BS: In every thread someone has to be last!

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

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Sonnet 15/03/03                         DCCCI

Your joy my heart's desire, I seek to bring
Some of dream's hope to be. What might I send
To show concern? Might I my presence lend
To ease endeavors, that your heart might sing?
Would I might alter time, to spend evening
Giving what comfort arms can share: I'd hold
You as my muse and love. Am I too bold
In wanting you, that my hopes would take wing?
Yet, I cannot desire fulfill: I stay
Too far to send more than my words. Sweet muse,
You deserve better than I have to share.
How can I hope to night's despair allay
When I offer only my dreams? To lose
My doubts, I must far more than mere words dare.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 01:47 AM

just for fun, I've been re-reading this thread... ( yes, it is a long shift...)


Please note the following:


From: Bill D - PM
Date: 18 Mar 04 - 01:39 PM

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!




I have MY towel.......

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 07:15 AM

a good hitchhiker always knows where his/her towel is!

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 07:01 PM

8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 27 Oct 04 - 11:49 PM

ok...I'm an idiot...but I don't know what that means.

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 02:13 AM

just my emoticon... a signature, of sorts. You obviously got the point of my comment.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 02:16 AM

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Sonnet 17/03/03                         DCCCII

How can I share the feelings that I hold
Upon the thought of muse? It is not eyes
Nor mouth, nor even her sweet curves, that ties
My heart to dreams of her. I have but told
How her words reach to me, not how they fold
Around my guts to become part of soul.
I can with words all of passions extol,
But can I show I find her heart is gold?
I wish that muse might have the joy I know
When her words offer insight into heart:
I wish I might ease sorrows, and the wear
Of daily toil. Yet, should I let hopes grow?
I cannot give all I desire, nor start
To show my love: I pray she knows I care.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 07:00 AM

ouch! did that time!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: JennyO
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 10:31 AM

Bearded Bruce, I always picture you with glasses and fangs when I see your emoticon. Am I close?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 02:20 PM

I figure it's glasses, beard, and mustache. Tha's the typical description of what I am told is the classic Bob Dylan fan nowadays (although I do not have the beard and mustache).

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 09:10 PM

to be a worthwhile moniker BB must be a 17 year old, clean shaven woman.

j

who would've thought to use the word guts in a sonnet.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 Oct 04 - 09:35 PM

hmm. my post got lost...

LH has it right- glasses, beard, and mustache. Though I have been known to nibble on the occasional neck....


And guts is ok in a sonnet...


Sonnet 07/05/02         Bhan Sidhe                DCLXXXVIII

It was an odd noise that I heard, this night:
Not quite a scream, but far more than a gasp,
From moonless darkness, with no stars in sight.
What is this coldness, that my insides clasp?
Why do I weaken, hearing sound so far
Only the echo reaches ear, yet mind
Is twisted from intent? How can I bar
Gate of imagination to wyrd bind?
I fall, boneless with fright, and sweat breaks out;
Bowels turn to water with despair. I weep,
To lose all. I moan, but cannot give shout
To more than whimper, nor my reason keep.
She passes, and I live! Yet dare not rise
For fear of seeing Death within her eyes.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 12:36 AM

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Sonnet 26/03/03                        DCCCIII

I cannot long desires deny, nor lose
All hope for future: I shall try to learn
What I might dare, to heart's desire amuse,
And offer her my soul, to sweet smile earn.
I think of her, and find that I have gained
Enough of care to ease my heart, and heal
Past disappointments. I have dream obtained,
To find that smile gives reasons to hope feel.
I dream of eyes, and smile, but know that heart
Is far more precious: Beauty does not tell
Why she inspires, nor how thoughts of her start
To write dreams upon page, and make soul well.
I hope for touch, but know her soul holds mine:
I find by her my heart can love define.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 07:41 AM

Far be it from me to question the use of "guts" ... just bemused that there is no more romantic word springing to BB's fertile mind.
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 09:43 AM

and be-mused is just one letter away from a-mused.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 29 Oct 04 - 11:59 PM

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Sonnet 02/04/03                            DCCCIV

I cannot other than this longing feel
For one with such a soul. You send your smile
To banish chill, light dreams, and heart beguile:
What might a single kiss from you reveal?
How can I not hope your friendship will heal
All of heart's ills, and offer chance of dream?
Thought of you gives reason to past redeem,
And I seek dreams of you with greater zeal.
I cannot keep from caring, though I know
I cannot ease your toil, nor give you all
I wish: You deserve far more than I send.
I wish you only joy, but my dreams grow
As if I'd bring you smile. Should I recall
My age, or let dreams let my heart pretend?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 02:21 PM

alphabetically or mathematically?
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 30 Oct 04 - 07:28 PM

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Sonnet 15/04/03                               DCCCV

The day would remain dark without your smiles,
And thought of you is as my dawn. You care
For friends: How can I not care that heart's trials
Offer but tears, and do not your hopes spare?
I whisper my desires, and strain to hear
What you might wish of me: I seek to know
How I might win your smile. Should I now fear
To speak of dreams, when I would passions show?
You are one who shares heart, and hopes: I'd give
My dreams to bring you heart's desires, or mend
What causes tears. What might I do, to live
My own desire, and some of longing send?
Sweet muse, you know not what difference you make:
If you are dream, I do not wish to wake.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 31 Oct 04 - 01:14 AM

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Sonnet 15/04/03                         DCCCVI

Bright moon, lend dryad glow to ease the night,
That she might nurture dreams. Soft shadows form
Of leaf and blossom: Warm breeze, hold all storm
From her. Remain a beacon, shining bright
Upon the two of us. Give soul the sight
Of eyes, and smile. Trace form and face, and show
To vision what heart sees: Let longings grow
Under this spell, and give dreams your soft light.
A pale soft snow of blossoms from the trees
Tells season: Gentle wind caresses face.
How can mere mortal not feel that he sees
New world, and love, and seek for lips to trace?
Yet, though I find that season my hope frees,
Should I desire with hot passions replace?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 08:20 PM

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Sonnet 20/04/03                         DCCCVII

Would dryad's tears wash winter's chill from bone
And ease heart's aches? I would rather not know,
At such a cost: I will not let dreams grow
That ask that I would your crying condone.
Yet, should I all of hopes and dreams bemoan
When I remain too far from muse to hold
When you need care? I say I am too old,
But do I ask if you would my dreams own?
Might I give more than moment and these lines,
To be one who might dry your tears, and share
The aggravations of a world unkind?
Might I ask for the hope that heart refines
More than desires? Can I pray that you care
Enough to send me visions of your mind?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 11:44 PM

you don't want to see the visions of my mind!
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 11:51 PM

are you sure?



Are you muse?










are you awake?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 11:53 PM

Bibblesnagger! Gundersnatch! Tiftsquiggle!

You two should think about teaming up together. You could live in sin on this thread on a daily basis.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 02 Nov 04 - 11:58 PM

It's only sin if we regret what we are doing....


I thought I was the last one left. Good to know there is still life here.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 03 Nov 04 - 02:34 AM

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Sonnet 23/04/03                      DCCCVIII

I think of you, sweet muse, when I awake
To dawn and day's beginning: You bring light
To dream, and give reason for heart to make
The effort to show what I hope I might.
I think of you when all is still, before
Sunrise, and after sunset. In your eyes
I find caring: Will you my hopes restore,
That I might dream of finding love realize?
I think of you in dreams, where I can hold
In my arms throughout night, but I desire
To know your heart: Have lines your own dreams told,
Or should I hopes for passion now retire?
I think of you always, awake and in
My dreams, yet can I your heart hope to win?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 12:08 AM

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Sonnet 25/04/03                            DCCCIX

With eyes that offer heart more than the stars,
And smile to heal my soul, you give me source
For hope, and dreams. The thought of you lends bars
To keep out dark and fears, with caring's force.
I read your words, and find they resonate
With my own thoughts. I find in you far more
Than my words show: How can I not dreams state?
You are muse, friend, and one that hopes restore.
I seek to know all of you: Heart, soul, mind.
I try to learn what brings you joy, and all
That I might do to earn your smile. Dreams bind
All my desires to heart, that for hopes call.
You hold the future: Should I think of past,
That I have had slight chance to make dreams last?

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

LH - you are my one true soulmate. (swoon)

BB's courtly boughs to his muse are intriguing, romantic and full of questions. ...just like you! That's why I like them so much.

j

ps. Dylan will never come between us

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: robomatic
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 08:32 AM

This thread don't drift, it
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a
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g
s
like dole's dick
before         A
            R
         G
      A
   I
V
And it goes
on...and...on
from the count of one
it will end
when its bits reach
H E A V E N
now four decimals on
we think of it as years
and should stop
when we reach the
AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT


but . we . won't

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

bow to 42...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 06:26 PM

Why...thanks, 42! Gosh.

Okay, I have another vital thing to say:

Neef! Diddly! Sicklemyer!

(actually, I guess that was 3 things...)

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 04 Nov 04 - 08:36 PM

more old postings...


From: 42 - PM
Date: 20 Mar 04 - 10:49 AM

someone will think of putting an automatic post thing like e-bay and it will be like an infinite possibily drive. i'll buy the last poster dinner at the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.

.....


From: freda underhill - PM
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 06:23 AM

this thread will go on and on, and on.........until the sudden end of the world. and then, the person who is last may not even have time to find out the glorious truth .. that they were last!!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce - PM
Date: 02 Sep 04 - 06:33 AM

Shall we look closely at "The Resturant at the End of the Universe, to find someone entering a post to this thread at one of the tables?


And is not the value in the journey, not the destination?



**********


It looks like 42 will be taking me to dinner, as I post the last sonnet on this thread....

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Nov 04 - 12:01 AM

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Sonnet 26/04/03                        DCCCX

Might wizard, with a web of words, hold muse
For long enough to know his fate? He dreams
That he might find true love: Should he not use
His gift, to seek if heart is as it seems?
He sees sweet muse, and asks: Is she the one
To know his soul? Her words give cause to think
She shares some of desires, yet should he run
After his dreams? Does he to vain task sink?
She fills his dreams, and thoughts of her become
His reasons to find hope. Her eyes lend bright
Imagining: Her smile becomes the sum
Of what he seeks, and he knows dreams are right.
His skill and knowledge does not have the power
Of muse, but can he hope to leave his tower?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 05 Nov 04 - 07:03 AM

put your penny in the bank,hit the infinite probability drive BB and I'll meet you there. LH you can be the chaperone...or Marvin whichever suits.

j

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

Marvin seems more cheerful...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 05 Nov 04 - 11:56 PM

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Sonnet 26/04/03                            DCCCXI

You are a dream I cannot now forget,
Though I awake. Your eyes remain a part
Of my desires, to stay within my heart:
I find no reason to my dream upset.
I offer now this heart, that you might let
Some part of me be held. I seek the touch
Of your concern: Do I ask for too much,
That I should fear you will your smile regret?
You are my muse, and more, my friend, to lend
Your visions to dreams and my verse. The sight
That thought of you provides guides me towards joy.
Should I ask more of you than to smile send?
I wish that I might someday spend a night
In conversation: Would you with heart toy?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Cluin
Date: 06 Nov 04 - 12:22 PM

Apparently in this thread, everybody has to be last.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 06 Nov 04 - 05:50 PM

Well, I think IMO, that I am someone... as are a number of others here...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 06 Nov 04 - 07:04 PM

Donning my combined Ninja clothes and Harry Potters cloak of invisibility, no one will notice me being last!

Dunnit

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 06 Nov 04 - 07:29 PM

we won't?

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

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Sonnet 29/04/03                                        DCCCXII

These dreams of distant dryad ease my heart
And offer hopes for future. Do I need
All I desire? I do not know, but start
Upon a path that goes where muse might lead.
Should I ask for all that I want, when age
Must give me pause? I would not wish her harm
Nor risk regrets: I fear I am not mage
To future know, if hopes will win her charm.
I wonder if muse wants my love? I know
Only my dreams: Should I not wish to learn
Hers, and muse please? From hopes, my desires flow:
Am I a fool, to for heart's thralldom yearn?
I offer my concern unasked: She seems
One I would prize, even without my dreams.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 12:43 AM

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Sonnet 02/05/03                            DCCCXIII

I feel she is an angel- Muse and friend,
One I hold just in dream, but by whose lines
I remain bound. Perhaps I should dreams end,
And not hope that sweet muse will send heart signs.
I have not earned desires: Why should I think
She has need of my heart? My words are poor
Enchantments: Hers have strength to two souls link.
My dreams just hope that years will youth restore.
I cannot change: The vision that she sends
Wins over sense and reason. She is light,
Upon the dark: Within her smile she lends
New day, to one resigned to endless night.
I prize my muse; her lips, her eyes of fire;
Though mind and soul remain my heart's desire.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 07:14 AM

Lyric On #4: (subtitled) Definitely Not a Sonnet                  

                     
He burned like a candle…Flickered and flared
On a breeze, On a breath
On a moment in time.
Firefly in amber; Scorching and scathing
On a word. On a phrase
On a footnote in rhyme.
Floating and sinking
With the current…With the tide
He held tight to a spar on the sea.   
Held tight to a spar on the sea.

She fell like a leaf. Tumbled and tossed
On a whim; On a gasp,
On a thought in the night.
Will o' the wisp; Darting and dancing
On a tune. On a chord
On a moment of light.
Floating and sinking
With the current…With the tide
She held tight to a spar on the sea.   
Held tight to a spar on the sea.


They flew like the sparrow. Hungry and haunted
On an urge. On an impulse.
On an eddy of air
Hopeful romantics, restless and ruffled
On a quest; On a bet
On a wing and a prayer.
Floating and sinking
With the current…With the tide
They held tight to a spar on the sea.   
Held tight to a spar on the sea.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 08 Nov 04 - 07:03 PM

Once I thought writing (and singing) songs and poetry was the greatest thing a person could do. I was mistaken. But as long as I believed it, I practiced that belief with great passion, and it did produce some pretty good work, so I guess it was a good thing as far as it went.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 12:15 AM

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Sonnet 07/05/03                              DCCCXIV

Fair rose of Apalachin, share your thought
With one who offers heart. I hope to know
The source of your sweet smile: Might you hopes show,
That I'd have guide to what my soul has sought?
Dear one, share vision for future: You've taught
This heart enough to fill my dreams: Now lend
Knowledge of what I might to my muse send
To make eyes twinkle, and have desire wrought.
May I ask for your time? You know I seek
To touch both soul and lips, but do I dream
    Too much, or far too little? Give some sign.
    All I can say will just my dreams refine:
What should I hope, when all my futures seem
To beg that you will to my passions speak?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 09 Nov 04 - 12:20 AM

42,

Very nice.


Thank you.

8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 10 Nov 04 - 01:27 AM

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Sonnet 10/05/03                           DCCCXV

I dream of yellow rose, to friendship show
With subtle scent and morning's crystal dew.
When I see soul and heart, can hope not grow
That I might share your smile, and find dreams true?
I dream of soft red rose, that love displays
As flag of heart's desire. I long to touch
With gentle kiss, as if lips might hold phrase
To offer you my heart, should you wish such.
I dream of pure white rose, of moon-light hue
And all the power that the heavens hold.
How can I seek for dream and not find you;
How can I hope if I have not heart told?
I dream of you, dear muse, and know I care,
But do you wish for me to my dreams bare?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 11 Nov 04 - 09:34 PM

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Sonnet 10/05/03                               DCCCXVI

I sip at cup of tea: It warms my lips
Like thought of muse, but is not half so sweet.
Can I hope that we might some morning greet,
Or that I might kiss palm, or fingertips?
I finish drink, but thought from dream still sips,
Seeking to know her wish, that I might be
One to fulfill desires. Might I muse see,
That I can with my passion come to grips?

Were I a tree, I would remain in bloom
To please my muse, and keep her from all gloom.
   But then, I could not think to desire hold
   And whisper her my dreams, though they be bold.
      How shall I earn her smile, and tears remove:
      Can I to my sweet muse my caring prove?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 07:30 AM

after being unable to log on to the cat for the last couple of mornings I thought this thread would be long gone... i'm glad to see my worries were unfounded.
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:18 AM

1599

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 12 Nov 04 - 10:19 AM

1600. I thank you!