|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
Landscape
Now this must be the sweetest place From here to heaven's end; The field is white and flowering lace, The birches leap and bend,
The hills, beneath the roving sun, From green to purple pass, And little, trifling breezes run Their fingers through the grass.
So good it is, so gay it is, So calm it is, and pure. A one whose eyes may look on this Must be the happier, sure.
But me- I see it flat and gray And blurred with misery, Because a lad a mile away Has little need of me.
Dorothy Parker
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
Incurable
And if my heart be scarred and burned, The safer, I, for all I learned; The calmer, I, to see it true That ways of love are never new- The love that sets you daft and dazed Is every love that ever blazed; The happier, I, to fathom this: A kiss is every other kiss. The reckless vow, the lovely name, When Helen walked, were spoke the same; The weighted breast, the grinding woe, When Phaon fled, were ever so. Oh, it is sure as it is sad That any lad is every lad, And what's a girl, to dare implore Her dear be hers forevermore? Though he be tried and he be bold, And swearing death should he be cold, He'll run the path the others went.... But you, my sweet, are different.
Dorothy Parker
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
The Lady's Reward
Lady, lady, never start Conversation toward your heart; Keep your pretty words serene; Never murmur what you mean. Show yourself, by word and look, Swift and shallow as a brook. Be as cool and quick to go As a drop of April snow; Be as delicate and gay As a cherry flower in May. Lady, lady, never speak Of the tears that burn your cheek- She will never win him, whose Words had shown she feared to lose. Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.
Dorothy Parker
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 6,296 |
Tombstones in the Starlight
I. The Minor Poet
His little trills and chirpings were his best. No music like the nightingale's was born Within his throat; but he, too, laid his breast Upon a thorn.
II. The Pretty Lady
She hated bleak and wintry things alone. All that was warm and quick, she loved too well- A light, a flame, a heart against her own; It is forever bitter cold, in Hell.
III. The Very Rich Man
He'd have the best, and that was none too good; No barrier could hold, before his terms. He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.
IV. The Fisherwoman
The man she had was kind and clean And well enough for every day, But, oh, dear friends, you should have seen The one that got away!
V. The Crusader
Arrived in Heaven, when his sands were run, He seized a quill, and sat him down to tell The local press that something should be done About that noisy nuisance, Gabriel.
Vl. The Actress
Her name, cut clear upon this marble cross, Shines, as it shone when she was still on earth; While tenderly the mild, agreeable moss Obscures the figures of her date of birth.
Dorothy Parker
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189 |
I think I'll close this off with a little Charles Bukowski (and my view was #714...Babe Ruth's career home run total!...Yeah! ) POETRY
by Charles Bukowski
it takes a lot of
desperation
dissatisfaction
and disillusion
to write
a few good poems.
it's not for everybody
either to
write it
or even to
read it.© 1968 by Charles Bukowski The Only WO'N!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 872
old hand
|
old hand
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 872 |
Afterword: Just who the heck is Charles Bukowski? - - And good-bye everyone... Maybe. - -
|
|
|
|
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189
Carpal Tunnel
|
OP
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Mar 2001
Posts: 4,189 |
Thank you, milum! (sniff) And goodnight Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are! Wait a minute... milum?...who the heck was that masked man? The Only WO'N!
|
|
|
|
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065
Carpal Tunnel
|
Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,065 |
It would seem appropriate to finish off with this aubade from Milton:
SONG On May morning.
Now the bright morning Star, Dayes harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The Flowry May,who from her green lap throws The yellow Cowslip, and the pale Primrose.
Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire, Woods and Groves, are of thy dressing, Hill and Dale, doth boast thy blessing.
Thus we salute thee with our early Song, And welcom thee, and wish thee long.
Bingley
Bingley
|
|
|
Forums16
Topics13,913
Posts229,656
Members9,187
|
Most Online3,341 Dec 9th, 2011
|
|
0 members (),
138
guests, and
3
robots. |
Key:
Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod
|
|
|
|