS: In every thread someone has to be last!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 08:28 PM

I can envision Kelly staggering back, sonnet after sonnet, as under an avalanche of blows in a Sylvester Stallone flick... ;-) Can she "go the distance"?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 08:29 PM

5 of 68 to Kelly


Sonnet 17/11/00                                CDLXXXI

I now regret I did not know you, when
That which you tell occurred. I cannot send
Comfort or caring to past. To open
My heart to you, that I might hope to mend
Some of your hurt, I must at least now try.
Yet, can I hope to share what you now feel,
Or just helpless stand, listening to you cry?
I have not knowledge to which fate I seal.

I cannot alter past, to comfort you
Or care while it did matter. Can I hold
You as a friend, and offer shoulder now?
I care, that you remember pain, and know
Such loss. I hope you do not think me bold,
To offer healing where I don't know how.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 08:30 PM

Well, check the dates- it does take me SOME time to write them...


6 of 68 to Kelly


Sonnet 18/11/00                                        CDLXXXII

I think about you, muse, but fear desire
Might color vision: Do I ask for more
From you than to future image inspire?
I dare not impact to my dreams ignore.
I cannot say my heart might not be found
To be under your power: I would lie
To say I would resent emotion. Bound
To Past, heart might yet hope to future tie.
Yet I dare not upon your smile impose,
Nor ask, unless you offer: You control
All save my dreams. Yes, I would that verse shows
Heart, but I care too much to ask for soul.
I care, and hope to hold you as a friend:
Yet pray my dreams do not my intent bend.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 08:31 PM

7 of 68 to Kelly


Sonnet 21/11/00                                CDLXXXIII

Shall I call out your name, that you might hear
My supplications? I might place my heart
Upon the alter of my words, but fear
That might not be enough to invoke Art.
Shall I ask for your blessing, when the night
Is cloudy? Starless darkness fills my soul
With longing. Shall I dare of desires write?
I would not hope to your concern control.
Am I foolish, now, for caring, or a fool
For seeing you as muse? I hope to find
Some focus: I dare not let my dreams rule.
Yet, I would hold your hand, if you'd not mind.
I do not know you well enough, yet know
I care too much to risk you'd bid me go.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Nov 10 - 08:37 PM

8 0f 68 to Kelly


Sonnet 23/11/00                                CDLXXXIV

My thoughts confused by dream, and muse, and verse:
How can I vision see, without the light
You bring into my dreams? Does heart reverse
All I know, to hold me, captive to sight?
Light of my night, muse of my dreams, I wait
For direction: I dare not dreams allow
To guide without your words. I know not Fate,
To see future, or to understand now.
I would that I could hold you, but the wire
Between does not allow my arms to reach
To you. Should I ask more than you desire,
I hope that you will tell me so, and smile.
I would carry away, and at some beach
Seek within eyes what I have sought the while.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 08 Nov 10 - 01:17 PM

9 0f 68 to Kelly


Sonnet 23/11/00                                CDLXXXV

I have not seen into your eyes, nor felt
The touch of skin, nor heard your voice, to know
You hold my heart. I care, but dare dreams melt
Before you? And how would you have me show
Devotion from distance? Caring, I have tears
From reading: How would I feel, to realize
I cannot hold you, or share of those fears?
How could I see through what would fill my eyes?
Yet I would hold you as my friend, and pray
My feelings would reflect your own. I'd kiss
Your forehead and your palm, and hope to say
I do not wish to your written words miss.
It is desire I dare not dream as true:
How can I hope to know if I love you?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 01:57 PM

is it time for more sonnets??

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Chongo Chimp
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 02:05 PM

No. But it is time for another drink.

- Chongo

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 02:08 PM

Can't really argue with that...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 02:13 PM

and, looking at the dates, I think I have been last longer.




but I will be nice to Chongo, and not post another sonnet.... today.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 02:17 PM

and, looking at the dates, I think I have been last longer.




but I will be nice to Chongo, and not post another sonnet.... today.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Janie
Date: 19 Oct 11 - 09:45 PM

Then we shall await tomorrow....

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,beardedbruce
Date: 20 Oct 11 - 07:25 AM

Sonnet 10 of 68 to Kelly



Sonnet 24/11/00                                CDLXXXVI

And should I hide my feelings, when we meet,
That I do not risk losing your sweet smile?
Should I not offer to rub oil on feet,
Or not be open how I see you, while
You are before me, and inside my dreams?
I value you as muse more than my heart:
I dare not risk your smile with any schemes,
Nor dare I hear desires, to risk my Art.
I balance on a razor edge between
Fear and desire: I fear I may offend
But seek to know all that I might, and see
All future that my muse will let be seen.
Perhaps I must risk all, that I might end
Unknowing, and my heart, to seek muse, free.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 12:16 PM

still last...

Sonnet 12 to Kelly

Sonnet 25/11/00                                    CDLXXXVIII

How can I repay that which muse inspires?
I do not know the answer, but I fear
I might give soul that I might stop a tear.
How might I say that which my heart desires?
And what words might I write, to ask reply,
And would my muse give me a future dream
That heart might rest, and future hope redeem?
To muse, I cannot truth of words deny.
I ask the price that my muse might demand
To lend vision to dream: What is the cost
For giving back to my dreams what was lost?
How can I help but stand with heart in hand?
You offer hope: Far more than just a dream,
You send my thoughts upon a different stream.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 23 Jan 12 - 03:53 PM

Nice.

I hope the fair maiden had at least some appreciation of all that devotion.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 Jan 12 - 10:31 AM

Not really...



Sonet 64 of 68 to Kelly



Sonnet 13/12/02                         DCCLXX

You offer little chance for those who care
To help, or ease your pain. Do you desire
To reward thoughtlessness, or just to share
The agony with those of whom you tire?
You offer all to those that heart abuse,
And less than nothing to one who lends tears.
Is that what you wish, to concern refuse,
And seek for ways to multiply your fears?
You offer nothing that might give me hope
You will alter this path. How can I stand
To watch soul suffer? My heart cannot cope
With knowing you such harm to self demand.
I care too much, but cannot to you reach,
When you your own despair of life beseech.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 Jun 12 - 11:01 AM

refresh.


Anyone want more sonnets? Just post here...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jun 12 - 12:54 PM

You must be getting pretty desperate for attention to refresh this damn thing again.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 25 Jun 12 - 04:55 PM

You know, this is just too easy. It's too easy a concept. Any dork can get the LAST post...for the time being...but how about the middle post? Getting the middle post in a lengthy thread is much more difficult, requires much more planning (or luck) and therefore more prestige should accrue to securing the middle post than the last post.

I have therefore started a thread upon that principle. Have a look, Bruce.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 15 Jan 14 - 01:49 PM

LH has been last for over 18 months. I guess we need to do something about that.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 05:24 AM

I'd like to put in a bid for the honour.

Snag is, it would have to be a profound statement... I don't know any. Mind you, I was listening to some old tapes of guests we recorded at a folk club thirty odd years ago, and I cam across Mike Harding saying,

If music be the food of love, why don't rabbits sing like buggery?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Waddon Pete
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 01:58 PM

I hate to rain on anyone's parade and claim the last post...heaven forbid...I can't even play the cornet. However I wanted to let you know that Bearded Bruce has given his kind permission to use one of his sonnets in the "In Memoriam" thread. Thanks Bruce.

Best wishes,

Peter

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 02:48 PM

me

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 02:59 PM

I think Musket deserves to be last for at least a week, for his posted comment.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 03:01 PM

BTW, LH, I think I MAY be in the middle- check page 32...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 03:04 PM

me

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 03:13 PM

well….

293 of 293 to my muse…


Sonnet 16/02/10                                       MLXXI

I envy one within my muse's arms,
The focus of a love I cannot know.
How can I beg to share my muse's charms,
When I've not hope that my hope might yet grow?
What can I do, to earn a glance as sweet
As that muse gives to one who has her smile?
How might I fraction of that love entreat,
That someday both could lend dreams, for a while?
Is there yet reason I should dream of eyes
That hold my heart? Dare I offer my verse
To ask for her bright smile? Yet, am I wise
To seek lost dreams, or past hopes to life nurse?
I cannot not write when my muse remains
Within my dreams: Must past leave future stains?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 03:18 PM

me

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 03:22 PM

Repeating the same post THREE times? Not a worthwhile effort at all. Have you no pride?




Sonnet 292 of 293….

Sonnet 21/01/10                                       MLXX

Have I reason to think I might now seek
To know my muse's dreams? Should I inquire
As to her heart's desires, or try to speak
Of how she might by words my heart inspire?
Have I a hope to win her smile, or earn
A chance to look in eyes? Might I keep dream
Alive, that she remains my muse, or learn
Enough, to silence from past years redeem?
Have I the chance to change a part of past,
And offer more than words? Will time permit
My heart to heal, and hold to muse at last?
Can I find words that would desires fit?
I cannot know if muse might want my verse:
Yet thought brings lines, be it blessing, or curse.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 03:46 PM

nope

me

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 Jan 14 - 03:52 PM

291 of 293….


Sonnet 28/02/08                                  MLXIX

I wonder how you are, but cannot know
When you so silent stay: Am I to dream
If you are happy? Might muse some sign show
Of heart's desires found, to past hopes redeem?
Have you the time to tell if you now smile,
And what might hold attention of your eyes?
Will you share dreams, or offer just a while
When I might pretend you still think me wise?
I ask that you remember I still care
For all dream offered, and my muse inspired.
I cannot but regret I do not share
The thoughts and visions I so once desired.
All past has given are words, dreams, and hope:
Without muse, how can any poet cope?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jan 14 - 01:29 PM

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 17 Jan 14 - 01:37 PM

290 of 293…


Sonnet 17/01/08                                  MLXVIII

Night sky holds a bright waning moon, but I
Hold only hopeless dream: Muse is too far
In time and miles to hope to hear reply.
How can heart hope when silence fair dreams bar?
Should I try to remember, or forget
What thought of her once gave? Is there a chance
That shadow of dream might return, to let
Lost hopes lead heart to memory of romance?
Night's bitter chill, without my muse to lend
The dream to brighten darkness, or give heat
To passions cooled by empty nights. What end
Can heart hope for, but to lost dreams repeat?
Do hopes, or fears, or tears matter at all,
When I cannot for muse's soft words call?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jan 14 - 02:55 PM

hohum

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 17 Jan 14 - 02:57 PM

Sonnet 21/12/07                                  MLXVII

Without muse to guide dreams, I cannot find
The path to heart's desire: Hope is now lost.
Yet, should heart count all inspiration blind,
When memory remains, to show hope's cost?
I care now for past dreams, and words the thought
Of eyes and smile gave heart. Must I regret
Once holding dreams? Should I not have hope sought?
Does love for source of dream Nature upset?
Without word, I know not the fate of one
I held as heart's desire: Dare I request
You tell if you are happy? Would you shun
One who in past tried to give you his best?
Is there now reason that I should not care
About the muse who once her dreams would share?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 17 Jan 14 - 02:59 PM

I would think you might at least TRY to find something to actually say, to claim the "last" spot.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jan 14 - 05:36 PM

Why?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: gecko
Date: 18 Jan 14 - 05:47 AM

I think women will know where I'm coming from....
gecko

IN THE PARK, LOOKING…
            (Barbara Giles)

I'm not too old to like the shape of a man,

his walk, the set of his head on his shoulders,

the strong legs, well fleshed, and that bright

dark browed glance. There's a nose that I like,

admiring, blank faced. If you should

see me looking, if you saw me at all,

you'd think I'm reminded of someone,

husband, son, grandson, not that I look at you

as a woman looks at a man who stirs her.


The heart lifts, it's good to see a fine man,

to think - there goes a man I could love.

I'm looking at you, not remembering.

But as I well know, you don't see me,

old women are almost invisible. If I do catch your eye,

likely enough you'll be thinking,

'She has a look of my mother.'

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Jan 14 - 10:37 AM

Nice

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jan 14 - 12:12 PM

I made my comments back here

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 18 Jan 14 - 12:31 PM

Let's see if the dozy buggers fall for this. I have a cunning plan......


THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED








There. That ought to do the trick Musket old lad, you canny rascal.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 18 Jan 14 - 01:29 PM

Nice try - not

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 19 Jan 14 - 03:46 AM

This is a nicer try

Doing it later at night you see, whilst Michael sleeps off the cooking sherry.

Ok Musket old lad, you've still got what it takes.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 19 Jan 14 - 04:16 AM

Keep telling you: I don't drink; & if/back·when I did, it wouldn't·be/wasn't cooking sherry...

Why don't you ever listen, Cloth·ears?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 19 Jan 14 - 04:36 AM

Temper...

I'll win this you know. Watch.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 19 Jan 14 - 05:22 AM

Got to have last word, eh? Who think UR ~~ my mother-in-law? They're both dead, so sucks!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Ignatz Macomber Last
Date: 19 Jan 14 - 07:19 PM

So, does I.M. Last mean I win automatically?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 20 Jan 14 - 12:08 AM

Ingenious but unacceptable, I fear, Ignatz. The lower-case 'l' in thread title precludes such shifts & evasions!

♫♩♫ Any last you can be, I can be laster;
I'll get here faster and be laster than you! ♩ ♩ ♩

[After] Irving Berlin

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Musket
Date: 20 Jan 14 - 01:43 AM

Singing at that time of day? I must be right.

WARNING. SUSPECT VIRUS. DO NOT OPEN THIS THREAD.







A variation in a theme but you never know.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 20 Jan 14 - 03:32 AM

Eh?