Another way to read these poems

[PrinceMyshkin]

Another way to read these poems
is to move from thread to thread
even as they shift in position to each other
and to see them as one long poem
in variants of the one voice,
one voice in all its several moods
all crying out See me!
See the world - in all its wonder
and its misery!

[firefangled]

Another way to read these poems
is to move from thread to thread
even as they shift in position to each other
and to see them as one long poem
in variants of the one voice,
one voice in all its several moods
all crying out See me!
See the world - in all its wonder
and its misery!



I am at work right now and cheating, but the title of this snagged me good.

In addition to all your other marvelous poetry, every now and then you pry loose a 100 carat diamond from the vein. This is one. You have captured the phenomenon of this literature site and others similar.

[blazeofglory]

Another way to read these poems
is to move from thread to thread
even as they shift in position to each other
and to see them as one long poem
in variants of the one voice,
one voice in all its several moods
all crying out See me!
See the world - in all its wonder
and its misery!



Indeed it is really interesting to read a poem of this majesty and beauty. Of course you are gifted with an idea of versification.

[PrinceMyshkin]

I am at work right now and cheating, but the title of this snagged me good.

Permit me, if you would, a mild revision of the above: It is not your work you are cheating on, but rather your paid employment that is a form of cheating on your true vocation.

I have spoken.

[PrinceMyshkin]

Indeed it is really interesting to read a poem of this majesty and beauty. Of course you are gifted with an idea of versification.

You are unfailingly kind to me and I appreciate it deeply!

[motherhubbard]

I do read it this way sometimes. It seems that we all have more in common that not.

[CdnReader]

Another way to read these poems
is to move from thread to thread
even as they shift in position to each other
and to see them as one long poem
in variants of the one voice,
one voice in all its several moods
all crying out See me!
See the world - in all its wonder
and its misery!



Nice one, PM. :) May I?

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the community

the community of artists
picks up their skirts,
straightens their ties,
adjusts their spectacles
on the tips of their noses,
and each of them pulls up a chair,
shakes the ink down to the nibs of their pens,
and writes

they tell us of love and lust,
of gardens and glory, of piracy and politics...
they hang out their dirty laundry,
they bluster onto centre stage, shouting,
or they shyly peek out from the wings...
they let their eyes sparkle with fun
and they surprise us with a quick turn
just when we thought we'd figured them out

they balance between wit and wisdom...
they sift out soliloquies and yet,
they speak as a company

they write here
they read here

they cry here
they die here

they love here
they live here



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[motherhubbard]

WOW cdn, it was like a little movie and my mental picture of us all played in my mind. very good

[Pendragon]

Wow! Another way to read these poems:

"Close your eyes I want to ride the skies in my sweet dreams!
Close your eyes I want to see you tonight in my sweet dreams!"

That is, of course, Air Supply's hit song Sweet Dreams

[AuntShecky]

Man, I am totally confused. If by "thread" you mean the
posting mechanism on this website/forum, I thought the rules were no more than one thread per participant per
day. But then I keep seeing multiple poems by the same
posters in totally separate threads with the same date.

But I THINK we were told we could post more than one poem on the same day as long we post them on existing
threads?

And what the heck does "<bump>" mean?

I tell you, ol' Auntie is befuddled. It must be (PREMATURE) senescence creeping up.

[Pendragon]

~BUMP~, Auntie, is the equivalent to going to the front door, opening it, and yelling to the general neighborhood: "Hello! Anybody awake, here? I wrote a poem!" ;)

[PrinceMyshkin]

Nice one, PM. :) May I?

* * * * *

the community

the community of artists
picks up their skirts,
straightens their ties,
adjusts their spectacles
on the tips of their noses,
and each of them pulls up a chair,
shakes the ink down to the nibs of their pens,
and writes

they tell us of love and lust,
of gardens and glory, of piracy and politics...
they hang out their dirty laundry,
they bluster onto centre stage, shouting,
or they shyly peek out from the wings...
they let their eyes sparkle with fun
and they surprise us with a quick turn
just when we thought we'd figured them out

they balance between wit and wisdom...
they sift out soliloquies and yet,
they speak as a company

they write here
they read here

they cry here
they die here

they love here
they live here



.
cdn/09jan08
.

LOVE IT! Thanks...

[NikolaiI]

hehe. yes yes.