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Some guy posted an interesting poem, so I did a search, and came across these little gems.
Channel Firing ~Thomas Hardy
That night your great guns, unawares,
Shook all our coffins as we lay,
And broke the chancel window-squares,
We thought it was the Judgement-day
And sat upright. While drearisome
Arose the howl of wakened hounds:
The mouse let fall the altar-crumb,
The worms drew back into their mounds,
The glebe-cow drooled. Till God called, `No;
It's gunnery practice out at sea
Just as before you went below;
The world is as it used to be:
`All nations striving strong to make
Red war yet redder. Mad as hatters
They do no more for Christés sake
Than you that are helpless in such matters.
`That this is not the judgement-hour
For some of them's a blessed thing,
For if it were they'd have to scour
Hell's floor for so much threatening...
`Ha, ha. It will be warmer when
I blow the trumpet (if indeed
I ever do; for you are men,
And rest eternal sorely need).'
So down we lay again. `I wonder,
Will the world ever saner be,'
Said one, `than when He sent us under
In our indifferent century!'
And many a skeleton shook his head.
`Instead of preaching forty year,'
My neighbour Parson Thirdly said,
`I wish I had stuck to pipes and beer.'
Again the guns disturbed the hour,
Roaring their readiness to avenge,
As far inland as Stourton Tower,
And Camelot, and starlit Stonehenge.
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| Posted: 01-Aug-2002 03:48 Post subject: RE: Poetry time! |
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_Five Ways to Kill a Man_ Edwin Brock
There are many cumbersome ways to kill a man.
You can make him carry a plank of wood
to the top of a hill and nail him to it. To do this
properly you require a crowd of people
wearing sandals, a cock that crows, a cloak
to dissect, a sponge, some vinegar and one
man to hammer the nails home.
Or you can take a length of steel,
shaped and chased in a traditional way,
and attempt to pierce the metal cage he wears.
But for this you need white horses,
English trees, men with bows and arrows,
at least two flags, a prince, and a
castle to hold your banquet in.
Dispensing with nobility, you may, if the wind
allows, blow gas at him. But then you need
a mile of mud sliced through with ditches,
not to mention black boots, bomb craters,
more mud, a plague of rats, a dozen songs
and some round hats made of steel.
In an age of aeroplanes, you may fly
miles above your victim and dispose of him by
pressing one small switch. All you then
require is an ocean to separate you, two
systems of government, a nation's scientists,
several factories, a psychopath and
land that no-one needs for several years.
These are, as I began, cumbersome ways
to kill a man. Simpler, direct, and much more neat
is to see that he is living somewhere in the middle
of the twentieth century, and leave him there.
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 01-Aug-2002 07:57 Post subject: RE: Poetry time! |
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 nap: nap:.....
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Horhiro
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| Posted: 02-Aug-2002 21:13 Post subject: RE: Poetry time! |
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I'm more a fan of the Haiku....
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Sarkkahn
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| Posted: 06-Aug-2002 00:59 Post subject: RE: Poetry time! |
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why does that not suprise me  Heres one I wrote
look there is a bug
I step on it with my shoe
Where Did the bug go ?
See I used the correct number of sylabols and everything!
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Horhiro
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| Posted: 06-Aug-2002 18:19 Post subject: RE: Poetry time! |
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Dekashita Sarkkahn!
Your poetry is very evoking. It reminds me how I deal with opposing MechWarriors. Continue on with your self education, you're well on your way to becoming a true samurai.
Long live the Dragon!
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Sarkkahn
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| Posted: 06-Aug-2002 22:17 Post subject: RE: Poetry time! |
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the sun shines brightly
the grass is growing too high
I have lost my house
---or---
the sun shines brightly
the grass is growing too high
where did fluffy go
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 07-Aug-2002 07:43 Post subject: RE: Poetry time! |
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You're missing one word in each of the first lines....
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Sarkkahn
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| Posted: 07-Aug-2002 23:32 Post subject: RE: Poetry time! |
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its not words its sylabols
5 sylabols the first line
7 the second
5 the last
thats how it works, and yes I'm sure
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Sir Henry
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| Posted: 08-Aug-2002 07:52 Post subject: RE: Poetry time! |
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How can you be so sure??? They might have changed the rules while you were sleeping....
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Sarkkahn
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| Posted: 09-Aug-2002 00:37 Post subject: RE: Poetry time! |
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lol no they didnt I thionk if they havent changed the rules in centuries they havent changed them while I was sleeping
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Horhiro
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| Posted: 09-Aug-2002 19:46 Post subject: RE: Poetry time! |
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My simple demand.
Submit and I'll spare your worlds
from the Dragon's claws
-Haiku sent by Coordinator Jinjiro Kurita to the rulers fo the other four Successor Houses, late 2829
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