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Noodles
10-11-2007, 12:10 PM
A Rainy Morning

A young woman in a wheelchair,

wearing a black nylon poncho spattered with rain,

is pushing herself through the morning.

You have seen how pianists sometimes bend forward to strike the keys,

then lift their hand, draw back to rest,

then lean again to strike just as the chord fades.

Such is the way this woman

strikes at the wheels, then lifts her long white fingers,

letting them float, then bends again to strike

just as the chair slows, as if into a silence.

So expertly she plays the chord

of this difficult music she has mastered,

her wet face beautiful in its concentration,

while the wind turns the pages of rain.

-Ted Kooser

PEACE LOVE EMPATHY
-Noodles
Smooth
10-11-2007, 04:35 PM
I don't know why, but I just can not sit here and read that whole poem.


........sorry.
Noodles
10-12-2007, 07:26 AM
Lazy much?

PEACE LOVE EMPATHY
-Noodles
BEERnBRATWURST
10-12-2007, 09:17 AM
Lazy much?

PEACE LOVE EMPATHY
-Noodles

I thought you two were the same person? At least that's what I've been hearing...
Smooth
10-12-2007, 09:24 AM
Do you believe everything you hear?


Always question reality.
BEERnBRATWURST
10-12-2007, 09:51 AM
Do you believe everything you hear?


Always question reality.

nope. Just asking.
Noodles
10-12-2007, 09:57 AM
nope. Just asking.

No, we're not the same person.

Smooth is my brother, he lives in California...meanwhile I live in Utah.

PEACE LOVE EMPATHY
-Noodles
ChrisJones
10-12-2007, 03:45 PM
I read it. Wasn't a difficult read. Interesting perspective.
Smooth
10-12-2007, 03:57 PM
Finally read it.

I thought it was nice.
GunStreetGirl
10-12-2007, 04:14 PM
8 Count


From my bed
I watch
3 birds
on a telephone
wire.
one flies
off.
then
another.
one is left,
then
it too
is gone.
my typewriter is
tombstone
still.
and I am
reduced to bird
watching.
just thought I'd
let you
know,
fucker.

Charles Bukowski
Smooth
10-12-2007, 04:16 PM
I like the one Noodles posted a lot better.


Thanks for sharing though.
ChrisJones
10-12-2007, 04:19 PM
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

I know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere among the clouds above;
Those that I fight I do not hate,
Those that I guard I do not love;
My country is Kiltartan Cross,
My countrymen Kiltartan's poor,
No likely end could bring them loss
Or leave them happier than before.
Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,
Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,
A lonely impulse of delight
Drove to this tumult in the clouds;
I balanced all, brought all to mind,
The years to come seemed waste of breath,
A waste of breath the years behind
In balance with this life, this death.

(written in 1919)
-William Butler Yeats
Spiralz
10-12-2007, 07:54 PM
here's one I wrote recently.


of the evil and darkness, I feel exposed,
twisted and convicted and so sickly posed,
a play thing for the masses, choked on,
my mind caked with the excrement that
you live upon, shadows cavort creating
splatters of dismay, gathered in the gardens,
the labyrinth, the spiraling brain tease that
leads you every which way, branded by
a dark spell, which deletes your identity,
conforming to a rabid mold fit not for you,
but for society, subsequently a pawn
in some sick perverse way, slave sweet
drone drained, denied and decayed, eyes
bleed the truth that cannot be chained
green_machine
10-12-2007, 07:57 PM
When a thread with some potential is created why don't people discuss it? Sure other people's poetry is nice and everyone has a few they take a shine too but why? What's the point of a poetry thread of any sort if you're not willing to talk about it. It becomes mindless babble like the word association thread.
VIXXEN
10-12-2007, 08:21 PM
i see more than a sentence and I tune out personally
Dan
10-12-2007, 08:25 PM
8 Count


From my bed
I watch
3 birds
on a telephone
wire.
one flies
off.
then
another.
one is left,
then
it too
is gone.
my typewriter is
tombstone
still.
and I am
reduced to bird
watching.
just thought I'd
let you
know,
fucker.

Charles Bukowski

wow, points for you. i fucking love Bukowski
oldsklgrl
10-12-2007, 08:31 PM
A one sentence poem for VIXXEN:

I took a pill so I could slumber, now into bed I slowly lumber....
VIXXEN
10-13-2007, 10:55 PM
see, nice and short..... now I feel taken by tears like an old chorus girl who has gotten her last check....
Noodles
10-14-2007, 01:17 PM
I read it. Wasn't a difficult read. Interesting perspective.

Everything I write on here isn't difficult to read. Also, I'd like to promise you that it will be worth it once you've finished reading it.

I will be posting a few interesting topics in a few days...here's some topics I'm thinking of using:

1. Spontaneous Human Combustion

2. You're Stand On The War That Isn't Declared

3. America...United We Stand?

Actually, that's all I can think of right now. Personally, I think the most interesting will definitely be Spontaneous Human Combustion. I'm very interested in that topic.

If you have any suggestions, please do let me know.

PEACE LOVE EMPATHY
-Noodles
Noodles
10-14-2007, 01:19 PM
When a thread with some potential is created why don't people discuss it? Sure other people's poetry is nice and everyone has a few they take a shine too but why? What's the point of a poetry thread of any sort if you're not willing to talk about it. It becomes mindless babble like the word association thread.

Sometimes people don't feel like reading...it's actually pretty strange to come to a message board if you don't like reading. Anyways, feel free to discuss any topic you want...I promise to participate.

Also, I posted that poem only because it's meaningful to me. I figure if one person reads what I write on here...then I'm happy.

PEACE LOVE EMPATHY
-Noodles
BEERnBRATWURST
10-14-2007, 01:21 PM
Everything I write on here isn't difficult to read. Also, I'd like to promise you that it will be worth it once you've finished reading it.

I will be posting a few interesting topics in a few days...here's some topics I'm thinking of using:

1. Spontaneous Human Combustion

2. You're Stand On The War That Isn't Declared

3. America...United We Stand?

Actually, that's all I can think of right now. Personally, I think the most interesting will definitely be Spontaneous Human Combustion. I'm very interested in that topic.

If you have any suggestions, please do let me know.

PEACE LOVE EMPATHY
-Noodles


I think CSI probably has you beat on spontaneous combustion. Personally I am more interested in your 3rd topic.
Noodles
10-14-2007, 01:38 PM
I think CSI probably has you beat on spontaneous combustion. Personally I am more interested in your 3rd topic.

C.S.I.?

Sorry...but isn't that a television show?

Anyways, the third topic will be interesting...especially if you are into politics. It'll probably make quite a few of you angry, and I'm sure I'll get a lot of shit for it.

PEACE LOVE EMPATHY
-Noodles
BEERnBRATWURST
10-14-2007, 01:48 PM
C.S.I.?

Sorry...but isn't that a television show?

Anyways, the third topic will be interesting...especially if you are into politics. It'll probably make quite a few of you angry, and I'm sure I'll get a lot of shit for it.

PEACE LOVE EMPATHY
-Noodles

Yes, it is a television show..and they beat the "spontaneous combustion" horse to death......
Smooth
10-16-2007, 03:56 PM
Never have and never will watch C.S.I.


I'd rather hear about Spontanious Human Combustion from Noodles and this site.
Nips
10-17-2007, 01:30 AM
does she have a qualification in that as well? i cant wait.
Noodles
10-18-2007, 07:08 AM
Never have and never will watch C.S.I.


I'd rather hear about Spontanious Human Combustion from Noodles and this site.

Agreed.

Why would I watch a fictionalized television show about Spontaneous Human Combustion when I could simply go research it online, and come up with my own hypothesis?

PEACE LOVE EMPATHY
-Noodles
ChrisJones
10-18-2007, 07:11 AM
Noodles you are one of the few people on this board that doesn't shit on people that have different views on things.

I respect that.