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22 May 01 - 10:46 PM (#468345) Subject: Luscious Phrases From: Ebbie Dave O's thread about songs and tunes that 'make you go mmmm' reminded me that there are lots of words and phrases that I cuddle in my soul. For instance,
Melt in sympathy... A friend of mine wrote a song where she says, (But when I think about leaving this place,)my mind wells with tears... Anyone else? Ebbie |
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22 May 01 - 10:50 PM (#468348) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: katlaughing my ex wrote this and it has always stayed with me: Melancholy is the blue side of the fire of love burning within you then there's These blue rememebered hills (from a poem) |
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22 May 01 - 10:53 PM (#468350) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: katlaughing And this,m by CarolC in the Shangri La thread: with a wistful smile that was but a ripple upon the surface of a deep well of understanding |
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23 May 01 - 02:25 AM (#468454) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Ebbie shivers... Thank you. |
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23 May 01 - 06:45 AM (#468531) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: GUEST,micca at work Kat, as you probably know, the "Blue rembered hills" is from A E Housemans " a Shropshire Lad" the poem is full of the most wonderfully wistful lines, here it is complete. BLUE REMEMBERED HILLS By A.E. HOUSMAN (1859-19336 Into my heart an air that kills
From yon far country blows:
What are those blue remembered hills,
What spires, what farms are those?
This is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain.
The happy highways where I went
And cannot come again.
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23 May 01 - 06:55 AM (#468533) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Lyndi-loo "The slow black,sloe-black,crow-black fishing-boat -bobbing sea" "The sun declared war on the butter and the butter ran" Both Dylan Thomas |
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23 May 01 - 07:36 AM (#468543) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: kendall Ed Trickett sings a song about a man who looks back on the past when he was a small boy listening to his Mother play the piano and sing. The line that gets me is:..and my manhood is cast down in a flood of remembrance, and I weep like a child for the past. |
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23 May 01 - 09:05 AM (#468579) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Snuffy She made her way homeward with one star awake |
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23 May 01 - 10:44 AM (#468627) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Matt_R "...it shone like silver in the firelight, like water in the sun, like snow under the stars, like rain upon the moon..." |
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23 May 01 - 11:05 AM (#468645) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Mrrzy And here I thought this would be another food thread... AAMilne and Edward Lear Or from Les Djinns: ...comme un bruit de foule / qui tourne et qui roule / et tantôt s'écroule et tantôt grandit... |
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23 May 01 - 11:05 AM (#468647) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: UB Ed Mr. Prine: "We lost Davy in the Korean War, still don't know what for, don't matter anymore." |
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23 May 01 - 11:06 AM (#468650) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: LR Mole Trickett's line is from D.H. Lawrence, I believe: "Piano".How 'bout this, also from D. Thomas: "...and I rose in rainy autumn and walked abroad in a shower of all my days." It's always my birthday sentence. |
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23 May 01 - 03:02 PM (#468852) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Ebbie Wow |
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23 May 01 - 03:07 PM (#468857) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: CarolC Thanks kat/katlaughing. I actually like the phrase 'luscious phrases' quite a lot. Sounds like a word pillow. |
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23 May 01 - 03:52 PM (#468909) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Robby I'm kinda partial to lines by W.B. Yeats: And I shall pluck til times and time are done, The silver apples of the moon, the golden apples of the sun. Robby |
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23 May 01 - 03:55 PM (#468912) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: GUEST,mkebenn@work Kristopherson.. And he stumbles as he's leavin' and he wonders if the reason is the beer that's in his belly, or the tear that's in his eye. "Casey's Last Ride" Mike |
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23 May 01 - 07:46 PM (#469075) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Bill D "since it is no better, I'm glad that it is no worse.. brandy in my bottle, and money in my purse" from "I've Rambled This Country, Both Earlye and Late" |
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23 May 01 - 08:41 PM (#469111) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: John Hardly "..and though she tried to keep from crying....it was like carrying a too full bowl of water." |
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23 May 01 - 10:11 PM (#469155) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Mudlark I collect these...the covers of my journals are filled with them.... From a poem by Francis Thomas... "Angels keep their ancient places, turn but a stone and start a wing..." From Richard II, I think... "Make dust our paper And with rainy eyes write sorrow On the bobom of the earth." "The distant, disengaged eyes of the perennial wanderer." S. Morgan "Holding on to resentment is like taking rat poison...and then waiting for the rat to die." A. Lamott And from the incomparable Tom Waits... "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." Hmmmm...very hard to stop, once I get started....
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23 May 01 - 10:50 PM (#469193) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Mudlark Haha...bobom.....right! Make that bosom!!! Mudlark |
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23 May 01 - 11:30 PM (#469214) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Matt_R And I know, that a drop of your existence everyday has changed me, and your smile could drive the cold winter away... |
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24 May 01 - 06:47 AM (#469359) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: rube1 All things are a flowing Sage Heraclitus says But a tawdry cheapness Shall outlast our days
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24 May 01 - 02:13 PM (#469625) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Jim Krause "He used to take acid But now he loves God, But he's still got that look in his eyes. Jim Ringer Oh stars that shine on Bethlehem Jim |
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24 May 01 - 02:28 PM (#469645) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: mousethief Sunset is an angel weeping, holding out a bloody sword |
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24 May 01 - 02:34 PM (#469649) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Jeremiah McCaw Lord Byron: "And if I laugh at any mortal thing; 'Tis that I may not weep." |
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24 May 01 - 02:37 PM (#469651) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Matt_R Love is better than a warm trombone when played by a two-tone brother... |
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24 May 01 - 02:37 PM (#469652) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Jeremiah McCaw From Scott Cameron Smith's song "Greentown", he describes his young self as: "Living a life I was born for in truth, Unfettered by wisdom, and fueled by youth." |
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24 May 01 - 04:32 PM (#469749) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Stevangelist In honor of the man's birthday: Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free; Silhouetted by the sea, Circled by the circus sands With all memory and fate Driven deep beneath the waves Let me forget about today until tomorrow." -Dylan, "Mr. Tambourine Man"
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24 May 01 - 04:40 PM (#469762) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: SINSULL tintinnabulation of the bells... |
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25 May 01 - 03:44 PM (#470486) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Trapper Here's one from "Rexroth's Daughter" by Greg Brown... "Life is a thump-ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.... - Al |
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23 Jul 01 - 10:27 AM (#512535) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: wysiwyg refresh |
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23 Jul 01 - 10:46 AM (#512571) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: GUEST,Bigchuck, whose cookie has crumbled "Rachel was a watermelon, ripe and freshly stole" from Rachel, by Jim Ringer, which also has the line "a skinny dippin sight to see, with freckles every where, a queen in faded hand-me-downs, wildflowers in her hair. Sandy |
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23 Jul 01 - 11:12 AM (#512600) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Bat Goddess There are two slate gravestones in a small graveyard in York, Maine. Both are for women, and with a number of years in between, but I believe both markers are from the hand of the same stone cutter. On each it was said: "She lived desired and died lamented." What more is there to aspire to? Bat Goddess |
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23 Jul 01 - 12:14 PM (#512617) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: GUEST ..from "Look Homeward, Angel" by Thomas Wolfe, in describing the coal tenders on a locomotive: "grimed [faces of] fire painted stokers." Just stuck, for no apparent reason.
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23 Jul 01 - 01:19 PM (#512642) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: dwditty Dave Van Ronk from "Another Time & Place" "I'd trade my time in heaven for a day with you my dear." |
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23 Jul 01 - 02:52 PM (#512718) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Maryrrf One of my favorites describing the pain of a lost love from "Come All Ye Fair and Tender Maidens" "If I had known when first I courted that love it was such a killing thing, I'd have locked my heart in a box of golden and fastened it up with a silver pin". |
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23 Jul 01 - 02:53 PM (#512719) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Kim C "It's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart." |
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23 Jul 01 - 03:43 PM (#512765) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Amos Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connait pas. Blaise Pascal. Chacun a son mauvais gout |
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23 Jul 01 - 04:45 PM (#512822) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: pattyClink from Loch Tay Boat Song: for my heart's a boat in tow |
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23 Jul 01 - 05:04 PM (#512847) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Kim C To each his own bad gout? I know the first one, Amos, but please translate the second. C'est depuis un longtemps que j'etudie francais. (And that's probably wrong, too......) |
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23 Jul 01 - 05:24 PM (#512862) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: SharonA From a Big Band-era song I heard over the weekend: I get sentimental over nothing. Imagine how I feel about you. |
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23 Jul 01 - 08:30 PM (#512957) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: McGrath of Harlow And all the flowers looked up at him, And all the stars looked down.
(That's from a carol by Chesterton - and I think I could fairly have put every line of it in this thread.) |
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23 Jul 01 - 08:47 PM (#512968) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Amos Everyone is entitled to their own bad taste.... A |
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23 Jul 01 - 09:03 PM (#512980) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: FriendlyFinny "...and it's a dark, dark sky holds the north star high, and guides us and bathes us in stillness and sameness and blue. Blue is the colour of my heart since you blew my senses apart, the feeling we're back in the start never ends as clusters of heavenly jewels gaze down on earth's lonely fools." - Roddy Frame I really love this. Finnabhair
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23 Jul 01 - 09:12 PM (#512988) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Allan C. "...when the wind is strummin' a sagebrush guitar" - from Along The Navajo Trail.
His gaze wandered through the canyons of the coals of the campfire... |
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23 Jul 01 - 10:10 PM (#513018) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Amos Eyes like the morning star Cheeks like the rose Laurie was a pretty girl, God almighty knows... A |
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23 Jul 01 - 10:53 PM (#513052) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Ebbie Life is a thump-ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess How perfect. See the pyramids along the Nile, watch the sunrise from a tropic isle... See the marketplace in old Algiers, send me photographs and souvenirs... Fly the ocean in a silver plane, see the jungle when it's wet with rain... Some of my favorite lines from the Jo Stafford recording. Thanks for refreshing this, Wizzy; a person could live on these words and images. Ebbie
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24 Jul 01 - 07:00 AM (#513243) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Jim Cheydi 'Glaciers would, geologically speaking, continue to go up and down like window blinds' - Kurt Vonnegut.
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24 Jul 01 - 07:13 AM (#513249) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: bigchuck "Listen to the wind, it's Mother Nature's violin" from "The Old Double Diamond" by Garry McMahan. Sandy |
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24 Jul 01 - 07:27 AM (#513255) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Brían Kim C: >br> Le coeur a ses raisons que le raison ne connait pas. "The heart has its reasons that reason does not know" That's my best(bad) French. And I better get practicing. I'm going to Quebec this summer. One of my favorite lines is in A NOBLEMAN'S WEDDING: Oh Annie, lovely Annie, I knew you never loved me. For your love and my love could never agree I have separated you from your true lover And that seperated the bark from the tree Brían. |
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24 Jul 01 - 07:55 AM (#513260) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Steve Latimer Beauty walks a razor's edge, Someday I'll make it mine. Mona Lisa must of had the highway Blues, you could tell by the way that she smiled. Both Bob |
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24 Jul 01 - 02:17 PM (#513589) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: GUEST,Pete Peterson "And the air was filled with the smoke of burning bridges" (Larry Niven) |
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24 Jul 01 - 03:35 PM (#513670) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Mr Red I heard this about the innards of a military box of electrics but it is a nautical term about ropes untidily placed. like a snakes wedding |
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24 Jul 01 - 03:40 PM (#513678) Subject: RE: BS: Luscious Phrases From: Bert Your head is like a pumpkin Your belly's like a drum Your legs are like two fiddle sticks So run you bugger, run. |