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Are you a poet that doesn't know it? Serious or for fun throw something at me peeps. Here's one of my own favorites. I posted it on TBD many years ago. Its called,

 

                                         Under the Devils spell

 

 

Under the devils spell, amist the citadel, fortold of darkened hooves, sightless eyes, and bearing down.

 

   The final lines been drawn, all we've known is gone. God is well, so open up and give thee hell.

 

Under darkness they fell, leaving ashes to tell, how the highest of holy had climbed.

  

 The day the flood gates from hell, became to full to dispel, a whole world full of heavens denied.

 

 

Another wish in the well, wishing to tell, where the roads made of gold are all paved.

 

If I could sell all of you, on a heavenly view, then perhaps our world could be saved.

 

Yes perhaps our world could be saved...

 

 

 

 

 

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Shiloh: A Requiem

 

by Herman Melville

 

 

Skimming lightly, wheeling still,
The swallows fly low
Over the field in clouded days,
The forest-field of Shiloh—
Over the field where April rain
Solaced the parched ones stretched in pain
Through the pause of night
That followed the Sunday fight
Around the church of Shiloh—
The church so lone, the log-built one,
That echoed to many a parting groan
And natural prayer
Of dying foemen mingled there—
Foemen at morn, but friends at eve—
Fame or country least their care:
(What like a bullet can undeceive!)
But now they lie low,
While over them the swallows skim,
And all is hushed at Shiloh.

 

 

 

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Crap Throwing Clavin

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44087/wild-nights-wild-nights-269

 

 

Wild nights - Wild nights!
Were I with thee
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
 
Futile - the winds -
To a Heart in port -
Done with the Compass -
Done with the Chart!
 
Rowing in Eden -
Ah - the Sea!
Might I but moor - tonight -
In thee!

 

 

 

Be right back...gotta go recite this to the wife.

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Ozymandias

 

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."

 

 

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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ExiledInIllinois

I guess it's a gr8 song too!

 

The Trees
Rush
There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
And they're quite convinced they're right
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light

But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade

There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream "Oppression"
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
"The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light"
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw
 

Written by: Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart, Geddy Lee Weinrib

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58 minutes ago, ExiledInIllinois said:

I guess it's a gr8 song too!

 

The Trees
Rush
There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees
For the maples want more sunlight
And the oaks ignore their pleas

The trouble with the maples
And they're quite convinced they're right
They say the oaks are just too lofty
And they grab up all the light

But the oaks can't help their feelings
If they like the way they're made
And they wonder why the maples
Can't be happy in their shade

There is trouble in the forest
And the creatures all have fled
As the maples scream "Oppression"
And the oaks just shake their heads

So the maples formed a union
And demanded equal rights
"The oaks are just too greedy
We will make them give us light"
Now there's no more oak oppression
For they passed a noble law
And the trees are all kept equal
By hatchet, axe, and saw
 

Written by: Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart, Geddy Lee Weinrib

For several reasons, one of my favorite songs of all time. :thumb:

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1 hour ago, B-Man said:

 

 

One of my favorite poems,

 

one of my favorite actors.

 

 

 

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I thought "If" was perhaps the most cheesy of 70's ballads (by Bread):

 

"If"
 

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show
The you I've come to know

If a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you
You're all that's left me too
And when my love for life is running dry
You come and pour yourself on me

If a man could be two places at one time
I'd be with you
Tomorrow and today
Beside you all the way

If the world should stop revolving
Spinning slowly down to die
I'd spend the end with you
And when the world was through
Then one by one the stars would all go out
Then you and I would simply fly away

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, snafu said:

 

 

I thought "If" was perhaps the most cheesy of 70's ballads (by Bread):

 

"If"
 

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show
The you I've come to know

If a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you
You're all that's left me too
And when my love for life is running dry
You come and pour yourself on me

If a man could be two places at one time
I'd be with you
Tomorrow and today
Beside you all the way

If the world should stop revolving
Spinning slowly down to die
I'd spend the end with you
And when the world was through
Then one by one the stars would all go out
Then you and I would simply fly away

 

 

 

 

I (secretly) love that too.

 

My David Gates imitation has to be heard   endured to be believed.

 

:whistling:

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18 minutes ago, B-Man said:

 

I (secretly) love that too.

 

My David Gates imitation has to be heard   endured to be believed.

 

:whistling:

 

"If" makes me want to drive into a phone pole. But you do you!

I can't do David Gates, but I can do a pretty good "Don't Know Much" by Aaron Neville.

Mrs. snafu won't let me belt out more than one chorus.  I've described it before, I've got a household list of approved songs that my family will endure.  That's not on the very short list.

 

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On 2/9/2023 at 12:05 PM, snafu said:

 

 

I thought "If" was perhaps the most cheesy of 70's ballads (by Bread):

 

"If"
 

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show
The you I've come to know

If a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you
You're all that's left me too
And when my love for life is running dry
You come and pour yourself on me

If a man could be two places at one time
I'd be with you
Tomorrow and today
Beside you all the way

If the world should stop revolving
Spinning slowly down to die
I'd spend the end with you
And when the world was through
Then one by one the stars would all go out
Then you and I would simply fly away

 

 

 

i've always loved this song.

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On 2/9/2023 at 11:05 AM, snafu said:

 

 

I thought "If" was perhaps the most cheesy of 70's ballads (by Bread):

 

"If"
 

If a picture paints a thousand words
Then why can't I paint you?
The words will never show
The you I've come to know

If a face could launch a thousand ships
Then where am I to go?
There's no one home but you
You're all that's left me too
And when my love for life is running dry
You come and pour yourself on me

If a man could be two places at one time
I'd be with you
Tomorrow and today
Beside you all the way

If the world should stop revolving
Spinning slowly down to die
I'd spend the end with you
And when the world was through
Then one by one the stars would all go out
Then you and I would simply fly away

 

 

 


David Gates and Bread were at one time my favorite group in the world. I still like their music. 💕

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