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Last edited by Danik 2016; 01-07-2020 at 06:29 AM.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Thanks for the wiki article, Tailor. I had a look at it before. You are quite right: "usually a photo that has some creative comment on it... usually not too much thought put into them, but sometimes the right combination either makes for hilarity (think Grumpy Cat) or deep thought." But one not always sees the point in the actual memes.
An intelligent though not so nice meme that turned viral at the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQak-F5k5X4
Meming about plums and baby shoes:
https://www.vox.com/2017/12/1/167232...ter-baby-shoes
Enjoyed the viki page and the poems of csp, never heard about the Island of Guam and the Chamorro People. I only am not sure, if his poems are meme poems their meaning goes much further. Could we include him in our old poets list?
"Say: “Mountains are sacred”
because we’ll teach our children:
when you feel threatened,
hold your palms out, touch
your thumbs and pointers together
to form a triangle"
Some of the shorter poems of csp reminded me of concrete poetry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry
A famous German concrete poem by Ernst Jandl:Thanks for the wiki article, Tailor. I had a look at it before. You are quite right: "usually a photo that has some creative comment on it... usually not too much thought put into them, but sometimes the right combination either makes for hilarity (think Grumpy Cat) or deep thought." But one not always sees the point in the actual memes.
An intelligent though not so nice meme that turned viral at the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQak-F5k5X4
Meming about plums and baby shoes:
https://www.vox.com/2017/12/1/167232...ter-baby-shoes
Enjoyed the viki page and the poems of csp, never heard about the Island of Guam and the Chamorro People. I only am not sure, if his poems are meme poems their meaning goes much further. Could we include him in our old poets list?
"Say: “Mountains are sacred”
because we’ll teach our children:
when you feel threatened,
hold your palms out, touch
your thumbs and pointers together
to form a triangle"
Some of the shorter poems of csp reminded me of concrete poetry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry
A famous German concrete poem by Ernst Jandl:Thanks for the wiki article, Tailor. I had a look at it before. You are quite right: "usually a photo that has some creative comment on it... usually not too much thought put into them, but sometimes the right combination either makes for hilarity (think Grumpy Cat) or deep thought." But one not always sees the point in the actual memes.
An intelligent though not so nice meme that turned viral at the time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQak-F5k5X4
Meming about plums and baby shoes:
https://www.vox.com/2017/12/1/167232...ter-baby-shoes
Enjoyed the viki page and the poems of csp, never heard about the Island of Guam and the Chamorro People. I only am not sure, if his poems are meme poems their meaning goes much further. Could we include him in our old poets list?
"Say: “Mountains are sacred”
because we’ll teach our children:
when you feel threatened,
hold your palms out, touch
your thumbs and pointers together
to form a triangle"
Some of the shorter poems of csp reminded me of concrete poetry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_poetry
A famous German concrete poem by Ernst Jandl:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Jandl
"Markierung einer Wende (German)(Marking a turning point). You´ll possibly guess the one word that needs translation:
1944 1945
krieg krieg
krieg krieg
krieg krieg
krieg krieg
krieg mai
krieg
krieg
krieg
krieg
krieg
krieg
krieg
https://www.babelmatrix.org/works/de/Jandl%2C_Ernst-1925/Markierung_einer_Wende"
Shape poetry: http://www.shadowpoetry.com/resources/wip/shape.html
http://msregansamericanlit.blogspot.com/2014/12/
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Odd, my apologies... I seemed to have dropped off on this thread many months ago. I'll take a look-see re: our poet's list: I cited Gamma https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...8s-AeW-YI/edit earlier this session in another thread somewhere (Book Title Game ?) and try to find time to incorporate it/them.
I'll try to catch up soonest.
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
It´s ok tailor.Quite forgot about this thread myself.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
• Neymar: Adele, bowling, and all the while rolling (lol) !!!
• WCW take-off: hilarious
• Done... added to Gamma:
Craig Santos Perez
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Santos_Perez
Poetry on Wordpress:
https://craigsantosperez.wordpress.com/
Meme Poems:
http://craigsantosperez.com/meme-poems/
• Concrete poetry: I've had mixed success with this medium... most recently with the Alphabetical Sentence Game http://www.online-literature.com/for...light=alphabet a few months ago.
• Shape poetry: I've dabbled - but not much success.
• Nice poetry activity ideas in the blog. (Saved for further perusal).
Offering a new theme: Anything to do with Elephants...
: by Dali... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swans_...ting_Elephants
: a short movement "#5 - The Elephant" by Camille Saint-Saëns : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1nVDoCnsNk (complete Suite of Le Carnaval des Animaux at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2RPKMJmSp0 )
: Elephant poems... https://www.poemsearcher.com/topic/elephant
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Loved the theme Elephants . Just need some time to catch up with this thread.
Loved the children poems, he elephant tramping concert and the Salvador Dali picture
Just to start with:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ4E2gHoz6g
Last edited by Danik 2016; 11-13-2020 at 12:45 PM.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
lol... a lot of patience there...
Elephant Rock formations... https://www.google.com/search?q=elep...TOPSN8OihuTakM
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Amazing indeed. Found some information about it: https://asianews.press/2020/08/20/th...-rock-iceland/
One of my favorite poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
The Elephant.
Carlos Drummond de Andrade
I make an elephant
out of my few resources.
Some wood
taken from old furniture
maybe will support it.
And I fill it with cotton,
with kapok, with sweetness.
The glue will fix
its pending ears.
The trunk is curled up,
it is the happiest part
of its architecture.
But there are also the tusks,
out of this pure matter
that I don't know how to describe.
So snowy is this wealth
that wallows in circuses
unscathed by loss or corruption.
And finally there are the eyes,
where there rests
the most fluid and permanent
elephant part,
oblivious to all fraud.
Here is my poor elephant
ready to leave
looking for friends
in a bored world,
who no longer believes in animals
and doubts everything.
There it is, the imposing and
fragile bulk, fanning itself
and moving slowly
its stitched skin
where there are cloth flowers
and clouds, allusions
to a more poetic world
where love regroups
the natural forms.
Go my elephant
along the peopled street,
but they don't want to see it
not even to laugh
at the tail that threatens
to abandon it to itself.
It's all grace, though
the legs don't help much
and its bloated belly
risks dropping down
at the slightest push.
It airs with elegance
its minimal life,
and there is no city
no soul willing
to collect
the fugitive image
of this sensitive body,
the step clumsy
but avid and touching.
But avid for beings
and pathetic situations,
dates in the moonlight
in the deepest ocean,
under the tree root
or within the shells,
of lights that don't blind
and shine through
the thickest trunks.
This step that goes
without crushing the plants
on the battlefield,
looking for sites,
secrets, episodes
not told in a book,
that only the wind,
the leaves, the ant
recognize the shape,
but that men ignore,
because they only dare to show themselves
under the peace of the curtains
to the closed eyelids.
And late at night
my elephant comes back ,
but it comes back tired,
the wobbly paws
fall apart in the dust.
It didn't find
what it lacked,
what we need,
me and my elephant,
in which I love to disguise myself.
Exhausted from the quest,
the vast ingenuity left it
like simple paper.
The glue dissolves
and all its content
of forgiveness, of tenderness,
feather, cotton, spills
onto the carpet,
like a myth dismantled.
Tomorrow I´ll start again.
(This is my attempt at translation. The original you can find among other sites at: https://astravessias.org/blog/o-elefante/)
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Cool...... a literature tie-in.Some superfans have thought the Elephant Rock to resemble Cthulhu. One of Lovecraft’s mythical creatures, a sea monster with the face of an octopus
Loved the poem... poet being/becoming the elephant is quite ingenious.
• Elephants in the news: https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/video-va...phant/2372674/
• Includes how to make a papier-mâché elephant... https://www.google.com/search?client...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
• Elephant fax... https://www.oysterworldwide.com/news...0is%2040%2C000!
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
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tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Elephant in the news-Enjoyed the video specially the beautiful fruit tables one big and one small they provided for the elephants .
a video about making papier mâché elephants -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghh9JDbmDZc
Elephant haikus- http://elephantaday.blogspot.com/201...-44-haiku.html
Thunder(Jotalhão)- The best loved elephant of Brazil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel%27s_Kingdom
"Thunder (Jotalhão) – Although the English name of this set of characters is given after Lionel, Thunder is the true main character in most stories. He is a green elephant, with human-like hands, and one of the most beloved characters created by Mauricio de Sousa. He is very shy, calm, and a pacifist. Thunder was originally created in 1962 as a symbol of the letter "J" of the newspaper Jornal do Brasil, thus deriving his original name Jotalhão which is a augmentative of Jota (Portuguese for J), but the character ended up not being used and was later introduced as a support character for McFox in newspaper comics in 1965.[1] He is also used as spokestoon for the tomato sauce brand Elefante since 1968, originally derived from a newspaper strip joke involving him and Monica, but that eventually aroused interest for CICA (a defunct and now Unilever-owned Brazilian food company) to partner with Mauricio de Sousa to use the characters in TV commercials.[2] Due to his popularity he often appears together Monica and other characters in products and comics based in Monica's Gang."
Monica Toy (The American version is slightly stylized): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut2c0_tTSX8
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
lol... love the poems and the almost limerick.
My (quick) tries:
Sesame Seeds #1
Titular Mister
Autumn Elephantasy
Snuffleupagus !
11/17/2020
the h is silent
gray pajama phants
tree stamping locomotion
trunk-like trumpet blares
11/17/2020
• Jotalhão... Thunder ! https://web.archive.org/web/20110517...a/jotalhao.htm
• Monica Toy... Cute cartoon shorts !!!
• Life-size pink elephant stolen from day care centre... https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-45919420 Facebook... https://www.facebook.com/itvnews/pos...56244189597672
• A poem by Marianne Moore I adore "Poetry" contains elephants (VERY briefly) https://poets.org/poem/poetry
... notably the poem also contains a line that elicited a quote by Marianne Moore I used prefacing my aforementioned poem "Beneathe the Dogwoods of May" (noted in another thread the other day)... "Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads".
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
"Titular Mister
Autumn Elephantasy
Snuffleupagus !" ...Loved that!
Question: Why and how would someone steal a pink elephant made to divert the people of a day care center? It certainly wasn´t easy to transport and who would want or buy it?
The poem of Marianne Moore reminded me a bit of the Brazilian Modernists. It´s sometimes a kind of lyric ramble.
Elephant Parade in São Paulo.
It all started with the cows in Zurich 1998 http://www.thespiritgolf.com/cows-on-parade.html and from there the event gained the world. The public loved them and pop artist attained visibility through them.
https://lobopopart.com.br/en/portfol...ade-sao-paulo/
Other parades followed. The Elephant Parade of São Paulo in 2017 was one natural sequel. One walked the street and suddenly came upon one of those huge works of art.
https://lobopopart.com.br/en/portfol...ade-sao-paulo/
Some more elephant poems:https://discoverpoetry.com/poems/elephant-poems/
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
• "Cows on Parade has raised more than $20 million for charitable organizations around the world." - wow !!!
• Elephant Parade... incredible! Beautiful art, and another way to raise money for the elephants. (So sorry about Mosha)... save the elephants.
• "The Blind Men and the Elephant" (one of the poems in the collection you shared): I remember reading a short story/parable about the poem and found one version... https://americanliterature.com/autho...d-the-elephant
• Baby Elephant Walk (orchestra featuring piccolo)... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr0SSToZEMA
• Short story: "The Elephant"... https://lithub.com/the-elephant/
• Another: "How to Catch a Pink Elephant"... https://www.gpf-comics.com/fun/stories/pinkelephant.php
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Enjoyed the short stories very much:
"The Blind Men and the Elephant"- I think it is clearer as the poem. The idea is that one tends to think that the parts one sees is the whole.
"The Elephant"-Very symbolic probably inspired by the short story of Murakami "The Elephant Vanishes".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_El...nt_Vanishes%22
""How to Catch a Pink Elephant" Lol. Very well told. And I was fascinated by the facility of the proceedings.
Kids(of all ages) corner:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babar_the_Elephant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMQgn5InnAk
Film:
The Elephant Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvJuJKOmZAY
Band:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA5nt9W6flE
Baby Elephant Walk- Very familiar, but can´t say when and where I heard it. And I didn´t know it was about elephants. The performance of the flute player is marvelous! Put it into the German Forum.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
• I'd forgotten about Babar ! Celeste and Babar are so cute together.
• Elephant Man - I haven't seen the entire movie... will have to view it later.
• Elephant Stone... interesting sound (I like the sitar)... Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elephant_Stone_(band)
• Baby Elephant Walk was featured in the movie Hatari
• Band: Cage the Elephant... https://sharpmagazine.com/2019/08/09...nt-them-to-be/
& https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cage_the_Elephant
♪ : Too Late to Say Goodbye... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxL4XVs_B9M
• 20 Elephant Jokes... https://bestlifeonline.com/elephant-jokes/
• Mr. Ed's Elephant Museum & Candy Emporium... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMoBNyF0Pmo
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015