tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-82452000622534622492024-03-29T04:03:39.460-07:00Poetry Critic Bob Atkinson presents poetry as a #1 living vibrant tool to understand the emotional content of literature and human experience.
Poetry Critic is a catalyst for developing poetic energy. Submit your poem via e-mail to the poetry critic for some stunning reviews to generate your passionate energies. Be ready for your "priceless works" to be stomped, spat and tread upon. Get mad, and get working on improving them. Good luck and don't take it so hard. e-mail your poem to bob_saltzer@yahoo.comUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger780125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-77288778442494969242024-02-27T03:01:00.001-07:002024-02-27T03:01:26.522-07:00 Wondrous - by - Sarah Freligh<p>
</p><h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Wondrous </span>
</h1>
<h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: small;">-
by - Sarah Freligh</span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
<br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">I’m</span>
driving home from school when <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>radio
talk<br />
turns to E.B. White, his birthday, and I exit<br />
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
here and now of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> freeway at rush
hour,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">travel
back into <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>past, where my mother<span style="color: #c9211e;">
is</span> reading<br />
to my sister and me <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
part about Charlotte laying her eggs<br />
and dying, and though this
<span style="color: #c9211e;">is the </span>fifth time Charlotte</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">has
died, my mother <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> crying again, and
<span style="color: #c9211e;">we’re </span>laughing<br />
at her because we
know nothing of loss and <span style="color: #c9211e;">its</span> sad
math,<br />
how every subtraction <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span>
exponential, how each grief</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">multiplies</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
the</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> one
preceding </span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">it,</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
how </span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
author tried<br />
seventeen times to record </span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
words </span><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">She died
alone</span></em><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
without
crying, seventeen takes and a short walk during</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">which
he called himself ridiculous, a grown man crying<br />
for a spider
he’d spun out of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> silk thread of
invention —<br />
wondrous how those words would come back and make</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">him
cry, and, yes, wondrous to hear my mother’s voice<br />
ten years
after</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
the</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day she died
—</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
the </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">catch,</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
the</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> rasp,<br />
</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">gathering up
before she could say to us,</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span></span><em><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m</span></span></em><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">
OK</span></em><span style="font-size: x-large;">.</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Commentary:</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Poetry
isn’t about what is</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Poetry
is our reaction to our perception of what is</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>The
Emotional Content of Literature”</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>to
promote amateur doodling as Poetry</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>does
disservice to the breed</i></span></p>
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</p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>A Broken Sword</b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">- by – Henry Abbey</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Deep
in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> night I saw <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
sea,</span><br />
And overhead, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>round
moon white;<br />
<span style="color: #c9211e;">Its</span> steel cold gleam
lay on <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> lea,<br />
And seemed my sword
of life and light,<br />
Broke in that war death waged with me.<br />
<br />
I
heard <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> dip of golden oars;<br />
Twelve
angels stranded in a boat;<br />
We sailed away for other
shores;<br />
Though but an hour we <span style="color: #c9211e;">were</span>
afloat,<br />
We harbored under heavenly doors.<br />
<br />
O, Blanche,
if I had run my race,<br />
And if I wore my winding sheet,<br />
And
mourners went about <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>place,<br />
Would
you so much as cross <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>street,<br />
To
kiss in death my white, cold face?</span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Commentary:</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>not
such a bad poem</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>about
the death </b></i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>of a war criminal</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b> </b></i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>could
have been written</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>anywhere
in the world </b></i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>the U.S. inhabits</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>such
as </b></i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Victoria Nuland’s war in Ukraine</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>which
killed and maimed </b></i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>500,000 mothers’ sons</b></i></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
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</p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Wars of Cultural
Differences</b></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">©</span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">2024
Bob Atkinson</span></p>
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</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how
easily our leaders</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">present
our children to die</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
Wars of Cultural Differences</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">no
strong reasons as to why</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">when
we’ve taken these to task</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we
wish we had control</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
a government irresponsible</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as
momentum takes great toll</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">if
all lost in effort</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">were
tallied in a line</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">would
find losing land</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">carries
a lesser crime</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">not
a crime of innocence</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
crime to then equate</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">lost
lives in a conflagration</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">which exceeds a
loss of face</span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>
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</p>
<h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">
Franciscan Complex
</h1>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">By <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/brenda-hillman">Brenda
Hillman</a>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Each
day <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> job gets up</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
rubs <span style="color: #c9211e;">its</span> eyes</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We
<span style="color: #c9211e;">are</span> going to live on in dry amazement</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Workers
push <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> granite bed under <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
avenue</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Bed
of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> married</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span>
re- <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> pre-married</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Making
a form as forms become infinite</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span>
scrapings scraping</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Graywhacke
chert</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">People
wait for their bumpy little pizzas</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Theories
of theories in gravity voices</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Melpomene
goddess of tragedy bathes</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mostly
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> bride never <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>bridesmaid</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Angel
food in whole foods</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Consider
Tanguy whose lunar responses to childhood</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Made
everything a horizon</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Those
walking upside down don’t know what to think</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The
</span>finch engineering itself to deep spring</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Or
you life tired of being cured</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">How
many layers</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Of
giving up <span style="color: #c9211e;">are</span> there</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">One
of <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Two
of everything in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> arc you save</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Commentary:</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Huh?
What? Why?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Did
she collect all the useless words</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>and
put them all in the same place?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>the’s”
abundant, useless</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>I
for one don’t get the purpose of this?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Useful?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Not
at all.</i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>True poetry has each sentence become</i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>a complete thought, concept, on its own</i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i> </i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i> <br /></i></span></p>
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</p><h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Between the Wars </span>
</h1>
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<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>- By - Robert
Hass </i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hC21p2pLspkxhYPnJqm4mSXkOVEc8mwMVtjthjInlwPFYtzol7eY1Xa3wAQiFpAt0qtgY711wLDeG6j3wCRCGgtB2jetUTe8NURJWQMFd7d60tWz9_RtlDBCpy06zpk8XEgIjN__MGTWrCj4Fq0AoF2I-aLAlq8llBfQCQhfPFvZgEcvVuMRB37lG-zN/s734/Screenshot%20at%202024-01-07%2010-21-41.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="734" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7hC21p2pLspkxhYPnJqm4mSXkOVEc8mwMVtjthjInlwPFYtzol7eY1Xa3wAQiFpAt0qtgY711wLDeG6j3wCRCGgtB2jetUTe8NURJWQMFd7d60tWz9_RtlDBCpy06zpk8XEgIjN__MGTWrCj4Fq0AoF2I-aLAlq8llBfQCQhfPFvZgEcvVuMRB37lG-zN/s320/Screenshot%20at%202024-01-07%2010-21-41.png" width="320" /></a></i></div><i><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/blather" target="_blank"> Blather</a></i>
<p></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">When
I ran, <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span> rained. </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Late in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
afternoon—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">midsummer,
upstate New York, </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">mornings I wrote,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">read
Polish history, </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and there <span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span> a woman</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">whom
I thought about; </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">outside <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> moody, </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">humid American
sublime— </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">late in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> afternoon,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">toward
sundown, </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">just as <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> sky <span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span>
darkening,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
light came up and redwings </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">settled in<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span>
cattails.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">They
<span style="color: #c9211e;">were </span>death's idea of twilight, <span style="color: #c9211e;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
whole notes of
a requiem <span style="color: #c9211e;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> massed clouds croaked</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">above
</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">somber fields.
</span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lady of eyelashes,</span></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">do
you hear me? </span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whiteness, otter's body,</span></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">coolness
of the morning, </span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">rubbed amber and
the skin's salt, </span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">do you hear me? </span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is Poland speaking,</span></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>“<span style="font-size: x-large;">era
of the dawn of freedom,” </span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">nineteen twenty-two.</span></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">When
I ran,<span style="color: #c9211e;"> it </span>rained. <span style="color: #c9211e;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span>
blackbirds settled their
clannish squabbles in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> reeds, </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
light came up.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">First
darkening, </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">then light. </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And then pure fire.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Where
does<span style="color: #c9211e;"> it</span> come from? </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">out of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
impure</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">shining
that rises from <span style="color: #c9211e;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> soaked odor of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
grass,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
levitating, </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Congregational, meadow-light-at-twilight</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">light
that darkens<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span> heavy-headed blossoms of
wild carrot, </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">out of that, out of nothing <span style="color: #c9211e;">it
</span>boils up, pools on <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> horizon,
fissures up,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">igniting
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> undersides of clouds: </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">pink flame,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">red
flame, vermilion, purple, deeper purple, dark.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You
could wring <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> sourness of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
sumac from the air,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
fescue sweetness from <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> grass, </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>slightly maniacal
cicadas tuning up to tear <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> fabric of
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> silence into tatters, so that night,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">if
<span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span> wants to, comes as a beggar to <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
door</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">at
which, if you do not offer milk and barley</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> maimed figure of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
god, </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">your well will foul,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">your
crops will wither in the fields. </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span>
eastern marches</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">children
know<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span> story that <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
aspen quivers</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">because
<span style="color: #c9211e;">it </span>failed to hide <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>Virgin and <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> Child</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">when
Herod's hunters <span style="color: #c9211e;">were</span> abroad. Think:
night<span style="color: #c9211e;"> is the</span> god</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">dressed
as <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> beggar drinking<span style="color: #c9211e;">
the</span> sweet milk.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Gray
beard, thin shanks, <span style="color: #c9211e;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> look in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>eyes</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">idiot,
unbearable,<span style="color: #c9211e;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>wizened mouth agape,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">like
an infant's that has cried and sucked and cried</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
paused to catch<span style="color: #c9211e;"> its</span> breath. <span style="color: #c9211e;"> </span></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span>
pink nubbin of
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> nipple glistens. </span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I'll suckle at that
breast,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
one in<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span> song of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>muttering illumination</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>fields before<span style="color: #c9211e;">
the </span>sun goes down, before</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
black train crosses <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>frontier from
Prussia</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">into
Poland in the age of the dawn of freedom.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fifty
freight cars from America, full of medicine</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> latest miracle, canned food.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The
war<span style="color: #c9211e;"> is </span>over. There <span style="color: #c9211e;">are
</span>unburied bones</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> fields at sun-up, skylarks singing,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">starved
children begging chocolate on <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>tracks.</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Commentary:</b></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>some
people like to talk</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>just
to hear themselves babble</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>twice
three “the” words</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>in
the same sentence</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>the”
in poetry means</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>the
writer hasn’t thought about the idea</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>each
sentence should be an idea</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>to
blather nonsense just doesn’t work for me</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>to
talk of the Gods requires one</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>to
state which (whose) God </i></span>
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>one
is talking about</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>the
choices are many</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>the
blasphemy’s apparent</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>not
poetry in any way</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Jackson">Michael
Jackson</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Richie">Lionel
Richie</a></h1>
<pre class="western" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><a name="lyric-body-text"></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There is a time when we </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/should"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">should</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> hear the </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/certain"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">certain</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> calls</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'Cause the </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/world"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">world</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> it </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/seems"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">seems</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> it's </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/right"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">right</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> in this line</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'Cause there's a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/chance"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">chance</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> for </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/taking"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">taking</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> in </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/needing"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">needing</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> our own lives</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/seems"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">seems</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> we need </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/nothing"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">nothing</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> at all</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I used to feel I </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/should"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">should</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> give away my heart</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And it </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/shows"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">shows</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> that fear of </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/needing"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">needing</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> them</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then I read the </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/headlines"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">headlines</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> and it said they're </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/dying"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">dying</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> there</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And it </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/shows"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">shows</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> that we must heed instead</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the world</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the children</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the ones who make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So let's </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/start"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">start</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> giving</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There's a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/chance"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">chance</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> we're taking</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We're </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/taking"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">taking</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> our own lives</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's true we'll make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just you and me</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Give in your </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/heart"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">heart</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> and you will see that </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/someone"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">someone</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> cares</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'Cause you know that they can feed them all</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then I read the </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/paper"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">paper</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> and it said that you've been denied</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And it </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/shows"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">shows</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> the </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/second"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">second</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> we will call</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the world</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the children</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the ones who make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So let's </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/start"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">start</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> giving</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There's a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/chance"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">chance</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> we're taking</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We're </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/taking"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">taking</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> our own lives</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's true we'll make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just you and me</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Now there's a time when we must love them all</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And it </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/seems"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">seems</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> that life, it don't make love at all</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But if you'd been there, and I'll love you more and more</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/seems"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">seems</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> in life, I didn't do that</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the world, the world</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the children, are the children</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the ones who make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So let's </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/start"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">start</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> giving, let's </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/start"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">start</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> giving</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There's a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/chance"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">chance</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> we're taking</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We're </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/taking"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">taking</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> our own lives</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's true we'll make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just you and me</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the world, are the world</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the children, are the children</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the ones who make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So let's </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/start"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">start</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> giving, let's </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/start"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">start</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> giving</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But there's a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/chance"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">chance</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> we're taking, taking</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We're </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/taking"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">taking</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> our own lives</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's true we'll make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just you and me</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the world, shalom</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the children, shalingin</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the ones who make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day, shalom</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So let's </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/start"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">start</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> giving, 'cause that's what we're being</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There's a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/chance"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">chance</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> we're taking</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We're </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/taking"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">taking</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> our own lives</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's true we'll make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just you and me</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Come on, yeah</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the world, shalom</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the children, shalingin</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the ones who make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day, shalom</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So let's </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/start"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">start</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> giving, 'cause that's what we're being</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There's a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/chance"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">chance</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> we're taking</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We're </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/taking"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">taking</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> our own lives</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's true we'll make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Just you and me</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh yeah, we got it</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the world, shalom</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the children, shalingin</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We are the ones who make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day, shalom</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So let's </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/start"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">start</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> giving, </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/cause"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">cause</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> that's what we're being</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">There's a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/chance"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">chance</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> we're taking</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">We're </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/taking"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">taking</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> our own lives</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It's true we'll make a </span></span><a href="https://www.definitions.net/definition/brighter"><span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">brighter</span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> day</span></span></pre><pre class="western" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></pre><pre class="western" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">AND NOW WE BOMB CHILDREN IN GAZA</span></span></pre><pre class="western" style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Tibetan Machine Uni;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPS7TZs7-dGIcPvi4NPZ8YOAlPUsxkpL8H_WUzEjf5RqSOZPIBDT3cR0qIRgRiDp-y6cWBI0sGx7dP75s40MC8aVfAdOnvnEz-MR5aMq9-ZmmWhfy8wrbMjzcIWnlgEkBWgXt4Y9TfM6cIV6r0CRMxEg-aJQtcTYiFoL92M-spHNOjE_u3CnxLj1SMh6c/s204/baby%20hurt.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="204" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPS7TZs7-dGIcPvi4NPZ8YOAlPUsxkpL8H_WUzEjf5RqSOZPIBDT3cR0qIRgRiDp-y6cWBI0sGx7dP75s40MC8aVfAdOnvnEz-MR5aMq9-ZmmWhfy8wrbMjzcIWnlgEkBWgXt4Y9TfM6cIV6r0CRMxEg-aJQtcTYiFoL92M-spHNOjE_u3CnxLj1SMh6c/s1600/baby%20hurt.png" width="204" /></a></div><br /> </span></span></pre>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-1658449143078455022023-11-13T23:51:00.006-07:002023-11-14T09:06:12.581-07:00 I’d Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) - by – Jim Steinman <p>
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<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>I’d Do Anything For Love
(But I Won’t Do That)</b></span></h2>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>-
</b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b>by –<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27d_Do_Anything_for_Love_(But_I_Won%27t_Do_That)" target="_blank"> Jim Steinman</a></b></span></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27d_Do_Anything_for_Love_(But_I_Won%27t_Do_That)" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="396" data-original-width="252" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPiEn-NAMLeB4ET8SN_fdxsV4rYcDsHImNwdKPH4gWK89F6AtxHXJ4Vq49iLPTYXM89p8PyoGm-s0d_bQMXtxsKrbTyKWpf0Fzy5L3f0Smh3dsB1Doso9_nhdBXXMAQqsjb6qu16sOyAuF05h_MKQCDEiCC8vq15nayT9Auc9mjUigkbutQYGS1uqjCd_K/s320/I'd_Do_Anything_for_Love_(but_I_Won't_Do_That)_by_Meat_Loaf_US_commercial_cassette.jpg" width="204" /></a></b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b></span><b> </b></span>
<p></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
I would do anything for love<br />
I'd run right into hell and back<br />
I
would do anything for love<br />
I'll never lie to you and that's a
fact<br />
<br />
But I'll never forget the way you feel right now<br />
Oh
no<br />
No way<br />
And I would do anything for love<br />
But I won't
do that,<br />
No I won't do-<br />
<br />
Anything for love<br />
Oh I
would do anything for love<br />
I would do anything for love<br />
But
I won't do that<br />
No I won't do that<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>And
some days it don't come easy<br />
And some days it don't come
hard<br />
Some days it don't come at all<br />
And these are the days
that never end<br />
</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>And
some nights you're breathing fire<br />
And some nights you're carved
in ice<br />
Some nights you're like nothing I've ever<br />
Seen
before, or will again</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>And
maybe I'm crazy<br />
Oh it's crazy and it's true<br />
I know you can
save me<br />
No one else can save me now but you</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>As
long as the planets are turning<br />
As long as the stars are
burning<br />
As long as your dreams are coming true-<br />
You better
believe it!</b></span><br />
<br />
That I would do anything for
love!<br />
And I'll be there till the final act<br />
And I would do
anything for love!<br />
And I'll take the vow and seal a pact<br />
<br />
But
I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way<br />
Tonight<br />
<br />
And
I would do anything for love!<br />
Oh I would do anything for
love!<br />
Oh I would do anything for love!<br />
But I won't do
that!<br />
No I won't do that!<br />
<br />
I would do anything for
love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do
that...<br />
<br />
I would do anything for love<br />
Anything you've
been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do that...<br />
<br />
I would
do anything for love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I
just won't do that...<br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>And
some days I pray for Silence</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>And
some days I pray for Soul<br />
Some days I just pray to the God<br />
Of
Sex and Drums and Rock 'N' Roll</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>And
some nights I lose the feeling<br />
And some nights I lose
control<br />
Some nights I just lose it all<br />
When I watch you
dance and the thunder rolls<br />
</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>And
maybe I'm lonely<br />
That's all I'm qualified to be<br />
There's
just one and only<br />
One and only promise I can keep</b></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>As
long as wheels are turning</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>As
long as fires burning<br />
As long as your prayers are coming
true<br />
You better believe in truth</b></span><br />
<br />
That I would
do anything for love!<br />
And you know it's true and that's a fact<br />
I
would do anything for love!<br />
And there'll never be no turning
back<br />
<br />
But I'll never do it better than I do it with you<br />
So
long<br />
So long<br />
<br />
And I would do anything for love<br />
Oh,
I would do anything for love<br />
I would do anything for love<br />
But
I won't do that, no<br />
No. No, I won't do that!<br />
<br />
I would
do anything for love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I
just won't do that...<br />
<br />
I would do anything for
love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do
that...<br />
<br />
I would do anything for love<br />
Anything you've
been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do that...<br />
<br />
I would
do anything for love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I
just won't do that...<br />
<br />
I would do anything for
love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do
that...<br />
<br />
I would do anything for love<br />
Anything you've
been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do that...<br />
<br />
I would
do anything for love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I
just won't do...<br />
<br />
But I'll never stop dreaming of you every
night of my life<br />
No way<br />
<br />
And I would do anything for
love<br />
Oh I would do anything for love<br />
Oh I would do anything
for love<br />
But I won't do that<br />
No I won't do
that<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
Will you raise me up?<br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Will
you help me down?<br />
Will you help get me right out of this
Godforsaken town?<br />
Will you make it all a little less
cold?<br />
</b></span><br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I can do that!<br />
I
can do that!<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Will
you hold me sacred<br />
Will you hold me tight<br />
Can you colorize
my life<br />
I'm so sick of black and white!<br />
Can you make experience
a little less old</b></span><br />
<br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I can do
that!<br />
Oh, Oh, I can do that!<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Will
you make me some magic with your own two hands?<br />
Can you build an
Emerald city with these grains of sand?<br />
Can you give me
something I can take home?</b></span><br />
<br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I
can do that<br />
I can do that<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Will
you cater to every fantasy I've got?<br />
Will ya hose me down with
holy water - If I get too hot?</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Will
you take me to places I've never known?</b></span><br />
<br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I
can do that!<br />
I can do that!<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>After
a while you'll forget everything's<br />
a brief interlude, a
mid-summer night's fling<br />
you'll see when 'tis time to move
right on to new<br />
</b></span><br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I won't do that<br />
I
won't do that<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>I
know the territory - I've been around<br />
It'll all turn to dust and
we'll all fall down<br />
Sooner or later you'll be screwing
around</b></span><br />
<br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I won't do that!<br />
No
I won't do that!<br />
<br />
Anything for love<br />
Oh I would do
anything for love!<br />
I would do anything for love!<br />
But I
won't do that!<br />
No I won't do that... </span>
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Commentary:</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>What
Can I Say?</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>I Can Do That ….</b></i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b> </b></i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Would clean it up a tad:</b></i></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b> </b></i></span>
</p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I would do anything for
love<br />
I'd run right into hell and back<br />
I would do anything
for love<br />
I'll never lie to you and that's a fact<br />
<br />
But
I'll never forget the way you feel </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">right
now<br />
Oh no<br />
No way<br />
I would do anything for love<br />
But
I won't do that,<br />
No I won't do-<br />
<br />
Anything for love<br />
Oh
I would do anything for love<br />
I would do anything for love<br />
But
I won't do that<b> </b></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>some days
don't come easy<br />
some days don't come hard<br />
Some
days don't come at all<br />
cut like sharp glass shards<br />
</b><br />
<b>some
nights you're breathing fire<br />
some nights you're carved in
ice<br />
Some nights you're like nothing I've ever<br />
Seen before,
or imagined nice</b><br />
<br />
<b>maybe I'm real crazy<br />
Oh crazy and
true<br />
I know you can save me<br />
No one else can save me but
you</b><br />
<br />
<b>As long as planets turning<br />
As long as
stars are burning<br />
As long as your dreams com</b><b>e</b><b>
true-<br />
You'd better believe in youth</b><br />
<br />
That I would do anything
for love!<br />
I'll be there till the final act<br />
I would do
anything for love!<br />
I'll take the vow and seal a pact<br />
<br />
But
I'll never forgive myself if we don't go all the way<br />
Tonight<br />
<br />
I
would do anything for love!<br />
Oh I would do anything for love!<br />
Oh
I would do anything for love!<br />
But I won't do that!<br />
No I
won't do that!<br />
<br />
I would do anything for love<br />
Anything
you've been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do that...<br />
<br />
I
would do anything for love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But
I just won't do that...<br />
<br />
I would do anything for
love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do
that...<br />
<br />
<b>some days I pray for Silence</b><br />
<b>some
days I pray for Soul<br />
Some days I just pray to our God<br />
Of
Sex and Drums and Rock 'N' Roll</b><br />
<br />
<b>some nights I lose
the feeling<br />
some nights I lose control<br />
Some nights I just
lose it all<br />
watch you dance to thunder rolls<br />
</b><br />
<b>And
maybe I'm lonely<br />
That's all I'm qualified to be<br />
There's
just one and only<br />
One and only promise I can keep</b><br />
<br />
<b>As
long as the wheels are turning</b><br />
<b>As long as the fires
burning<br />
As long as your prayers coming true<br />
You'd better
believe in youth</b><br />
<br />
That I would do anything for love!<br />
And
you know it's true and that's a fact<br />
I would do anything for
love!<br />
And there'll never be no turning back<br />
<br />
But I'll
never do it better than I do it with you<br />
So long<br />
So
long<br />
<br />
And I would do anything for love<br />
Oh, I would do
anything for love<br />
I would do anything for love<br />
But I won't
do that, no<br />
No. No, I won't do that!<br />
<br />
I would do
anything for love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I
just won't do that...<br />
<br />
I would do anything for
love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do
that...<br />
<br />
I would do anything for love<br />
Anything you've
been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do that...<br />
<br />
I would
do anything for love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I
just won't do that...<br />
<br />
I would do anything for
love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do
that...<br />
<br />
I would do anything for love<br />
Anything you've
been dreaming of<br />
But I just won't do that...<br />
<br />
I would
do anything for love<br />
Anything you've been dreaming of<br />
But I
just won't do...<br />
<br />
But I'll never stop dreaming of you every
night of my life<br />
No way<br />
<br />
And I would do anything for
love<br />
Oh I would do anything for love<br />
Oh I would do anything
for love<br />
But I won't do that<br />
No I won't do
that<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
Will you raise me up?<br />
<b>Will
you help me down?<br />
Will you help get me right out of this
Godforsaken town?<br />
Will you make it all a little less
cold?<br />
</b><br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I can do that!<br />
I can do
that!<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
<b>Will you hold me sacred<br />
Will
you hold me tight<br />
Can you colorize my life<br />
I'm so sick of
black and white!<br />
Can you make it all a little less cold</b><br />
<br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I
can do that!<br />
Oh, Oh, I can do that!<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
<b>Will
you make me some magic with your own two hands?<br />
Can you build an
Emerald city with these grains of sand?<br />
Can you give me
something I can take home?</b><br />
<br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I can do
that<br />
I can do that<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
<b>Will you
cater to every fantasy I've got?<br />
Will ya hose me down with holy
water - If I get too hot?</b><br />
<b>Will you take me to places I've
never known?</b><br />
<br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I can do that!<br />
I
can do that!<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
<b>After a while you'll
forget everything<br />
Just a brief interlude, a mid-summer
night's fling<br />
see your time's to move
on soon<br />
</b><br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I won't do that<br />
I won't do
that<br />
<br />
<i>[Girl:]</i><br />
<b>I know the territory - I've
been around<br />
It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall
down<br />
Sooner or later you'll be screwing around</b><br />
<br />
<i>[Boy:]</i><br />
I
won't do that!<br />
No I won't do that!<br />
<br />
Anything for
love<br />
Oh I would do anything for love!<br />
I would do anything
for love!<br />
But I won't do that!<br />
No I won't do that... </span>
</p>
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<p><style type="text/css">h2 { margin-top: 0.14in; margin-bottom: 0.08in; background: transparent; page-break-after: avoid }h2.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold }h2.cjk { font-family: "Noto Serif CJK SC"; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold }h2.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Devanagari"; font-size: 18pt; font-weight: bold }p { line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }a:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-31167368518487888522023-11-11T19:18:00.003-07:002023-11-11T19:19:52.732-07:00Bob's All Time Favorite Poem - Les Phares by Charles Baudelaire<p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Bob's All Time Favorite Poem</span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"> - Les Phares </span></b></p><p><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">by Charles Baudelaire</span></b></p><p><i>(translated by ME) </i></p><div class="article-content entry-content" itemprop="articleBody"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> LES PHARES </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>- by Charles Baudelaire </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>- translated by <a href="https://www.bobatkinson-poet.com/" target="_blank">Bob Atkinson</a></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span><br />
Rubens, fleuve d'oubli, jardin de la paresse,<br />
Oreiller de chair fraîche où l'on ne peut aimer,<br />
Mais où la vie afflue et s'agite sans cesse,<br />
Comme l'air dans le ciel et la mer dans la mer;<br />
Léonard de Vinci, miroir profond et sombre,<br />
Où des anges charmants, avec un doux souris<br />
Tout chargé de mystère, apparaissent à l'ombre<br />
Des glaciers et des pins qui ferment leur pays;<br />
Rembrandt, triste hôpital tout rempli de murmures,<br />
Et d'un grand crucifix décoré seulement,<br />
Où la prière en pleurs s'exhale des ordures,<br />
Et d'un rayon d'hiver traversé brusquement;<br />
Michel-Ange, lieu vague où l'on voit des Hercules<br />
Se mêler à des Christ, et se lever tout droits<br />
Des fantômes puissants, qui dans les crépuscules<br />
Déchirent leur suaire en étirant leurs doigts;<br />
Colères de boxeur, impudences de faune,<br />
Toi qui sus ramasser la beauté des goujats,<br />
Grand cœur gonflé d'orgueil, homme débile et jaune,<br />
Puget, mélancolique empereur des forçats;<br />
Watteau, ce carnaval où bien des cœurs illustres,<br />
Comme des papillons, errent en flamboyant,<br />
Décors frais et légers éclairés par des lustres<br />
Qui versent la folie à ce bal tournoyant;<br />
Goya, cauchemar plein de choses inconnues,<br />
De fœtus qu'on fait cuire au milieu des sabbats,<br />
De vieilles au miroir et d'enfants toutes nues,<br />
Pour tenter les Démons ajustant bien leurs bas;<br />
Delacroix, lac de sang hanté des mauvais anges,<br />
Ombragé par un bois de sapin toujours vert,<br />
Où, sous un ciel chagrin, des fanfares étranges<br />
Passent, comme un soupir étouffé de Weber;<br />
Ces malédictions, ces blasphèmes, ces plaintes,<br />
Ces extases, ces cris, ces pleurs, ces <i>Te Deum,</i><br />
Sont un écho redit par mille labyrinthes;<br />
C'est pour les cœurs mortels un divin opium.<br />
C'est un cri répété par mille sentinelles,<br />
Un ordre renvoyé par mille porte-voix;<br />
C'est un phare allumé sur mille citadelles,<br />
Un appel de chasseurs perdus dans les grands bois!<br />
Car c'est vraiment, Seigneur, le meilleur témoignage<br />
Que nous puissions donner de notre dignité<br />
Que cet ardent sanglot qui roule d'âge en âge<br />
Et vient mourir au bord de votre éternité!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 32pt;"><b>Guidance</b></span></div>
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Rubens showed us how to</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZy_YvgN3c8pWks_MMdcvMfAAv9h7ZcnhC7kmAa-whRDjwu-7bJg2g3rXJmeRkIvF1tuSO_OS6plUgDZEGTQyW4Q1FIlYXAT91EYDTUiMizjcSOM6LWsKvVnUaXWWbrymTdppXbD0uxg/s1600/02+RUBENS.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">escape our simple lives</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZy_YvgN3c8pWks_MMdcvMfAAv9h7ZcnhC7kmAa-whRDjwu-7bJg2g3rXJmeRkIvF1tuSO_OS6plUgDZEGTQyW4Q1FIlYXAT91EYDTUiMizjcSOM6LWsKvVnUaXWWbrymTdppXbD0uxg/s1600/02+RUBENS.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">into gardens we can't afford</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZy_YvgN3c8pWks_MMdcvMfAAv9h7ZcnhC7kmAa-whRDjwu-7bJg2g3rXJmeRkIvF1tuSO_OS6plUgDZEGTQyW4Q1FIlYXAT91EYDTUiMizjcSOM6LWsKvVnUaXWWbrymTdppXbD0uxg/s1600/02+RUBENS.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">made by insolence of pride</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZy_YvgN3c8pWks_MMdcvMfAAv9h7ZcnhC7kmAa-whRDjwu-7bJg2g3rXJmeRkIvF1tuSO_OS6plUgDZEGTQyW4Q1FIlYXAT91EYDTUiMizjcSOM6LWsKvVnUaXWWbrymTdppXbD0uxg/s1600/02+RUBENS.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">gave us lovers we couldn't</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZy_YvgN3c8pWks_MMdcvMfAAv9h7ZcnhC7kmAa-whRDjwu-7bJg2g3rXJmeRkIvF1tuSO_OS6plUgDZEGTQyW4Q1FIlYXAT91EYDTUiMizjcSOM6LWsKvVnUaXWWbrymTdppXbD0uxg/s1600/02+RUBENS.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">touch with our hands, their skin</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZy_YvgN3c8pWks_MMdcvMfAAv9h7ZcnhC7kmAa-whRDjwu-7bJg2g3rXJmeRkIvF1tuSO_OS6plUgDZEGTQyW4Q1FIlYXAT91EYDTUiMizjcSOM6LWsKvVnUaXWWbrymTdppXbD0uxg/s1600/02+RUBENS.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">confused our intellect wildly</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZy_YvgN3c8pWks_MMdcvMfAAv9h7ZcnhC7kmAa-whRDjwu-7bJg2g3rXJmeRkIvF1tuSO_OS6plUgDZEGTQyW4Q1FIlYXAT91EYDTUiMizjcSOM6LWsKvVnUaXWWbrymTdppXbD0uxg/s1600/02+RUBENS.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as if by summer winds</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZy_YvgN3c8pWks_MMdcvMfAAv9h7ZcnhC7kmAa-whRDjwu-7bJg2g3rXJmeRkIvF1tuSO_OS6plUgDZEGTQyW4Q1FIlYXAT91EYDTUiMizjcSOM6LWsKvVnUaXWWbrymTdppXbD0uxg/s1600/02+RUBENS.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Leonardo, he was the master</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZy_YvgN3c8pWks_MMdcvMfAAv9h7ZcnhC7kmAa-whRDjwu-7bJg2g3rXJmeRkIvF1tuSO_OS6plUgDZEGTQyW4Q1FIlYXAT91EYDTUiMizjcSOM6LWsKvVnUaXWWbrymTdppXbD0uxg/s1600/02+RUBENS.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">giving angels that sweet face</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghZy_YvgN3c8pWks_MMdcvMfAAv9h7ZcnhC7kmAa-whRDjwu-7bJg2g3rXJmeRkIvF1tuSO_OS6plUgDZEGTQyW4Q1FIlYXAT91EYDTUiMizjcSOM6LWsKvVnUaXWWbrymTdppXbD0uxg/s1600/02+RUBENS.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">planting in us seeds of wonder</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8WhoactcpjPJF6pS7ABKICWSDNWErVLWvPVqMCsySYqbUNqrahnTHVOhRU_bouBPbbPkQdvByTEjti4qcwJwbKnLoYYcoDeUfV3T7AoAnTCyN0Z-ebRIAoYiBRaWqGDpSu_m_E0aFAc/s1600/08+DA+VINCI.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">mountains, with their walls of green</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ8WhoactcpjPJF6pS7ABKICWSDNWErVLWvPVqMCsySYqbUNqrahnTHVOhRU_bouBPbbPkQdvByTEjti4qcwJwbKnLoYYcoDeUfV3T7AoAnTCyN0Z-ebRIAoYiBRaWqGDpSu_m_E0aFAc/s1600/08+DA+VINCI.jpg"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="en">those river banks of love</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTMmVzafxGtq3_ZLXqD6BgBLmAmw2PXCu8RGHejZMsWKj1p35v77-mbMdhVwSxTYrAfOUXGoZOUVnAg8zOe7RJ_tJwtHT0kN9X-zp0kR4sMccGHyq3FMy2wnOTEUxN4xVFC2vua3zLOkI/s1600/03+REMBRANDT.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rembrandt captured drama</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTMmVzafxGtq3_ZLXqD6BgBLmAmw2PXCu8RGHejZMsWKj1p35v77-mbMdhVwSxTYrAfOUXGoZOUVnAg8zOe7RJ_tJwtHT0kN9X-zp0kR4sMccGHyq3FMy2wnOTEUxN4xVFC2vua3zLOkI/s1600/03+REMBRANDT.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">full of hope and abject despair</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTMmVzafxGtq3_ZLXqD6BgBLmAmw2PXCu8RGHejZMsWKj1p35v77-mbMdhVwSxTYrAfOUXGoZOUVnAg8zOe7RJ_tJwtHT0kN9X-zp0kR4sMccGHyq3FMy2wnOTEUxN4xVFC2vua3zLOkI/s1600/03+REMBRANDT.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">observed conditions religion</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTMmVzafxGtq3_ZLXqD6BgBLmAmw2PXCu8RGHejZMsWKj1p35v77-mbMdhVwSxTYrAfOUXGoZOUVnAg8zOe7RJ_tJwtHT0kN9X-zp0kR4sMccGHyq3FMy2wnOTEUxN4xVFC2vua3zLOkI/s1600/03+REMBRANDT.jpg"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="en">played upon historical fare</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQTUSXH80xKrh8rIUghRX-WTwQZ6HCPNh6-YrsrxwlnRB5XprxdYR3K9mzeFenji-seqymIQ59Td9daP5FyrG8I-2tp_0cHhYuHP0UEYcrMAK_N532dPaM0QaJXZ4Fw8T6-_88TXcPvaU/s1600/06+MICHELANGELO.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Michelangelo grabbed the wall</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQTUSXH80xKrh8rIUghRX-WTwQZ6HCPNh6-YrsrxwlnRB5XprxdYR3K9mzeFenji-seqymIQ59Td9daP5FyrG8I-2tp_0cHhYuHP0UEYcrMAK_N532dPaM0QaJXZ4Fw8T6-_88TXcPvaU/s1600/06+MICHELANGELO.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a mixture of the clerical</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQTUSXH80xKrh8rIUghRX-WTwQZ6HCPNh6-YrsrxwlnRB5XprxdYR3K9mzeFenji-seqymIQ59Td9daP5FyrG8I-2tp_0cHhYuHP0UEYcrMAK_N532dPaM0QaJXZ4Fw8T6-_88TXcPvaU/s1600/06+MICHELANGELO.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with his doubts about himself</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixX-zve-7waiunf5t-Kly_NrpDSBpy3ZbltscHMeZTN7lfP2ikjbRTei55vC-DGcBe4-IK-Wts6i8cK_g8S0oxPq3zvAXhaw8VLlwfNwncxcPrOA1uwg32zl1HFbhrXh4bDESGG7b_UBw/s1600/04+PUGET.jpg"><img align="BOTTOM" border="0" height="320" name="graphics5" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixX-zve-7waiunf5t-Kly_NrpDSBpy3ZbltscHMeZTN7lfP2ikjbRTei55vC-DGcBe4-IK-Wts6i8cK_g8S0oxPq3zvAXhaw8VLlwfNwncxcPrOA1uwg32zl1HFbhrXh4bDESGG7b_UBw/s320/04+PUGET.jpg" width="192" /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="en"><br />
shameless in his anger</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixX-zve-7waiunf5t-Kly_NrpDSBpy3ZbltscHMeZTN7lfP2ikjbRTei55vC-DGcBe4-IK-Wts6i8cK_g8S0oxPq3zvAXhaw8VLlwfNwncxcPrOA1uwg32zl1HFbhrXh4bDESGG7b_UBw/s1600/04+PUGET.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">seeing action of man untamed</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixX-zve-7waiunf5t-Kly_NrpDSBpy3ZbltscHMeZTN7lfP2ikjbRTei55vC-DGcBe4-IK-Wts6i8cK_g8S0oxPq3zvAXhaw8VLlwfNwncxcPrOA1uwg32zl1HFbhrXh4bDESGG7b_UBw/s1600/04+PUGET.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">free spirit of trained intellect</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixX-zve-7waiunf5t-Kly_NrpDSBpy3ZbltscHMeZTN7lfP2ikjbRTei55vC-DGcBe4-IK-Wts6i8cK_g8S0oxPq3zvAXhaw8VLlwfNwncxcPrOA1uwg32zl1HFbhrXh4bDESGG7b_UBw/s1600/04+PUGET.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="en-US">P</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="en">uget sends us messages plain</span></span> </a></div>
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Watteau saw the laughter</span></span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdyg8CUabM1GhVXMmcxj2GzF1-ektSSvJdJxqxevJLvUYBp4ewonPvMTwCzU6shhoHDs2Wu4k7UjQF7c0ulQDe_5wfLRcSCxuUjovfVyRW1UDUnTCC22QJ4ItmfH7YqA1UhARAhAwCqw/s1600/01+WATTEAU.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">grew it more with brush</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdyg8CUabM1GhVXMmcxj2GzF1-ektSSvJdJxqxevJLvUYBp4ewonPvMTwCzU6shhoHDs2Wu4k7UjQF7c0ulQDe_5wfLRcSCxuUjovfVyRW1UDUnTCC22QJ4ItmfH7YqA1UhARAhAwCqw/s1600/01+WATTEAU.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">lit the fires of decadence</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdyg8CUabM1GhVXMmcxj2GzF1-ektSSvJdJxqxevJLvUYBp4ewonPvMTwCzU6shhoHDs2Wu4k7UjQF7c0ulQDe_5wfLRcSCxuUjovfVyRW1UDUnTCC22QJ4ItmfH7YqA1UhARAhAwCqw/s1600/01+WATTEAU.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="en">spun webs around our hearts</span></span></a></div>
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Painting: Third of May by Goya<br />
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<a href="http://arizona-poet.blogspot.com/2011/12/second-of-may-by-bob-atkinson.html" target="_blank">Second of May - poem by Bob Atkinson</a><br />
<a href="http://arizona-poet.blogspot.com/2011/12/third-of-may-by-bob-atkinson.html" target="_blank">Third of May - poem by Bob Atkinson</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5Bj-xW8Gmj92onAy8YiskSomefCq58l3MFv7QYOfYebIijhvRsmLfK4WEmXBNq4-fPC6UDONeNaogYTbQHMzhLOOAy8slQWLo-Vd1fZ9RoYtIxs5eAZEDyNXyy39N1KG_lU9sU7lelE/s1600/07+GOYA.jpg"> </a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5Bj-xW8Gmj92onAy8YiskSomefCq58l3MFv7QYOfYebIijhvRsmLfK4WEmXBNq4-fPC6UDONeNaogYTbQHMzhLOOAy8slQWLo-Vd1fZ9RoYtIxs5eAZEDyNXyy39N1KG_lU9sU7lelE/s1600/07+GOYA.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Goya captured hardship</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5Bj-xW8Gmj92onAy8YiskSomefCq58l3MFv7QYOfYebIijhvRsmLfK4WEmXBNq4-fPC6UDONeNaogYTbQHMzhLOOAy8slQWLo-Vd1fZ9RoYtIxs5eAZEDyNXyy39N1KG_lU9sU7lelE/s1600/07+GOYA.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">that which we do ourselves</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5Bj-xW8Gmj92onAy8YiskSomefCq58l3MFv7QYOfYebIijhvRsmLfK4WEmXBNq4-fPC6UDONeNaogYTbQHMzhLOOAy8slQWLo-Vd1fZ9RoYtIxs5eAZEDyNXyy39N1KG_lU9sU7lelE/s1600/07+GOYA.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to our brothers and sisters</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD5Bj-xW8Gmj92onAy8YiskSomefCq58l3MFv7QYOfYebIijhvRsmLfK4WEmXBNq4-fPC6UDONeNaogYTbQHMzhLOOAy8slQWLo-Vd1fZ9RoYtIxs5eAZEDyNXyy39N1KG_lU9sU7lelE/s1600/07+GOYA.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="en">no tears for wrongs exhaled</span></span> </a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcF13l34pwQQxVQs4BtZdJoOCbuohxeorqYGcdnJz8Wx6teRhYuXz9gCqwdTDjsgjj16SlTdmcIC-yHpv5-lOq62BokBeK-1H16QgLfg7kGQBAnbPtui6AAWT1YqHqlbE_8054gnD4RU/s1600/05+DELACROIX.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Eugene stands by us still</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcF13l34pwQQxVQs4BtZdJoOCbuohxeorqYGcdnJz8Wx6teRhYuXz9gCqwdTDjsgjj16SlTdmcIC-yHpv5-lOq62BokBeK-1H16QgLfg7kGQBAnbPtui6AAWT1YqHqlbE_8054gnD4RU/s1600/05+DELACROIX.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in the setting of a park</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcF13l34pwQQxVQs4BtZdJoOCbuohxeorqYGcdnJz8Wx6teRhYuXz9gCqwdTDjsgjj16SlTdmcIC-yHpv5-lOq62BokBeK-1H16QgLfg7kGQBAnbPtui6AAWT1YqHqlbE_8054gnD4RU/s1600/05+DELACROIX.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">where we lament his passing</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvcF13l34pwQQxVQs4BtZdJoOCbuohxeorqYGcdnJz8Wx6teRhYuXz9gCqwdTDjsgjj16SlTdmcIC-yHpv5-lOq62BokBeK-1H16QgLfg7kGQBAnbPtui6AAWT1YqHqlbE_8054gnD4RU/s1600/05+DELACROIX.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">while weber's flutes salute his art</span></a></div>
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cries out of the past</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">frozen in our time</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">yells, screams, laments</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">emotionally twisted minds</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">cries of goodness, cries of bad</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">cries of soldiers marching</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">cries of women losing lovers</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">cries of godless preaching gospel</span></a></div>
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</a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">exposition of that jacket</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">which binds our feet and hands</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and keeps us from producing</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the wholesome and the grand</span></a></div>
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a lament by all of us</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">have we gone far as we could</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to light that spark of progress</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWJWiIXyMgfPqbLkb2AcOMMWjQtv6a4jwxdnkD1PJv7oa2hO9EDMATzzNT1XkXvSrOu45XmBmBqS8bolLP8PZjZ6E1wTvB9YbGpmDQTBDlp5fFmyyppUJOes5lR54a-pBoSdZLhbqfVvs/s1600/flutes.jpg"><span style="font-size: x-large;">which assigns us the label good</span></a></div>
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</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.bobatkinson-poet.com/2023/04/combining-fine-art-fine-literature-step.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">by adding to the universe</span></a></div>
<div align="CENTER" lang="en" style="background-color: white; color: black; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.bobatkinson-poet.com/2023/04/combining-fine-art-fine-literature-step.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">work congealed, our merit strong</span></a></div>
<div align="CENTER" lang="en" style="background-color: white; color: black; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.bobatkinson-poet.com/2023/04/combining-fine-art-fine-literature-step.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a flood of light illuminating</span></a></div>
<div align="CENTER" lang="en" style="background-color: white; color: black; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.bobatkinson-poet.com/2023/04/combining-fine-art-fine-literature-step.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">that both right and wrong<br />
<br />
we leave for those future eyes</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.bobatkinson-poet.com/2023/04/combining-fine-art-fine-literature-step.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">emotions tied to a rock</span></a></div>
<div align="CENTER" lang="en" style="background-color: white; color: black; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.bobatkinson-poet.com/2023/04/combining-fine-art-fine-literature-step.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">an anchor binding us to those</span></a></div>
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<a href="https://www.bobatkinson-poet.com/2023/04/combining-fine-art-fine-literature-step.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span lang="en">whose time has not yet come</span></span></a></div></div></div></div><p></p><p><i> </i><br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-32707951505048278832023-11-04T17:01:00.000-07:002023-11-04T17:01:08.373-07:00“Pink Waves” - by- Sawako Nakayasu <p>
</p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.2in;">
<a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/sawako-nakayasu">s </a>
</p>
<h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">“<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Pink
Waves” </span>
</h1>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">- by- Sawako
Nakayasu
</p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHXUyatIOGh-mp-Qk2LKWoNGNxJgoDB_MZksmmBIgz53UKNp4hy00FyN8NouQPs5pXB8t1y-R247d-CBnOfAMu5iWapVCXhOtvHcmmo-dIAd_JZ6pVk7JKB_OESwgbamQWHnjycsmsdE-IjgavRn4dD3F0wMScbHO-Pagl0gQkbeTHBi81euQ7eQlTXfN4/s769/dull3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="497" data-original-width="769" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHXUyatIOGh-mp-Qk2LKWoNGNxJgoDB_MZksmmBIgz53UKNp4hy00FyN8NouQPs5pXB8t1y-R247d-CBnOfAMu5iWapVCXhOtvHcmmo-dIAd_JZ6pVk7JKB_OESwgbamQWHnjycsmsdE-IjgavRn4dD3F0wMScbHO-Pagl0gQkbeTHBi81euQ7eQlTXfN4/s320/dull3.png" width="320" /></a></div><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dull" target="_blank">Dull</a><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">was
<span style="color: #c9211e;">it </span>hardly a wave</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">collimation
dreams of narrowing waves</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
consolidation of my particulate odds</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">sliding
between dreamlight and <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> way <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span>
rolls off</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">she
<span style="color: #c9211e;">was </span>elegylight and circumstance; she
pitched her light away</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
bid you love</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">previous
utterance catches in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> memory like
death</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">closer
to <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>range, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>table, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>unrepentant tongue</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">English
utters a line for<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the </span>dead</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
then somebody <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> mouthing my kick</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">it’s</span>
haptic; <span style="color: #c9211e;">it’s </span>your normalized membrane</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">cantilevered
muscles in the backyard of my body</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">extent
that we need another resolution</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">atop
a sharp pink hat, Emma Post just went away</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">some
things don’t die so easy</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">i
want <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> drifting organisms of the
ongoing intermission</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">i
want Amber DiPietra and Denise Leto’s waveforms to protect us from
heavy waves</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">i
want a decidedly animal resolution, J K Chukwu and Stacey Tran <span style="color: #c9211e;">are
</span>here but they too will leave, others crowd in at <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>last minute</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
higher concentration of my predicate silence <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span>
cause for a crash, that would be me</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">positioned
at odds with myself</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">she
<span style="color: #c9211e;">was </span>a function of x, her geometry
projective; light while there <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> light
which <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> now gone</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
growing concept of her back</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
formal struggle of a line on fire</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">who
and where, why all of a sudden? Adam Golaski went away again</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">i
have a very animal claim, a brick and mortar politics</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">yes
we <span style="color: #c9211e;">are </span>erotic warm anemone</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">when
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>sun <span style="color: #c9211e;">is
</span>saluted, all interventions <span style="color: #c9211e;">are </span>off</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">el</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">i
think that some people just have no history of art</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">sediments
and molecules burn up in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> present
moment</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">hip
replacing humans</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">internal
findings crawl back in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> dirt and
undulate out while you</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">cede
your control</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Commentary:</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>drones
on like no end</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>no
purpose either</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>no
concepts I’d like to research</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>no
purpose outside her heart</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>a
prose-ish narrative</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>not
real poetry</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>I’d
give it a one (1) out of (5)</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>can’t
even dance to it</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
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<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Friends Within The Darkness</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSYzGlVaOe6GxVNLYogodd7lAHZ1P8_-uD3_1ew0d52fjO2vt2exrees7Q1V23CM_CNJsw7ctN-RIRqrmz1UDlv5FHjNoVV9kDK18334nOR_VquTM55bW4ewVAiWCF0uYJdQ_I2mzchnAB-gIZpEl_9q9w4hhs-nYiXdI4JvnoIlMlLjfLC3u4qTZay4/s220/Charles_Bukowski_smoking.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="190" data-original-width="220" height="190" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzSYzGlVaOe6GxVNLYogodd7lAHZ1P8_-uD3_1ew0d52fjO2vt2exrees7Q1V23CM_CNJsw7ctN-RIRqrmz1UDlv5FHjNoVV9kDK18334nOR_VquTM55bW4ewVAiWCF0uYJdQ_I2mzchnAB-gIZpEl_9q9w4hhs-nYiXdI4JvnoIlMlLjfLC3u4qTZay4/s1600/Charles_Bukowski_smoking.jpg" width="220" /></a></b></span></div><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski" target="_blank">- by – Charles Bukowski</a></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
can remember starving in a <br />
small room in a strange city <br />
shades
pulled down</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">listening
to classical music</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
I
was young I was so young </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">it
hurt like a knife inside <br />
because there was no alternative </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">except
to hide as long as possible</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
not
in self-pity</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but
with dismay</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">at
my limited chance: <br />
trying to connect. <br />
<br />
the old
composers</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mozart,
Bach, Beethoven, Brahms</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">were
the only ones who spoke to me</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
they were dead. <br />
<br />
finally, starved and beaten, </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
had to go into <br />
the streets to be interviewed</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for
low-paying and monotonous jobs </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
by
strange men behind desks <br />
men without eyes men without faces
<br />
who would take away my hours <br />
break them piss on them.
<br />
<br />
now I work for the editors </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the
readers the critics</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but
still hang around and drink</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with
Mozart, Bach, Brahms</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
the Bee </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">some
buddies <br />
some men </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">sometimes
all we need </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
be able to continue alone <br />
are the dead <br />
rattling the walls
<br />
that close us in.</span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Commentary:</b></span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Poetry as it should be</span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">emotional</span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">conversational language</span></i></p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-63659983398521006232023-10-21T21:24:00.006-07:002023-10-21T21:41:43.153-07:00 Thunder Road - by – Bruce Springsteen<p>
</p><h2 align="center" class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Road_(song)" target="_blank">Thunder Road</a></b></span></h2>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><b>- by – Bruce
Springsteen</b></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7129cqMpVXtePXh1WRl78wogwDoYHlAAJuiTEkbbFeV4AC8LJEnhg_9os3oSQdGXgide73yJuaSsfbby5U03MGlvtG-4qoiMwe8NfY-l5T50kG9l5kF1ObCfQu-LV6Em5Ye9exWpGtK1ZC34S5iygbrbX4jiFKLk8ausPDIFA7JZ-Igt-rxdR8rxoCA91/s433/thunder%20road.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="433" data-original-width="279" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7129cqMpVXtePXh1WRl78wogwDoYHlAAJuiTEkbbFeV4AC8LJEnhg_9os3oSQdGXgide73yJuaSsfbby5U03MGlvtG-4qoiMwe8NfY-l5T50kG9l5kF1ObCfQu-LV6Em5Ye9exWpGtK1ZC34S5iygbrbX4jiFKLk8ausPDIFA7JZ-Igt-rxdR8rxoCA91/s320/thunder%20road.png" width="206" /></a></b></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunder_Road_(song)" target="_blank"> Thunder Road</a></b></div><p></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the
screen door slams, </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mary's
dress sways<br />
like a vision she dances across the porch </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as
the radio plays</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
Roy
Orbison singing for the lonely</span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">hey, that's me, and I want you
only</span></p>
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</p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">don't turn me home again<br />
I
just can't face myself alone again</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><style type="text/css">p { line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }a:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline }</style><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;">
<br />
don't run back inside<br />
darling, you know
just what I'm here for<br />
so you're scared, and you're
thinking<br />
that maybe we ain't that young anymore</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
show
a little faith, </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">here's
magic in the night<br />
you ain't a beauty but,hey you're alright<br />
oh,
and that's alright with me<br /><br />
you can hide 'neath your covers
and study your pain<br />
make crosses from your lovers, throw roses
in the rain<br />
waste your summer praying in vain<br />
for a saviour
to rise from these streets</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
well
now, I'm no hero, that's understood<br />
all the redemption I can
offer, girl, is beneath this dirty hood<br />
with a chance to make it
good somehow<br />
hey what else can we do now?<br />
<br />
except roll
down the window </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
let the wind blow back your hair<br />
well the night's busting
open<br />
these two lanes will take us anywhere</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
we
got one last chance to make it real<br />
to trade in these wings on
some wheels<br />
climb in back, </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">heaven's
waiting down on the tracks<br />
<br />
oh-oh come take my hand<br />
we're
riding out tonight to case the promised land<br />
oh-oh Thunder Road
oh Thunder Road oh Thunder Road<br />
lying out there like a killer in
the sun</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
hey,
I know it's late, we can make it if we run<br />
oh, Thunder Road, </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">sit
tight, take hold<br />
Thunder Road<br />
<br />
well I got this guitar,
</span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
I learned how to make it talk<br />
and my car's out back </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">if
you're ready to take that long walk</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
from
your front porch to my front seat<br />
the door's open but the ride
it ain't free<br />
and I know you're lonely for words that I ain't
spoken<br />
but tonight we'll be free, all the promises'll be
broken<br />
<br />
there were ghosts in the eyes </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
all the boys you sent away<br />
they haunt this dusty beach road<br />
in
the skeleton frames of burned out Chevrolets</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
they
scream your name at night in the street<br />
your graduation gown
lies in rags at their feet<br />
and in the lonely cool before
dawn<br />
you hear their engines roaring on</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br />
but
when you get to the porch they're gone on the wind<br />
so Mary,
climb in<br />
it's a town full of losers<br />
and I'm pulling out of
here to win</span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoTOUpiyyH8eKRSBxxg49pyiSH_QbInMewV4aWRgeaKP8huv_RRe63YLUMkEWnxjGV8tyA2mr3ss-gbfcrtaTOWYc6Vs8QF_lata2AqBiiE0Y3NOytPxdnifDLSMieCKGJc022LehmH8qG2jJx0zxdM7B1-aY2WfwY46_eSXT-yq_O_hoTHf4qkIOoyIka/s1202/Bruce_Springsteen_-_Roskilde_Festival_2012.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1202" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoTOUpiyyH8eKRSBxxg49pyiSH_QbInMewV4aWRgeaKP8huv_RRe63YLUMkEWnxjGV8tyA2mr3ss-gbfcrtaTOWYc6Vs8QF_lata2AqBiiE0Y3NOytPxdnifDLSMieCKGJc022LehmH8qG2jJx0zxdM7B1-aY2WfwY46_eSXT-yq_O_hoTHf4qkIOoyIka/s320/Bruce_Springsteen_-_Roskilde_Festival_2012.jpg" width="213" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen" target="_blank">Bruce Springsteen</a></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /> </span><p></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
</p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;">
<i><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Commentary: </b></span></i>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><style type="text/css"><i>p { line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }a:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline }</i></style></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">an Emotional Literal Tome</span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">written in great style</span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">by a master of <a href="https://www.dictionary.com/browse/tome" target="_blank">Tomes</a></span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Bruce Springsteen</span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">perfection in emotion</span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">what can I say</span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">that you can't feel</span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">reading it?</span></i></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">******************************************</span></i></p><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: 32pt;">18
Stoic Faces</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">(c)2013 Bob
Atkinson</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism" target="_blank">Stoicism</a></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">eighteen
stoic faces</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">faced four
who had come</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">to read the
erudite refrains</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">of poets both
dead and gone</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://poetry-critic.blogspot.com/2012/06/dream-within-dream-by-edgar-allan-poe_14.html" target="_blank">A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe</a></span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">readings were
in earnest<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">spoken</span></span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">for respect
for some who had</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">garnered from
the establishment</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">accolades, awards, well s<span style="font-size: x-large;">anctioned</span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">yes, eighteen
stoic faces</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">faced four
who read so good</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">those
meaningless diatribes</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">of useless linguistic words<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span> </span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">significance
became not evident</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">for
similes provided here</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">metaphors vaguely crafted caused</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">me not them to revere<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">this didn't
change my attitude</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">my demeanor
didn't rise</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">waiting for an end to it</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">was my only
real desire</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">so I couldn't
clap and whistle</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">and be
smiling in my face</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">that would
not have been sincere</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">became just a little
bit ashamed</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">whistle I
didn't do at all</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">felt not much real emotion</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">gave a polite
nod to those speaking</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">headed quickly out the door</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">save me from <span style="font-size: x-large;">disjointed thoughts</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">can't those p<span style="font-size: x-large;">eople see the truth</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">senseless disorganization</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">does<span style="font-size: x-large;"> not good poetry produce</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of those thoughts <span style="font-size: x-large;">not poetry</span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I firmly do believe</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the fire<span style="font-size: x-large;">place requires cellulose</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for bright flames to feed</span></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">listless
words written poorly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">carried my imagination not</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">was frozen in m<span style="font-size: x-large;">y dreamy state</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">rusted any worthwhile thoughts </span> </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4gLt6kr6o39mWW8fsapSPRXRmpMhbma_0zbjgIj55yH8JfmQDPQV5PnyQVn847ai58q5viss4wYcy9pbRIhXV1oVhoSXK1Tfz_sO2ithZ9TPRUD6UpwBj5ikatXSIuPeKmb5AYrhw87Y/s1600/emotions.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4gLt6kr6o39mWW8fsapSPRXRmpMhbma_0zbjgIj55yH8JfmQDPQV5PnyQVn847ai58q5viss4wYcy9pbRIhXV1oVhoSXK1Tfz_sO2ithZ9TPRUD6UpwBj5ikatXSIuPeKmb5AYrhw87Y/s1600/emotions.png" width="315" /></a></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion" target="_blank">Emotion</a></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">next week
went to Vegas</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">to see the
eagle band</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">and watch as
pure emotion</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">rocked that
audience grand</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">ten thousand
had paid apiece</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">a couple
hundred bucks</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">to see those
wordly masters</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">like Henley,
Frey and such</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">they told of
the situation</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">which emotion
played upon</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">a woman's
real life choices</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">why she'd
become despondent</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">ten thousand
cheered wildly</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">in recognition
of great words</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">displayed
while coddled with sounds</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">soft guitars
and drums beat purrs</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PTEqZURh4o" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimaYr5BlK0B30nLTkZIB-D9_iJqbFV4oSzJXl20QW-DtikXHyWlxrJ1maX6ZiEUHY75wxMMJ2gsmYO0bWCuzDK6DWgLDG3pK7KcDxG4gDQhYEDaoxw6_m0T46M6ayYZoPAmDSTVDN97HJy/s320/Hawk_eye.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PTEqZURh4o" target="_blank">
</a><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PTEqZURh4o" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></a><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PTEqZURh4o" target="_blank">Lyin' Eyes by the Don Henly and Glenn Frey</a></span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I thought
"now here lies real poetry"</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">not those
prissy kind of words</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">that speak
only of the unimportant</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">with wispy mindless verbs</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">some lock
credentials grand</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">for that
which moves us not</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">and laugh at
the suggestion</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">that song is
our greatest art</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">me, I have a vision</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">that we shall all enjoy</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">songs we've <span style="font-size: x-large;">grown up with</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as emotional literal tomes</span></span><br /></div><div>
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.bobatkinson-poet.com/2013/06/emotional-literal-tomes-by-bob-atkinson.html" target="_blank">Poem: Emotional Literal Tomes</a></span></span><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: right;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></i>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
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</p><h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Each Defeat </span>
</h1>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> - Tripewriter - Eileen Myles
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Please!
Keep</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">reading
me</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Blake</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">because
you’re going to make</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">me<span style="color: #c9211e;">
the </span>greatest</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">poet
of</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">all
time</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Keep
smoothing</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
stones in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">driveway</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">let
me fry an egg</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">on
your ass</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">&
I’ll pick up</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>mail.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
feel your</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">absence
in</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>morning</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">&
imagine your</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">instant
mouth</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">let
me move</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
with you—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Travelling</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">wrapping
your limbs</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">on
my back</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
grow man woman</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Child</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
see wild wild wild</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Keep
letting <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">day
<span style="color: #c9211e;">be </span>massive</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Unlicensed</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Oh
please have</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">my
child</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">I’m
a little</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">controlling</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Prose
has some</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Magic.
Morgan</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">had
a</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">whore
in</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">her
lap. You</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Big
fisherman</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
love my</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Friends.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
want to lean</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">my
everything</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with
you</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">make
home for your hubris</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
want to read the words you circld over and over again</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A
slow skunk walking across the road</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Yellow,
just kind</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
pausing</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">picked
up the warm</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">laundry.
I just saw a coyote</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">tippy
tippy tippy</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
didn’t tell you about the creature with hair</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">long
hair, it was hit by cars on the highway</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Again
and again. It had long grey hair</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It
must’ve been a dog; it could’ve been</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ours.
Everyone loses their friends.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
couldn’t tell anyone about this sight.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Each
defeat</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Is
sweet.</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Commentary:</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>rambling
nonsense without purpose</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>vulgar
and useless to humanity</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>enough
said</i></span></p>
<p><style type="text/css">h1 { margin-bottom: 0.08in; background: transparent; page-break-after: avoid }h1.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.cjk { font-family: "Noto Serif CJK SC"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Devanagari"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }p { line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }a:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-35513372971994088002023-10-08T10:48:00.000-07:002023-10-08T10:48:13.959-07:00 One Art - by – Elizabeth Bishop<p>
</p><h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;">One Art </span>
</h1>
<ul><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">- by – Elizabeth
Bishop</p></ul>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The
</span>art of losing <span style="color: #c9211e;">isn’t </span>hard to
master;<br />
so many things seem filled with<span style="color: #c9211e;">
the</span> intent<br />
to<span style="color: #c9211e;"> be</span> lost that
their loss <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> no disaster.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lose
something every day. Accept <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
fluster<br />
of lost door keys, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> hour
badly spent.<br />
<span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span> art of losing<span style="color: #c9211e;">
isn’t</span> hard to master.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then
practice losing farther, losing faster:<br />
places, and names, and
where <span style="color: #c9211e;">it was</span> you meant <br />
to travel.
None of these will bring disaster.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or<br />
next-to-last, of
three loved houses went.<br />
<span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span> art of
losing <span style="color: #c9211e;">isn’t</span> hard to master.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,<br />
some realms I owned,
two rivers, a continent.<br />
I miss them, but <span style="color: #c9211e;">it
wasn’t</span> a disaster.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;">—<span style="font-size: x-large;">Even
losing you (the joking voice, a gesture<br />
I love) I shan’t have
lied.</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
It’s</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
evident<br />
</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the
</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">art of losing’s
not too hard to master<br />
though </span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">it</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
may look like (</span><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">Write</span></em><span style="font-size: x-large;">
it!) like disaster.</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Commentary:</b></i></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b></b></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj93BzxhfPEpRnckG_IkaXimIyczqpkJljz8bM6KupWBT12newGoBx6DyQH2OUG3OgmLlJDdy6TUuui8HB_xjMMy88PQm5fM9UYE9NnAPgY97kmQS7PApvlmWAuqX8vYPX3IZWAgZUoIIr8Ojn5DQS7256oYAtLvspktXLT6-DfIoQ4_hszTe3RICsuoBS2/s1016/Books_and_Scroll_Ornament_with_Open_Book.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="1016" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj93BzxhfPEpRnckG_IkaXimIyczqpkJljz8bM6KupWBT12newGoBx6DyQH2OUG3OgmLlJDdy6TUuui8HB_xjMMy88PQm5fM9UYE9NnAPgY97kmQS7PApvlmWAuqX8vYPX3IZWAgZUoIIr8Ojn5DQS7256oYAtLvspktXLT6-DfIoQ4_hszTe3RICsuoBS2/s320/Books_and_Scroll_Ornament_with_Open_Book.png" width="320" /></a></b></i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><br /></b></i></span><p></p><p style="line-height: 200%; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poet" target="_blank">Poet </a></b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>theme’s
a most important facet</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>of
Poetry</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>and
this one’s got that nailed</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>good,
bad or indifferent</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>this
one has me perplexed</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>mostly
positive in construction</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>will
not degrade its tone</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>love
it, like it, hate it</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>surely
directly in Poetry’s Zone</i></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p><style type="text/css">h1 { margin-bottom: 0.08in; background: transparent; page-break-after: avoid }h1.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.cjk { font-family: "Noto Serif CJK SC"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Devanagari"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }p { line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }em { font-style: italic }a:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-81054222361491978492023-10-07T17:48:00.002-07:002023-10-07T17:54:31.193-07:00 The Cloud Corporation - By - Timothy Donnelly <p>
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The <span style="color: #780373;">Cloud </span>Corporation </h1><h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7fJ8Bu7mDh_RL2mG-RB1pOQZOlmEimSJEjx8frwqearRyXybQi_nUGIqPc5R_zhoib2_Th8qKtTtQwP3PL8i6XMuPKEYL0A_8maZZF-APrstsb_ukcYz591VXlbDZMUjKLO4IqfPiBiomgoWkQlkT4jdQ0MRYpM5beEsH137WBlB7nkkT3fln4QNepo0A/s320/800px-ISS-40_Thunderheads_near_Borneo.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></h1>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">By Timothy Donnelly
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span>
<span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds</span> part revealing a
mythology of <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">assembled
in light of earliest birds, an originary</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">text
over water over time, and that without which</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span><span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">
clouds </span>part revealing an apology for<span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">
clouds</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">implicit
in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> air where <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span><span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">
clouds </span>had been</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">recently
witnessed rehearsing departure, a heartfelt phrase</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> push of the airborne drops and
crystals</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">over
water over time—how being made to think</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">oneself
an obstruction between <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>observer</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> object or objects under surveillance
or even</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">desired—or
if I <span style="color: #c9211e;">am</span> felt to <span style="color: #c9211e;">be</span>
beside <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>point</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">then
I have wanted that, but to block a path <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span>
like</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">not
being immaterial enough, or being too much</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">when
all they want from you now <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> your
station</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">cleared
of <span style="color: #c9211e;">its</span> personal effects please and
vanish—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">not
that they’d ever just come out and say <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span>
when</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">all
that darting around of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> eyes, all
that shaky</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">camouflage
of paper could only portend <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>beginning
of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">end
of your tenure at this organization, and remember</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
capacity to draw meaning out of such seeming</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">accidence
landed one here to begin with, didn’t <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span>.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The
</span><span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds</span> part revealing
an anatomy of<span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);"> clouds</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">viewed
from <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> midst of human speculation, a
business</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">project
undertaken in a bid to acquire and retain</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">control
of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>formation and movement of <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As
late afternoons I have witnessed <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
distant</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">towers
borrow luster from a bourbon sun, in-box</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">empty,
surround sound on, all my money made</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
lieu of conversation—where conversation indicates</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
presence of desire in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>parties to
embark on</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">exchange
of spirit, hours forzando with heartfelt phrase—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">made
metaphor for <span style="color: #c9211e;">it, the</span> face on <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
clock tower</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">bright
as a meteor, as if a torch were held against</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">likelihood
to illuminate<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span> time so I could watch</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
calm silent progress of <span style="color: #c9211e;">its</span> hands from
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>luxury</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">appointments
of my office suite, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> tumult below</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">or
behind me out of mind, had not my whole attention</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">been
riveted by <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>human figure stood upon</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>tower’s topmost pinnacle, himself surveying</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
<span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds</span> of the future parting
in antiquity, a figure</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">not
to <span style="color: #c9211e;">be</span> mistaken, tranquilly pacing a
platform</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with
authority: <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> chief executive officer
of <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span>
<span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds</span> part revealing
blueprints of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">built
in glass-front factories carved into cliff-faces</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">which,
prior to<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the </span>factories’ recent
construction,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">provided
dorms for clans of hamadryas baboons,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
species revered in ancient Egypt as attendants</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
Thoth, god of wisdom, science, and measurement.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fans
conveying <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds </span>through
aluminum ducts</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">can
<span style="color: #c9211e;">be</span> heard from up to a mile away,
depending on</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">air
temperature, humidity,<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span> absence or
presence</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
any competing sound, <span style="color: #c9211e;">its </span>origin and<span style="color: #c9211e;">
its</span> character.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">It
is</span> no more impossible to grasp<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span>
baboon’s</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">full
significance in Egyptian religious symbolism</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">than
<span style="color: #c9211e;">it is</span> to determine why <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds</span>
we manufacture</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">provoke
in an audience more positive, lasting</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">response
than do comparable <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds </span>occurring
in nature.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Even
those who consider natural <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds
</span>products</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
conscious manufacture seem to prefer that a merely</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">human
mind lie behind <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> products they
admire.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This
development may <span style="color: #c9211e;">be </span>a form of
self-exalting</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">or
else another adaptation in order that we find</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
hum of machinery comforting through darkness.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span><span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">
clouds </span>part revealing there’s no place left to sit</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">myself
down except for a single wingback chair</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">backed
into a corner to face<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the </span>window in
which</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
<span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds </span>part revealing <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
insouciance of <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">cavorting
over the backs of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> people in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
field</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">who
cut t<span style="color: #c9211e;">he</span> ripened barley, who gather <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span>
in sheaves,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">who
beat grain from <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> sheaves with wooden
flails,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">who
shake it loose from <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>scaly husk
around <span style="color: #c9211e;">it,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">who
throw <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> now threshed grain up into <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
gently</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">palm-fanned
air whose steady current carries off</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>chaff as<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span> grain falls to<span style="color: #c9211e;">
the </span>floor, who collect</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
grain from<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span> floor painstakingly to
grind <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">into
flour, who bake <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> flour into loaves
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> priest will offer</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> sanctuary,<span style="color: #c9211e;"> its</span>
walls washed white like milk.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To
perform <span style="color: #c9211e;">it </span>repeatedly, to perform <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span>
each time</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as
if <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> first, to walk <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
dim corridor believing that</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>conference<span style="color: #c9211e;"> it </span>leads to might
change everything,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
adhere to a possibility of reward, of betterment,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
moving above, with effort, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> condition
into which</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">one
has been born, to whom do I owe <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
pleasure</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> hum to which I have been listening
too long.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span>
<span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds</span> part revealing <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
advocates of <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">believers
in people, ideas and things, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>workers</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> united fields of clouds, supporters
of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> wars</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
keep clouds safe, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> devotees of
heartfelt phrase</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
belief you can change with water over time.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">It
is the </span>habit of a settled population to give ear to</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">whatever
<span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> desirable will come to pass, a
caressing</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">confidence—but
one unfortunately not borne out</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">by
human experience, for most things people desire</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">have
been desired ardently for thousands of years</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
observe—they <span style="color: #c9211e;">are</span> no closer to
realization today</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">than
in Ramses’ time. Nor <span style="color: #c9211e;">is </span>there cause to
believe</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">they
will lose their coyness on some near tomorrow.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Attempts
to speed them on have been undertaken</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">from
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>beginning; plans to force them
overnight</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">are</span>
in copious, antagonistic operation today, and yet</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">they
have thoroughly eluded us, and chances <span style="color: #c9211e;">are</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">they
will continue to elude us until<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span>
<span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds </span>part</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
a flash of autonomous, ardent, local brainwork—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but
when the <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds</span> start to
knit back together again,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we’ll
dismiss the event as a glitch in transmission.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The
clouds part revealing a congregation of bodies</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">united
into one immaterial body, a fictive person</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">around
whom<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the </span>air<span style="color: #c9211e;"> is
</span>blurred with money, force</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">from
which much harm will come, to whom my welfare</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">matters
nothing. I sense without turning <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
light</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">from
their wings, their eyes; they preen themselves</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">on
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>fire escape,<span style="color: #c9211e;">
the </span>windowsill, their pink feet</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">vulnerable—a
mistake to think of them that way.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">If
I turn around, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> room might not<span style="color: #c9211e;">
be </span>full of wings</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">capable
of acting, in many respects, as a single being,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">which
<span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> to say that I myself may <span style="color: #c9211e;">be
the</span> source of</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">what
I sense, but <span style="color: #c9211e;">am</span> no less powerless to
change <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span>.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Always
around me, on my body, in my mouth, I fear them</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
their love of money, everything I do without</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">thinking
to help them make <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span>. And if I <span style="color: #c9211e;">am</span>
felt to <span style="color: #c9211e;">be</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">beside
the point, I have wanted that, to live apart</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">from
what depends on killing me a little bit to keep</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">itself
alive, and yet not happily, with all <span style="color: #c9211e;">its</span>
needs</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
comforts met, but fattened so far past that point</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
<span style="color: #c9211e;">am</span> engrossed, and if I picture myself
outside of<span style="color: #c9211e;"> it</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">it
isn’t </span>me anymore, but a parasite cast out, inviable.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The<span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">
clouds </span>part revealing <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
distinction between</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">words
without meaning and meaning without words,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
phenomenon of nature, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> westbound
field</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
low air pressure developing over water over time</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
warm, saturated air on<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the sea</span> surface
rising</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">steadily
replaced by cold air from above, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
cycle</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">repeating,
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>warm moving upward into massive</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">thunder<span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds,</span>
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> cold descending into <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>eye</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">around
which bands of thunder<span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds
</span>spiral, counter-</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">clockwise,
often in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> hundreds, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
atmospheric</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">pressure
dropping even further, making winds</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">accelerate,
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> <span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">clouds</span>
revolve, a confusion of energy,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">an
incomprehensible volume of rain—I remember</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
trick of thinking through infinity, a crowd of eyes</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">against
an asphalt wall, my vision of <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span>
scrolling</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">left
as <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> crowd thinned out to a spatter
and then</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">just
black until I fall asleep and then just black again,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">past
marketing, past focus groups, past human</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">resources,
past management, past personal effects,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">their
insignificance evident in<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the </span>eye of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>dream</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
through much of <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>debriefing I wake
into next.</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i>Commentary:</i></span></b></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>could
suggest an alternate title</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>for
this</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>melatonin”</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>as
effective this is at putting one to sleep</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>is
this a poem?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Well,
no, not in my opinion</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>is
it well written</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>most
definitely not</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>full
of dime store words</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>that
shouldn’t be there</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“…<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>.
the verb to be? Is are was were</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>it,
the etc.</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>poorly
written</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="background: rgb(141, 29, 117);">CLOUDS?
27 TIMES?</span></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Why?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>What
for?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>For
what purpose?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>To
hide the theme?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Because
that’s all it does.</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Not
poetry, but descriptive prose</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>no
emotion, none, zilch.</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>***************************************************************</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>OK
Bob, give me an example of well written poetry??</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">***************************************************************</span></p><p> <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyin%27_Eyes" target="_blank">Lyin' Eyes</a></b></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>-
by - </b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Henley">Don
Henley</a> - and - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Frey">Glenn
Frey</a></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">City
girls just seem to find out early<br />
How to open doors with just a
smile<br />
A rich old man and she won't have to worry<br />
She'll
dress up all in lace and go in style<br />
<br />
Late at night a big
old house gets lonely<br />
I guess every form of refuge has its
price<br />
And it breaks her heart to think her love is only<br />
Given
to a man with hands as cold as ice<br />
<br />
So she tells him she
must go out for the evening<br />
To comfort an old friend who's
feelin' down<br />
But he knows where she's goin' as she's leavin'<br />
She
is headed for the cheatin' side of town<br />
<br />
You can't hide
your lyin' eyes<br />
And your smile is a thin disguise<br />
I thought
by now you'd realize<br />
There ain't no way to hide your lying
eyes<br />
<br />
On the other side of town a boy is waiting<br />
With
fiery eyes and dreams no one could steal<br />
She drives on through
the night anticipating<br />
'Cause he makes her feel the way she used
to feel<br />
<br />
She rushes to his arms, they fall together<br />
She
whispers that it's only for awhile<br />
She swears that soon she'll
be comin' back forever<br />
She pulls away and leaves him with a
smile<br />
<br />
You can't hide your lyin' eyes<br />
And your smile
is a thin disguise<br />
I thought by now you'd realize<br />
There
ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes<br />
<br />
She gets up and pours
herself a strong one<br />
And stares out at the stars up in the
sky<br />
Another night, it's gonna be a long one<br />
She draws the
shade and hangs her head to cry<br />
<br />
She wonders how it ever
got this crazy<br />
She thinks about a boy she knew in school<br />
Did
she get tired or did she just get lazy?<br />
She's so far gone she
feels just like a fool<br />
<br />
My, oh my, you sure know how to
arrange things<br />
You set it up so well, so carefully<br />
Ain't it
funny how your new life didn't change things<br />
You're still the
same old girl you used to be<br />
<br />
You can't hide your lying
eyes<br />
And your smile is a thin disguise<br />
I thought by now
you'd realize<br />
There ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes<br />
There
ain't no way to hide your lyin' eyes<br />
Honey, you can't hide your
lyin' eyes </span>
</p>
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<span style="font-size: 32pt;">18
Stoic Faces</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: small;">(c)2013 Bob
Atkinson</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism" target="_blank">Stoicism</a></span><br />
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">eighteen
stoic faces</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">faced four
who had come</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">to read the
erudite refrains</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">of poets both
dead and gone</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://poetry-critic.blogspot.com/2012/06/dream-within-dream-by-edgar-allan-poe_14.html" target="_blank">A Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe</a></span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">readings were
in earnest<span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">spoken</span></span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">for respect
for some who had</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">garnered from
the establishment</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">accolades, awards, well s<span style="font-size: x-large;">anctioned</span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">yes, eighteen
stoic faces</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">faced four
who read so good</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">those
meaningless diatribes</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">of useless linguistic words<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span> </span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">significance
became not evident</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">for
similes provided here</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">metaphors vaguely crafted caused</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">me not them to revere<span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">this didn't
change my attitude</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">my demeanor
didn't rise</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">waiting for an end to it</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">was my only
real desire</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">so I couldn't
clap and whistle</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">and be
smiling in my face</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">that would
not have been sincere</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">became just a little
bit ashamed</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">whistle I
didn't do at all</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">felt not much real emotion</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">gave a polite
nod to those speaking</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">headed quickly out the door</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">save me from <span style="font-size: x-large;">disjointed thoughts</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">can't those p<span style="font-size: x-large;">eople see the truth</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">senseless disorganization</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">does<span style="font-size: x-large;"> not good poetry produce</span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of those thoughts <span style="font-size: x-large;">not poetry</span></span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I firmly do believe</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the fire<span style="font-size: x-large;">place requires cellulose</span> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for bright flames to feed</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">listless
words written poorly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">carried my imagination not</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">was frozen in m<span style="font-size: x-large;">y dreamy state</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">rusted any worthwhile thoughts </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion" target="_blank">Emotion</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">next week
went to Vegas</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">to see the
eagle band</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">and watch as
pure emotion</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">rocked that
audience grand</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">ten thousand
had paid apiece</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">a couple
hundred bucks</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">to see those
wordly masters</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">like Henley,
Frey and such</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">they told of
the situation</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">which emotion
played upon</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">a woman's
real life choices</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">why she'd
become despondent</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">ten thousand
cheered wildly</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">in recognition
of great words</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">displayed
while coddled with sounds</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">soft guitars
and drums beat purrs</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="http://poetry-critic.blogspot.com/2013/04/poem-of-month-may-2013-lyin-eyes.html" target="_blank">Lyin' Eyes by the Don Henly and Glenn Frey</a></span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I thought
"now here lies real poetry"</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">not those
prissy kind of words</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">that speak
only of the unimportant</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">with wispy mindless verbs</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">some lock
credentials grand</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">for that
which moves us not</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">and laugh at
the suggestion</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">that song is
our greatest art</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">me, I have a vision</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">that we shall all enjoy</span></div>
<div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">songs we've <span style="font-size: x-large;">grown up with</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as emotional literal tomes</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://www.bobatkinson-poet.com/2013/06/emotional-literal-tomes-by-bob-atkinson.html" target="_blank">Poem: Emotional Literal Tomes</a> </span></span><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;">
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<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">By <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_of_the_Happy_Warrior" target="_blank">William Wordsworth</a></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Who
<span style="color: #c9211e;">is the</span> happy Warrior? Who <span style="color: #c9211e;">is
</span>he</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That
every man in arms should wish to <span style="color: #c9211e;">be</span>?</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">—<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">It
is the</span> generous Spirit, who, when brought</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Among
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> tasks of real life, hath wrought</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Upon
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> plan that pleased his boyish
thought:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whose
high endeavours <span style="color: #c9211e;">are</span> an inward light</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That
makes <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> path before him always bright;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Who,
with a natural instinct to discern</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What
knowledge can perform, <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> diligent to
learn;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Abides
by this resolve, and stops not there,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But
makes his moral being his prime care;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Who,
doomed to go in company with Pain,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Turns
his necessity to glorious gain;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In
face of these doth exercise a power</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Which
<span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> our human nature's highest dower:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Controls
them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Of
their bad influence, and their good receives:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">By
objects, which might force <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> soul to
abate</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Her
feeling, rendered more compassionate;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">Is</span>
placable—because occasions rise</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So
often that demand such sacrifice;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">More
skilful in self-knowledge, even more pure,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As
tempted more; more able to endure,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As
more exposed to suffering and distress;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thence,
also, more alive to tenderness.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">—<span style="font-size: x-large;">'Tis
he whose law <span style="color: #c9211e;">is </span>reason; who depends</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Upon
that law as on <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> best of friends;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whence,
in a state where men <span style="color: #c9211e;">are</span> tempted still</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To
evil for a guard against worse ill,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
what in quality or act <span style="color: #c9211e;">is </span>best</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Doth
seldom on a right foundation rest,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">He
labours good on good to fix, and owes</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To
virtue every triumph that he knows:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">—<span style="font-size: x-large;">Who,
if he rise to station of command,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Rises
by open means; and there will stand</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On
honourable terms, or else retire,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
in himself possess his own desire;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Who
comprehends his trust, and to <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>same</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Keeps
faithful with a singleness of aim;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
therefore does not stoop, nor lie in wait</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For
wealth, or honours, or for worldly state;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whom
they must follow; on whose head must fall,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Like
showers of manna, if they come at all:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whose
powers shed round him in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> common
strife,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Or
mild concerns of ordinary life,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">A
constant influence, a peculiar grace;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But
who, if he <span style="color: #c9211e;">be</span> called upon to face</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Some
awful moment to which Heaven has joined</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Great
issues, good or bad for human kind,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">Is</span>
happy as a Lover; and attired</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">With
sudden brightness, like a Man inspired;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And,
through <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> heat of conflict, keeps<span style="color: #c9211e;">
the </span>law</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In
calmness made, and sees what he foresaw;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Or
if an unexpected call succeed,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Come
when <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span> will, is equal to the need:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">—<span style="font-size: x-large;">He
who, though thus endued as with a sense</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
faculty for storm and turbulence,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Is
yet a Soul whose master-bias leans</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To
homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sweet
images! which, wheresoe'er he <span style="color: #c9211e;">be</span>,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Are
at his heart; and such fidelity</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">It
is</span> his darling passion to approve;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">More
brave for this, that he hath much to love:—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">'Tis,
finally, the Man, who, lifted high,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Conspicuous
object in a Nation's eye,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Or
left unthought-of in obscurity,—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Who,
with a toward or untoward lot,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Prosperous
or adverse, to his wish or not—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Plays,
in the many games of life, that one</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Where
what he most doth value must be won:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whom
neither shape or danger can dismay,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nor
thought of tender happiness betray;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Who,
not content that former worth stand fast,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Looks
forward, persevering to <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> last,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">From
well to better, daily self-surpast:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Who,
whether praise of him must walk <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
earth</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For
ever, and to noble deeds give birth,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Or
he must fall, to sleep without his fame,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
leave a dead unprofitable name—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Finds
comfort in himself and in his cause;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And,
while the mortal mist is gathering, draws</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">His
breath in confidence of Heaven's applause:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This
<span style="color: #c9211e;">is the</span> happy Warrior; this<span style="color: #c9211e;">
is </span>he</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That
every man in arms should wish to <span style="color: #c9211e;">be</span>.</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Commentary:</b></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">sometimes
even the leaders let us down</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">emotion
replaced by observation</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">not
much of a poem</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">as
mush as can be</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
<br />
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>happy
warrior?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>You
mean someone who has sold</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>their
soul to the devil?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Someone
who thinks killing</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>is
a moral act</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>while
ignoring immorality of their society </i></span>
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>like
us in Viet Nam, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Must
be on drugs</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">*************************************************************************</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>OK
Bob, put your money where your mouth is</b></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">*************************************************************************</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>World
in Pain</b></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">©</span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">2023
Bob Atkinson</span></span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSNKsFU9WFW-Ogu4R3qJNf0fkibzNKEl76swLmGWCXYxvzKs0hG-3it4lhxqJQQcssLlcE-3UDsongPKk6soR8RaeRjai5eNVo6xf-xpV_Q_huQvOmjOSD0a6bOmQmxnMvJzmKd-ctF7j-6AfjYaTEDfXyncBx8m8MBA614bykBs2untnN4_wTA6z0-NZU/s800/PikiWiki_Israel_7050_Military_hospital_11_(1948)_Ziv.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="800" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSNKsFU9WFW-Ogu4R3qJNf0fkibzNKEl76swLmGWCXYxvzKs0hG-3it4lhxqJQQcssLlcE-3UDsongPKk6soR8RaeRjai5eNVo6xf-xpV_Q_huQvOmjOSD0a6bOmQmxnMvJzmKd-ctF7j-6AfjYaTEDfXyncBx8m8MBA614bykBs2untnN4_wTA6z0-NZU/s320/PikiWiki_Israel_7050_Military_hospital_11_(1948)_Ziv.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_hospital" target="_blank"> Military Hospital</a></span></span></div><p></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">my
country created an enemy</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
serve their needs so well</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
open ended warmongering</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">up
to broad gates of hell</span><br />
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">my
country finds no remorse</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
dying of our young</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as
this serves a need for power</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
fun use of their guns</span><br />
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">my
country sadly has no soul</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">this
observation stands</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
stark contrast to my training</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">from
kid to gentle man</span><br />
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">they
said my side was honorable</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">didn’t
give this second thought</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but
found out later in research</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">was
pure of honesty not</span><br />
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
cried out in my sleep</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
prefer to stand sincere</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">following
those who died in pain</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
prior history years</span><br />
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">my
sadness overflowed my brain</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">couldn’t
take this fact no more</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">predators
in D.C. and Davos</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">took
away those goodly scores</span><br />
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">love
of a species well endowed</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with
advantages of brain</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">who
behind a curtain of deceit</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">put
all this world in pain</span></p>
<ul><li><p style="line-height: 200%;"></p>
<br /></li></ul>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
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<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">All
the Worlds a Stage</span></span></h1>
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<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.31in;"><span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>By
</b><b>William Shakespeare</b></span></span></p>
<pre class="western" style="line-height: 200%;"><a name="poem"></a> <span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">All <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> <span style="color: #c9211e;">world's</span> a stage,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">And all <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> men and women merely players;</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">They have their exits and their entrances,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">And one man in his time plays many parts,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">His acts <span style="color: #c9211e;">being</span> seven ages.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">At first, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> infant,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Mewling and puking in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> nurse's arms.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> whining schoolboy, with his satchel</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">And shining morning face, creeping like snail</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Unwillingly to school.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> lover,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Made to his mistress' eyebrow.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Then a soldier,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Full of strange oaths and bearded like <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> pard,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Seeking the bubble reputation</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Even in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> cannon's mouth.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">And then <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> justice,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">In fair round belly with good capon lined,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Full of wise saws and modern instances;</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">And so he plays his part.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span> sixth age shifts</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Into <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> lean and slippered pantaloon,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Turning again toward childish treble, pipes</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">And whistles in his sound.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Last scene of all,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">That ends this strange eventful history,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">Is</span> second childishness and mere oblivion,</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">Commentary:</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">observing deeply human experience</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">this piece tries to examine us</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">us and our reaction to life</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">a worthy endeavor</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">not easy, not fun</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">just there</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">I’m still not a fan</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">of punctuation</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">and capitalization in Poetry</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">think it to be distracting</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">each line should carry a thought</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">which has the ability to make sense</span></span>
<span style="font-family: LM Roman 5;"><span style="font-size: small;">on its own</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Rasa SemiBold;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">********************************************</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Rasa SemiBold;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">OK Bob, put your money where your mouth is</span></span>
<span style="font-family: Rasa SemiBold;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">********************************************</span></span></pre><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.2in; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Rasa SemiBold;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Genius</b></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">(c)2014
Bob Atkinson</span></p>
<p align="left" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>"...
those qualities of intellect and disposition, which urge and qualify
men to perform acts that lead to reputation ..."<b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Galton" target="_blank"> Galton</a></b></i></span></p>
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<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genius" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Albert
Einstein</b></i></span></a></p><p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">strongly worded accolades</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">present descriptions branded
brave</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">on some who leave us forward
looking</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">minds astute, men, women of
solution</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">grand solutions to a
combination</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">opening doors locked to us in
station</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">not barred by puzzles we can't
fix</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">not standing still while we're
perplexed</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">here we have humanity's tool</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">those seeking progress in
spite of fools</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">on a mountain standing tall</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">or here between us at shopping
malls</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">development requires
understanding</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">of concepts, ideas, current
standards</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">knowing fully well where we
stand</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">so one more step gains
advancement</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">genius adopts so many forms</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">we barely know why's and
for's</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">we sit in our comfort zone</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">while some push onward toward
unknowns</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">hat's off to them, those of
talent</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">who guide us beyond what lies
apparent</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">their useful adaptations so
advanced</span></p>
<p align="center" style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: x-large;">leave us in dust of
circumstance</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">The Raven </span>
</h1>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>By
Edgar Allan Poe</b></span></p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7az6yvKRH2fAzJdgL0uOIoI8Wl6qXIoJg7TYztkeK0dL2AdHcfooWg74_GWcpv97qZ96E0ETo3ztjzW_SDni2hUEC2Fpa13YpTTPsyYzcP9iW3P7pjpbkU6fDXQjtBpyNKPR9jTlYbBKNL6w6kbWQL1DTwnzOmqG7-rVlT1v2ajhyphenhyphenQJr8PErkyuGBqNmM/s800/Raven_in_flight.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="800" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7az6yvKRH2fAzJdgL0uOIoI8Wl6qXIoJg7TYztkeK0dL2AdHcfooWg74_GWcpv97qZ96E0ETo3ztjzW_SDni2hUEC2Fpa13YpTTPsyYzcP9iW3P7pjpbkU6fDXQjtBpyNKPR9jTlYbBKNL6w6kbWQL1DTwnzOmqG7-rVlT1v2ajhyphenhyphenQJr8PErkyuGBqNmM/s320/Raven_in_flight.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven" target="_blank">Raven</a></b></span><p></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Once
upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Over
many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">While
I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">As
of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“’<span style="font-size: x-large;">Tis
some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Only
this and nothing more.”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Ah,
distinctly I remember <span style="color: #c9211e;">it was</span> in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
bleak December;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
each separate dying ember wrought <span style="color: #c9211e;">its</span>
ghost upon <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> floor.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Eagerly
I wished <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> morrow;—vainly I had
sought to borrow</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">From
my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span>
lost Lenore—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> rare and radiant maiden whom <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
angels name Lenore—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nameless
</span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">here</span></i><span style="font-size: x-large;">
for evermore.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> silken, sad, uncertain rustling of
each purple curtain</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thrilled
me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">So
that now, to still <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> beating of my
heart, I stood repeating</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“’<span style="font-size: x-large;">Tis
some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Some
late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door;—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This<span style="color: #c9211e;">
it is </span>and nothing more.”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Presently
my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;">Sir,”
said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> fact <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span>
I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That
I scarce <span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span> sure I heard you”—here
I opened wide <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>door;—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Darkness
there and nothing more.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Deep
into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Doubting,
dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> silence <span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span>
unbroken, and<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the </span>stillness gave no
token,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> only word there spoken <span style="color: #c9211e;">was
the</span> whispered word, “Lenore?”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This
I whispered, and an echo murmured back <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
word, “Lenore!”—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Merely
this and nothing more.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Back
into <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>chamber turning, all my soul
within me burning,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Soon
again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;">Surely,”
said I, “surely that <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> something at
my window lattice;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Let
me see, then, what thereat <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span>, and this
mystery explore—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Let
my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore;—</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">’<span style="font-size: x-large;">Tis<span style="color: #c9211e;">
the</span> wind and nothing more!”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Open
here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">In
there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Not
the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But,
with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Perched
upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Perched,
and sat, and nothing more.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then
this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">By
the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;">Though
thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no
craven,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ghastly
grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tell
me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Quoth
the Raven “Nevermore.”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Much
I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Though
its answer little meaning—little relevancy bore;</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">For
we cannot help agreeing that no living human being</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Ever
yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Bird
or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">With
such name as “Nevermore.”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But
the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">That
one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Nothing
farther then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Till
I scarcely more than muttered “Other friends have flown before—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On
the morrow </span></span><i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">he</span></span></i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then
the bird said “Nevermore.”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Startled
at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;">Doubtless,”
said I, “what it utters is its only stock and store</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Caught
from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Followed
fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Till
the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Of
‘Never—nevermore’.”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But
the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Straight
I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then,
upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Fancy
unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What
this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Meant
in croaking “Nevermore.”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This
I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">To
the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This
and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On
the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But
whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">She</span></span></i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
shall press, ah, nevermore!</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then,
methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Swung
by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;">Wretch,”
I cried, “thy God hath lent thee—by these angels he hath sent
thee</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Respite—respite
and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore;</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Quaff,
oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Quoth
the Raven “Nevermore.”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;">Prophet!”
said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Whether
Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Desolate
yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On
this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Is
there—</span></span><i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">is</span></span></i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Quoth
the Raven “Nevermore.”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;">Prophet!”
said I, “thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">By
that Heaven that bends above us—by that God we both adore—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Tell
this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">It
shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Clasp
a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Quoth
the Raven “Nevermore.”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;">Be
that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked,
upstarting—</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;">Get
thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore!</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Leave
no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Leave
my loneliness unbroken!—quit the bust above my door!</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Take
thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Quoth
the Raven “Nevermore.”</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, </span></span><i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">still</span></span></i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
is sitting</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">On
the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming,</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
the lamp-light o’er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Shall
be lifted—nevermore!</span></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Commentary:</b></i></span></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>blather,
nothing more</i></span></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">****************************************************************************</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">What
do you mean by that Bob?</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">****************************************************************************</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>18
Stoic Faces</b></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">(c)2013
Bob Atkinson</span></p>
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<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism" target="_blank">Stoic</a><br /></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">eighteen
stoic faces</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">faced
four who had come</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
read the erudite refrains</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
poets both dead and gone</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A
Dream Within a Dream by Edgar Allan Poe</span></a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">readings
were in earnest spoken</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for
respect for some who had</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">garnered
from the establishment</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">accolades,
awards, well sanctioned</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">yes,
eighteen stoic faces</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">faced
four who read so good</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">those
meaningless diatribes</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
useless linguistic words </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">significance
became not evident</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for
similes provided here</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">metaphors
vaguely crafted caused</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">me
not them to revere</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">this
didn't change my attitude</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">my
demeanor didn't rise</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">waiting
for an end to it</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">was
my only real desire</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">so
I couldn't clap and whistle</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
be smiling in my face</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">that
would not have been sincere</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">became
just a little bit ashamed</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">whistle
I didn't do at all</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">felt
not much real emotion</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">gave
a polite nod to those speaking</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">headed
quickly out the door</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">save
me from disjointed thoughts</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">can't
those people see the truth</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">senseless
disorganization</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">does
not good poetry produce</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">of
those thoughts not poetry</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">I
firmly do believe</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">the
fireplace requires cellulose </span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">for
bright flames to feed</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">listless
words written poorly</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">carried
my imagination not</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">was
frozen in my dreamy state</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">rusted
any worthwhile thoughts </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">next
week went to Vegas</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
see the eagle band</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
watch as pure emotion</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">rocked
that audience grand</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ten
thousand had paid apiece</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
couple hundred bucks</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
see those wordly masters</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">like
Henley, Frey and such</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">they
told of the situation</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">which
emotion played upon</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
woman's real life choices</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">why
she'd become despondent</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">ten
thousand cheered wildly</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
recognition of great words</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">displayed
while coddled with sounds</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">soft
guitars and drums beat purrs</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><br />
</a>
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<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvK9TfcHQUc" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lyin'
Eyes by the Don Henly and Glenn Frey</span></a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
thought "now here lies real poetry"</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">not
those prissy kind of words</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">that
speak only of the unimportant</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with
wispy mindless verbs</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">some
lock credentials grand</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for
that which moves us not</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
laugh at the suggestion</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">that
song is our greatest art</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">me,
I have a vision</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">that
we shall all enjoy</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">songs
we've grown up with</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as
emotional literal tomes</span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span><br />
<br />
<a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Poem:
Emotional Literal Tomes</span></a></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-large;">The Village Blacksmith </span>
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<h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: small;">-
by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow</span></h1>
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<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Under
a spreading chestnut-tree<br />
<span style="color: #c9211e;">The </span>village
smithy stands;<br />
<span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span> smith, a mighty
man <span style="color: #c9211e;">is </span>he,<br />
With large and sinewy
hands,<br />
And <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> muscles of his
brawny arms<br />
<span style="color: #c9211e;">Are </span>strong as iron
bands.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">His
hair<span style="color: #c9211e;"> is</span> crisp, and black, and long;<br />
His
face <span style="color: #c9211e;">is </span>like <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>tan;<br />
His brow<span style="color: #c9211e;"> is</span> wet with
honest sweat,<br />
He earns whate'er he can,<br />
And looks <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
whole world in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> face,<br />
For he
owes not any man.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Week
in, week out, from morn till night,<br />
You can hear his bellows
blow;<br />
You can hear him swing his heavy sledge,<br />
With
measured beat and slow,<br />
Like a sexton ringing <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
village bell,<br />
When <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> evening sun
<span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span> low.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">And
children coming home from school<br />
Look in at <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
open door;<br />
They love to see<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the </span>flaming
forge,<br />
And hear <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>bellows
roar,<br />
And catch <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> burning sparks
that fly<br />
Like chaff from a threshing-floor.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">He
goes on Sunday to <span style="color: #c9211e;">the </span>church,<br />
And
sits among his boys;<br />
He hears <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
parson pray and preach,<br />
He hears his daughter's voice<br />
Singing
in<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the </span>village choir,<br />
And<span style="color: #c9211e;">
it </span>makes his heart rejoice.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">It</span>
sounds to him like her mother's voice<br />
Singing in Paradise!<br />
He
needs must think of her once more,<br />
How in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
grave she lies;<br />
And with his hard, rough hand he wipes<br />
A
tear out of his eyes.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Toiling,—rejoicing,—sorrowing,<br />
Onward
through life he goes;<br />
Each morning sees some task begin,<br />
Each
evening sees <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span> close;<br />
Something
attempted, something done,<br />
Has earned a night's repose.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Thanks,
thanks to thee, my worthy friend,<br />
For the lesson thou hast
taught!<br />
Thus at <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> flaming forge
of life<br />
Our fortunes must <span style="color: #c9211e;">be</span>
wrought;<br />
Thus on <span style="color: #c9211e;">its</span> sounding anvil
shaped<br />
Each burning deed and thought.</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Commentary:</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>first
half, descriptive prose</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>second
half, not a bad poem</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>theme?
Very good</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>style?
B-</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>like
it very much</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">*********************************************************************</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">OK
Bob, show us something similar</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">*********************************************************************</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
<br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Blind
Date</b></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;">-
</span><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;">by - </span><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;">Bob
Atkinson</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82hIYo4RQlswDZ5Noef2Py3XI7c3bMlkW7F9pFJOjmjuJkxgcQSwRZRcq6pGWEOjOBmJWq1l7o3JwPC2SDEeZR83WUOOH5_RyfnRtYw-jNjGKNHRNQr-ZU9aiwBoAdoibr2nZOeEX2iQX-bW42iFCpkHLuUNDPs3YHmtj7SX786BNM2CVlPwZR5BALFtg/s1000/Jean_B%C3%A9raud_The_Drinkers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="795" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi82hIYo4RQlswDZ5Noef2Py3XI7c3bMlkW7F9pFJOjmjuJkxgcQSwRZRcq6pGWEOjOBmJWq1l7o3JwPC2SDEeZR83WUOOH5_RyfnRtYw-jNjGKNHRNQr-ZU9aiwBoAdoibr2nZOeEX2iQX-bW42iFCpkHLuUNDPs3YHmtj7SX786BNM2CVlPwZR5BALFtg/s320/Jean_B%C3%A9raud_The_Drinkers.jpg" width="254" /></a></span></div><p></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_B%C3%A9raud" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The
Drinkers </span></a>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">her
dreams became a nightmare</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">when
he showed with such distress</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
man of few distinctions</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for
this she wore best dress?</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Her
faith in future happiness</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">fell
flat without progress</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">although
willing to proceed</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;">no
conviction</span> <span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;">did she
possess</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">conviction
this man of drink</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">had
a future in this world</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with
anything resembling success</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">or
a flag proud to unfurl</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">she
had been at birth christened</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.momjunction.com/baby-names/aimee/">Aimee</a>
which means much loved</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but
never in her young life </span></span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">had
this become her charge</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for
nobody came to her defense</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">when
accused of things not right</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">so
she accepted tribute from</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">those
characters of the night</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;">he
had asked her</span> <span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;">for a time</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">an
evening out for food</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but
she found his appetite</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">lie
in a liquid not a spoon</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for
never in her wildest dreams</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">would
twenty one find her single</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
would be débutante</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;">without
portfolio or good principle</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">so
she wandered in her mind</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">thinking
thoughts of better times</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">when
her reputation was mended</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
her balance intertwined</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">got
folded into production</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
things with better value</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">than
a night watching a man</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">drink
until alcohol saturated</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">then
carrying him to his flat</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with
coin from his pocket</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">her
efforts to present herself</span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: liberation, serif, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">not
seen because of nausea</span></span></p>
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</p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Dreamers Let Down Again</b></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">©</span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">2023
Bob Atkinson</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDX6UDMfZdkZKw88H9IWlze2q4vZEuflEbmIougJNd-wn8Y_3x85k2CSqrjQfG5YHMc9mfGhOwds0sOOnbWqomiEctDg6G6G59Tsv_C_F6exRg7vTnp7E1lxcxq8sQYco95WHUBCuAqNCFg1CZHWb1CanKzI2A1FpwReNw8flLs5xpxDRz_8ueAdKmeMHV/s738/Ku_Klux_Klan_costumes_in_North_Carolina_in_1870.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="565" data-original-width="738" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDX6UDMfZdkZKw88H9IWlze2q4vZEuflEbmIougJNd-wn8Y_3x85k2CSqrjQfG5YHMc9mfGhOwds0sOOnbWqomiEctDg6G6G59Tsv_C_F6exRg7vTnp7E1lxcxq8sQYco95WHUBCuAqNCFg1CZHWb1CanKzI2A1FpwReNw8flLs5xpxDRz_8ueAdKmeMHV/s320/Ku_Klux_Klan_costumes_in_North_Carolina_in_1870.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" target="_blank">Democrats Party of the KKK</a><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci4l5th92f4" target="_blank">party</a>
of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany" target="_blank">KKK</a></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=AwrOrtCmjgJl_vsAAMBXNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3BpdnM-?p=robert+byrd+kkk&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t#id=8&vid=0ccf8340b0c64163e9c5100e7ed727a8&action=view" target="_blank">let us down again</a></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">didn’t
let our children</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_United_States_politics" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">have
security again</span></a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">someone
as a child</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">came
to this country when</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">they
didn’t have a choice</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">their
parent’s decision then</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">now
we want to send them back</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
a place that they don’t know</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">hell
no, don’t do this to them</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">they’re
Americans you know</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">purpose
of their feelings</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">blown
to such disarray</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">frightening
conclusion</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">good
congress for us pray</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">got
a 100 billion</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
send to N**i’s of Ukraine</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but
we don’t legislate fairness</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">within
our country’s play</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">impeach
a useless congress</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for
giving those national socialists </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
hundred billion dollars</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">tanks
and things to blow up</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">their
cousins near their borders</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">thupid
says and thupid does</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">create
such a horrific deal</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for
those who only wish security</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
their youthful zeal</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p><style type="text/css">p { line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }</style> <br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-23403871464997016952023-09-13T19:49:00.002-07:002023-09-17T21:19:16.273-07:00 One Art - By – Elizabeth Bishop<p>
</p><h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;">One Art </span>
</h1>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">By – Elizabeth
Bishop</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span>
art of losing <span style="color: #c9211e;">isn’t</span> hard to master;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">so
many things seem filled with <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> intent</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
<span style="color: #c9211e;">be</span> lost that their loss <span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span>
no disaster.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lose
something every day. Accept<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the </span>fluster</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
lost door keys, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> hour badly spent.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span>
art of losing<span style="color: #c9211e;"> isn’t</span> hard to master.</span></p>
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<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Then
practice losing farther, losing faster:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">places,
and names, and where <span style="color: #c9211e;">it was</span> you meant</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
travel. None of these will bring disaster.</span></p>
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">next-to-last,
of three loved houses went.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span>
art of losing <span style="color: #c9211e;">isn’t </span>hard to master.</span></p>
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">some
realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
miss them, but <span style="color: #c9211e;">it </span>wasn’t a disaster.</span></p>
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</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">—<span style="font-size: x-large;">Even
losing you (<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> joking voice, a gesture</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
love) I shan’t have lied.<span style="color: #c9211e;"> It’s </span>evident</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
art of losing’s not too hard to master</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">though</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
it </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">may look like
(</span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Write</span></i><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
it!</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">) like
disaster.</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Commentary:</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>a
worthwhile group of words is this</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>great
theme</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>(most
important aspect of poetry)</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>an
excess of dime store words</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>2b,
is are waz were, the it etc</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>but
I do that myself when writing</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>while
sleepy</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">***********************************************************************************</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">OK
Bob, put your money where your mouth is</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">nature gives and nature takes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">sometimes with a hearty laugh</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the cowboy strode around the horse</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">both fearful and taken aback</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">his pride was here on the line</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">his ego mushroomed large</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">a will to conquer the wild snorting beast</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">pushed him farther than wise or smart</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">here in open country</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">on the great open range</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">where nature struggles to survive</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">with very little rain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the plants are tough</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the going's rough</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">roads pockmarked</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">always ungraded</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">trees have pricks and look like sticks</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">with thorns that cannot be</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">touched without so much pain</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">that eyes water so one can't see</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">sat the cowboy down again</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">coffee cup drawn to his face</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">wished he'd brought a bottle</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">to smooth his shaky gait</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">had eaten Cookie's breakfast</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">took twice as long today</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">chewed over what had before this time</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">been swallowed in a hurried way</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">now was time for action</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">boots pulled up snug and tight</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">belt around his hardened middle</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">buckle cinched just right</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">this bronco needed busting</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">never done one like that before</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">his time for taking caution</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">had quickly walked out of his door</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">a cowboy on the open range</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">was a much different kind of beast</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">wilder than most animals</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">crazy and most times indiscreet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">no manners much to speak of</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">no form in his conversation</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">that could be recognized as language</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">in more civil situations</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">in a place of homes with walls</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">this man would not survive</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">he needed sky upon his head</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">to reflect a sparkle in his blue eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the animals had learned too</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">survival also needed guts</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">and here in the open air</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">a horse would jump and buck</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">bridle rope upon the face</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">of his enemy for today</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">hand of fate would slap down quickly</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">one without courageous ways</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the eye of the wild stallion</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">looked hard into his face</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">would be he thought a miracle</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">if he lived until the end of day</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">a horse can smile, you've seen it</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">and carry a twinkle in his eyes</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">when he knows what's coming from</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">competition between diverse styles</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the cowhand wanted respect</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the horse just wanted all</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">he'd seen in the open range</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">when no man had him corralled</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the saddle seemed to be snug</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the rope around a tall neck</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">would be the lads only connection</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">to a false feeling of future success</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">a boot went through the stirrup</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">one leg went over top</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">for a moment all was still and quiet</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">on the saddle his butt plopped</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">a smile grew on his face</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">one on the stallion too</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">here would be a good race</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">to see who conquered whom</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">well now to put it simply</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">let me pause and ponder how</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">to let you know the quick results</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">of this attempted conquest of a mount</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">well, on the lad's backside</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">just below his belt</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">that part of him went over</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">that kitchen implement</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">you know the round metal object</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">the one in which water comes to a boil</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">when making that afternoon delight</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">sweet tea for all of our enjoyment</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></a></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comanche" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">***note. Comanches would walk up to the horse to be broken, tie a loop around its neck, twist the loop until the horse couldn't breathe. The horse would pass out and when it woke and stood up it would do anything the warrior wanted immediately. </span><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></a></div></div><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>
<p><style type="text/css">h1 { margin-bottom: 0.08in; background: transparent; page-break-after: avoid }h1.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.cjk { font-family: "Noto Serif CJK SC"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Devanagari"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }p { line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }em { font-style: italic }a:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-45567581522953096772023-09-12T13:43:00.004-07:002023-09-12T13:43:45.757-07:00Poet Novo - by - Bob Atkinson<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 48pt;">Poet Novo</span></p><div class="article-content entry-content" itemprop="articleBody"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;"><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(c)2012 Bob Atkinson</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFSUJOzGpnSLZvWnCj94hYXKS7IGY8PVm-I9JqPD2LkxQEJ_jja65_IL6Gsn6SCwsLN50j6sf1SwXR6ZNJSVQ_mGyfXlpgNwcUVS1SFgCropmGVlvlzOMJ8Sb9cpsEOF8oIba-ArKccwZkJlXxMoiFL3IYwTjcmr7ola9GkAmvdNaME2OaHzlk7PCCud4K/s1197/800px-Songs_of_Innocence_and_of_Experience,_copy_Y,_1825,_object_54,_The_Voice_of_the_Ancient_Bard_(Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFSUJOzGpnSLZvWnCj94hYXKS7IGY8PVm-I9JqPD2LkxQEJ_jja65_IL6Gsn6SCwsLN50j6sf1SwXR6ZNJSVQ_mGyfXlpgNwcUVS1SFgCropmGVlvlzOMJ8Sb9cpsEOF8oIba-ArKccwZkJlXxMoiFL3IYwTjcmr7ola9GkAmvdNaME2OaHzlk7PCCud4K/s320/800px-Songs_of_Innocence_and_of_Experience,_copy_Y,_1825,_object_54,_The_Voice_of_the_Ancient_Bard_(Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art).jpg" width="214" /></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bard" target="_blank"> Bard</a></span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">fondly admired works of art</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">looked upon as astute</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">yet so far apart</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">from that which was taught </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">by those with degrees</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">in those schools of fine art </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">with tuition excessive</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">that which the poor </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">can find in their means</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">that which the sensible </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">can see as esteemed</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">that which creative artists </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">long to promote</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">that which they work hard on</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">until it is rote</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">something actualized </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">in their own wild style</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">not copied for concord </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">or subdued desires</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">or,</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">as had been shown</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">to jump out of that box</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">of same old brush strokes</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">and simple hard knocks</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">those of Art Novo's crowd</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">let it always be known</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">where their hearts lie</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">what they love most </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">those original aspects</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">not newly minted clones </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">or painted abstractions</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">or well formed old bones</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">carry their own </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">banners to wave</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">strong with their hearts </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">upon life's page</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">begging for changes</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">in richness of Art</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">always looking for that </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">which is solid and smart</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">painting wild pictures</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">with passionate airs</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">good works of love</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">without baggage or cares</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">no formal format </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">or style to be shown</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">do they know it's not done?</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">or</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">just seek what's their own?</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">self taught manners</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">without master strokes</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">discovered themselves</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">new paths to go home</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">yet,</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">some have amassed</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">a following of lovers</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">grown by their style</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">those who've discovered</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">a beauty and a grace</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">of masterful works</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">brought to the public</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">by love and solid hard work </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">a presence </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">upon those artistic scenes</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">thought and dance</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">direct from their dreams</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">some people with letters </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">would demean these creations</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">some would find them revolting</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">clearly lacking and tasteless</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">surely,</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I have joined</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">without thought to its meaning </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">with their group's folly</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">a simpleton's moonbeam</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">creating art of my own</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">silly loops disjointed</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">not caring at all about</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">constraints of protocol </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">pretty pictures of words</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I thought quite good on my own</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">seems yet lacking what's needed</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">astute understanding by others</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">here with expressions</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I coin myself</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">bringing the thoughts</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">direct from my belt</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">throwing ideas </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">upon blank white paper</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">without regard </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">for institution's favor</span><br />
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</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">with letters and listings</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">with history and favorites</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">with quiet judgment</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">and hours of struggle</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I find when I read</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">their quirky summations</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I gag and I sneeze</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">at learned abominations</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">they write as if </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">they were the god true</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">demanding our loyalty</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">as if we were fools</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I've researched their own</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">sad writings of note</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">books of some pages</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">as long as my notes</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">finding as always </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">their simpleton essays</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">of how “....the azure sky </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">hovered over the </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">deep blue sea's waves...”</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">accomplishment's tones</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">give favor to those</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">who give to their brothers</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">without large gagging tolls</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">decided my own way</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">will take me home</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">with smug satisfaction</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">if not with much gold</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">if all goes as it should</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">if dreams become real</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">my words remembered </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">in spite of artless zeal</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">efforts should leave</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">my name in footnotes</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">for thoughts that I had</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">as well as poems I wrote</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">to my learned friends</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">I'll beg their forgiveness</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">in short poems </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">with poetry endless</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: large;">....tried it your way,</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">but my heart wasn't in it....</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">so followed my own path</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">though my words primitive”</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Poetry Novo's the Craze</b>” </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">the words that give license</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">to a field dedicated</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">to furtherance of nonsense</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">well versed but tasteless</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">forms of word order</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">that said all I wanted</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">in noun and verb order</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">stutters and grunts</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">yells and squeals</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">furtive thoughts</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">and emotional feelings</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">an assessment debated</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">in my mind at this moment </span> </div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">can we kick off convention</span></div><div align="CENTER" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: large;">but keep it well spoken?</span></div></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-83040585270893634922023-09-10T21:31:00.000-07:002023-09-10T21:31:21.745-07:00 Lana Turner has collapsed! - by - Frank O'Hara <p>
</p><h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Lana Turner has collapsed!</span></h1>
<ul><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_O%27Hara" target="_blank">- by - Frank O'Hara
</a></p></ul>
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<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lana
Turner has collapsed! <br />
I <span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span>
trotting along and suddenly<br />
<span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span>
started raining and snowing<br />
and you said <span style="color: #c9211e;">it
was</span> hailing<br />
but hailing hits you on <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
head<br />
hard so <span style="color: #c9211e;">it was </span>really snowing
and<br />
raining and I <span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span> in such a
hurry<br />
to meet you but <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span>
traffic<br />
<span style="color: #c9211e;">was </span>acting exactly like <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>sky<br />
and suddenly I see a headline <br />
LANA TURNER HAS
COLLAPSED!<br />
there<span style="color: #c9211e;"> is</span> no snow in
Hollywood<br />
there<span style="color: #c9211e;"> is</span> no rain in
California<br />
I have been to lots of parties<br />
and acted
perfectly disgraceful<br />
but I never actually collapsed<br />
oh
Lana Turner we love you get up</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Commentary:</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>interesting</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>not
skilled, but interesting</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>no
meat, just sliced bread</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>possibilities
endless</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>un
delivered promise</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>nothing
there</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>but
could have been</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>had
lunch meat been close</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>or
pounced upon</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
<br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p>
<p><style type="text/css">h1 { margin-bottom: 0.08in; background: transparent; page-break-after: avoid }h1.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.cjk { font-family: "Noto Serif CJK SC"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Devanagari"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }p { line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }a:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-86880541858911390582023-09-10T10:35:00.001-07:002023-09-10T10:35:42.041-07:00Short Poems Contrasted<p>
</p><h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">
The Red Wheelbarrow
</h1>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">By <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams">William
Carlos Williams</a>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">so
much depends</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">upon</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
red wheel</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">barrow</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">glazed
with rain</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">water</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">beside
the white</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">chickens</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">*****************************************************************************</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Observations:</b></i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Huh?</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Poetry
Foundation change your ways.</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Junk’s
Junk’s and this should be said.</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">*****************************************************************************</p>
<h1 align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">We Real
Cool
</h1>
<h1 align="left" class="western" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 200%;">
- by – Gwendolyn Brooks</h1>
<h1 align="left" class="western" style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Left
school. We</span></span></h1>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Lurk
late. We<br />
Strike straight. We</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Sing
sin. We<br />
Thin gin. WeJazz June. We<br />
Die soon.</span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Observation:</b></i></span></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Profound</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>*****************************************</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Ok
Bob, put your money where your mouth is</i></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>*****************************************</i></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Why School?</b></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">©</span><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">2023
Bob Atkinson</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtg4bFH8IklUvu2Uo5W9vY6vaH3SR71mFv7MR7VsLyPtZMuPkssp4PAB2W-1i0xYTA1Fz6QPOab-k45yYB522-Z0ONK717CawRde4u3-QsfAxGiTCEBMhW5eH6c6_NaIxVd9mE2xgsPIeTSx01KdoCfkNGpuRPMBDhe23YDXCvAik1rZcAGSwYx5zNsg4/s800/1887_Bettannier_Der_Schwarze_Fleck_anagoria.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="587" data-original-width="800" height="235" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtg4bFH8IklUvu2Uo5W9vY6vaH3SR71mFv7MR7VsLyPtZMuPkssp4PAB2W-1i0xYTA1Fz6QPOab-k45yYB522-Z0ONK717CawRde4u3-QsfAxGiTCEBMhW5eH6c6_NaIxVd9mE2xgsPIeTSx01KdoCfkNGpuRPMBDhe23YDXCvAik1rZcAGSwYx5zNsg4/s320/1887_Bettannier_Der_Schwarze_Fleck_anagoria.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School" target="_blank">School</a><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">why
school a student asks</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">they
don’t teach me things that last</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">they
don’t give me ideas I can use</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">when
deciding which way to choose</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">secret’s
out</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">school
isn’t to teach you things</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">but
skills of learning every dream</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">practice
gaining knowledge for</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">who
you are forever more</span></p>
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEhS3Kqj60-kP4vC1-styACzeoeBIUPALV8XCtF30gSwpreUsq0d1d33mPGJ0lofoWqtSHqn8Z8g_Lificl7e_UU-eUxRUWataLcAecuInx1ZHlqEhkNYV1sizVHHvT8tsnKeJDJp0I-t0YvB186zoeomiVKxCkbmcz606-N8kdDXWkjx4g7Mc0YkO3e8/s803/800px-Norman_Rockwell_-_Cousin_Reginald_Spells_Peloponnesus_(Spelling_Bee)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="803" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEhS3Kqj60-kP4vC1-styACzeoeBIUPALV8XCtF30gSwpreUsq0d1d33mPGJ0lofoWqtSHqn8Z8g_Lificl7e_UU-eUxRUWataLcAecuInx1ZHlqEhkNYV1sizVHHvT8tsnKeJDJp0I-t0YvB186zoeomiVKxCkbmcz606-N8kdDXWkjx4g7Mc0YkO3e8/s320/800px-Norman_Rockwell_-_Cousin_Reginald_Spells_Peloponnesus_(Spelling_Bee)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" width="319" /></a></div><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Rockwell" target="_blank">Gaining Respect</a></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=Awr.xIr1rvRkiS8lbM1XNyoA;_ylu=Y29sbwNncTEEcG9zAzEEdnRpZAMEc2VjA3BpdnM-?p=David+Mabuza&fr2=piv-web&fr=yfp-t#id=2&vid=ff2344bcabf74466618aa97ae7b4d5a9&action=view" target="_blank">Educated Man Respected</a><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">reject
learning as a goal</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">you’ve
slowed your brain to a crawl</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">later,
when you need ability</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">skill
won’t be there, no stability</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">facts
will come later with experience</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">need
to know will attach to brain</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">all
requirements of fulfillment</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">character
remains as how trained</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">so
if you think learning’s dull</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">you’ve
given up future results</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for
later in life to adapt</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
whatever crosses your path</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">school’s
simple as that</span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p><style type="text/css">h1 { margin-bottom: 0.08in; background: transparent; page-break-after: avoid }h1.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.cjk { font-family: "Noto Serif CJK SC"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Devanagari"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }p { line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }a:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline }</style> <br /></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8245200062253462249.post-39879869162979781832023-09-08T10:21:00.002-07:002023-09-08T10:23:14.182-07:00 Aboriginal Landscape - By - Louise Glück <p>
</p><h1 class="western" style="line-height: 200%;">
Aboriginal Landscape</h1>
<p><style type="text/css">h1 { margin-bottom: 0.08in; background: transparent; page-break-after: avoid }h1.western { font-family: "Liberation Serif", serif; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.cjk { font-family: "Noto Serif CJK SC"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }h1.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Devanagari"; font-size: 24pt; font-weight: bold }p { line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }a:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">By <a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louise-gluck">Louise
Glück</a>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">You’re
</span>stepping on your father, my mother said,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and indeed I <span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span>
standing exactly in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> center</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
a bed of grass, mown so neatly <span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span> could
have been</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">my
father’s grave, although there <span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span> no
stone saying so.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">You’re
</span>stepping on your father, she repeated,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">louder
this time, which began to<span style="color: #c9211e;"> be</span> strange to
me,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">since
she <span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span> dead herself; even <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>doctor had admitted <span style="color: #c9211e;">it.</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
moved slightly to <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> side, to where</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">my
father ended and my mother began.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">The</span>
cemetery <span style="color: #c9211e;">was </span>silent. Wind blew through<span style="color: #c9211e;">
the</span> trees;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
could hear, very faintly, sounds of weeping several rows away,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
beyond that, a dog wailing. </span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">At
length these sounds abated. <span style="color: #c9211e;">It</span> crossed
my mind</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
had no memory of being driven here,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
what now seemed a cemetery, though<span style="color: #c9211e;"> it </span>could
have been</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
cemetery in my mind only; perhaps <span style="color: #c9211e;">it was </span>a
park, or if not a park,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
garden or bower, perfumed, I now realized, with </span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">the</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
scent of roses </span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">—</span></i><span style="font-size: x-large;">
</span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">douceur
de vivre filling<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span> air, the sweetness
of living,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> saying goes. At some point,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">it</span>
occurred to me I <span style="color: #c9211e;">was </span>alone.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Where
had <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> others gone,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">my
cousins and sister, Caitlin and Abigail?</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">By
now <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> light <span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span>
fading. Where <span style="color: #c9211e;">was the</span> car</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">waiting
to take us home?</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
then began seeking for some alternative. I felt</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">an
impatience growing in me, approaching, I would say, anxiety.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Finally,
in <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> distance, I made out a small
train,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">stopped,
<span style="color: #c9211e;">it </span>seemed, behind some foliage, <span style="color: #c9211e;">the
</span>conductor</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">lingering
against a doorframe, smoking a cigarette.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Do
not forget me, I cried, running now</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">over
many plots, many mothers and fathers </span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">—</span></i></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Do
not forget me, I cried, when at last I reached him.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Madam,
he said, pointing to <span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> tracks,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">surely
you realize this is the end, the tracks do not go further.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">His
words <span style="color: #c9211e;">were</span> harsh, and yet his eyes <span style="color: #c9211e;">were</span>
kind;</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">this
encouraged me to press my case harder.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">But
they go back, I said, and I remarked</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">their
sturdiness, as though they had many such returns ahead of them.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">You
know, he said, our work <span style="color: #c9211e;">is </span>difficult: we
confront</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">much
sorrow and disappointment.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">He
gazed at me with increasing frankness.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
<span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span> like you once, he added, in love
with turbulence.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Now
I spoke as to an old friend:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What
of you, I said, since he <span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span> free to
leave,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">have
you no wish to go home,</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
see<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the </span>city again?</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This<span style="color: #c9211e;">
is</span> my home, he said.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">
city </span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">— </span></i><span style="font-size: x-large;">the
city</span><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">
is </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;">where I
disappear.</span></p>
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</p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Observations:</b></i></span></p>
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</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">more
of a descriptive narrative</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">than
a poem</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">untrained
in the nuances of language</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">not
flowing, not with</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">well
chosen words</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">not
elegant in the least</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">very
little emotion</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">considering
the theme</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">full
of dime store words</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>“<span style="font-size: x-large;">is,
are, was, were, the, it”</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">words
that should not be there</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">if
you wish to call this a poem</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">***************************************************************************</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">OK
Bob, put your money where your mouth is</span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">***************************************************************************</p>
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</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>People
Crying</b></span></a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Liberation Serif, serif;">©2023
Bob Atkinson</span></p>
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<p></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld6fAO4idaI" target="_blank">Blowing
in the Wind</a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowin%27_in_the_Wind" target="_blank">Dylan</a>
said this years ago</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how
we as a species</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">don’t
know where to go</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">answer
elusive</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we
carry a burden</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
those who cause carnage</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/bombastic" target="_blank">bombastic</a>,
not useful</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how
many he asked</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">can
you define that for me</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">taking
for instance </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">million’s
dead seed</span></p>
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<p></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery" target="_blank">Confession
Needed?</a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">millions
of sons</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we
sent to their death</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">by
wars of destruction</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we
started and planned</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" target="_blank">Viet
Nam</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War" target="_blank">Iraq</a>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State%E2%80%93Taliban_conflict" target="_blank">Afghanistan</a>,</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_civil_war" target="_blank">Syria</a>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Crisis_(2011%E2%80%93present)" target="_blank">Libya</a>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Sudan_conflict" target="_blank">Sudan</a>,
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" target="_blank">Ukraine,
</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland" target="_blank">Ethiopia</a></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Nuland" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Kenya,
etc............</span></a>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how
can we tell </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">this
world we’re united</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">when
death and destruction</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we’ve
always blighted</span></p>
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<p></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_National_Cemetery_System" target="_blank">Product
of the United States of America</a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how
many graves</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">will
we plant in the ground</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">mothers
in shock</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as
their babies laid down</span></p>
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<p></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War" target="_blank">War</a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how
many buildings</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">will
we blow to bits</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how
many scholars</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">will
never exist</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbbBnkP3TegsNejSUyh6Ag3xmR9OzAP_6KUEEjMSvajsX0tMTjlL_XmdS3jP_CSud0SsrjxHfC_bWKwaEmtbkbjdBRh0artIJycm7JHf-6oOe6nPxZ9fhi-3g7zE9E5N6TUiSBYy9DmHxNFWxNgx4DuK7dA8x_c8RmsMjzFlgBrtMc4hHEJbrm39Jyxgk/s800/800px-Europa_Congres_Ridderzaal_Den_Haag._Overzicht,_Bestanddeelnr_902-7379.jpg"><br />
</a>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress" target="_blank">Congress</a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how
many times</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">will
we consider our source</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
try to eliminate</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">this
dishonorable discourse</span></p>
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<p></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napalm" target="_blank">U.S.
War Crimes</a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how
many shameful</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">deeds
will we do</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
name of indignity</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
our <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" target="_blank">evil
crew</a></span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-large;">Accounts</span>
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<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">By Rae Armantrout</p><p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Light
<span style="color: #c9211e;">was </span>on <span style="color: #c9211e;">its </span>way</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">from
nothing</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
nowhere.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Light
<span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span> all business</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Light
<span style="color: #c9211e;">was</span> full speed</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">when
<span style="color: #c9211e;">it </span>got interrupted.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Interrupted
by what?</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">When
<span style="color: #c9211e;">it </span>got tangled up</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
broke</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">into
opposite</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">broke
into brand new things.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">What
kinds of things?</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">Drinking
Cup</span></em></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">“<span style="font-size: x-large;">Thinking
of you!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">Convenience
Valet”</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">How
could speed take shape?</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">*</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Hush!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Do
you want me to start over?</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">*</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">The
fading laser pulse</span></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Information
describing<span style="color: #c9211e;"> the</span> fading laser pulse</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span>
stored</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">is</span>
encoded</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
<span style="color: #c9211e;">the</span> spin states</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
atoms.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">God
</span>
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: #c9211e;">is
</span>balancing his checkbook</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">God
<span style="color: #c9211e;">is </span>encrypting his account.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This
<span style="color: #c9211e;">is </span>taking forever!</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: #c9211e;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">(NOTE:
** misteaks **)</span></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;">
<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b>Observations:</b></i></span></span></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><i><b> </b></i></span></span></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><style type="text/css">p { line-height: 115%; margin-bottom: 0.1in; background: transparent }a:link { color: #000080; text-decoration: underline }</style></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">here’s
a good example </span></span></i></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of <a href="https://www.bobatkinson-poet.com/2023/07/lightweight-poetry-by-bob-atkinson.html?q=lightweight+poetry" target="_blank">lightweight poetry</a></span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">nonsense
documented</span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><br /></i>
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">poetry
isn’t about what is</span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">poetry
is our reaction to </span></span></i>
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">what
we think reality or pseudo-reality is<br /></span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><br /></i>
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">poetry
is eloquence of thought</span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">elegance
of style</span></span></i></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">elevated emotions</span></span></i></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <br /></span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">poetry
isn’t repeating </span></span></i></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">“is, are was were the it"</span></span></i></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">those dime store words </span></span></i></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we've too many of <br /></span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
all those trite-isms of lack of effort</span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">lack
of style, lack of training</span></span></i></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">lack of understanding</span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">how emotional processes </span></span></i></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">can affect our lives</span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><br /></i>
</p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">writing
junk isn’t a crime</span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">just
don’t call this nonsense poetry</span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">because it demeans the genre</span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">*********************************************************************</span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>OK
Bob, put your money </b></span></span></i></p><p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>where your mouth is</b></span></span></i></p>
<p align="right" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;">*********************************************************************</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><b>Truth
Here Universal</b></span></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: small;">(c)2016
Bob Atkinson</span></p>
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<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: small;">Truth</span></a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">something
tells me now</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we're
not in a universal vacuum</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I
dream of physical contact</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">touched
with global handshake</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">nothing's
set apart in life</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">as
life's a part of all</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">tells
me you're connected</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
me with twisted cord</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">so,
if we're here coupled with</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">as
father is to son</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">why
do you wish destruction</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;">of
those not of your clan </span>
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
kill in name of deity</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">seems
strange here in my mind</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">no
thought more abhorrent</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">than
differentiation of yours from mine</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">you
see, with open arms I look</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
find you're simply same</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">no
matter what your outlook</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">we're
playing life's duplicate game</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">a
game of chasing boundaries</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
find some purple stone</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">and
sit upon that rock</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">with
our hearts held in our palms</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">those
who don't believe</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
truth here universal</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">go
to devil's place of worship</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
burn with pain of muscle</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">pain
of a thousand years</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
every minute's time</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">then
on, forever enduring some</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">lovely
bit of fire</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
be selfish in one's heart</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">personal
gain from pushing dogma</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">gives
a fellow pause to think</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">of
brains quite full of jello</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">no
rational behavior comes</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">from
ritual hypnosis grand</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">by
those professing sainthood</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">while
instilling devil's plan</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">theirs
comes from universal love</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">for
wealth held in their hands</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">they
look back to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates" target="_blank">Barbary
Pirates</a></span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">to
worship a stinking little band</span></p>
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<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates" target="_blank">Barbary
Pirates</a></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">in
my heart I know what's right</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">don't
need to worship hell</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">my
need's so simply universal</span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">mankind
with kindness jelled</span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p><p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></p>
<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
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<p align="center" style="line-height: 200%;"><br />
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