Today in History
- DaveInSaoMiguel - May 15, 2024 - 3:15am
Play the Blues
- Steely_D - May 15, 2024 - 1:50am
Joe Biden
- kurtster - May 14, 2024 - 8:37pm
Science is bullsh*t
- buddy - May 14, 2024 - 8:11pm
Animal Resistance
- R_P - May 14, 2024 - 6:37pm
Things You Thought Today
- Red_Dragon - May 14, 2024 - 6:25pm
2024 Elections!
- R_P - May 14, 2024 - 6:00pm
May 2024 Photo Theme - Peaceful
- fractalv - May 14, 2024 - 5:02pm
Israel
- R_P - May 14, 2024 - 4:57pm
Fascism In America
- Red_Dragon - May 14, 2024 - 4:27pm
Bug Reports & Feature Requests
- cptbuz - May 14, 2024 - 3:31pm
USA! USA! USA!
- R_P - May 14, 2024 - 3:20pm
NY Times Strands
- geoff_morphini - May 14, 2024 - 2:45pm
punk? hip-hop? metal? noise? garage?
- thisbody - May 14, 2024 - 1:27pm
What can you hear right now?
- thisbody - May 14, 2024 - 1:25pm
The Obituary Page
- thisbody - May 14, 2024 - 12:41pm
NYTimes Connections
- maryte - May 14, 2024 - 12:21pm
Wordle - daily game
- maryte - May 14, 2024 - 12:15pm
• • • The Once-a-Day • • •
- oldviolin - May 14, 2024 - 10:24am
Radio Paradise Comments
- oldviolin - May 14, 2024 - 10:21am
Social Media Are Changing Everything
- Red_Dragon - May 14, 2024 - 8:08am
Internet connection
- ai63 - May 14, 2024 - 7:53am
Song of the Day
- Steely_D - May 14, 2024 - 1:23am
Congress
- Red_Dragon - May 13, 2024 - 8:22pm
Ukraine
- R_P - May 13, 2024 - 5:50pm
Strange signs, marquees, billboards, etc.
- Red_Dragon - May 13, 2024 - 3:36pm
What The Hell Buddy?
- oldviolin - May 13, 2024 - 1:25pm
Surfing!
- KurtfromLaQuinta - May 13, 2024 - 1:21pm
What the hell OV?
- oldviolin - May 13, 2024 - 12:28pm
China
- R_P - May 13, 2024 - 12:11pm
Bad Poetry
- oldviolin - May 13, 2024 - 11:38am
What Did You See Today?
- kurtster - May 13, 2024 - 10:35am
See This Film
- Red_Dragon - May 13, 2024 - 8:35am
Podcast recommendations???
- ColdMiser - May 13, 2024 - 7:50am
News of the Weird
- Red_Dragon - May 13, 2024 - 5:05am
Mixtape Culture Club
- Lazy8 - May 12, 2024 - 10:26pm
Trump
- Steely_D - May 12, 2024 - 3:35pm
Those Lovable Policemen
- R_P - May 12, 2024 - 11:31am
Vinyl Only Spin List
- kurtster - May 12, 2024 - 9:16am
The All-Things Beatles Forum
- Steely_D - May 12, 2024 - 9:04am
Baseball, anyone?
- Red_Dragon - May 12, 2024 - 6:52am
Poetry Forum
- ScottN - May 12, 2024 - 6:32am
Photography Forum - Your Own Photos
- miamizsun - May 11, 2024 - 10:37am
Upcoming concerts or shows you can't wait to see
- oldviolin - May 11, 2024 - 8:43am
Beer
- ScottFromWyoming - May 10, 2024 - 8:58pm
It's the economy stupid.
- thisbody - May 10, 2024 - 3:21pm
Oh dear god, BEES!
- R_P - May 10, 2024 - 3:11pm
Tornado!
- miamizsun - May 10, 2024 - 2:49pm
The 1960s
- kcar - May 10, 2024 - 2:49pm
Climate Change
- R_P - May 10, 2024 - 10:08am
Name My Band
- GeneP59 - May 10, 2024 - 9:35am
Marko Haavisto & Poutahaukat
- thisbody - May 10, 2024 - 7:57am
Artificial Intelligence
- miamizsun - May 10, 2024 - 6:51am
Living in America
- Proclivities - May 10, 2024 - 6:45am
Virginia News
- Red_Dragon - May 10, 2024 - 5:42am
Outstanding Covers
- Steely_D - May 10, 2024 - 12:56am
Democratic Party
- R_P - May 9, 2024 - 3:06pm
RP on HomePod mini
- RPnate1 - May 9, 2024 - 10:52am
Interesting Words
- Proclivities - May 9, 2024 - 10:22am
Positive Thoughts and Prayer Requests
- islander - May 9, 2024 - 7:21am
Breaking News
- maryte - May 9, 2024 - 7:17am
Guns
- Red_Dragon - May 9, 2024 - 6:16am
Spambags on RP
- Steely_D - May 8, 2024 - 2:30pm
Suggestion for new RP Channel: Modern / Family
- Ruuddie - May 8, 2024 - 11:46am
Gaming, Shopping, and More? Samsung's Metaverse Plans for...
- alexhoxdson - May 8, 2024 - 7:00am
SLOVENIA
- novitibo - May 8, 2024 - 1:38am
Reviews and Pix from your concerts and shows you couldn't...
- haresfur - May 7, 2024 - 10:46pm
Eclectic Sound-Drops
- Manbird - May 7, 2024 - 10:18pm
Farts!
- KurtfromLaQuinta - May 7, 2024 - 9:53pm
The RP YouTube (Google) Group
- oldviolin - May 7, 2024 - 8:46pm
Dialing 1-800-Manbird
- oldviolin - May 7, 2024 - 8:35pm
What Are You Going To Do Today?
- Manbird - May 7, 2024 - 7:55pm
Russia
- R_P - May 7, 2024 - 1:59am
Politically Uncorrect News
- oldviolin - May 6, 2024 - 2:15pm
Other Medical Stuff
- kurtster - May 6, 2024 - 1:04pm
|
Index »
Entertainment »
Books »
Poetry Forum
|
Page: Previous 1, 2, 3 ... 88, 89, 90 ... 210, 211, 212 Next |
samiyam
Location: Moving North
|
Posted:
Aug 26, 2010 - 8:49pm |
|
Prayer Of Remembrance
The semi-trailer, lost in the night and wailing upon overturning wheels, nestles its sound around my mind and lifts me from my sleep. Certainly no mind has ever encountered the horrors of the late-night loneliness and been less than challenged.
It is there, hiding from the monsters, under our blankets and breathing through a crack...
There we find our dragons and learn to ride.
Once again I cast a leg over his scaly back and look upon the clouds.
I remember... and smile.
S.A.M. Tanner 2010
|
|
Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 26, 2010 - 4:04pm |
|
|
|
Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 25, 2010 - 10:05am |
|
oldviolin wrote:"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity But I know none, and therefore am no beast..."
From Richard III WS thanks, I'm stealing that too. try and stop me.
|
|
oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 25, 2010 - 9:46am |
|
"No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity But I know none, and therefore am no beast..."
From Richard III WS
|
|
Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 25, 2010 - 9:41am |
|
oldviolin wrote:Punch Song
Four elements, joined in Harmonious strife, Shadow the world forth, And typify life.
Into the goblet The lemon's juice pour; Acid is ever Life's innermost core.
Now, with the sugar's All-softening juice, The strength of the acid So burning reduce.
The bright sparkling water Now pour in the bowl; Water all-gently Encircles the whole.
Let drops of the spirit To join them now flow; Life to the living Naught else can bestow.
Drain it off quickly Before it exhales; Save when 'tis glowing, The draught naught avails.
Friedrich von Schiller I'm gonna post this gem on my FB page and send it to my famblies - thanks, I haven't enjoyed a poem like that for a long time!
|
|
oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 25, 2010 - 9:11am |
|
Punch Song
Four elements, joined in Harmonious strife, Shadow the world forth, And typify life.
Into the goblet The lemon's juice pour; Acid is ever Life's innermost core.
Now, with the sugar's All-softening juice, The strength of the acid So burning reduce.
The bright sparkling water Now pour in the bowl; Water all-gently Encircles the whole.
Let drops of the spirit To join them now flow; Life to the living Naught else can bestow.
Drain it off quickly Before it exhales; Save when 'tis glowing, The draught naught avails.
Friedrich von Schiller
|
|
oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 24, 2010 - 4:14pm |
|
The Wanderer I met him at the crossroads, a man with but a cloak and a staff, and a veil of pain upon his face. And we greeted one another, and I said to him, "Come to my house and be my guest." And he came. My wife and my children met us at the threshold, and he smiled at them, and they loved his coming.Then we all sat together at the board and we were happy with the man for there was a silence and a mystery in him. And after supper we gathered to the fire and I asked him about his wanderings. He told us many a tale that night and also the next day, but what I now record was born out of the bitterness of his days though he himself was kindly, and these tales are of the dust and patience of his road. And when he left us after three days we did not feel that a guest had departed but rather that one of us was still out in the garden and had not yet come in. Kahlil Gibran
|
|
Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 20, 2010 - 7:54am |
|
oldviolin wrote:Addendum To A Prayer or Why I Follow The Sun
Driving home, looking to the west Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter The setting sun a yellow/orange ball of wax Melting dripping honey sky It was then I would call her Ask her to step outside and gaze with me Remember me from afar Tell her what troubled my fractious mind The road beating against my soul Her voice in my head Saying You are a special boy Never forget The Sun Is there for you...
b sweet
|
|
oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 20, 2010 - 7:51am |
|
Addendum To A Prayer or Why I Follow The Sun
Driving home, looking to the west Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter The setting sun a yellow/orange ball of wax Melting dripping honey sky It was then I would call her Ask her to step outside and gaze with me Remember me from afar Tell her what troubled my fractious mind The road beating against my soul Her voice in my head Saying You are a special boy Never forget The Sun Is there for you...
b
|
|
oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 15, 2010 - 10:26am |
|
Manbird wrote:
|
|
Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 15, 2010 - 10:25am |
|
oldviolin wrote:
|
|
oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 15, 2010 - 10:23am |
|
Manbird wrote:
|
|
Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 15, 2010 - 10:22am |
|
oldviolin wrote:
|
|
oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 15, 2010 - 10:20am |
|
Soul Memories Of Soles
If I'm hearing a screen door slam And see linens billowing on the line If I hear the call of a jay Then there must be an oak and a pine
If a dirt road stretches smooth and acrid From pitch being heated by the sun And my bare feet are black on the soles Then I must have been free to run
If the path through the wooded shroud Is worn with the wearing of faces Then I must be dreaming of home In the haunting of all of my traces... b
|
|
samiyam
Location: Moving North
|
Posted:
Aug 9, 2010 - 10:39am |
|
One September AfternoonHome from town the two of them sit looking over what they have bought spread out on the kitchen table like gifts to themselves. She holds a card of buttons against the new dress material and asks if they match. The hay is dry enough to rake, but he watches her empty the grocery bag. He reads the label on a grape jelly glass and tries on the new straw hat again. ~ Leo Dangel ~
|
|
oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 7, 2010 - 10:17pm |
|
Affair To Remember
There is a gap in the air where green eyes viewed rough Tudor construction and now forgotten shoe styles trod narrow cobble stoned streets in the dead night of a German winter and yet; living there still is the exhalation of youth expended for the love of something other than boredom...
b
|
|
oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
|
|
Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 7, 2010 - 10:04pm |
|
oldviolin wrote: they know discretion
I'm down with eraser head.
|
|
oldviolin
Location: esse quam videri Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 7, 2010 - 10:02pm |
|
Manbird wrote: well who else are they gonna speak to? DOY!!!!!
they know discretion
|
|
Manbird
Location: La Villa Toscana Gender:
|
Posted:
Aug 7, 2010 - 10:00pm |
|
oldviolin wrote: well who else are they gonna speak to? DOY!!!!!
|
|
|