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anemos · Feb 14, 2014

lol, iams girl.

Trojina · Feb 14, 2014

Happy Valentines Day

I had so many cards I had to wade through the post this morning just to get to the front door :flirt:

not really

iams girl · Feb 14, 2014

Watch your body mechanics (bending, stooping, sorting) so you don't hurt your back now :rofl:

! Happy Valentine's Day Trojan and all!

blue_angel · Feb 15, 2014

Happy Valentine's Day to each of you! I hope it was an enjoyable day and night. Coffee just right. Warmth in your hearts, light on your feet, spirits full, and feeling at peace. Good book, entertaining movie, or inspiring music. I've made Valentine's Day, "my heart" day. Alone or in company, deciding either way, I'll feel my love within and share it with whoever I can, family, friends, green frogs

anemos · Feb 15, 2014

all you need is love
and some red balloons

cheers to the lovers...
in general !!!

sooo · Feb 15, 2014

blue_angel said:
Coffee just right.

1 out of 11 ain't bad.

sooo · Feb 15, 2014

blue_angel said:
Happy Valentine's Day to each of you! I hope it was an enjoyable day and night. Coffee just right. Warmth in your hearts, light on your feet, spirits full, and feeling at peace. Good book, entertaining movie, or inspiring music. I've made Valentine's Day, "my heart" day. Alone or in company, deciding either way, I'll feel my love within and share it with whoever I can, family, friends, green frogs

Oh, and you left out dark bittersweet raspberry filled chocolate. Make that 2 out of 12.

blue_angel · Feb 16, 2014

Sooo... YUMMMMM please pass some through cyberspace

sooo · Feb 16, 2014

All that did was gunk up my DVD drive

uch:.

blue_angel · Feb 16, 2014

anemos · Feb 17, 2014

2.2 > 7

Blank paper
and a cloud of worries above it.
A sticky note on the left side
Two for hex and for line too.

Blank paper
and an underground river
above it, a sync;

The "word of the day"
reads cognoscente.
translation: someone jokes
... or not.

Blank paper,
and a title, shying
on a sticky note, at the right
awaiting for that "cognoscente"
to bring it it it's center

Split brains, negotiate;
what's left of the rights ?

In the middle
a bridge needs building
to stand and hear
subterranean waters
flowing in a 2.2 tempo.

A rhythm to sing borrowed words
"Sincere joyousness.
good fortune
Remorse disappears"

... I'm following
the song
the river

and dance the rhythm

"left-
right-
left-
right"

It takes Two for Tango...
... for better or worse

( A poem inspired from my two reading 58.2 and 2.2 regarding a paper I'm starting to work for)

Trojina · Feb 17, 2014

Nice. Nice shape to the poem too. It undulates.

It's a shapely poem, like a woman's body with a small waist.

Trojina · Feb 17, 2014

My assignment this work is to write poem or prose re class. How class has affected you or whatever, in your life ....That is a peculiarly British thing but I presume there are stratas and divisions of kinds in each country.

Was given this poem, the last verse read out in a very angry voice. Although it's an old poem and things have changed I don't think anyone I know who considers themselves working class would have to go that deep to tap into the disgust in that last verse. Still.

Turns

I thought it made me look more 'working class'
(as if a bit of chequered cloth could bridge that gap!)
I did a turn in it before the glass.
My mother said: It suits you, your dad's cap.
(She preferred me to wear suits and part my hair:
You're every bit as good as that lot are!)

All the pension queue came out to stare.
Dad was sprawled beside the postbox (still VR) ,
his cap turned inside up beside his head,
smudged H A H in purple Indian ink
and Brylcreem slicks displayed so folks might think
he wanted charity for dropping dead.

He never begged. For nowt! Death's reticence
crowns his life, and me, I'm opening my trap
to busk the class that broke him for the pence
that splash like brackish tears into our cap.

Tony Harrison :

probably means little to anyone who isn't British.

Trojina · Feb 17, 2014

I thought it made me look more 'working class'
(as if a bit of chequered cloth could bridge that gap!)
I did a turn in it before the glass.
My mother said: It suits you, your dad's cap.
(She preferred me to wear suits and part my hair:
You're every bit as good as that lot are!)

That's the bit to remember whatever society or country you are in.

Annamaria · Feb 17, 2014

And she even kept running
Efter that
She had run into herself....

Trojina · Feb 17, 2014

Easter Morning

On Easter morning all over America
the peasants are frying potatoes in bacon grease.

We're not supposed to have "peasants"
but there are tens of millions of them
frying potatoes on Easter morning,
cheap and delicious with catsup.

If Jesus were here this morning he might
be eating fried potatoes with my friend
who has a '51 Dodge and a '72 Pontiac.

When his kids ask why they don't have
a new car he says, "these cars were new once
and now they are experienced."

He can fix anything and when rich folks
call to get a toilet repaired he pauses
extra hours so that they can further
learn what we're made of.

I told him that in Mexico the poor say
that when there's lightning the rich
think that God is taking their picture.
He laughed.

Like peasants everywhere in the history
of the world ours can't figure out why
they're getting poorer. Their sons join
the army to get work being shot at.

Your ideals are invisible clouds
so try not to suffocate the poor,
the peasants, with your sympathies.
They know that you're staring at them.

by Jim Harrison

There's an American one on the theme for balance

anemos · Feb 17, 2014

trojan said:
Nice. Nice shape to the poem too. It undulates.

It's a shapely poem, like a woman's body with a small waist.

oh, yeah !!! . hadn't notice it before you mention it.

suspect there is something Freudian there, in the shape .... and the side effects of an Extremely Necessary Mars bar medication

Such a pity the class is over... hope not this thread

Trojina · Feb 17, 2014

Such a pity the class is over... hope not this thread

the class isn't over. What do you mean ?

Ah when I said

How class has affected you or whatever, in your life ....

I meant social class, in Britain ? You know layers of society, upper, middle and working class. Not the same thing as the class/writing group I am in.

That is in the group I am in we are being asked to write of how social class affects us. Is there no social class in Greece...you know one group of people with all the priviledge, others with less.

Class as in divisions between people in society. Maybe you don't know how that word is used ?

anemos · Feb 17, 2014

trojan said:
the class isn't over. What do you mean ?

that its time for my Mars bar... brain is tired...

thought was a "closing assignment" because it asks impressions of what you "took home"...

:bag:

Trojina · Feb 17, 2014

I see....don't worry. You can write good poems in English.....I sure can't write any poems in Greek.

:bows:

anemos · Feb 17, 2014

Monday night
and the highway is empty
moonlight beams
casting spells

your many horses
can't help you fly.

leave the car
and run with the moon

magic dust plays with shadows
a flight of stairs
before you

for you to return
to what you are

Monday night foolish poem.. again

(needs summertime music
and me a lullaby )

anemos · Feb 17, 2014

trojan said:
I sure can't write any poems in Greek.

:bows:

that's your next assignment
there are plenty of Greek words you can use

Ohhh.. me waits with anticipation :flirt:

Trojina · Feb 17, 2014

I can't do it :flirt:

I haven't even done my homework for the writing group this week :flirt:

yet.

anemos · Feb 18, 2014

yup sure

On the other hand , maybe you are right and maybe I'm a tad inconsiderable putting extra work. You see, I asked Yi how to proceed with my looooong paper and got 2.2>7 which, of course, means it will be written by itself (2.2) and only thing I have to do its occasionally check the Word doc (7) !!!

Yes ?

Trojina · Feb 18, 2014

2.2 you will naturally do the right thing....you can't help it.

Perhaps you need some extra self appreciation ? Use tapping, EFT. Tap your forhead and your temples and repeat after me

"I Maria, easily complete this paper to the best of my ability and to a high standard. "

Hex 2 suggests reliance on the undertow, the subconscious thoughts that are always there. To get your self to do well you must appreciate her and assure her, just like the mare.

Hilary recommends this woman I think http://clairephayes.com/

Actually tapping with self affirmations can be quite magical

anemos · Feb 18, 2014

trojan said:
Hilary recommends this woman I think http://clairephayes.com/

Actually tapping with self affirmations can be quite magical

Oh, I know her. I mean was in a seminar Hilary gave and did that tapping.

Although you reject my interpretation

rofl

I get your point. Thank you !!!
Its how it feels; without being able to support the reasons I take this direction/subject I KNOW its what i have to do. Its the extra work needs to be done as I need to find a new way to combine things. It is exciting and want to do it but have to be wise also and not exhaust more myself.. I get lost in many hours of working the paper and then ask silly questions why I feel so tired... but 7 is the solution

Now , back to our homework

and profound poems

Trojina · Feb 19, 2014

OVERHEARD ON A SALTMARSH

Nymph, nymph, what are your beads?

Green glass, goblin. Why do you stare at them?

Give them me.

No.

Give them me. Give them me.

No.

Then I will howl all night in the reeds,
lie in the mud and howl for them.

Goblin, why do you love them so?

They are better than stars or water,
Better than voices of winds that sing,
Better than any man’s fair daughter,
Your green glass beads on a silver ring.

Hush, I stole them out of the moon.

Give me your beads, I want them.

No.

I will howl in a deep lagoon
For your green glass beads, I love them so.
Give them me. Give them.

No.

by

HAROLD MONRO

I first heard that poem recited in class aged about 6 or 7 years old. The thought of green glass entranced me and the 'no'. I just recalled it but had no idea what it was....googled it and found out.

All these years what stayed in my mind was that green glass and 'no'. I have plenty of green glass bead necklaces due to that poem's mystery.

Trojina · Feb 19, 2014

Aloud

[video=youtube;smmvGit-PNc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=smmvGit-PNc#t=41[/video]

Trojina · Feb 19, 2014

Wednesday's theme ?

Share the first poem that ever meant anything to you as a child ?

moss elk · Feb 19, 2014

Star light, star bright,

First star I see tonight,

I wish I may, I wish I might,

Have this wish I wish tonight.

nursey rhyme really, prayer maybe but, I think it counts.

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