rhymeguy Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 If for a moment weforgot all we knowabout Whitman, Frost,Tennyson and Poe,McCartney, Lennon,Dylan and Simon,Eyeda, Saul Williamsand Andre 3000.If our heroes showed upas poets unknownand offered us seedsas yet unsown;How would we critique?What would we say?Would we suggesta better way?Would we realizethe way it would go?When we first read themwould we know?Around us each dayin these threads we entwineare destinies poetsawaiting their time.We have the dream,though obscure it may be.Perhaps it is you.Perhaps it is me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abstrect-christ Posted June 25, 2016 Share Posted June 25, 2016 Perhaps indeed. Nice contemplative piece.structure was good and simple making the message clear. I like it. Quote Pinhead "Unbearable, isn't it? The suffering of strangers, the agony of friends. There is a secret song at the center of the world, Joey, and its sound is like razors through flesh." Joey "I don't believe you." Pinhead "Oh come, you can hear its faint echo right now. I'm here to turn up the volume. To press the stinking face of humanity into the dark blood of its own secret heart." "There's a starving beast inside my chestplaying with me until he's boredThen, slowly burying his tusks in my fleshcrawling his way out he rips open old woundsWhen I reach for the knife placed on the bedside tableits blade reflects my determined faceto plant it in my chestand carve a hole so deep it snaps my veinsHollow me out, I want to feel empty"-- "Being Able To Feel Nothing" by Oathbreakerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBPy3xNwwL8 "Sky turns to a deeper grey the sun fades by the moon hell's come from the distant hills tortures dreams of the doomed and they pray, yet they prey and they pray, still they prey"-- "Still They Prey" by Coughhttps://soundcloud.com/relapserecords/sets/cough-still-they-pray Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinker Posted June 26, 2016 Share Posted June 26, 2016 Hi Rhyme Guy, I am loving this resurgence of poets I loved. And I'm talking about you not Whitman or Dylan although they are favorites of mine. I've been trying to write again but have been stalling, I lurk here and read Badger, Douglas, David and Barry's poems and hear their passions and wonder where mine has disappeared to. Their continued contributions have kept this site alive and I check in to read their work and remind myself I was once one of them. Now you and Marti and Joel and Geoff and Abstrect-Christ are back and I'm inspired. I hope you stick around and write more because it is going to take awhile for me to get it going. ~~Tink Quote ~~ © ~~ Poems by Judi Van Gorder ~~ For permission to use this work you can write to Tinker1111@icloud.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhymeguy Posted June 26, 2016 Author Share Posted June 26, 2016 Tinker, As you probably know from my extended absence I too have been in a drought of sorts. I would stop in occasionally and wish I had something to share. It is good to be back. It feels good to share even if the poetry isn't very good. I hope you too will find your way again. It good to talk to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcmarti1 Posted January 10, 2017 Share Posted January 10, 2017 Just now seeing this. Excuse me for being tardy. Like all the above, I like it, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David W. Parsley Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 Yes, me, too: late, and liking the poem! Truth be told I got bushwhacked in a college course where we were evaluating a poem. The instructor had a pack of them, withholding the authors' names. I had a number of reasons for not liking the piece under consideration. The instructor responded by pointing out a number of things that the poem was doing. The whole class participated and I grudgingly did, too. But I ended by folding my arms in a disbelieving pose and stated that we were doing more for the poem than the author. Uhm, it was written by Yeats. Really, - Dave P.S. I still do not care for the poem, but I did learn (a little) humility... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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