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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    John Lennon pinched the refrain for that song from Rabindranath Tagore? And did you know that worldwide, Tagore's song is infinitely more well-known?

    Fescineeeteeeen fecccccts.......
  • Amaterasu
    Amaterasu Posts: 317
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  • FinsburyParkCarrots
    FinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    On where, what?
  • setaside2
    setaside2 Posts: 1,084
    Originally posted by Amaterasu
    Did YOU know John Lennon is on right now singing strange
    days indeed

    LOL as are the Flaming Lips, if I recall correctly.

    and fins, good point... but while I often borrow a feeling from a song, I try desperately not to borrow montage.

    ah well. Something may yet present itself wrapped all in ribbons and in bows....

    lol for those of you who catch that. :D

    did I mention that I love you people?
    I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
  • setaside2
    setaside2 Posts: 1,084

    Here a start all loving, soft, sighing, the reed of a dying saxophone...
    take up to the alto and we become sensual, the sight blinded and touch supernatural
    sexual, a letting go, a release, a fervent and vehement moment
    lost in the radiant heat of the sun as it escapes from the sheets it warmed throughout the day.
    what may we grasp this transcendence with? with what mind, comprehension?
    dim the lights as traffic passes beneath the windowsill
    allow the public their way
    keep the private in the showers, beneath the sheets, searing the mind
    sending home your thoughts in a basket, watching them overflow and silently slip to the earth, running wild through the night
    If your neon eve is yet undiscovered, brick your 15th story window and watch the stars as they tumble
    and shatter ever so slowly, so sharp
    taste the blood as a keepsake, a remnant of the radiant heat now fading to an infra-red murmur
    listen to the whisper of the sheets as one of you makes your way down the corrugated hallway to the back stairwell out into the moonlight, barely a whistle on the tongue or a song on the lips
    the sound and feel of the cracks beneath making their way ever so slowly further behind moment by
    moment
    the chlorophylled ether stuttering through the lungs, each breath, a melodrama
    the pretense of progress truly a last gasping glance behind
    until the winds whip one around again
    and the saxophone cries its withering wailing call
    the asphalt itself will carry a soul on its way to the pier and the long swim home
    and the albatross will follow


    thanks for reading
    I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
  • Being Enlightened
    Being Enlightened Posts: 5,746
    Thanks for writing! :)

    Hope you're doing well, my friend!
    Forget your perfect offering, there is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen
  • Sound
    Sound Posts: 579
    hope life is to you what pj is to me
    It was a dream, not a nightmare. A beautiful dream I could never imagined in a thousand nods. I saw this girl next to me, she wasn't beautiful until she smiled. And I felt that smile come at me in heat waves following. Soaking through my body and out my finger tips in shafts of color. And I knew somewhere in the world, somewhere, that there was love for me.

    Jim Carrol
  • Yellow
    Yellow Posts: 699
    seta...


    seta
    seta
    seta
    seta
    seta




    :)
    It's all yellow.


  • setaside2
    setaside2 Posts: 1,084
    ...she cried
    I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
  • Yellow
    Yellow Posts: 699
    god, that was corney...


    yeah yeah...

    it was
    it was :)
    It's all yellow.


  • BhagavadGita
    BhagavadGita Posts: 1,748
    Seta you are so pretty.
  • setaside2
    setaside2 Posts: 1,084
    Originally posted by Yellow
    god, that was corney...


    yeah yeah...

    it was
    it was :)


    bah. you loved it. LOL :D


    and gita, it takes one to know one... although your vision may be slightly skewed today...
    I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
  • yield670
    yield670 Posts: 19
    OMFG ITS SETA!!!!!!!!!!!

    give me an email sometime man.i'm back.did you miss me?of course not you democrat.

    later dude.
  • setaside2
    setaside2 Posts: 1,084
    Originally posted by yield670
    OMFG ITS SETA!!!!!!!!!!!

    WHERE?!?!?!?

    give me an email sometime man.i'm back.did you miss me?of course not you democrat.



    listen up you R.P.O.S. If I wasn't so glad to see you alive in one piece I'd fly down to Alabama (a shudderingly HUGE waste of money) and kick your sorry ass myself. And it would be done all out of love.


    later dude.


    later yourSELF.


    can't you even stop to read? bah. it's a POETRY FORUM for god's sakes. You'd think that all we do around here is sarcasm and irony.

    yeesh. as if.
    I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
  • Yellow
    Yellow Posts: 699
    Originally posted by setaside2
    bah. you loved it. LOL :D




    o'course i did :D
    It's all yellow.


  • setaside2
    setaside2 Posts: 1,084
    LOL and there's Yellow proving me wrong on the sarcasm and irony argument.


    ah well.

    I am glad that you did. :p

    and good morning to you.

    off to work I go


    oh and that poem up there? yeah, it's called


    Chlorophyllian Ether
    I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
  • Yellow
    Yellow Posts: 699
    work on a Saturday?!?


    ick!



    be well seta :)
    It's all yellow.


  • setaside2
    setaside2 Posts: 1,084
    Tell me about it, but you know, I'll do almost anything for DSL and high speed access, if you know what I mean.

    and I know you know. :D

    sheeeeyooooot
    I'm stepping in front of the gushing hydrant in a hurricane. I'd like to see the traction I keep.
  • Yellow
    Yellow Posts: 699
    allllmost anything :)
    It's all yellow.


  • savannah66
    savannah66 Posts: 65
    A bump for Seta and his lovely words...

    Hope things are getting better in the mire, Seta. You are missed, dear.

    I've finally caught up on reading your poetry, and now I want a new poem
    ...being selfish. I'm considering contacting your
    muse by oiija board, or appealing to Morpheus, if it would help.

    btw, I work all the time/would do anything for the DSL as well. Just today I found myself
    'dining' at McDonalds (a real drag for me as a vegitarian) with a friend. Dashed off some
    impulsive & bad "napkin poetry", sans muse, definately not my 'style' but I'll share it because I hope it makes you
    smile...or something. Definately hope it doen't warrant heartburn:)


    They say God is in the details.
    She unwraps her mcsandwich,
    scatters fries with abandon,
    takes a deep breath.
    Ketchup drools as stigmata
    from her resurrected food;
    I close my eyes,
    she takes the first bite.

    I say
    eating here is paying
    to be fucked without permission.
    Does it taste just like chicken?
    In details of her her ‘food’,TM,
    the corporate savior is revealed:
    Jesus with a side order of french fries---
    Rex Tremendae.


    Ok, reading it typed out, maybe it's not so funny, but worth a shot just the same.
    Anyway, wishing some starshine in the mists for you....

    Savannah

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