Thanks both of you Gyppo and Colm,
I'm so glad someone is still out there and reassured my computer wasn't stuck
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- Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:30 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: More importantly
- Replies: 11
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- Fri Feb 08, 2019 11:25 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: More importantly
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7462
More importantly
Dear Nietzsche,
Is poetry dead?
Is poetry dead?
- Sun Feb 03, 2019 11:44 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Unification Project
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7212
Re: Unification Project
Don't know why you apologized---I found your comments helpful and a reminder to not post something until I've lived with it for a while. I'm still working on some poems off and on that I started years ago. Some are worth that effort to me and some are a fun write. But even so if I'm going to post it...
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 10:15 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Too close
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7505
Re: Too close
Even me own mother said "well if things get too bad here we'll have to go to another planet." Its not that uncommon a thought. So go terraform Mars instead of taking care of our own yard--good idea.
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 8:53 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Unification Project
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7212
Re: Unification Project
Thanks for the read and thoughtful comment T,
I will try harder with this one as I should have done in the first place before I posted it
I will try harder with this one as I should have done in the first place before I posted it
- Sat Feb 02, 2019 7:53 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Unification Project
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7212
Re: Unification Project
I would drop the pipes of war as not really fitting to all that joy
Hmmmm---I amused myself with the contrast between opposing forces: war pipes vs ukuleles, each unfailing in their pursuit of war vs. singalong
Thanks for the read and comments Dave
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:36 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Too close
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7505
Re: Too close
You just jogged something in my memory but I can't quite get at it--something some astrophysicist said about a smell or sound or something we might expect from some aspect of the universe. Now I'll never get to sleep---its my bedtime. Good Night
- Fri Feb 01, 2019 11:32 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Unification Project
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7212
Re: Unification Project
let me know when you get yours
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 10:45 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Too close
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7505
Re: Too close
instead of discovering tongues, or just a taste that might lead us.... Being human puts us in a position of being arrogant I suppose, except for the rare few who practice an extreme form of humility as a religious following---I get that. what's this about discovering tongues or tates that lead us?
- Thu Jan 31, 2019 7:10 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Too close
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7505
Re: Too close
Hi Colm, I have read this several times and the truth is out---I'm not intelligent enough to understand it---not really. Perhaps "tongues" refers to language but "taste" refers to the more immediate experience (of the tongue in another context) which we have been removed from by our capacity to inte...