Public favorites?

How about an option to make one's fav poems public?

Sleeves

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Hey there Sleevy, check with jadedjezzabel...she might be able to whip up a special potion for what you seek.

.............................................gogant

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Thanks for the suggestion. Sounds like a pretty interesting idea. I'll present this to the team.

-Papa Paczki

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Let me know when you get this up for vote, papa....................

...........................................gogant

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Sleeve, did you ever get a resolution from papapaczki ?

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i was thinking, recently ... dangerous, i know ...
that it would be fun/interesting/educational to start a thread on "Faves from the Ancient Greats" ...

For copyright reasons, posts of other than our own work would need to be at least ... 70? ... years old ... in the Public Domain.

This date is October, 2009 ... so pre-1940 ...

I would start with something from Shelley ... tho it's funny to call him an "ancient great" (he was so young!!)

and Eliot ...

(please correct me if i'm wrong on the Public Domain notion ...)

-dh

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Sounds like a good idea, Dancer. But it would be nice to keep it to one or two lines of a certain poem...cause you know how word is...he would post the entire "Poems of Poe"

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I like this idea.
And most everything by Poe is fantastic, how could you only pick a few lines?
What if we only picked shorter poems?

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Well KT, what if you start with one of your favorite lines from any poem, post it, and then another one of us would add to it, (or you could choose someone) with a favorite line that would be along the ryhme and rhythm of the previous line.
What did he say ?
I don't know.


.....................................g

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Yeah, KT, sometimes I confuse myself into thinking I am not confusing. Can you post a verse from one of your favorite poems, and then we (whoever happens to stumble on this confusing forum) will have to name the poem and author. What do you think ?

How did I do with this post...?

..................................................g

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How about like somebody said, start a line [verse] and turn it into an evolving, mulit-lateral work, with each different poet's contribution?

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Funny you should suggest that idea, Mr. Ink. We had one going..."The neverending pasta", I think it was. It was going fine...for a while, and then the next thing I knew, everybody was kicking, screaming, cursing, and poking wildly with knives and forks.

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So, just like telephone line---lost in translation

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Ok Gogant, can you guess this one? Its one of my top 5 favorite poems.


"We in the ages lying,
In the buried past of the earth
Built Ninevah with our sighing
And babel itself with our mirth.
And o'erthrew them with prophesying
To the old of the new worlds worth.
For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth."

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It sounds like something from...I think his name is Shawnhnessy, or something like that.

........................................g

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Originally Posted by gogant

It sounds like something from...I think his name is Shawnhnessy, or something like that.

........................................g

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Well, close but no cigar. Okay, I checked out the poem you refer to here, and it is, as you say, a wonderful piece by Mr. O'Shaughnessy.
Here is one for you Kt. I'm not sure if this poet is a true poet or not...and it seems that this is the only poem he/she wrote...it isn't a great poem, but one of my favorites...

"Fill her up, Joe, I want to put some life into my frame --
Such little drinks to a bum like me are miserably tame;
Five fingers -- there, that's the scheme -- and corking whiskey, too.
Well, here's luck, boys, and landlord, my best regards to you.

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Hmm, kinda funny.
You got me on that one, and I'm not going to cheat and google it, even though I want to.
Try this.

Build for yourself a strongbox,
Fashion each part with care;
When it's strong as your hand can make it,
Put all your troubles there;
Hide there all thought of your failures,
And each bitter cup that you quaff;
Lock all your heartaches within it,
Then sit on the lid and laugh.

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Mine was.................The Face on the Barroom Floor (Hugh Antoine D'Arcy)

Hmmm.......Hmmmm, no, I never heard this one. I'll take a guess at the author. William Blake.

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Ah.
Good guess, but no. Its Bertha Adams Backus.
Strange name, but she also wrote
"I burn my candle at both ends
It will not last the night
But ah my foes, and oh my friends,
It gives such lovely light."

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Boy, what a name...never heard of her, but I recall hearing that quote.
Okay, here's one......................now, don't let me down, Kt.......................................g

EVER seek to tell thy love,
Love that never told can be;
For the gentle wind doth move
Silently, invisibly.
I told my love, I told my love,
I told her all my heart,
Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears.
Ah! she did depart!
Soon after she was gone from me,
A traveler came by,
Silently, invisibly:
He took her with a sigh.

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I know that one!
Its...its...William Blake!
'Never Seek to Tell Thy Love'

Ok, your turn G:

Love bade me welcome, yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-ey'd Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning
If I lack'd anything.

"A guest," I answer'd, "worthy to be here";
Love said, "You shall be he."
"I, the unkind, the ungrateful? ah my dear,
I cannot look on thee."
Love took my hand and smiling did reply,
"Who made the eyes but I?"

"Truth, Lord, but I have marr'd them; let my shame
Go where it doth deserve."
"And know you not," says Love, "who bore the blame?"
"My dear, then I will serve."
"You must sit down," says Love, "and taste my meat."
So I did sit and eat.

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I thought at first you would not relate...for it be William Blake. Very good, and a good one by he. Well, you have read a lot more poetry than I could ever wish to do. This is a pearl here, but alas, too deep inside the clam for who I am. So tell me now just who this be, Katie...........g