Favorite Poetry, ??? Options

[Ibis]

Since so many people are returning to school, I thought perhaps poetry might come up in English/Lit classes. Would you like to share some of yours with us? I found this one in Kilaeil's Signature at TES, that's all I know about it.

~Kilaeil~

"...From the east comes a ship, Loke holds the oar
A demon army with swords that rip, shall join the final war
The army of the dead arrives, Heimdall blows his horn
Calling Gods out to die, before the world can be reborn..."

Maybe we should include favorite famous quotes as well, here's one of mine:

"Whatever does not kill us, only serves to make us stronger ..." Nietzsche = and I first became aware of this quote while watching the movie 'Conan' starring Arnold Swartzenegger.

[Ibis]

Yes of course treydog!! You are talking about the slow, insidious creeping Kudzew (sp?) invasion! That is what we call it here in Florida ... sounds phonetically like .. Could-zoo. I hate that stuff!

They had to totally tear up and clear and replant our favorite park here called Meade Gardens in Winter Park (it is one of the main features of the Winter Park Boat Tour because the boat canals cut all through it.) Poor Mead looks like an embarrassed Southern Belle stripped down to her bloomers because she fell ingraciously into the mud and Mammy has to relaunder all her finery and redo her hair, etc.

Of course Meade isn't the only place, just a worst example of what is happening all over when left unchecked. The worst thing about Kudzu is that it not only covers everything but shades out and kills everything below it until it kills the very trees that are supporting it and will itself fall to the earth and take over right over the grass itself. Gahhh!!!

We also had a strange vine doing the same thing on our cedar tree at our old studios that I used to constantly pull outa the cedar ... bright orange tiny squash looking fruit with intense shocking pink flesh that the birds ate and spread the seeds of all around....

So Anyway ... I really liked The Wolf's poem too = a real thinker

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Here is one of my favorites ... I consider Jimmy Buffet to be quite a poet ... a non-thinker, singalong{

A Pirate Looks At Forty
By: Jimmy Buffett
Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call
Wanted to sail upon your waters since I was three feet tall
You've seen it all, you've seen it all

Watched the men who rode you switch from sails to steam
And in your belly you hold the treasures few have ever seen
Most of 'em dream, most of 'em dream

Yes I am a pirate, two hundred years too late
The cannons don't thunder, there's nothin' to plunder
I'm an over-forty victim of fate
Arriving too late, arriving too late

I've done a bit of smugglin', I've run my share of grass
I made enough money to buy Miami, but I pissed it away so fast
Never meant to last, never meant to last

And I have been drunk now for over two weeks
I passed out and I rallied and I sprung a few leaks
But I got stop wishin', got to go fishin'
Down to rock bottom again
Just a few friends, just a few friends

(instrumental)

I go for younger women, lived with several awhile
Though I ran 'em away, they'd come back one day
Still could manage to smile
Just takes a while, just takes a while

Mother, mother ocean, after all the years I've found
My occupational hazard being my occupation's just not around
I feel like I've drowned, gonna head uptown

Coda:
I feel like I've drowned, gonna head uptown

Quote:William Blake ("If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it truly is, infinite.") and from Aldous Huxley's book about psychedelic drugs, The Doors of Perception .... The Doors were named.


This post has been edited by Ibis: Aug 31 2006, 08:07 AM