User Poetry

[kennyc]

HEY!! This sounds familiar!

Great job on this Geoff... as Lord Tom said, you've captured the "Essence of Cat"

[GeoffC]

Thank you - (again)

[GeoffC]

We need more poetry !!!!

[kennyc]

Yes we do. And while this is not poetry per-se I was thinking about songwriter poets because someone mentioned Leonard Cohen -- Suzanne (a perfect example)
and thinking of other songwriter poets:

Paul Simon
Bernie Taupin
Kris Kristopherson
Bob Dylan
Suzanne Vega
...

[kennyc]

Not one of mine, but definitely one of my favorites by Ted Kooser:



Selecting A Reader


First, I would have her be beautiful,
and walking carefully up on my poetry
at the loneliest moment of an afternoon,
her hair still damp at the neck
from washing it. She should be wearing
a raincoat, an old one, dirty
from not having money enough for the cleaners.
She will take out her glasses, and there
in the bookstore, she will thumb
over my poems, then put the book back
up on its shelf. She will say to herself,
"For that kind of money, I can get
my raincoat cleaned." And she will.

- Ted Kooser

[GeoffC]

Thanks for sharing !

[kennyc]

Here's another KAC Nursery Rhyme that popped in my head this mornin'



Abiogenesis

The Towel's in the Toilet
The Cow's in the Corn
Little Boy Blue
has grown a new Horn


Kenny A. Chaffin - 8/18/2010

[GeoffC]

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by kennyc

Here's another KAC Nursery Rhyme that popped in my head this mornin'



Abiogenesis

The Towel's in the Toilet
The Cow's in the Corn
Little Boy Blue
has grown a new Horn


Kenny A. Chaffin - 8/18/2010

Ha! Good one, Kenny!

Reminded me of a poem (quoted from memory) that I read in Playboy about 40 years ago:

Little Boy Blue,
Don't blow your cool.
The grass is in the meadow
And you're in school.

Whatever happened to that boy
Who used to tend his sheep?
He smoked his haystack
And fell asleep.

Well, I'm off to see how my experiment to grow flies from rotting vegetables is going.

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

Ha! Good one, Kenny!

Reminded me of a poem (quoted from memory) that I read in Playboy about 40 years ago:

Little Boy Blue,
Don't blow your cool.
The grass is in the meadow
And you're in school.

Whatever happened to that boy
Who used to tend his sheep?
He smoked his haystack
And fell asleep.

.

THAT was in Playboy !!!!!!

[WT Sharpe]

Originally Posted by GeoffC

THAT was in Playboy !!!!!!

On the jokes page, as I recall.

[kennyc]

Originally Posted by WT Sharpe

On the jokes page, as I recall.

Yeah I bet you always read it for the poetry, eh?

[GeoffC]

What else would you read Playboy for ?!

[kennyc]

Just posted this old one in the "A Life?" thread in the lounge so shared here as well:



No Longer Dressed in Black

They no longer dress in black,
they've become accountants,
clerks, engineers and thieves.

Cobain is dead and so is Lennon
that mop-top leader of revolutions.

Now middle-American angst
replaces the illusion, replaces the
heroes pushed beyond death, the
black that waits for us all.

Only the Goths are left and they
never bought into it anyway, their
blackness worn only on their sleeves,
a spacesuit insulating them from society.

They used to wear black, these clerks,
thieves, accountants; clinging to it,
as if to hope, but knowing there was no
challenge, no future, no reason to believe.

They were pulled inexorably
into society, depressed enough
to go along, depressed enough
to suck the blackness into their bodies
and smile as they hand you your change.


Kenny A. Chaffin - 6/26/01

From my poetry page: http://www.kacweb.com/poems/nolongerdressedinblack.html

[GeoffC]

Good one, Kenny !!!