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brolga

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A True One Posted: 7/19/2007 8:51:24 PM
Hats off to Ella Wheeler Wilcox!

brolga

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Brizo's poems Posted: 7/19/2007 6:18:04 PM
"I feel your love is shown in sweeps of stars" Just lovely, Brizo. What a great poem!

brolga

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Alyosha's poems Posted: 6/27/2007 8:10:38 PM
Puns are great! I am, perhaps, too dim-witted to have noticed them above, but I love puns. What about the popularity of the great Russian novel, Crime and PUNishment?Or the D.H.Lawrence: PUNS and Lovers! Hi to everyone!

brolga

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LOGIN PROBLEMS DAY THREE HELP! Posted: 6/23/2007 9:16:07 PM
Wooby, when I tried to email you on POF, my computer closed down. I had to restart it and there was the message :blah blah...improperly shut down, you know.. errors, etc. I just wanted to wish you a lovely summer. Maybe this will go through. Cheers.

brolga

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8 LINEs let 'em fly start with #1 from the previous post Posted: 5/20/2007 7:45:11 PM
#2016 is a brilliant piece of poetic business. (I had to do it this way or they'd cut me off for being too short.) Yey! Softedge! You go, girl!

brolga

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Happy Birthday to us! Posted: 5/20/2007 7:18:04 AM
Happy Birthday, dear Brizo!!!

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Brizo's poems Posted: 5/11/2007 10:06:37 PM
Brizo! Brava-doodle-do!

brolga

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Explanatory Note Posted: 5/11/2007 6:12:24 PM
Black Mary "and the long flowers bowing" What a lovely Irish cadence! I was so much taller then, etc. Great! God bless Bob!

brolga

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8 LINEs let 'em fly start with #1 from the previous guy Posted: 5/9/2007 11:46:20 AM
And I bundled him into my car and I drove him straight home where I fed him. He pronounced the meat sweet and the stew up to par and he loved all the books that I read him. I waited two weeks while he fattened his cheeks from painted bowls wholly unleaded. But after a while comes the question that piques: Shall I have him in stir-fry or breaded?

brolga

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UNHALLMARK POETIC GREETINGS Posted: 5/6/2007 6:56:12 PM
I can't afford the zinnias, the lupins or the phlox, so I'm sending you these thistles from the garden of hard knocks.

brolga

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Air Posted: 5/6/2007 4:12:51 PM
Marvellous up there, BM.The dogs and "Air." Will these dogs be chasing the wild bicycles?

brolga

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MOON Posted: 5/2/2007 9:16:39 PM
The moon, grown golden, looming large, descended welcome as the night, and shameless shone on cross-spun tracks of windy gold and cold about the ground on moss-step mould. The riders of the sky had long since gone- hell-hurtling down the dark to distant shivered caves of snow-safe silence. Still as farthest stars and twice as sad, they grieved the amber ashes of the loves they had.

brolga

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Brizo's poems Posted: 4/21/2007 8:18:07 PM
Indeed. I, too. I feel so blessed, and resolve never to complain again, about anything.

brolga

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Learning Poetry techniques Posted: 4/15/2007 1:50:12 AM
I don't believe that rap lyrics are raw and unrefined. I like them. They are well and deliberately crafted, and have their vibrant place in the expression of current thought. Valuable and eloquent writing! I must have missed examples of "arrogant, condescending" views on different types of poetry. I have not got the message on this thread that anyone has the belief that his or her opinion matters most. It's all just interesting. I love to see what people think.

brolga

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Poetree of Axis Mundi Posted: 4/14/2007 11:54:27 PM
Oh! He's back? My face aches with smiles! God- I love dogs. They are completely well- intentioned creatures.

brolga

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Learning Poetry techniques Posted: 4/14/2007 11:30:44 PM
"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance." Alexander Pope. Gawd!I wish I'd learned to dance. Still stumblin'. I agree with all that Rory says. He knows what he's talking about.

brolga

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Erik the Viking's Poetry and other gems for PoF. Posted: 4/14/2007 10:53:18 PM
Hey-Brizo! Sorry to cut in on Eric's thread, but have you read The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver? Wonderful book.Such a document about what Europeans did to Africa, and it is written with the engaging diaries of the family- the wife and daughters of a crazed missionary who went there to convert "the heathens." He is a horror. The women are something quite other. When I first read it, I thought,"Holy cow! This is possibly the best book I've ever read." Kingsolver has also a great memoir of how a school librarian changed her life by asking her to work in the library and classify the books according to the Dewey Decimal System. The books she met changed her life.

brolga

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First Line from Last Line Posted: 4/13/2007 11:35:05 PM
re 5920 "fills the room with loud..." What an odd line! I didn't write that. Am I going crazy? Some anti-Brussels sprout hacker must be breaking into this thread.

brolga

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First Line from Last Line Posted: 4/13/2007 10:55:30 PM
In my trueness- fallen-throughness- must confess that one big mess of Brussels sprouts in burning worst has made the kitchen just the worst and grimmest grime scene on the earth. Now the noisy mirth of friends- who've clustered round in groups to pluck from floor the leafy greens in globules stuck, echoes loudly," What the F**k!" fills the room with loud

brolga

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Brizo's poems Posted: 4/13/2007 9:39:30 PM
Do we not suffer, all of us, the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune cookies?

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WTF Posted: 4/13/2007 7:30:41 PM
Ominius- You are a breath of fresh air!(That's what they say in the cliche club.) I love your stuff, especially the way you slide in a last line: it's such a great "There ya go." A very good friend of mine said that "poets are the wankers of the literary world." Sometimes I agree with him.You're not. A wanker, I mean. Mind you, I don't know this. Now, after my post, you have someone else to shout at, and that's cool. lol - in my case= little old lady.

brolga

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Brizo's poems Posted: 4/13/2007 6:19:35 PM
Autumn-Yes! Can relate absolutely to Wooby's.Got the heart scars to prove it. I accidentally clicked on Delete instead of Reply, and got a question: "Why do you want to delete this?" I don't. Just being clumsy in my Friday fatigue. I hope I didn't damage the thread.

brolga

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Brizo's poems Posted: 4/13/2007 6:05:23 PM
Hi, Brizo! "...a rapidly galloping horse.." Oh, I wish I had one. I'd ride like a beggar.

brolga

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Brizo's poems Posted: 4/13/2007 6:01:17 PM
Wooby-What a thought! That kicked major butt in the poetry department. I hope you are kissed by this spring. The tulips here are like chalices. Have time to "lie in the meadow and hear the grass sing." Heck! I forget who wrote that: Moody Blues-Muddy Waters? After a week of stultifying essays, I sometimes give that to my students as homework. (They don't have to hand it in.)

brolga

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Learning Poetry techniques Posted: 4/12/2007 5:20:44 AM
Hi, Goddess... There's a book just out- The Ode Less Travelled, Unlocking the Poet Within, by Stephen Fry, which, from all accounts, seems like a worthwhile and fun book to have for what you want.

brolga

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Silly poems know any? Posted: 4/9/2007 7:06:09 AM
So...verse is the curse of the thinking classes?

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Silly poems know any? Posted: 4/8/2007 8:35:34 PM
...Turns "out" after all these years....is what it should have been. Now that was really silly.

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Silly poems know any? Posted: 4/8/2007 4:07:31 PM
Getting in touch with my inner child- They say that's where it's at. Turns after after all these years My inner child's a brat!

brolga

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Best Signs.... Posted: 4/8/2007 2:51:52 PM
By a roadside stall: GIANT MARIGOLDS SQUASH BEANS.

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Spring Arrives on the Island. Posted: 4/6/2007 1:45:11 PM
Battalions of tulips shout orders from brass buckets. Squadrons of hyacinths storm the hillsides. Marching bands of new leaves, brisk with the spit and polish of warm rain, ring the chestnut trunks, surrounding the ancient bark with whoops of triumph. The attack is swift- the capture complete. Spring has staged another coup, and the earth waves in the welcome conqueror with hungry mirth.

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Cafe 420 Mogador Posted: 4/5/2007 9:36:20 PM
Portnoy possibly made Western Literature shamefaced. (The gripes of Roth.) Never can see the family dinner the same again. Yuck. I'm off to lock up my asiago. Suffering catfish, that cheese is expensive.

brolga

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Cafe 420 Mogador Posted: 4/5/2007 9:25:09 PM
Teenagers suffer from :"addle essence."

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Poetree of Axis Mundi Posted: 4/5/2007 9:05:12 PM
Puppy travel? Oh my! What dog are you going to get? Estranged? How! I love dogs. I need to know this. (What a nosy woman that Brolga is.)

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Cafe Sense a Meal Ya Mogador Posted: 4/5/2007 9:00:55 PM
You can't mention liver without making me think of Portnoy's Complaint. Makes me shiver. And Keanu sounds like a foreign-dubbed voice. Strange way of talking. If he lived next door to me, I'd change the locks. He could sneak in and steal cheese.

brolga

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Poetree of Axis Mundi Posted: 4/5/2007 8:50:03 PM
Wonders of the universe. (to Tiamat-Axis? I'm confused. Sorry. Tired tonight.) Mandelbrot. Your lines , Axis, shoot to me thoughts of all those magic shapes, repeating, reforming, reappearing, disappearing- making, maybe, the patterns of the soul, spinning geometry into poetry of the whole- the whole thing, whatever that is, or has been, or could still be. The forms and shapes reached me, on some strange plane of singing stars. Fractal figments of the way we dream.

brolga

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Cafe Sense a Meal Ya Mogador Posted: 4/5/2007 8:18:23 PM
Brizo-I just found out from your post that I'm older than Diane Keaton. Holy Cr-p! I'm going to bed now. 'night all. I dare Keanu Reeve to phone me. (Reeves? I don't remember his name-Gawd. It gets worse.)

brolga

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Your favorite sound..... Posted: 4/5/2007 8:13:02 PM
when "I hear the magpie's warble in the bluegums on the hill." (from old poem.Sorry-I can't remember the poet now,but I'll credit it later.Maybe Hortense will help out.)Adam Lindsay Gordon? How I miss that sound from Australia!

brolga

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In my idealistic youth I sought justice as a means to discovery. Posted: 4/5/2007 7:36:54 PM
Tenz, have you read Hugh Gallagher's famous college entrance essay? Could that be what inspired this post?

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First Line, Last Line Posted: 3/31/2007 2:35:57 PM
...the corners of my lips shut tight like fists. God works in great mysterious ways His wonders to perform. Finds time to watch the sparrows fall, and 'yosha to reform.

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Mongrel... (rural gothic in progress) Posted: 3/31/2007 12:06:11 PM
I love this, Ivanshi.

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Fuck the guidelines.... Posted: 3/27/2007 10:11:25 AM
#203 is outrageously beautiful. Thanks for posting it.

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Milton-another chapter Posted: 3/27/2007 8:49:00 AM
Brizo-ditto to the mailbox thing. I hate looking there. Jury duty? Do you have to go? I did it twice. Very interesting. Autumn- Milt had a rather unpleasant experience in the hospital. More later.

brolga

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Why does everyone on here use Weasel Words Posted: 3/24/2007 11:40:49 PM
Whenever anyone says,"Let me be totally honest with you...", run like the wind.

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Ocean Spirit Posted: 3/24/2007 7:33:37 PM
One I think you'd like, Salty. (This is an old Northumberland folk song.) Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly, Blow the wind south o'er the bonny blue sea. Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly, Blow bonny breeze, my lover to me. They told me last night there were ships in the offing And I hurried down to the deep rolling sea. But my eye could not see it, wherever might be it, The barque that was bearing my lover to me. Blow the wind, etc. Is it not sweet to hear the breeze singing As lightly it comes o'er the deep rolling sea? But sweeter and dearer by far when it's bringing The barque of my true love in safety to me.

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Milton-another chapter Posted: 3/24/2007 8:01:18 AM
After his return from the hospital, Milton thought he'd better check his mail. His mailbox was nailed to an oak tree at the end of the driveway and he found it best to avoid it. It most often harboured disagreeable bank statements, magazines of radio programs he had no time to hear, lists of best-sellers he was too busy to read and gallery catalogues he'd never open. All too depressing. Next thing, it'd be taunting him with catalogues of people he'd never meet, highly paid jobs he was unqualified to apply for and theories he was too dense to understand. There is no end to the malice of the postal system and the ghouls who stuff their luggage. That mailbox was in cahoots with them, sitting there rusting away, cloaking itself in ivy, lurking like a Roman fountain from whose dark depths some out-of-fashion deity would bite his hand off if his mind wasn't pure. In places friendly to the sun, toads would sleep in it and vipers build their nests.At the end of his driveway, it was a grotto of irrelevancy, his palace of broken dreams, a lost cause. Until today. Aside from a letter from his old friend, Violet Madder, there was news of a grand recycling drive taking place throughout the land. Milton was invited to place at the curb all the things he'd finished with. At last! For twenty years things he did not need had surrounded him. If he could toss out every unessential item, he could make a bicycle tour of the Orient without a backpack. But as he read down the list of things the recyclers were prepared to accept, Milton found that he could get rid of newspapers, clean cans and rinsed-out bottles. That was it. Nothing about old phones, broken ski poles, rungless ladders, woollen suits loud enough to scare horses, or plastic busts of the Twelve Apostles. Not one mention of faulty guitars, turtle lamps, obselete aviation regulations, or road maps of Tasmania. It looked as it he'd have to hang on to the hollow tulip bulbs, the pin-hole camera and both copies of The Mabinogian, by Lady Guest. The mailbox had won again. It had raised his hopes, sent him reeling and dashed him to the rocks again. He thought he'd go down and check the nails, maybe turn a screw or two. When he felt like it he'd open Violet's letter.

brolga

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Cohen.... Posted: 3/23/2007 9:41:29 PM
Look for Cohen's "Take This Waltz" and "Dance Me to the End of Love." And, "I'm Your Man." CD should be available.

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Little Hat Posted: 3/23/2007 1:29:35 PM
Those lines of BM's blew me away, too.

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Who Wants To Be Creative With Me?? Posted: 3/21/2007 5:20:04 PM
"Michael...," Victoria's voice sounded afraid in the dark. "It's a good thing you didn't remove your Boxers." "Why?" Michael was puzzled. "We need them to protect us from those German Shepherds outside. Can't you hear those branches cracking? They must be huge." Michael peered through the plastic tent window. "Don't worry," he reassured her. "They're only Jack Russells.My Boxers can take them down any time."

brolga

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Cafe Mogador Posted: 3/20/2007 6:49:58 PM
Yes, Brizo. I wonder if God misses the good old days, when it was all perfect.Don't know about all that singing, though. I can imagine him saying,"Will you lot shut the **** up!Tryin' to create over here." A well-placed piece of gull poop is a triumph of nature, indeed. And, Wooby, thankyou for the above.

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Who Wants To Be Creative With Me?? Posted: 3/20/2007 6:01:49 PM
...have to accept the fact that this relationship has started to unravel." He looked at her as she pulled on her hiking boots. "You may be right," she said. "Of all the men...

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