“Ah, not to be cut off, not through the slightest partition shut out from the law of the stars. The inner -- what is it? if not the intensified sky, hurled through with birds and deep with the winds of homecoming.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 7:31:58 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > Lovely Allan - apparently they used to throw rotten fish at McGonagall, > but the last laugh is he is almost the only Scottish poet left in print, > apart from Burns in Russian. > > On Thursday, 2 April 2015 08:08:29 UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote: >> >> What honor >> Compared to Scotland's >> Greatest >> >> Blushing >> Written thoughts >> Simplicity >> >> Ideas scribbled >> Joining words together >> World changing >> >> No way Jose >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: archytas <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 5:41 AM >> Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Poetry >> >> And we have been moving from poetic to bureaucratic technology. Allan's >> poems are as bad as Scotland's greatest: >> >> They will one day yet rear him monuments of brass, and weep upon his >> grave, >> Though when he was living they would hardly have give him the price of a >> shave; >> But his peerless, priceless “Poetic Gems” will settle once for all >> The claim to immortality of William McGonagall. >> >> Mine are worse. I rarely like the stuff. Yet we have to beat >> bureaucracy with something! >> >> On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 3:21:12 AM UTC+1, archytas wrote: >>> >>> Graffiti in the women's closet is rumoured worse than ours Don, but I >>> haven't seen any decent stuff in ours for years (the beer in here reminds >>> me of making love in the bottom of a punt - fucking close to water). I >>> always though poetry was what a poncey git used to get into women's >>> knickers. >>> >>> On Thursday, April 2, 2015 at 1:21:47 AM UTC+1, Don Johnson wrote: >>>> >>>> I wasn't going to post here 'cause I don't write or particularly >>>> subscribe to poetry in general. That is I don't seek it out and I don't >>>> buy >>>> poetry books etc. I, of course, studied in school somewhat and learned to >>>> appreciate it somewhat but also learned it's not really my thing. However, >>>> while in seedy bars draining swill embibed in the pursuit of debauchery us >>>> gentlemen are forced to read what passes for poetry in men's bathrooms, I >>>> am quite certain, across the world. Since I have an international >>>> readership here(impresses the chicks when I tell them this) I'd love to >>>> know first, if girls have rude/bad poetry in their restrooms and if so >>>> share please, and second, how badly are Americans trashed in foriegn >>>> bathrooms? >>>> >>>> Here's a little ditty from the 70's that's still in style. >>>> >>>> Here I sit, gruntin' and strainin' >>>> Giving birth to another Iranian >>>> Mullah >>>> >>>> Of course, various Presidents over the years are trashed as well. Bush >>>> got his fair share during his day. Apparently "bush" is an synonym for a >>>> woman's vagina. Fun stuff, eh? >>>> >>>> dj >>>> >>>> On Wed, Apr 1, 2015 at 2:36 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Coffee offer is still open. (",) >>>>> >>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >>>>> >>>>> -----Original Message----- >>>>> From: archytas <[email protected]> >>>>> To: [email protected] >>>>> Sent: Wed, 01 Apr 2015 9:22 AM >>>>> Subject: Mind's Eye Re: Poetry >>>>> >>>>> I was going to call you worse Allan - but then remembered the coffee >>>>> offer! >>>>> >>>>> Portree lines of two >>>>> Cocaine addiction Scooby Do. >>>>> >>>>> On Wednesday, April 1, 2015 at 7:21:37 AM UTC+1, Allan Heretic wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Repeat to change subject >>>>>> >>>>>> Have been called far worse. >>>>>> I actually wrote out the rules years ago so I could write poetry. . >>>>>> Also how to break them.. then it became easy.. never could figure out >>>>>> the >>>>>> guidelines for other formats of poetry.. >>>>>> But it is both easy and fun to write. >>>>>> >>>>>> Poetry >>>>>> With lines of three >>>>>> Middle longer >>>>>> >>>>>> Bending >>>>>> To fit language >>>>>> Needs >>>>>> >>>>>> Ideas >>>>>> Ever expanding >>>>>> Thoughts >>>>>> >>>>>> Minimum >>>>>> One set of three >>>>>> Growing >>>>>> >>>>>> Occasionally >>>>>> Fourth line added >>>>>> Emphasis >>>>>> >>>>>> Variable >>>>>> Fitting mood >>>>>> Variable >>>>>> >>>>>> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >>>>>> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> >>>>> --- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>>>> an email to [email protected]. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>> >>>> >>>> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. 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