Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show The Wonder Years
Do you have a favorite poem or quote, or line?
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I kinda like this one, then again I wrote it. I think what happend on flight 93, was the most glaring example of "Stand and Deliver" I've ever seen by civilians, and this was my tribute to them.
It's not the greatest, but then again I'm more of a editorial/opinion based writer then a poet.
Hockey cards flapping against my spokes
Group giggles at now seemingly silly jokes
Mounting our pedal bikes just like Troopers
I can only imagine all the stupid bloopers
Come on guys, Lets Roll
Oh how we wailed and we wined
While on the summer sun our hearts dined
I'm sure we said a lot of things
I know we looked like ding-a-lings
Come on guys, Lets Roll
The simple summer sun is gone
We entered the world in adult dawn
That childs innocence and grace
It was another time another place
Come on guys, Lets Roll
Just a silly term from my childhood
In age, it made no sence as you think it would
Then all the world changed
At the hands of evil and deranged
Come on guys lets Roll
Innocuos words from years gone by
said in strength, streaked across the sky
Like Troopers they took a stand
Life and Liberty they would demand
Come on guys, Lets Roll
A day in our minds for ever more
Burned in fire and in gore
A lot said, a lot was done
Yet the children played and they had fun
Come on guys, Lets Roll
It's not the greatest, but then again I'm more of a editorial/opinion based writer then a poet.
Hockey cards flapping against my spokes
Group giggles at now seemingly silly jokes
Mounting our pedal bikes just like Troopers
I can only imagine all the stupid bloopers
Come on guys, Lets Roll
Oh how we wailed and we wined
While on the summer sun our hearts dined
I'm sure we said a lot of things
I know we looked like ding-a-lings
Come on guys, Lets Roll
The simple summer sun is gone
We entered the world in adult dawn
That childs innocence and grace
It was another time another place
Come on guys, Lets Roll
Just a silly term from my childhood
In age, it made no sence as you think it would
Then all the world changed
At the hands of evil and deranged
Come on guys lets Roll
Innocuos words from years gone by
said in strength, streaked across the sky
Like Troopers they took a stand
Life and Liberty they would demand
Come on guys, Lets Roll
A day in our minds for ever more
Burned in fire and in gore
A lot said, a lot was done
Yet the children played and they had fun
Come on guys, Lets Roll
Thank you for sharing your poem I enjoyed it.
This one is one of mine I write a great deal poetry and prose.
Oh Willow
Oh Willow my Willow I feel your tears
Oh Willow my Willow he's been gone for years.
Once apon a time you were flesh and blood
Smiling at the Universe, smelling a rose bud.
His charm soothed your soul, his eyes stole your heart
His hand you did take, on a jouney you impart.
Such joy, such glee you felt with each touch.
The stroke of his hand on your cheek was ne'r to much.
A heaven on earth you both did create.
He was yours and you were his forever soulmates.
Until one fated day his worldly journey did end.
Leaving you with lamenting and mourning for you to contend.
The Faes took pity they felt your plight.
The sent to you their deepest magical light.
Upon your tears they bestowed green leaves.
As long and as tender as the love you believed.
Oh Willow my Willow I feel your tears
Oh Willow my Willow he's been gone for years.
This one is one of mine I write a great deal poetry and prose.
Oh Willow
Oh Willow my Willow I feel your tears
Oh Willow my Willow he's been gone for years.
Once apon a time you were flesh and blood
Smiling at the Universe, smelling a rose bud.
His charm soothed your soul, his eyes stole your heart
His hand you did take, on a jouney you impart.
Such joy, such glee you felt with each touch.
The stroke of his hand on your cheek was ne'r to much.
A heaven on earth you both did create.
He was yours and you were his forever soulmates.
Until one fated day his worldly journey did end.
Leaving you with lamenting and mourning for you to contend.
The Faes took pity they felt your plight.
The sent to you their deepest magical light.
Upon your tears they bestowed green leaves.
As long and as tender as the love you believed.
Oh Willow my Willow I feel your tears
Oh Willow my Willow he's been gone for years.
This is from that pirate movie:
"I am the very model of a modern Major- General,
I've information vegetable, animal and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote their fights historical,
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order catagorical;
I'm well aquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
about binomial theorem I''m teeming with a lot o' news,
with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse...
There are at least five more verses but I don't have them. Hearing the Major General go through these lines breaks me up every time.
"I am the very model of a modern Major- General,
I've information vegetable, animal and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote their fights historical,
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order catagorical;
I'm well aquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
about binomial theorem I''m teeming with a lot o' news,
with many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse...
There are at least five more verses but I don't have them. Hearing the Major General go through these lines breaks me up every time.
[SIZE=+1]NOTABLE LYRICS: Pirates of Penzance[/SIZE]By Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan
MAJOR GENERAL STANLEY:
I am the very model of a modern Major General,
I've information vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I know the kings of England, and I quote the fights historical
From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical;
I'm very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical,
I understand equations, both the simple and quadratical,
About binomial theorem I'm teeming with a lot o' news,
With many cheerful facts about the square of the hypotenuse.
ALL: With many cheerful facts...
GENERAL STANLEY: I'm very good at integral and differential calculus;
I know the scientific names of beings animalculous:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major General.
ALL: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major General.
Major General Stanley is yet another example of Gilbert & Sullivan's mockeries of British aristocracy. He demonstrates ability of knowledge in mathematics, history, and literature frequently yet lists no great military victories to his name.
GENERAL STANLEY: I know our mythic history, King Arthur's and Sir Caradoc's;
I answer hard acrostics, I've a pretty taste for paradox,
I quote in elegiacs all the crimes of Heliogabalus,
In conics I can floor peculiarities parabolous;
I can tell undoubted Raphaels from Gerard Dows and Zoffanies,
I know the croaking chorus from the Frogs of Aristophanes!
Then I can hum a fugue of which I've heard the music's din afore,
And whistle all the airs from that infernal nonsense Pinafore.
ALL: And whistle all the airs...
In this verse Gilbert & Sullivan actually mock their previous production, HMS Pinafore, and the nature of its music. Soon after it's release, HMS Pinafore gained widespread popularity with a lasting production time. Particularly noticed was the nature of its music which soon gained reputation as extremely "catchy" and prompting of "whistling."
GENERAL STANLEY: Then I can write a washing bill in Babylonic cuneiform,
And tell you ev'ry detail of Caractacus's uniform:
In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
ALL: In short, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General.
Again the General is seen to know the details of historical uniforms and language but no demonstrated skill in battle.
GENERAL STANLEY: In fact, when I know what is meant by "mamelon" and "ravelin",
When I can tell at sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin,
When such affairs as sorties and surprises I'm more wary at,
And when I know precisely what is meant by "commissariat",
When I have learnt what progress has been made in modern gunnery,
When I know more of tactics than a novice in a nunnery
In short, when I've a smattering of elemental strategy,
You'll say a better Major-General has never sat a gee.
ALL: You'll say a better Major-General...
GENERAL STANLEY: For my military knowledge, though I'm plucky and adventury,
Has only been brought down to the beginning of the century;
But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
I am the very model of a modern Major-General.
Stanley finally introduces military knowledge in this verse yet it deals more with listing statistics and descriptions of equipment and historical events while strategy "has only been brought down to the beginning of the century."
ALL: But still, in matters vegetable, animal, and mineral,
He is the very model of a modern Major-General. GENERAL STANLEY: And now that I've introduced myself, I should like to
have some idea of what's going on.
This classic example of witty lyrics on Gilbert's part serves to introduce the grand figure of Major General in a way similar to Sir Joseph's 'When I was a Lad' in HMS Pinafore.
KING: Although our dark career
Sometimes involves the crime of stealing,
We rather think that we're
Not altogether void of feeling.
Although we live by strife,
We're always sorry to begin it,
For what, we ask, is life
Without a touch of Poetry in it?
(all kneel)
ALL: Hail, Poetry, thou heav'n-born maid!
Thou gildest e'en the pirate's trade.
Hail, flowing fount of sentiment!
All hail, all hail, divine emollient!
(all rise) KING: You may go, for you're at liberty, our pirate rules
protect you,
And honorary members of our band we do elect you!
Gilbert often targets British custom, honor, and nobility through obnoxiously absurd display of it. Here pirates are seen discussing poetry along side the crimes of stealing in a mockery of hypocrisy among the cultured (for the pirates are revealed as former noblemen turned bad).
POLICE SERGEANT
When the foeman bares his steel,
Tarantara! tarantara!
We uncomfortable feel,
Tarantara!
And we find the wisest thing,
Tarantara! tarantara!
Is to slap our chests and sing,
Tarantara!
For when threatened with meutes,
Tarantara! tarantara!
And your heart is in your boots,
Tarantara!
There is nothing brings it round
Like the trumpet's martial sound,
Like the trumpet's martial sound
Tarantara! tarantara!, etc.
MABEL: Go, ye heroes, go to glory,
Though you die in combat gory,
Ye shall live in song and story.
Go to immortality!
Go to death, and go to slaughter;
Die, and every Cornish daughter
With her tears your grave shall water.
Go, ye heroes, go and die!
GIRLS: Go, ye heroes, go and die! Go, ye heroes, go and die!
POLICE: Though to us it's evident,
Tarantara! tarantara!
These attentions are well meant,
Tarantara!
Such expressions don't appear,
Tarantara! tarantara!
Calculated men to cheer
Tarantara!
Who are going to meet their fate
In a highly nervous state.
Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!
Still to us it's evident
These attentions are well meant.
Tarantara! tarantara! tarantara!
EDITH: Go and do your best endeavour,
And before all links we sever,
We will say farewell for-ever.
Go to glory and the grave!
GIRLS: For your foes are fierce and ruthless,
False, unmerciful, and truthless;
Young and tender, old and toothless,
All in vain their mercy crave.
SERGEANT: We observe too great a stress,
On the risks that on us press,
And of reference a lack
To our chance of coming back.
Still, perhaps it would be wise
Not to carp or criticise,
For it's very evident
These attentions are well meant. POLICE: Yes, it's very evident
These attentions are well meant,
Evident, yes, well meant, evident
Ah, yes, well meant!
This song serves primarily as a comic device poking fun at cowardice by employing exaggeration. Mabel sings to urge on the police into "death" in battle with the pirates by ordering them to go and "die" heroic deaths. She doesn't stop to notice, though, that the police are a rather nervous group with evident incompetence and an excessive care for order and regulation as guides to action.
Mourn the losses, because they are many, but celebrate the victories, because they are few. - Debbie Novotny
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornados, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
~Leo Buscaglia~
~Leo Buscaglia~
I read this one to my nieces, girl power and all that stuff.
sabel met an anormous Bear
Isabel, Isabel didn't care
The Bear was hungry the Bear was ravenous
The Bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous
The Bear said Isabel , glad to meet you
How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you.
Isabel, Isabel didn't worry
Isabel didn't scream or scurry
She washed her hands and straightened her hair up
Then Isabel quietly ate the Bear up.
sabel met an anormous Bear
Isabel, Isabel didn't care
The Bear was hungry the Bear was ravenous
The Bear's big mouth was cruel and cavernous
The Bear said Isabel , glad to meet you
How do, Isabel, now I'll eat you.
Isabel, Isabel didn't worry
Isabel didn't scream or scurry
She washed her hands and straightened her hair up
Then Isabel quietly ate the Bear up.
Quotations by Alan Watts
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.
But my dear man, reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Faith is, above all, openess; an act of trust in the unknown.
Spider Woman.
Spider Woman, it is said, in ancient times wove up the world. She wove the world together with fibers of light and fibers of power so that a great web was created around the earth. One of the images that I talk about often in my spiritual work is that when you are moving, creating, dancing on the web in one part of the world, all the rest of the web moves wherever it is around the world. If someone is being negative on one side of the world, you feel it in some inexplicable way. If you are creating beauty and power, that also goes out on the web, like a pulse of energy that recreates itself around the world. How interesting, and of course, synchronistic that we now have a web site.
~Lynn Andrews~
Spider Woman, it is said, in ancient times wove up the world. She wove the world together with fibers of light and fibers of power so that a great web was created around the earth. One of the images that I talk about often in my spiritual work is that when you are moving, creating, dancing on the web in one part of the world, all the rest of the web moves wherever it is around the world. If someone is being negative on one side of the world, you feel it in some inexplicable way. If you are creating beauty and power, that also goes out on the web, like a pulse of energy that recreates itself around the world. How interesting, and of course, synchronistic that we now have a web site.
~Lynn Andrews~
If we do indeed seek to bring peace to the world, we can do it by first bringing peace to ourselves. A person cannot give what they do not have.
~Thomas D. Willhite~
Living Synergistically
~Thomas D. Willhite~
Living Synergistically