BS: In every thread someone has to be last!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 15 May 05 - 07:03 PM

sonnet 199 of 241 to my muse...


Sonnet 17/11/04                         CMLIV

Shall I place kiss upon forehead, to show
The care I have for dreams, and your desires?
Would it be wise to gaze into eyes' fires
When I cannot more than what you say know?
Yet, might I let my longings to life grow,
To find if skin is as sweet to my lip
As your words are to heart? Might my arms slip
Around you, to concern for you bestow?
I want you in arms to hold and protect,
To know that you are near, and not just dream;
To feel your warmth, and let dreams become real.
How might I reach to you, save to reflect
In words what heart now feels? Yet, my words seem
Far from the passion that would love anneal.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 May 05 - 12:03 AM

sonnet 200 of 241 to my muse...


Sonnet 20/11/04                            CMLV

Will you allow concern, dear one, that I
Might worry when day ends without your smiles?
Should I not be upset heart cannot try
To give reason for joy, or ease your trials?
Might there be something I could do, to change
Your mood? You matter to me: Can I give
Some pleasure back, if just in fair exchange
For all the dreams that gave hope chance to live?
Is there a chance I might kindness repay,
To give you comfort, or to soothe your heart?
How can I dream when I know not the way
To capture tears, or have your laughter start?
What can I do, to share the joy I feel,
That thought of you has made dreams more than real?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 16 May 05 - 12:17 AM

btw, sonnet 241 to my muse is also the one thousandth sonnet that I have written. Still a ways to go, to compete with Merrill Moore.


42, I'm waiting to see what you do with the sonnet... Sorry about putting you in the Italian form, as that is a little more difficult. But it just seemed to be the right form...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 16 May 05 - 06:36 AM

BB I've been a headless chicken lately with too many gigs (to play and to organize) and haven't even looked back at it. I did copy and paste your suggestions into something useful just now so we'll see what happens.

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 17 May 05 - 07:03 AM

i heard you talking in your sleep
is there anything i can say
i don't believe we've had a word all day
about anything at all.*

















Gordon Lightfoot*

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 17 May 05 - 08:32 AM

If we took Bruce's sonnets out of this thread it would be a lot shorter.
Giok ¦¬]

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 May 05 - 07:51 PM

If we took the comments from people telling us to remove others postings, this thread would be a lot more worthwhile...


If you don't like it, just post something of your own.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 May 05 - 08:03 PM

sonnet 201 of 241 to my muse...


Sonnet 01/12/04                         CMLVI

I should not allow dreams, but heart in you
Sees something far too precious not to reach
To hold, forever. With your eyes, you teach
My soul something of heaven: There are few
That fill my feelings so. Yet, dreams can't do
What I desire: To wrap my arms around
Sweet muse, and nibble upon ear. I've found
No path to hopes, save that heart remain true.
Yet, are dreams foolish when I do not know
Enough of your desires to bring you smile?
Should I not think about kissing your skin?
Perhaps I should not let these passions grow,
Without a kiss. Yet, dreams of you beguile
My heart: I would all of you seek to win.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 May 05 - 08:26 PM

sonnet 202 of 241 to my muse...


Sonnet 02/12/04                            CMLVII

I seek for spells, to keep muse safe, and stars
To dance attendance upon dreams. I try
To win desire: Only the distance bars
My arms from reaching out, to hopes reply.
I chase after my dreams, to hold her near
And whisper that I care. Thoughts of her fill
My nights with longing: Should I passions fear
That I have sought? Will hope do me some ill?
I beg for reason to run to her: All
I want I see in muse. How can I stay
Apart from heart's desire? Can dream not call
With power to all of my past fears slay?
She is far more than dreams, but I have found
Heart is captured by hope, and by dreams bound.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 May 05 - 09:45 PM

sonnet 203 of 242 to my muse...


Sonnet 03/12/04                         CMLVIII

Can I find some gem to your eyes reflect,
To place around your neck, that it might touch
Where I long to caress? Can I expect
To kiss soft lips, or do I ask too much?
Shall I dream about you, and let thoughts trace
The curve of neck? You know I want to hold
My arms round inspiration: Shall I place
Hopes upon page, and let desires be told?
Might I weave you a crown of roses, white,
And all of thorns removed? You command all
Of dream, and of my heart. Might I share night
Looking at smile, and into your eyes fall?
You are my muse, and focus of desire:
Can I not dream of one who dreams inspire?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 18 May 05 - 10:56 PM

I hate when people interrupt!

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 May 05 - 10:58 PM

interupt what?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 18 May 05 - 10:59 PM

shall I post another sonnet, just for Giok?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 05 - 03:45 AM

sonnet 204 of 242 to my muse...



Sonnet 05/12/04                              CMLIX

Would you have me send dreams, to fill your night
With my desires? You know I long to hold
Arms tight around my muse, but have I told
How much I want to taste skin, and lips bite
Your ears? Might you brush hair from neck, invite
My touch to trace your jaw, and let lips meet?
Yet, I need not taste kiss to know how sweet
You are: Words give heart reason to seek sight.
Would you have me be more than one who writes
Of hope and dream? You need but ask, to gain
All I can offer. Should I hope you dare?
I will be what you wish: You hold my nights
With eyes, to keep dreams alive. I remain
One who must try to show I'll always care.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 19 May 05 - 06:36 PM

sonnet 205 of 242 to my muse...


Sonnet 09/12/04                            CMLX

You are not burden, though I would support
All you might wish. How can I help, to ease
The season's trials? You know in dreams I court
All of your love: Would it help to dreams cease?
I care enough to not pursue desires:
I have made clear my dreams. All I demand
Is honest thought, and words. Your heart inspires,
And dreams give soul chance to season withstand.
You know I want far more than dreams might earn,
Yet how can I less than love muse, when she
Gives reason for my dreams? Might smile return
Reflection of the care I hope you see?
All that soul seeks, I find in your soft eyes:
But does dream make heart any the more wise?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 20 May 05 - 05:35 AM

sonnet 206 of 242 to my muse...


Sonnet 10/12/04                            CMLXI

Does moon give light enough to show the way
To follow muse into her dreams? I chase
After the shadows: Should heart hope to trace
A path through clouds to stars, or on earth stay?
Will words my own desires truly display,
Or am I fool to think that I might place
Hopes onto page? Can heart even dream face,
And not regret words cannot longings say?
Does rain wash away fears, or clear the mind
Of all past's burdens? Should I thank the chill
For cooling passions, or is it the hour?
Where will I answers to my questions find,
Or more than dreams to all my night times fill?
All I am sure of is muse has the power.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 21 May 05 - 08:39 AM

i've tried for three days to post and it won't do it. so I'm probably wasting my time because this won't go anywhere anyway.
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 21 May 05 - 08:42 AM

so, it let this one through and left my beautifully crafted- tangled ball of yarn metaphor wafting around in the ozone...life's not fair!

I didn't go to kindergarten so I never learned all I needed to...but life should be fair at least some of the time
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 23 May 05 - 09:13 PM

sonnet 207 of 245 to my muse...


Sonnet 15/12/04                            CMLXII

I seek for guidance from my muse, to know
How much of all my love she might desire;
What of my dreams might give delight, or show
The longings that dreams of her eyes inspire.
How might I learn her dreams, save by the time
We share in conversation? Should I dare
To think my lines might some of passions mime,
Or only hope words show how much I care?
When will I know her heart, to see if all
Of dream might ever be? She is the goal
Of all desires, but more than longings call
Dreams to her: She is one who reaches soul.
How can I find reason to hold her near?
All I can hope is that she'll my heart hear.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: 42
Date: 24 May 05 - 12:02 AM

go away for the long weekend and come back expecting my sonnet quota to be met....only one!

yikes...
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 May 05 - 12:16 AM

sonnet 208 of 246 to my muse...


Sonnet 20/12/04                      CMLXIV

Does muse give vision because I desire,
Or are dreams only shadows that she casts?
I do not know, but pray she does not tire
Of sending smile, for hope that in heart lasts.
I cannot longing cease: Thought of her eyes
Fills dreams with such desire that I must weep
To clear my sight. Yet, are my desires wise,
When I cannot hold her, and her dreams keep?
I reach beyond all bounds, to try to touch
One who all of dreams hold. What can I do
To show sweet muse and the wide world how much
I want her happiness, and her dreams to be true?
I find in her spirit that to soul calls:
Can dreams not follow, when heart in love falls?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 May 05 - 12:20 AM

so, should I post some extra sonnets when I know I will not be on for a few days? I don't want any cases of Sonnet Deficiency Disease (SDD?) to occur, now that I have you addicted to them...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 May 05 - 04:05 AM

Addicted?? Quick give me a large plate of cold turkey somebody!
Little Hawk you have spawned a monster.
G...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 May 05 - 04:28 AM

ok, Giok. I will post more sonnets for you...


sonnet 209 of 246 to my muse...


Sonnet 24/12/04                      CMLXV

When will I find the chance to show concern,
That muse might know that my caring is real?
I can think that she knows just how I feel,
But do I have a hope that she will learn
How long love lasts? My desires still return
To those heart lost: I cannot now forget
No matter pain recalled, any I've let
Give dreams and verse, though some did not love earn.
I hold to dreams as long as muse permits,
And care until I die: Can I give more
Than all of heart? Muse holds my soul, if she
That soul desires. What other feeling fits
But love? I find my muse to be the core
Of all that heart in dream of love might see.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 May 05 - 04:29 AM

sonnet 210 of 246 to my muse...


Sonnet 26/12/04                           CMLXVI

I chase after my dreams, and muse: I seek
To hold her in my arms, close to my heart.
Yet, should I of my longings to her speak
When I cannot at distance passions start?
Muse gives reasons for hope, that dreams might yet
Be more than vain desire. I want to find
How to her happiness increase, to let
Her dreams be guide for thoughts within my mind.
I taste the kisses muse has sent, and think
How sweet lips are. She is all I desire:
A light to soul and dream, my only link
To higher plane. I cannot of hope tire.
Perhaps I care too much, but I would give
All she might need, to have my desires live.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 May 05 - 04:31 AM

sonnet 211 of 246 to my muse...


Sonnet 6/1/05                            CMLXVII

Might muse dance with the snowflakes, and take joy
In season's gifts? Frost forms a lace, on wall
And window: Formal dress, that winds employ
To show pleasure that she the steps recall.
Might she share starlight and bright moon that shows
Bare trees in lonely majesty? She lends
Life to the night: Sweet smile hints that she knows
More of my thoughts than all written word sends.
Might muse sing song, or whisper of dreams speak,
That I might know desires? Heart wants to share
The pleasure dreams have brought, but should I seek
To give more than token of how I care?
What might muse do, and how might I share hour
With one that all of heart's desires empower?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Giok
Date: 24 May 05 - 09:37 AM

Thank you BB another 3 that I didn't read, got any more? Silly question really 'cos I just know you have!
G..

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 May 05 - 07:41 PM

of course I do!


sonnet 212 of 247 to my muse...

Sonnet 7/1/05                            CMLXIX

I dare not ask for heart's desire: I know
That my dreams are not real. Yet, should I end
All hopes? Dream of you still my passions show
To be under spell, but do dreams offend?
You give me leave to dream, but am I fair
To place burden on you, when I remain
Too far to offer help? What that I care,
When I can't hold in arms, nor share your pain?
I want far more than dream: I want to think
That I give you reason to smile, and you
But happiness enjoy. Hope is the link
Between life and desire: Might hope come true?
I understand how foolish dreams might be:
But I cannot dreams of my longings free.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 24 May 05 - 07:58 PM

As long as I know you are not reading them, I guess I can post as many as I like each day.....





8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST
Date: 24 May 05 - 10:16 PM

so, who rained on your parade today, Giok?

Here's a quarter....

j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: miss.rebecca
Date: 24 May 05 - 11:37 PM

If he doesn't want to read them that's his own loss.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 May 05 - 01:07 AM

sonnet 213 of 247 to my muse...


Sonnet 13/1/05                           CMLXX

Why do I feel this way about my muse?
I dare not think I have heart won, nor found
Some secret spell to hold her love: I choose
To care without hope muse is by dream bound.
I want far more than I deserve, from one
Who owes me nothing. She is sweet, and kind
To let me dream: Yet, have my dreams begun
In muse to see what they've not right to find?
I have no means to happiness ensure,
Nor power to protect, but I would hold
Her in my arms. Should I my passions cure,
Or surrender to dream, and dream enfold?
She is much more than dream: She has the whole
Of heart and inspiration in her soul.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:06 AM

Nobody rained on my parade guest, in fact my parade is going along just fine and dandy thanks. Just been to too many poetry club type readings in my time I guess.
G...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:17 AM

O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast

O wert thou in the cauld blast,
On yonder lea, on yonder lea,
My plaidie to the aingry airt,
I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee.
Or did misfortune's bitter storms
Around thee blaw, around thee blaw,
The bield* should be my bosom,
To share it a', to share it a'.

Or were I in the wildest waste,
Sae black and bare, sae black and bare,
The desert were a Paradise,
If thou wert there, if thou wert there;
Or were I monarch o' the globe,
Wi' thee to reign, wi' thee to reign,
The brightest jewel in my crown
Wad be my queen, wad be my queen!

*bield = shelter, protection

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:20 AM

Love Sonnet LXXIX
by Pablo Neruda

By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep will defeat the darkness
like a double drum in the forest, pounding
against the thick wall of wet leaves.

Night travel: black flame of sleep
that snips the threads of the earth's grapes,
punctual as a headlong train that would haul
shadows and cold rocks, endlessly.

Because of this, Love, tie me to a purer motion,
to the constancy that beats in your chest
with the wings of a swan underwater,

so that our sleep might answer all the sky's
starry questions with a single key,
with a single door the shadows had closed.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:23 AM

Love Sonnet XI

by Pablo Neruda

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.

I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,

And I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:24 AM

Passing stranger! you do not know
How longingly I look upon you,
You must be he I was seeking,
Or she I was seeking
(It comes to me as a dream)

I have somewhere surely
Lived a life of joy with you,
All is recall'd as we flit by each other,
Fluid, affectionate, chaste, matured,

You grew up with me,
Were a boy with me or a girl with me,
I ate with you and slept with you, your body has become
not yours only nor left my body mine only,

You give me the pleasure of your eyes,
face, flesh as we pass,
You take of my beard, breast, hands,
in return,

I am not to speak to you, I am to think of you
when I sit alone or wake at night, alone
I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again
I am to see to it that I do not lose you.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:26 AM

499. Ae Fond Kiss
   
AE fond kiss, and then we sever;   
Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!   
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,   
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee!   

Who shall say that Fortune grieves him          5
While the star of hope she leaves him?   
Me, nae cheerfu' twinkle lights me,   
Dark despair around benights me.   

I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy;   
Naething could resist my Nancy;   10
But to see her was to love her,   
Love but her, and love for ever.   

Had we never loved sae kindly,   
Had we never loved sae blindly,   
Never met—or never parted,   15
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.   

Fare thee weel, thou first and fairest!   
Fare thee weel, thou best and dearest!   
Thine be ilka joy and treasure,   
Peace, enjoyment, love, and pleasure!   20

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!   
Ae fareweel, alas, for ever!   
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,   
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee!   

GLOSS: wage] stake, plight.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:34 AM

... sonnet 214 of 247 to my muse...


Sonnet 16/1/05                         CMLXXI

I want my muse, to hold throughout the night,
To look in eyes, and taste her skin. I long
To touch, and run fingers through hair: How might
I realize this dream? Will fears be wrong?
I want my muse to want me, and desire
All I might give. I hope that she might see
Enough in me to some future inspire,
But should I hope to more than dreamer be?
I want my muse to know the joy I feel,
Having focus for care. What can I say
That would my dreaming share? Can dreams be real,
That she might, in time, in caring arms stay?
All of my wanting does not make it so:
But I must take this chance to longings show.

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 25 May 05 - 04:40 AM

anybody else want the microphone?

8-{E

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: miss.rebecca
Date: 25 May 05 - 08:01 AM

oh now we are using a microphone?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 May 05 - 08:24 AM

A fuzz pedal and a wa-wah box too, please don't even mention his tremolo arm!
G..

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST
Date: 26 May 05 - 08:01 AM

and a partridge in a pear tree!
j

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 May 05 - 08:11 PM

sonnet 215 of 247 to my muse...


Sonnet 21/1/05                        CMLXXII

How might I find flower to send, that tells
Of my desire? Sweet rose has thorns to give
Unwanted wound; The lilac casts no spells;
And lily less time than even dreams live.
Is there blossom yet to be found, as sweet
And soft as dream of muse, that does not fade?
I seek what may not be: Yet, heart will greet
As real these hopes that dreams of muse have made.
I have only pale words, to try to please,
And dreams where I wish memory. Dare heart
Demand even a smile? Does dream heart tease
With hope that lips might ever passions start?
My muse allows my dreams, but should I think
She might let heart from her heart's desires drink?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: GUEST,Desdemona
Date: 27 May 05 - 10:06 PM

..as long as it's not ME!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 27 May 05 - 10:57 PM

no chance of that...

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 May 05 - 12:00 AM

sonnet 216 of 247 to my muse...


Sonnet 24/1/05                            CMLXXIII

A storm approaches, but thought of my muse
Gives all the shelter heart requires. Dreams hold
To springtime smile: I find dream can refuse
To let snow and wind make me think world cold.
Her eyes show warmth enough to melt the ice
That drips from pine. Might I have chance to share
Her bright regard? Dream does not quite suffice,
To give me heart's desires, but I still care.
Snow does not cover dream, yet, I remain
Too far away to hold her within arm.
How can I share the warmth that hopes obtain,
To muse comfort, protect, and keep from harm?
She offers hope, reasons for dream, and all
That I desire: How can my heart not fall?

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 May 05 - 02:26 AM

ok, here is a recipe from one of my cookbooks. I request comments as to how authentic it is, and variations.

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Swedish Glogg

2 quarts dry red wine
2 quarts muscatel
1 pint sweet vermouth
2 tablespoons Angostura bitters
2 cups raisins
peelings of one orange
12 whole cardamoms, bruised in a morter with pestle or by covering with a towel and crushing with a rolling pin
10 whole cloves
1 piece ( about 2 inches) fresh ginger
1 stick cinnamon
1 ½ cups ( 12 ounces) aquavit
1 ½ cups sugar
2 cups whole almonds, blanched and peeled

In a 6- to 8-quart enameled or stainless-steel pot, mix together the dry red wine, muscatel, sweet vermouth, bitters, raisins, orange peel and the slightly crushed cardamoms, whole cloves, ginger and cinnamon. Cover and let the mixture stand at least 12 hours so that the flavors will develop and mingle. Shortly before serving, add the aquavit and the sugar. Stir well and bring it to a full boil over high heat. Remove at once from the heat, stir in the almonds and serve the hot glogg in mugs. In Sweden, a small spoon is placed in each mug to scoop up the almonds and raisins.

Serves 20 to 25.
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Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: beardedbruce
Date: 28 May 05 - 02:28 AM

there is a recipe for Finnish Lemon mead, as well....

Subject: RE: BS: In every thread someone has to be last!
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 28 May 05 - 03:32 AM

Let's hear it for Joe Offer
G...