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Inviting You Into My "New" 19th Century Cottage....
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Hi Susan! What a great place! Congratulations on it. I'm looking forward to seeing what you do with it. How fun to get a new place to make your own. Enjoy the process.
Oh what a fabulous house. I can't wait to see what you do with it. Hugs, Marty
This place is fantastic. I love the orange and green walls. I agree the bedroom is too frilly, but that should be an easy fix.
So very very charming!!!!
Very interesting. Red and orange walls - I've never dared - I like my pastels but this year I am going purple in my bedroom.
Oh how FUN will this be???! LOVE those long drink of water windows! Such beautiful details!!
Looking forward to watching your work in progress! Renting or living in it?
Why American men should boycott American women
I am an American man, and I have decided to boycott American women. In a nutshell, American women are the most likely to cheat on you, to divorce you, to get fat, to steal half of your money in the divorce courts, don't know how to cook or clean, don't want to have children, etc. Therefore, what intelligent man would want to get involved with American women?
American women are generally immature, selfish, extremely arrogant and self-centered, mentally unstable, irresponsible, and highly unchaste. The behavior of most American women is utterly disgusting, to say the least.
This blog is my attempt to explain why I feel American women are inferior to foreign women (non-American women), and why American men should boycott American women, and date/marry only foreign (non-American) women.
Tens of millions of American men have had their lives completely destroyed by American women through the following crimes:
1. False rape accusations (it has been proven that up to 80 percent of rape accusations are FALSE)
2. False domestic violence (DV) charges (same as above)
3. Financial destruction of men in divorce courts through alimony and support payments (women get up to 95 percent of their ex-husband's income and savings, as well as the house, car, etc)
4. Emotional destruction of men by ex-wives who have stolen their children from them and forbidden contact
5. Divorced dads who commit suicide as a result
Not one single American woman has EVER condemned their fellow American women for committing these crimes against men. Silence means consent. Therefore, American women support and enjoy destroying men's lives and causing men to commit suicide. Apparently, American women think it is okay to be a criminal, just as long as you are a woman. Therefore, is it any surprise that a huge percent of American men no longer want anything to do with American women, other than using them for easy sex and then throwing them away?
Over 50 percent of American women are single, without a boyfriend or husband; so the fact is most American men no longer want to marry American women. Let these worthless American women grow old living alone with their 10 cats.
A national morning radio show talked about the Boycott American Women blog and was heard by millions of people.
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What a darling cottage. Love that kitchen. Can't wait to see what you do with it.
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Nothing has stood the test of time like the Wiggles. The group started in Sydney, Australia in 1991. The Wiggles consist of Murray Cook, Anthony Field, Phillip Wilcher, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt. Murray met Greg and Anthony at Macquarie University, where they were studying to become preschool teachers. Cook himself was in a number of bands before meeting these two individuals. After meeting they all collaborated to created a school project. This ultimately led to producing an album and subsequent touring.
From the beginning, the Wiggles understood that children have a short attention span, like to move around, and like to feel that they have a job to do. Taking this into consideration, one of the Wiggles, Jeff, pretended to be asleep during their routine. The other Wiggles would request the children's help by asking them to help wake him up. The children really responded well to this and became very engaged. As a result, the Wiggles have had more success than many popular bands, including Coldplay. It can be argued that the Wiggles are the most successful children's entertainers, second only to Disney.
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The 1.8-mile, 14-turn racetrack surrounded by a harbor full of yachts isn't Monaco or Long Beach; it's St. Petersburg, Florida. For the second year in a row, this popular tourist destination, located on the peninsula that separates Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, hosted round two of the SPEED GT championship.
It could be argued that the roots of the SPEED GT series reach all the way back to March 25, 1966 and nearby Sebring International Raceway. It was on this day that the SCCA sanctioned its first Trans-American Sedan race. Trans-Am vehicles were primarily modified versions of road-going production cars. Shelby-prepared Mustangs were early series winners until Roger Penske showed up in 1967 with a Sunoco-sponsored Camaro. Driven by Mark Donohue, the Camaro ended Ford's domination and established a formidable competition legacy for the Z28, winning 20 races and three series championships between 1967 and 1970. Early Trans-Am racing was tight, tough, and popular with race fans. Sadly, the manufacturers dropped out of the series a few years later, and the era of production-based Trans-Am racing drew to a close.
Fast-forward almost 30 years, and the introduction of a new SCCA racing series similar to the original Trans-Am. Titled the SpeedVision World Challenge, the series got underway in 1999. Although a change of ownership brought a fresh name for the network in 2002, the newly christened SPEED channel continued to sponsor the World Challenge series. Currently, Corvettes, Vipers, Porsches, Audis, and Cadillacs race head-to-head for the top spot in the GT class. The SCCA closely regulates the performance of each car, hitting race winners with a weight penalty to prevent any single team from dominating the series.
In 1999, Chevrolet built 20 special-production, frame-only Corvette race cars. They carried VINs GMM0001 through GMM0020-or General Motors Motorsports numbers 1 through 20-and were sold to race teams for $20,000 each. Each car included fixed-roof-coupe bodywork that was packed in boxes and shipped with the chassis. The cars were produced for two more years, during which time they earned the nickname "Boxcars." Many have since been reconfigured with C6 Z06 bodywork and continue to compete in the SPEED GT series today.
Which brings us back to the spring of 2006 and the streets of St. Petersburg. Twenty-seven cars qualified for the race, eight of which were Corvettes. Lou Gigliotti put his LG Pro Long Tube Header C6 on the pole with a time of 1:17.796. A Porsche 911, a Viper, a Pratt & Miller Cadillac CTS-V-piloted, incidentally, by factory C6.R driver Johnny O'Connell-and another C6, this one driven by Leighton Reese, followed closely behind. Other notables included last year's driver champion, Andy Pilgrim, who qualified sixth in another P&M Caddy.
Remembrance of Things Past
The race was flagged off at 4:45 p.m. under clear skies. Gigliotti won the standing-start drag race and went on to finish a contact-free first lap ahead of a 911 and Reese's Corvette.
Unfortunately for the Corvette contingent, things would soon change. During the second lap, Viper driver Tommy Archer clobbered the back of Reese's C6, badly damaging both cars. Although Archer was hit with a severe penalty, it was of little consequence, as neither car would finish the race.


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Recently, The New Yorker published chef Anthony Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." Bourdain spared no one's appetite in this tell-all about what happens behind the kitchen door.
Now, the author uses the same "take-no-prisoners" attitude in his deliciously funny and shockingly delectable audiobook, sure to delight gourmands and philistines alike. From his first oyster in the Gironde, to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown, from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop Rockefeller Center, to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris and back to New York again, Bourdain's tales of the kitchen are as passionate as they are unpredictable.
Kitchen Confidential will make your mouth water while your belly aches with laughter. You'll beg the chef for more, please.
Anthony Bourdain is the author of the novels Bone in the Throat and Gone Bamboo. This is his first work of nonfiction. He is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New York City.
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"Kitchen Confidential"
This is one of the best books I've listened to; or read for that matter. It was addictive. I was swept away by the author's own narrative, he is the only one who could possibly do his own book justice. All the French & Italian terms and the ease with which he describes his experiences...this was a mind-visual-smell-and mostly tasty escape into someone's life which I'd always thought glamorous. Well, what a fun ride, and how enlightening! This man is a BRILLIANT writer, and so much fun to listen to. Give it a try, and even if you don't like food, you WILL love this book. This is the one that finally got my husband into audiobooks...we couldn't "put it down", and were so sorry when it ended!
"One of the funniest books I've ever heard..."
Besides containing great information about what to order where and when, and what really goes on to make a restaurant run, the author is absolutely hilarious. His description of restaurant lingo was beyond funny. This is one of the funnest books to listen to ever. But be warned that the language is graphic, but, as the saying goes, "if you can't take the heat..."
"It's Cooking"
Hey, he swears, he talks about drugs, sex, food. Especially the food. He clearly loves his food.
I cannot believe that some reviewers take against the author for honesty and being himself. He swears! Aaargh! He is honest about his past: "I was a jerk" - and I imagine he was. Perhaps is. Who knows? He writes what comes out of his head, what he feels, no holds barred. And he narrates it very well.
I am a Brit, so a lot of the references to restaurants, chefs, places meant diddly squat to me, but it doesn't matter. The book is funny - laugh out loud in places - it is informative, profane, full of foodie terms I have no idea about (but so what, it ain't a recipe book). It is a good listen.
I mark it down a point because I think the quality of recording could be better - a strange fade-in thing going on at the start of sentences/sections, but not so bad that it is to the detriment of the tale. Kitchen Confidential? AB will hate it - but I say 'well done'. Arf.
"Funny, witty, insightful...and brutally graphic"
Ok, so color me "sensitive" if you like, but I found myself at least wishing for some sort of warning about the vulgar language and graphic depictions of base (usually sexual) behavior. I'm not saying you shouldn't listen to it for that reason--I could have turned it off any time, and did not--but rather just trying to warn similarly constituted listeners what they're in for. The book *is* very entertaining, and Mr. Bourdain is an engaging story teller. The theme did seem to wander about a bit, from expose to documentary to lecture to diary...back and forth. All in all, though, a witty and entertaining (if brutal) look into life of a professional chef. You'll never look at a restaurant meal in quite the same way again, and, as Mr. Bourdain advises, you'll definitely want to "be polite to your waiter."
"Simply wonderful"
I do enjoy Anthony Bourdain's television show "No Reservations", but it was the recommendation of someone I spoke with that convinced me to "read" this book. As someone who enjoys watching cooking shows and learning about food, if not good at cooking myself, I was immediately sucked into this audiobook.
Bourdain himself is a fantastic narrator. He presents his fluid and witty style clearly and with great pacing. You can tell how much effort he put into this book, and the listener is rewarded with a great variety of information. I enjoyed hearing the insider secrets about what to order when, what kinds of utensils and cookware are actually worth having, etc., but far more interesting were the stories of Anthony working behind the scenes at many restaurants in many cities.
One word of advice: this book is gritty in the sense that he pulls no punches in his description of the restaurant industry and those who make it up. If lengthy references to or all-out discussions about drugs use and sex offend you, you'll not be wanting this audiobook. On the other hand, this is the most gratifying "cooking show" experience I have*ever* had.
I have recommended this book to at least ten people since finishing it. Off to listen to the next offering from AB.
"For the food service in us ..."
If you've ever worked in a kitchen, this is how it really is. Not how it "should" be, but most of the time how it actually is. This book is written by Anthony, but could have thousands of other names as the writer. But only he, it seems, could have put it in the words that he has. A great tribute from all of us that have gone through it.
This is a must read for anyone even remotely interested in the writer (good or bad), ready to eat in a fine food joint (when to order certain foods, when not to, and why), or thinking of working in the kitchen industry. Very well written, full of very logical and technicial facts from the food industry, a very good and enjoyable read, and just down right funny! My very first full 5 star rating and I just don't give those ratings away.
I respect the writer much more after seeing where he came from and what he went through, though I must say I found him entertaining before reading it. This was a wonderful glimpse behind the kitchen doors written by a person able to tell it better than most. Very well done Mr. Bourdain!! Learn from his decisions, and hope to be as fine a Chef as he actually is. Very well written indeed.
"Tony's the one to Narrate This !"
What a great listen. I discovered Anthony Bourdain through his No Reservation shows on the Travel channel. If you've enjoyed those as much as I have, you'll love this. I can't imagine anyone else reading it like the author. From the CIA (the school, that is), to P-Town, to NYC, to Tokyo and back with a supporting cast of dishwashers, waiters, sous chefs and the best baker in the world (with no last name !), you'll love hearing about his life and exploits. Enjoy.
"Bourdain reads real chef experiences"
Tony Bourdain is funny, irreverent, honest, opinionated--and did I mention funny? 'Kitchen Confidential' isn't just a book for foodies, or people who eat out a lot, or people who love/respect the work chefs do (although all of those people would enjoy this book.) It's an adventure about discovering himself, about recognizing what he truly loves to do--done with razor-sharp humor and honesty and self-recognition. I've listened to it twice, and I'm sure I'll listen to it again.
"Pure entertainment"
It is very educational book for restaurant goers. Every time I enter go to a restaurant lately, I refer to the observation that are made in this dynamic description of restaurant life inside and outside. Besides being entertaining, this book supply some inside facts that you may never learn unless you read this book. So much sticks in your mind, that it comes out during you visit to a restaurant or to a bar.
"Insightful and entertaining."
Bourdain's style is brash, so if that turns you off he's not the author for you. You won't find a lot of Emeril Lagasse's "feel good" in this book (the two are apparently not buddy-buddy with each other). Yet the author's gruff exterior is revealed herein to be aware of the subtle things in life, the emotional undercurrent not only of cooking but of living, and he goes a long way to making himself appreciated in the reader's eye despite his penchant for profanity and an inflated sense of self. You will learn what it's like to be a top chef and you will be able to smell the kitchen experience as he describes his numerous jobs at some of the nation's top restaurants. I especially appreciated his multicultural passages where he pays tribute to the work force handling your food -- one that usually speaks little to no English. If you like cooking, you will like this book.
"Read the paperback not the audio book, and..."
found it truly engrossing. I loved it from start to finish and can only think that the audio book would be just as good.
"A hidden view of restaurants"
This book is not for those who find strong language offensive though Bourdain makes no apologies for the life he lives and loves. I rarely prefer authors to narrate their own work as often trained actors do a better job but I can't imagine who else could improve on this. If you ever wanted to own a restaurant or become a chef listen to this book first, you need to know what you are getting yourself in to. Once you have heard it you will only eat in restaurants Tuesday to Thursday. This brutally honest biography is a far cry from the polished chefs we see on TV every day. Where the ability to cook isn't as important as being a manager. When Bourdain describes how the seedier corrupt side of humanity thrive in his kitchens you know he isn't going to spend time telling you how to make creme brullee. Well worth a listen
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Discworldpadawan wrote:Really? Better watch what I say then incase he comes over Loughor bridge and gives me a hidin'! Not many welshies on here tho are there, we're a bit sparse! Out of interest, which country in the world has the biggest concentration of Sir pratchetts fans, according to members of the forum here then Tony? I know I could look at your map, but maybe not all the members are shown on there yet?
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Oct 3, 2006
Reader Question Submission #4
Any thoughts or answers?
7 comments:
- jonathan said...
The rotation reading will be 0 when you first start the program no matter where the lever is. So just put the lever upright before starting the program.
I'm not sure how your master bot is set up, but you can find out how many rotations the lever has turned at any time by the "view" section on the NXT. Just go to "motor rotations", and it will show you how much rotations the motor has turned at all times.
- Oct 3, 2006, 8:34:00 AM
I had mine set up with 4 mailboxes. 2 mailboxes had the rotational value for each sensor and the other 2 were for direction. Direction was true if it was a positive number and false if negative number. Anyway by connecting it to power and direction on the move block I was able to drive with varible throttle in a "tank like" fashion. I got the code if you want.
- Oct 3, 2006, 9:24:00 AM
Jim - if nicthegr emails you the program, would you post a screenshot of it?
- Oct 3, 2006, 9:26:00 AM
- Jim Kelly said...
Yes, I will... please email me a screenshot or .rbt file to jktechwriter at gmail dot com and I'll get it posted...
- Oct 3, 2006, 9:31:00 AM
- Brian Davis said...
The position that the motors start in *should* be the zero angle - although I usually include a Rotation sensor block set to reset to make sure.
Huh, I thought I had posted more detailed stuff on that. I've used remote control for my dual-NXT projects, and actually popped some of the code into my LEGO MDP profile page. The other place to look is in my Brickshelf folder: look at the screenshots "btrc" and "remote":
Note that I didn't like the position & direction as seperate things... so I wrote a MyBlock to roll them into one (signed) value. Are these screenshots enough?
Brian Davis
- Oct 3, 2006, 12:34:00 PM
Is there some explanation somewhere about the "mux/demux of the switch"? I has a hard time figuring how to wire your GetAngle block (tried to wire directly add/substract inside switch to input of next block -> grey invalid wire!)
- Oct 3, 2006, 5:14:00 PM
- Brian Davis said...
There's a rough exaplination or guide here, in the screenshot of my abs(y) MyBlock:
The trick (I think) is that the two wires coming out need to connect to the same wire *at* the boundry of the Switch, *not* at the downstream plug. Even then, it seems to be... tricky, to get it the first time.
Brian Davis
- Oct 3, 2006, 9:57:00 PM


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Penfold wrote:Amazing Broc, I never fail to be amazed at what sights mother nature gives us if we just take time to look.
Are you going to show us the rest Con, or are they private?
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Busy day, but focus is on the BrownsPosted by on November 20, 2012 – 8:07 pm
Tuesday was a busy day at the team's practice facility, signing quarterback Brian Hoyer and receiver Plaxico Burress. But the focus still was squarely on this week's game against the Cleveland Browns.
Coach Mike Tomlin knows the Browns' 2-8 record is not indicative of the talent they have or how they will play this week against the Steelers at Cleveland Browns Stadium.
"They've been in some highly competitive games," said Tomlin. "They beat Cincinnati, they were in the Indy game and the game last week went into overtime. Such is life in the National Football League. They're a competitive bunch. They play for 60 minutes, we respect them and our focus is on our preparation and ultimately our play.
One of the main weapons the Browns have on offense is rookie running back Trent Richardson. When Richardson was drafted, Browns' Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown was critical of the selection, saying "I'm not overwhelmed with it. The problem is that he's ordinary. I think he's ordinary."
Richardson has been anything but ordinary for the Browns, leading the team in rushing with 670 yards through 10 games and scoring five of the Browns six rushing touchdowns. He also is the team's leading receiver with 37 catches for 289 yards and a touchdown.
"I was hopeful that the legendary Jim Brown was correct in his initial assessment of Richardson but I am disappointed," said Tomlin, knowing Richardson is someone the team will have to contend with. "This guy is a talented runner. He has great contact balance. He is strong willed. He is highly productive. He has a downhill run demeanor. He finishes off runs. He has soft hands. He is their leading receiver as well. He is their feature ball carrier.
"He really is just living up to the expectations that come with being as high of a draft pick that he is. He is good for them in all circumstances, first, second and third-down, short yardage, goal line and in the red area. I mentioned what he is doing in the passing game. That's probably as surprising as anything to me. Obviously, I don't spend a lot of time evaluating guys that go that high in the draft, based on where we picked in the draft. But I did get a chance to look at him and he is as good as advertised."
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The Steelers signed Burress after being impressed with his workout at the team's indoor practice facility.
"He's in really good physical condition based on the workout I just saw," said Tomlin. "He's got very good body control for a big man. He can drop his weight at break points. Obviously, he's no stranger to football."
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Charlie Batch will start at quarterback against the Browns after Byron Leftwich was injured against the Ravens on Sunday night. Tomlin said there won't be major changes in the offense to fit Batch's style, just some minor things.
"The changes will be subtle and they'll be made with an emphasis geared toward maximizing his strengths and minimizing his weaknesses," said Tomlin. "We've got a great deal of confidence in Charlie. One thing that I can say about this quarterback situation, as uncomfortable as it may be or may appear to be, it is not something that we're foreign to unfortunately. We've been as far as three and four deep in terms of playing quarterbacks in recent years. Definitely in '09 and '10.
"Those guys do an awesome job of rallying and answering the bell. We expect them to. So, we're excited about him preparing and leading us this week."
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By Mikey Newman on Nov 21, 2012 | Reply
Its a good thing to have Plax back, although he had issues when he was younger,he has matured into a good man and his past experiences will be very good for this team.He has kept up his conditioning and lets face facts, he is a very good reciever.As for the new quarterback from New England, i dont know much about him,but,Coach Belicheck must of seen something in him to keep him around as long as he did. He is one of us now, and we must stand behind him. Go Steelers, we are not done yet!!!!!!!!!!!
By Kevin on Nov 21, 2012 | Reply
I'm glad that Charlie Batch is starting against Cleveland. Unfortunately, he should have also been starting last week against Baltimore. Had he been the Steelers would almost certainly now be 7-3 and tied for first place instead of 6-4 and in danger of not making the playoffs. The loss to the Ravens can be laid very squarely at the feet of Mike Tomlin…
By Will on Nov 21, 2012 | Reply
I am not sure that releasing Baron Batch was a great idea as our running back situation is not ideal at this time. I have some reservations with the signing of Plaxico, I hope that he has changed his selfish attitude and comes to practice and play without the big ego. I am disappointed that he was signed.
By Nick on Nov 21, 2012 | Reply
Yeah.. good sign for the Steelers and Plaxico…Look, we may just have to look at the season as good enough to get the 5th or 6th spot in the playoffs…then get hot in January which we are TOTALLY capable of(I prefer us as underdogs anyway). Pittsburgh can beat and challange any of these AFC opponents (A Denver away game scares me still) but they can certainly compete against all the NFC contenders such as the Falcons,Bears,Giants,Packers and 49ers. Last weeks loss hurt, but these Steelers gotta find there heart and move forward which I as a fan have confidence they will do! Go Steelers Baby!!
By Woody Mc on Nov 21, 2012 | Reply
Agreed the B-more loss lies at the feet of the coaching staff. I don't mind the Plax signing but I think if we were going to bring a guy in it should have been Hines if for no other reason leadership in the WR corps get Wallace head in the game this year with the drops and the 3 point give away fumble.
By jay on Nov 21, 2012 | Reply
Hines? what was he gonna give this team? he couldnt get open last year (though i love him, but im glad he retired) Plax was a great signing it give us sure hands in the red zone & with his height teams have to respect it. We lost as a team last week, Tomlin wasnt on the field on that sp teams return, nor did he make wallace fumble, he did what he thought was best for the team. Leftwich practiced all week with the 1st team, maybe batch wasnt as prepared.. As "fans" u support when we are winning but point the finger when we lose. When it comes to my steelers keep your mouth shut if not part of the solution….
By jay on Nov 21, 2012 | Reply
I trust coach tomlin & his decisions as i always trust this organzation. we will get it together & be in the playoffs, get ready
By ted on Nov 21, 2012 | Reply
Can someone explain why we didnt call back QB Jerrod Johnson?
6'5″ 251 played great for us in the preseason and even better knows the playbook. Have no clue who this hoyt is but i know he doesnt have any chemistry with the team or know the play book. If Charlie goes down we are going to be in serious trouble. For red zone purposes plax was a good option, might have had that touchdown against the Ravens.
By J.N. on Nov 22, 2012 | Reply
It's great to see that Plax is back! :) I would like to know what is going on with Big Ben? Will he be playing anymore games this season? I sure hope so! I am a die hard Steelers fan win or lose but want to see more wins that losses. And last week's game was awful in terms of all of the incomplete passes! And there were MANY! :( I am getting REALLY frustrated!
By J.N. on Nov 22, 2012 | Reply
Oh and P.S. I think it would have been GREAT if they could have brought Hines back too! :)
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leafman343 wrote:I think those might be the 8 inch figures, there are 6 inch figures in similar packaging that have an action feature that is activated by squeazing their legs together. I was hoping that by some miracle the 6 inch protoypes they showed at NYCC had made it to production, those had Marvel Legends style articulation.
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What is your poetry?
Poetry communicates what nothing other than poetry can. We all have those unspoken stories, the resounding silence and the brilliance of darkness that defy the structures of prose. Some of us can have poetry to speak for us, like Suheir does. Some of us do not have it and read it to know that someone else has spoken for us.
Leonard Cohen said, 'Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.'
How well is your life burning? How much ash did it gather? What is your poetry?
Dedicated to my TED friend Jim Moonan.
Jun 17 2013: My poetry is in one of my poems- 'I am still alive" it goes like this:
I Am Still Alive
I am at my learning stage
will be learning and experimenting all the way
Don't judge me as a success or a failure
I am yet not complete
I am still alive
Don't record my journey I have traveled
or will be traveling
Record the way I have traveled
and developed myself as a tourist
Don't judge me what I have seen
or what is still unseen
I am yet not complete
I am still alive
I have seen the rise and a deep fall
tried to rub the past from my canvass
but impression was there on the great wall
Don't judge me by those sketches
by the colours and marks on the wall
I am yet not complete
I am still alive
I am evidence of many miracles
read many springs and many falls
yet everyday something surprise me
play with me, make me child
Don't judge me with my tears
with feel of many smiles
I am yet not complete
I am still alive
If still you want to judge me
judge me by love I spread
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The moments of my awareness
The depth and thinking high
Though I am yet not complete
Though I am still alive
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Jun 18 2013: I really like this poem. I won't judge you as you are alive and on your jounry. Great expression in your poem.
JeffJun 16 2013: She calls us undefined friends
Because a label would undermine things
The minute you tie strings you become
Highly strung
Trying to say the right things
And what started off with drums often ends with violins
Jun 16 2013: But I stick out
Like a misfit note
In a quartet
Drums or violins
In the end
She listens to only what she likes
Hesus Johnov
Jun 12 2013: My poetry is the songs I write and construction projects. Creating something new from an emotion or need fills me with delight and can keep me high for several hours or days. There is rhyme and fluid motion to building stuff that people that do not build do not understand.
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Poetry is not just written or spoken words and that can be a fence or wall that prevents people from experiencing it. A poet can describe a forest or mountain beautifully but if it does not inspire you to visit a forest or mountain it is wasted.
Jun 12 2013: I appreciate your poetry. You are right, it doesn't have to be written words. I hope you have noticed I did not go by the formal meaning of poetry.
As a civil engineer I can also appreciate your poetry in construction projects. Poetry, in a sense is a construction too.
Thanks. :)Jun 10 2013: I hope when you remember
And tell new friends of me
That you tell them that you love me
And for all eternity
I always held you tight
And twice i let you go
But i held onto the memories
More than you'll ever know
I smile every time i think of you
But i miss you more each day
Because you'll always be the best
In every single way
I miss my lovely grass
And flowers that never settle
But ill always miss you
Because i love you petalJun 8 2013: Big Aeroplanes
There were dreams
that all had wings
I flew them like a kite
They came to me
in the evening
and left before daylight
the rest is complicated
so foggy and so dense
There is no house
no dog, no swing
No white picket fence
Between the sheets
the darkness
is everything I own
a tire lump of flesh
so naked and alone.
The dreams have turned
to memories
its there that we still dance
I drink some wine
and smile....
fixed, as if in a trance
Yes, I do still think of you
every time it rains
every time I hear that song
or see big aeroplanes.
T A Hoppe 2012
Jun 9 2013: Eloquent and sublime all at once. Thank you.
Jun 9 2013: Thank you for the kind words. This is a wonderful thought to invite us to share these poems.
I add one more.
butter my roll, before you go
lying on clean sheets
I am wrestling with fat pillows
That will not hold me back
The water's drip & drip,
wet outside the window
drips that count a time
the wind blows in the ruffled curtains
in and out
I am lying to a woman
and she wants to wrestle on clean sheets
with big pllows. and have curtains like these.
Curtains that fly
in and out..to the breeze of the moon.
and I am lying with the woman
she is wrestling with choices
she has clean sheets and the freshest breezes
that blow in off the ocean
tonight, I say "Take off your shoe, we'll dance"
pick out a song we know, let's sing along
she orders chocolates and green tea
the birds will sing if we are quiet.
and the branches will sway
back and forth
smoke spins around in my head
Turn the stars on. the sky is charcole.
Drink some wine. I will draw you
Jun 9 2013: If you are not already, you have all the ingredients of a poet, Theodore. We are lucky to discover you ! :)
Jim Moonan
May 27 2013: I am so happy to have found this conversation. Thank you Pabitra. My life moves so unpredictably, that it takes poetry to provide the rudder needed to at least give me some sustaining direction.
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Here is a poem I am working on. I wrote much if it in the car, heading to Yale University, thinking about the week that lay ahead of me and the fact that I would soon be immersed in a child's world and asked to lead it. Yale is ensconced in the city of New Haven, a city that lives in a parasitic relationship with the university. I wouldn't want to live there...
This poem is not about anything in particular, just thoughts I am having....
Highway Ramble
"Who is the third who walks always beside you?" – T.S. Eliot
What should we do?
Who will arrive and take us through the eye of the storm?
The quiet storm that drags us on the glacial slide back to the sea?
Who hurls the rocks that rain down on us
From some infinitesimal spot in the cosmos?
Who will harvest what blooms in the unattended garden
To give us nectar or death by hallucination?
We wait. We listen. We feel the void
And it aches for filling.
Within our limits we imagine a god
In our image, a god that gives us nothing
To hold onto as the storm descends - save our freedom of choice.
In all religions there is a sadness that anchors the faith-filled against the storm.
We tell ourselves to be brave,
Stay inside the arms of gospel truths,
Burn our fires, collect our ashes
To spread amongst the garbage and the flowers
To cast back into the sea that bore us
Or place in a jar by the door.
Who? Who is it for?
Truths, like the patterns in a child's kaleidoscope,
Dance into oblivion.
The men are useless eunuchs
Victims of their own violence
Knowing yet not knowing that
Peace, at least, can be found
In the arms of a woman.
Staring out to sea
Her soft skin moistens
As if the very womb that begat her
Has come to take her back
And release her again on another shore.
What should we do when she arrives?
May 27, 2013
Paul Lillebo
May 22 2013: Poetry, like fiction and the other arts, is a cooperative creative venture: the poet weaves his/her magic carpet of words, and the reader creatively transforms this pattern into new feelings, thoughts, emotions, ideas ... The great poets are the ones who are able to evoke such creative participation by the reader. And the reader must be prepared and willing to enter into the poem, not to divine the poet's meaning, but to create the poem's meaning to oneself. Without a creative reader the poem is only half created.
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Many of my favorite great poems are at my web site: www.outstandingpoems.comMay 21 2013: For now, my poetry is motherhood. It is the most discombobulated haiku I've ever written.
May 21 2013: Kia, this is so well said!! Agreed!!May 21 2013: Hmm. I hope in time it will be a ballad. :)May 20 2013: I think you are spot on with your description of how poetry communicates what nothing else can.
As a poet, myself, I am continually drawn to writing poems that help me articulate felt but unsaid ideas and emotions. Reading your question, I was reminded of Seamus Heaney's Personal Helicon: "I rhyme / To see myself, to set the darkness echoing." and Emily Dickinson's wonderful quote: "If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only way I know it. Is there any other way?"
In times of crisis, I have found more comfort and solace in poetry than anything else. Poetry is a place I return to out of love as much as necessity.
May 20 2013: I took all the descriptions
Of the world and life
To sit at your feet
And mean nothing
A poem is born in that moment.
Is it a place like that?
Jeff ROWE
Jun 18 2013: all men are little boys
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And as a little boy we were greatly influenced by our mothers.
We ask our mama's where did we come from?
And, what is love?
Very often we tell mama we want to marry a girl just like her.
Then, just like that, we are no longer little boys
But grown up men,
And yet, we still are little boys in our heart
Especially when we want to be the hero for the woman we love.
It seems almost impossible, to us men, that a woman can say,
"I don't understand men."
Because, we men are very simple
And our mothers trained us.
As little boys, we cry just as hard as little girls,
Perhaps louder and more often,
And yet, as we grow—
Big boys don't cry
Except in our hearts, but we don't show it.
How can it be that women don't understand us?
All we want to do is please them and make them happy.
When we see a woman we desire and want,
We immediately become afraid that we will be rejected.
Some of us can't bear the thought of it.
Others of us just pretend and hide our fear.
Oh how often I have fallen apart inside my heart
And how many times I've hidden the fear?
Oh how often I wondered whether or not I am even lovable?
And yet, I continue on—
Looking for the success to overcome my many failures
And hoping I am not laughed at or made fun of
Because I don't know whether or not I can bear it?
Oh mamma, where are you?
I feel so alone and afraid so often.
My tears are everywhere, and nobody even notices.
Jun 19 2013: Thanks Jeff. I have never seen a big boy without even a bigger mamma :) I remained a mamma's boy myself.
Jun 19 2013: Thank you.
Usama Kamil
Jun 16 2013: -
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In self-conscious fear
Of a feared self-consciousness to be
I died before I lived
And I´m not done killing me
- Usama Mustafa Kamil.
Jun 16 2013: Nice. Particularly the last two lines.Jun 17 2013: I love this and feel as if I can relate
Usama Kamil
Jun 17 2013: Thank you :). I think many people can relate. The basic idea is a pondering upon the alternative roads of livelihood that have been extinguished by hesitating excessively. The funny thing is how we justify the decision to stall by being afraid of the consequences as they are seen from our current point of view - as if we really did have full control of our destinies and hadn't been the victims of the recurrent ambushment of serendipity.Jun 11 2013: One of my all time favorite poems...
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One Art
By Elizabeth Bishop
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster,
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.
- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.Jun 7 2013: For those who aspire to learn the universe
Or even join humans at the rank elite
You must simply have the wisdom
To know your moment
And gracefully watch it flee
Knowing all that you can say is
I was a part of it
You were a part of it faithful dog
We were a part of it allJun 6 2013: - Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us — don't tell!
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!Jun 6 2013: The Road Not Taken
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear,
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
Robert FrostJun 6 2013: Shel Silverstein's "The Giving Tree".
"And after a long time
the boy came back again.
"I am sorry, Boy,"
said the tree," but I have nothing
left to give you -
My apples are gone."
"My teeth are too weak
for apples," said the boy.
"My branches are gone,"
said the tree. " You
cannot swing on them - "
"I am too old to swing
on branches," said the boy.
"My trunk is gone, " said the tree.
"You cannot climb - "
"I am too tired to climb" said the boy.
"I am sorry," sighed the tree.
"I wish that I could give you something....
but I have nothing left.
I am just an old stump.
I am sorry...."
"I don't need very much now," said the boy.
"just a quiet place to sit and rest.
I am very tired."
"Well," said the tree, straightening
herself up as much as she could,
"well, an old stump is good for sitting and resting
Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest."
And the boy did.
And the tree was happy."
Here is the original spoken version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TZCP6OqRlEJun 3 2013: What is it that fills your mind?
That stirs the essence of your being
That tightly holds today together
That has always your full attention
Will it calm the raging tide?
And sit you quietly to one side
Or will it make of you a moment
That will make your presence known
Will it take you someplace else?
Where the time need not some filling
And the words are not remembered
To the anthems that are sung
Will you envision what should be?
Upon the stage in which you play
And misplace that which is
Within the world that you partake
Is there peace within your mind?
In the sounds that echo wide
From the orchards and the tubes
For the chorus of your making
Morris Bates
May 31 2013: The city is in ruins
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The ashes fall like snow
The survivors look for an escape
But there is nowhere to go
From the toppled skyscrapers
To the underground subway
We wish it was better
No rain will wash it away
Our life here is hard
There isn't much to eat
The ruined structures hardly provide shelter
For our people to sleep
I put on my coat, load my rifle
And crack open the vault door
The cool night air greets me
The wasteland implores
Out in the darkness
The scavengers lie in wait
Their eyes glow from the moonlight
Bringing with them, ill fate
I slowly close the heavy vault
poise my rifle, prepared to fight
This is Metro, the ruined city
And this is my last night...May 31 2013: so fresh for future times is this historic soul;
because life drips with glorious unknowns,
I want to labor over every shadow
and cover in gilded light of knowing.
Mysteries are invitations to delight in something new.
I want to embrace them all,
savor every atom and love it all til I burn away.
"Everything that is burnable must burn,"
Kirsch assured.
If that is my life-my poetry-
then let me rise, my curiousity a legacy,
a phoenix to enlighten the future
as to what wonderment truly means.
May 31 2013: Do you know
You are poised
On the point
You can dive inside
From here
Implore and implode
You can dive outside
As well
Explore and explode
All this is eternally true
Or you just imagined it.May 28 2013: My life is burning but too much of the ash is choked in me and only as the ash builds up do some clouds spew out of my pen and my mouth. My poetry is a piece of my voice, and so much of my scream is silence.
Renessa Bak
May 28 2013: ah, I've just come away from a best ever Leonard Cohen Concert a few weeks ago. I can feel him speak the words.
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What is my poetry? a near 40 year Haiku'ish stateMend of which we still have most of the last 20 years worth, A painting of thought, a play with words, a puzzle and tEase of purrceptions, and oft a hearty laugh ere figuring out which side is up an then. it what you get for being upside down and backwards well as revolting from every norm and yes, SPArk off By Cohen's words near 40 years ago, Who he to tell me we's not to flutter N fly as we puzzle and play the strings of well being , which has just begun sing in mind to yet another Christmas Carol . I swear the universe wants all those Christmas Carols rewrit, i just never get more than the first couple of lines. . hopefully to ignite the light years down on earth
Attended a workshop, 45 minute talk on having her pieced rejected, 4 times at it just wasn't quite right. . fed up, handed the first one back in. . .Just right this time. What ? catch the momend and let it go.
then a bring 15 copies for our go over. ? what? I just took seven years to put me back together the secod time, and that not counting the first 7 Which were spoke of in Annie Murphy Paul's video on the long lasting effects of children mothers of who were pregnant with them as the war broke out and the effects of the famine on the children.
What she did not go into are the shock waves of the 180 loaded bomber blanketing the land and skimming over the house tops night after night after night after night. twas only in 97 we learned why we frazzle at the sound of lawnmowers well as any which sounded like automatic riffle fire gave us nightmares. as we drove away from where we went tearing through the memoryes we didn't know we had. I do no call my notes poetry. poets is dutch for polish, and I've never polish my notes into poems, though I am said to wax poetically. They are in fact, an impregnable wall or words about my sense of being.
May 28 2013: "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about."
― Rumi
Renessa Bak
May 28 2013: minutes ago: remembering a series about the MILLENNIUM once. . one tribe of people always in meeting another lie down on the earth , face up, to become acquainted with one another
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my wings are still
a thought in flight
a light never sees
the shadow it leaves
life is still a poem
in the process
of being writtenMay 26 2013: Only the private is holy; the soft light
On the yellowing page of a book, the print
Legible as stars on the open page of the sky
Or the languid letter you write at midnight to a faraway
Friend, stern only to timorous sleep. Do you think
Jesus was director of a philanthropic foundation?
Or Buddha the babbling, balding, amiable president of an NGO?
Beyond the incense and flywhisks of those
Gaunt keepers of salvation, their Lofty Holinesses, the Most Ancient and Supreme Guardians of the Truth,
They have escaped their disciples, cool
as clouds.
There is more in half an hour's indolence
Than in galloping away after the grail.
May 28 2013: seriously guys are we having a "poetry off" here? :)May 25 2013: Poetry is something that has to do with my thoughts. I often find myself rhyming my sadness, resentment or pain. Most of the time I don't want to do it, because not on purpose, but i DO cut myself with a sharp knife of memories or presumptions...I understand that I have a power of putting words in my head into a particular order, a beautiful order, but it frightens me, because I often create poems that make me cry.
May 26 2013: My personal experience is that poetry does not happen for me when I am content, happy or euphoric. It only happens when I am bothered with life and see it through an unrest of mind. Poetry is no spirituality for me.
I find it prophetic that your life needs to burn to produce the ash that is poetry - not embalmed and glorified. So, yes, poetry may demand tears. Tears are equally beautiful as smiles.May 22 2013: G'day Pabitra
Time is of the essence of being
as every moment is precious,
time is indeed precious for every moment
for without time precious moments
just wouldn't be. No more precious
moments, what I thought that would be
to think to be without these precious
moments of time. Oh what I life we have
with these precious moments of time that
give so much joy in life. Time is indeed of the
essence of joy, what a time to be in the essence
of time itself for time gives so much for us
to enjoy, this is the true essence of time.
MathewMay 21 2013: Pabitra, my dad listened to a lot of Leonard Cohen. That quote brings back good memories.
It's hard for me to say, whether the achievements in my life have produced ash... I'd certainly like to think so!
I think, my poetry is my children. They are products of my genes (and my husband's, obviously), but very much unique individuals, with their own thoughts, feelings, opinions.
If the virtues and traits I hold dear are absorbed and practiced by them, I would consider that evidence that my life was well-burnt...!
May 21 2013: And a woman who held a babe against her bosom said, "Speak to us of Children."
And he said:
Your children are not your children.
They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you, yet they belong not to you.
You may give them your love but not your thoughts.
For they have their own thoughts.
You may house their bodies but not their souls,
For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.
You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.
For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
The archer sees the mark upon the path of the infinite, and He bends you with His might that His arrows may go swift and far.
Let your bending in the archer's hand be for gladness;
For even as he loves the arrow that flies, so He loves also the bow that is stable.
Children Chapter IV - Kahlil Gibran
May 21 2013: Yup, you made me cry.
Happy tears, Pabitra.
Jim Moonan
May 21 2013: My friend Pabitra,
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This (the passage from Kahlil Gibran) is how poetry, at it's best, works. It speaks the truth.
What an honor to have this conversation about the fire and ashes of our lives dedicated to me - Your life is a poem, Pabitra.
So good to see some of the familiar aliases :) here on TED (Kate, Scott, you)
Thank you for bringing me to this conversation. We have found poetry.
May 22 2013: Now that you are here, it will be further meaningful :) Stay with us and enrich us with your comments, friend!May 21 2013: Neil Young, John Lennon - some of the best pop songs are poetry wrapped in a melody which, for me, makes the cerebral physical which in turn becomes powerful emotion.
I try to write poems and songs as a way to apprehend what I experience and think about. It's addictive once you start to do it.
Expressing something ephemeral concisely.May 21 2013: Ooooo I am blind of poetry.I don't know how I love those poetries once I read them at first sight.I think they hide in my body deeply,once I pump into them,shinning out loud I couldn't help loving them more than I do:).Here is one of my favorite poetry:
I am willing that it is a torrent --Petofi Sandor(《我愿意是急流…》-----裴多菲·山陀尔)
I am willing that it is a torrent , 我愿意是急流,
the river in the mountain , 山里的小河,
pass the rock on the rugged mountain path. 在崎岖的路上、岩石上经过……
Only my spouse It is a small fish, 只要我的爱人是一条小鱼,
swim happily in my spray. 在我的浪花中快乐地游来游去。
I willing neglect woods,我愿意是荒林,
two sides in river,在河流的两岸,
to a burst of blast,对一阵阵的狂风,
Fight bravely勇敢地作战……
Only my spouse只要我的爱人
It is a bird Dense in mine Make the nest among the branch Pipe.是一只小鸟,在我的稠密的树枝间做窠(kē)鸣叫。
I am willing that it is the ruins,我愿意是废墟,
on high and steep mountain and rock,在峻峭的山岩上,
this ruin mourned in silence does not make me dejected 这静默的毁灭并不使我懊丧……
Only my spouse It is the blue and green blue and green Chinese ivy,只要我的爱人是青青的常春藤,
along my bleak and desolate volume,沿着我荒凉的额,
climb up by holding on to and rise on intimate terms with each otherly.亲密地攀援上升。
I am willing that it is the thatched cottage,我愿意是草屋,
in the deep mountain valley bottom, endure the strike of the trials and hardship to the fullest extent on the top of the thatched cottage在深深的山谷底,草屋的顶上饱受风雨的打击……
Only my spouse It is the lovely flame, in my stove,只要我的爱人是可爱的火焰,在我的炉子里,
flash slowly happily .愉快地缓缓闪现。
I am willing that it is a cloud,我愿意是云朵,
it is the grey breaking the flag,是灰色的破旗,
swing too lazy to feel like floatingly in the vast sky ,在广漠的空中,懒懒地飘来荡去,
Only my spouse Coral's the setting sun,只要我的爱人是珊瑚似的夕阳,
draw near me pale face and show bright-colored brilliance.傍着我苍白的脸,显出鲜艳的辉煌。
the information comes from:http://baike.baidu.com/view/501055.htm.Thanks
May 21 2013: "Only my spouse It is a small fish,
swim happily in my spray. "
Wonderful :) Who translated this Ed? Loved it.
May 22 2013: Hi Dear Pabitra Mukhopadhyay:).I got it from "http://baike.baidu.com/view/501055.htm" website.didn't dedicate by anyone.Guess a super fan of peoms who must be an expert in languages.wowoow..maybe not an expert but a group ?thanks:).I read the peom in chinese loud often:) I feel the love is warm and cool.I like it deeply from my heart.
hiwe pius
Jun 14 2013: If I say that this discussion is an hybrid colony of poets then am just voicing out a part of it...
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but musing over these lines...is self evident that these are expressions of beautiful minds and that is the heart of it...
am a spoken word artist/poet and i just finished working on a piece which was born out of life little lessons...the piece tells a story of people who have helped - through doing little things - immensely on our path to success or achievements or attainment of great feats.
Please kindly express your thought about this piece...thanks!
Framed for fashion
Formed for functions
seldom fashionable
sometimes uncomfortable
especially when imposed feels like wearing another foot
undervalued when priced less
overvalued if described priceless
some say you are old school
for them, new is cool
I guess that makes you classy
like a colourful girly boat
nicely keeping me afloat
under the flood light... Looking sassy
on that red carpet, this common bloke now roll with stars from Lagos
hoping not to get Los(t) in Vegas
"rocking" new Salvatore Feragamo tags
While the Lifter of My Feat lay in rags
At every ovation, standing beneath
but together we toiled the earth
* * * * * *
you could go in TOMS, Dick n Harry
but not a mile in my SHOES.
Jun 14 2013: You may be interested to know that my native place that is Bengal in India had a tradition of spoken poetry too but added with music. It used to be in the form of a duel between two artists engaged in extempore spoken verse fitted in impromptu music. This art was known as kobigaan (poet's music). Unfortunately it is lost now.
Jun 14 2013: Hi, kindly share your thoughts on the piece...thanks for that insight tooJun 13 2013: 32 Years ago I graduate from as small, Liberal Arts College in the South/Central-Southwest U.S. ---
I was an English Major (and a few other Majors over the five years it took me to graduate). I was lucky to make it into graduate school.
Here are three of my favorites of all time. All three are about one man's relationship with God. And all three carry forward some very deep and abiding themes. And here's an extra you might find familiar . . .
John Donne
Meditation 17
Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
"No man is an iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee...."
For whom the bell tolls a poem
(No man is an island) by John Donne
No man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manor of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.Jun 13 2013: John Donne
74. "Batter my heart, three person'd God;
BATTER my heart, three person'd God; for, you
As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend;
That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee,'and bend
Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.
I, like an usurpt towne, to'another due, 5
Labour to'admit you, but Oh, to no end,
Reason your viceroy in mee, mee should defend,
But is captiv'd, and proves weake or untrue.
Yet dearely'I love you,'and would be loved faine,
But am betroth'd unto your enemie: 10
Divorce mee,'untie, or breake that knot againe;
Take mee to you, imprison mee, for I
Except you'enthrall mee, never shall be free,
Nor ever chast, except you ravish mee.Jun 13 2013: THE TYGER (from Songs Of Experience)
By William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art.
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And watered heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
1794Jun 13 2013: On His Blindness, or "on Going Blind" by John Milton
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present
My true account, lest he returning chide,
"Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?"
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent
That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need
Either man's work or his own gifts: who best
Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly; thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest:
They also serve who only stand and wait."
Meghan G
Jun 10 2013: 75 watts gives something alive to the electric plant
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It brings the seed from sea to surface
It is turned on and plugged into by me the finger
Who listens to the electric lights
Scream round the world
From the highest Tibet to the lowest see
& I am it's radio wave & it's receiver
And receptor to be touched
I am it's battery, but not it's source
I am the guide but not it's direction
I am the cord. the socket, the sprinkler,
Servant and tender of roots
I am the bystander to the reflex
The speed of sight and light and life
I am the impulse in the daily alive
The breathing exchange reminding
You, I ,We are in search of green skies
The Global Pond. X and Y.
& I think of you as the storyteller
That branch the essence
You are my plant my tree
my earth I love you.
Copyright ã 2000 by Meghan E G
Jun 10 2013: Good idea and refreshing premise for poetry.Jun 6 2013: 1.
Sex is sexier
At my age
So is rage. Let's try again
my queen of Spain
This time, in the rain.
Be decisive
Let me go
It doesn't
really matter
where I go
As long as
It's far from
you and me
Accost me
with colors I have never seen
words I have never heard
loves I have never known
And I will show you
where the rainbow
ends tonight
Pritish Nandy, Stuck On 1 Forty
Jimmy Strobl
Jun 6 2013: Tomorrow's Child
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© Glenn Thomas
Without a name; an unseen face
and knowing not your time nor place
Tomorrow's Child, though yet unborn,
I met you first last Tuesday morn.
A wise friend introduced us two,
and through his sobering point of view
I saw a day that you would see;
a day for you, but not for me
Knowing you has changed my thinking,
for I never had an inkling
That perhaps the things I do
might someday, somehow, threaten you
Tomorrow's Child, my daughter-son
I'm afraid I've just begun
To think of you and of your good,
Though always having known I should.
Begin I will to weigh the cost
of what I squander; what is lost
If ever I forget that you
will someday come to live here too.
http://blog.ted.com/2009/02/04/tomorrows_child/Jun 6 2013: I have a friend at school who, like myself, enjoys making electronic music, Nine Inch Nails style. Neither of us really "write songs" as our pastime (lyrics are hard), but we do enjoy making little 1 or 2 minute pieces of music that we share with each other. We try to hide little references to different things as well as challenge ourselves in musical theory (he is a music theory student, I'm just an enthusiast) so that we can get better and keep making music.
Music is my poetry.
Jun 6 2013: Can we sample it? :)
Jun 6 2013: My Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/matt-hollenberg
His Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/jamieduffy
Jun 6 2013: Nice and interesting. My first impression is you are better than your friend. However, I am still checking. Thank you, Matt :)
Bhavna Patel
Jun 2 2013: Pabitra - Thank you for this conversation! My poetry is my amazing 10 year old daughter, Sarina who has a passion for writing poems. She wrote the following poem:
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Poetry can be brilliantly brash and bold,
It too can also be evanescent
Reminiscent of the kindred soul
Which never perishes or deteriorates within
Left unstrung after the battles are fought
Splattered with blood and wounded,
But never fatally injured.
Deserted harshly; left to investigate the complicated mysteries of the universe.
All the thrilling sensations can be condensed into the most cramped of childish curlicue.
Those are the finer pieces of writing because of their eagerness to explore, and the jovial youth,
That nobody can seem to find etched into the weary lines of adult faces.
Poetry- so expansive and generously caring,
Infused with juvenile frustration and zesty attitudes,
Can create the perfect type of literature...
The one that can lighten you when you're suffering,
The type of writing that can amuse and delight you on the loveliest of days.
Poetry is the human spirit, the flighty and brave essence of what we have evolved into,
As kindhearted people with big eyes and open hands,
That may even see the world with sightless eyes yet still acknowledge your presence warmly.
That may even hold out their hands for you to take them and step into your new future.
Poetry is what we have become as human beings,
What has come and what will come.
A mysterious, sweet, clear, and peaceful sound that you can hear if you listen quite intently.
This is the fascinating world of poetry that speaks directly to me.
Jun 2 2013: Hi Bhavna!
Send my love to Sarina. As a father of an artistically gifted son, I appreciate and understand your joy and other feelings towards your little daughter :)
I am impressed with the enthusiasm and passion that is reflected in her poem. It is a bit long and heavy for a kid, but it is also very normal. I hope you will let her flourish in her poetic expression - just make available to her the wonderful works of so many poets from all across the world.
Please ask her to read this now and 20 years later.
Our little Sarina
Is a cozy marina
Waiting by the poetry's shore
She will grow
In unspoken flow
Where words will mean no moreJun 14 2013: ws73ief,fjbwiu20384jkYJde;o932WQLE/PFH! hmm... poetry is no respecter of age...Sarina flourish...the world awaits to hear your ish...
Jun 14 2013: Thank you for your kind words. Here is another lovely poem Sarina wrote for her favorite teacher.
Fire Of Knowledge
Fine language spawned,
In a brilliant, golden heart like yours,
Is enough a flame kindled by
Passionate knowledge.
It's strong enough to be alit,
Once more by the next strong pupil,
Such as myself.
With such an inspirational spark
And a fire shining bright
Wisdom flourishing is unstoppable
As the next eager person carries the fire.
A mentored pupil so fiercely willing,
To be well educated, to fight for literature; tooth and nail.
Therefore triumphs true, proving the taught ambition,
Of such an immaculate, excellent teacher.
For that reason, my thoughts are layered with gratitude,
As I would repay you over for the many blessings bestowed.
The countless hours battling and absorbing,
Wondering and questioning,
Brainstorming and negotiating,
Were clearly not put to utter waste.
Thank you, my awesome teacher, for all that you've done.
Sarina Patel, age 10.