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Ok, so its 'Love Bade Me Welcome' by George herbert.
You guessed my name right, but spelled it wrong.

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Well, now I know you better..............
And, now I know you are in favor of the name Caity.................and so it shall be.............

Here's one for you, Caity...

Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice,
With the masts went by the board;
Like a vessel of glass, she stove and sank,
Ho! ho! the breakers roared!

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I don't know that one, but I like the stanza you posted.
What is it so I can read the rest of it?

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i google ... hope it's not too cheating, KT, but in the interest of expanding knowledge ... i wouldn't have known who it was, but what a beautiful piece!

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/717.html

for you, KT ... the full text of the poem ... Longfellow ... beautiful, Gogant!

i'd love to share some of my favorite lines from a famous oldie

Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.

...

What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.


! ! !

luv!

-dh

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Thank you for the link.
And I have read that poem before, but I didn't realize until I saw the whole thing. It's very sad. I do admire Longefellow.
I think your lines are interesting, but very confusing, lol.

Heres one I particularly like:
'All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream'

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This poem of Longfellow's, the wreck of the Hesperus, is, of course, one of my favorites. I'm surprised, though that the two of you like it. It seems more like a male poem...please don't think I'm being chauvinistic. His use of certain words are my kind of poetry. I won't cheat, so I will just admit that I have no idea of yours, Caity, nor yours, Dancer.....................................g

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Hey Sleevy, are you out there ? You started this thread, and then disappeared into sublimity...



......................................... ..............................gogant

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Here is a good one, the Dash by Linda Ellis

The Dash Poem
by Linda Ellis


I read of a man who stood to speak
At the funeral of a friend.
He referred to the dates on her tombstone
From the beginning to the end.

He noted that first came the date of her birth
And spoke of the following date with tears,
But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years.

For that dash represents all the time
That she spent alive on earth
And now only those who loved her
Know what that little line is worth.

For it matters not, how much we own,
The cars, the house, the cash,
What matters is how we live and love
And how we spend our dash.

So think about this long and hard;
Are there things you’d like to change?
For you never know how much time is left
That can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough
To consider what’s true and real
And always try to understand
The way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger
And show appreciation more
And love the people in our lives
Like we’ve never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect
And more often wear a smile,
Remembering that this special dash
Might only last a little while.

So when your eulogy is being read
With your life’s actions to rehash
Would you be proud of the things they say
About how you spent your dash?

© 1996 Linda Ellis

http://www.lindaellis.net

Last edited by WordSlinger 11-07-2009 at 10:55:44 PM

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Gogant mine was 'A Dream Within A Dream' by Poe.
And I take no offense at your male viewpoint on Longfellow. Different people relate in different ways to poetry, and the voice of 'Hesperus' does sound vaguely male to me too.
And holy crap Word! That poem is one of my top five favorites! And I haven't read it in quite a while, thank you for bringing that back to me.

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nice, Word!
gogant ... i believe all stories ... and what are poems, if not condensed stories ... have a symbolic level to them ... in this way, one could take a Jungian perspective and look at all of the characters as aspects of the dreamer ... male and female aspects ... earth, wind, and fire aspects ... social and private aspects ... so Longfellow's poem could be seen as a cautionary tale to any human who finds they want to lash their feminine side to a suicidal journey ... it spells disaster for all, and is a true tragedy long after the simple fact of loss ...

that said, it's a beautiful tale, i still have the images in my mind, and i love the commentary on that link about his telling of how he wrote the piece ... that it was inspired by a true set of events, and he woke up in the middle of the night and penned the whole darned thing ... "it came not in lines, but in stanzas" he said ... KT, that made me think of you and your delightful bee poem!!

the quote i left is from TS Eliot, some of the opening lines of "Burnt Norton" in Four Quartets.

luv!

-dh

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Word, Caity, and of course, you Dancer are well versed in the perusing of poetry. I hated when we were forced by our Literature marm to read Shakespeare and such. I have found my own poets to read...you three are among the chosen few...

My favorite single line is from The Raven...by Poe, of course...

"What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore--"

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Dh, what you said makes sense, and it's interesting. I will have to explore that further.
And as to the 'delightful bee poem' it drove me crazy. Every time i tried to go to sleep i would think of something else I HAD to write down. I don't think I slep tvery much that night. And when I did I dreamed of bees and flowers and butterfies and willows...

And Gogant, I have no problem with Shakespeare at school, other than the fact that ive read R&J a gazillion times already.
Fav line:
"These violent delights have violent ends,
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume."

And I absolutely LOVE Poe. For my 15th birthday i got a complete collection of his work. The book is huge. And it's very dog-eared and worn.
My favorite line of Raven is:
"And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."

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I found a poet this morning, named Brian Turner, he is a soldier.
I had a dream about soldiers, so I googled searched, and wrote a poem.
Here is his link,
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5126583
and here is one to my poem.
http://www.originalpoetry.com/face-the-poetry
I also added another, ty

WS

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Hey Word, I checked out your latest...I left a comment there.

Caity, that's a shame that the book of Poe's works has aged so badly in just 3 years. There was a celebrity on Johnny Carson's show who read "The Raven", I think it was Raymond Burr. I was mesmerized with that poem because of Burr's reading. I just love it...every line.

I checked my poem A Dublin Cairn, and you hadn't left a comment. Didn't you care for it ?

...............................................................................go

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I'm a bit rough on books sometimes...
And I have a dog that loves to chew up my stuff when I make her mad by leaving her home alone or not taking her for her daily walk...
And I did like it! Really, but when I read it I was short on time and I keep forgetting to comment it, I will do it right now!!!
Sorry...

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And you did...and I thank you. Hey, I'm glad it was your dog and not your younger brother who chewed on poor ol' Poe. I hope you're keeping out of the water and out of the...what was the name of that grass you hate ?

.............................................g

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Hey gogant,

I'm alive and well. I just wasn't aware that I'm supposed to foster the threads I start I just threw my two cents in about this cool feature and now I'm waiting for it to magically appear :-D

Sleeves

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I am doing well, and staying out of trouble for the most part.
And it's called lakeweed, or seaweed.
Its slimy and tangly and icky.
I read about this guy that went swimming and he drowned because he got tangled in some lakeweed. They didn't find his body for two weeks!
That is not the death I want. So I stay in nice clean pools, with chlorine and bottoms I can see...

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Glad to know that you are still kicking there, Sleevy.


Yeah, Caity, I can understand you not wanting to get tangled in lakeweed/seaweed. I stay out of public pools though...there are always people like Bear and Mr. Ink who can't hold it until they can reach an outhouse. What I hate about seaweed is that when I go fishing, I always get the hook snagged in it. One time when I was fishing, I got the hook snagged, and when I pulled on it...something pulled back. That was the end of fishing after that for me...

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"I stay out of public pools though...there are always people like Bear and Mr. Ink who can't hold it..." Hey!! Hey!! I wasn't here to defend myself against harmless slander. (I haven't been in a public pool for 35 years) since the accident

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Was the accident a ten-100, or a ten-200 ? I apologize if you are serious about a harmful accident, though.

or possibly

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Mr. G, you are quite the character...I will hold my keyboard The forum topic is partially based on my great ancestor, Mr. Poe, a public favorite. (I don't have the money to see which part of the tree I fell from) but it is a very strong rumor that I am one of His relatives. If one has no children, (as Poe did not), it would be a long shot to have descendents (I've done the math!) so, in short, my parents had informed me of this family tie since I was old enough to talk (12 yrs)

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Heck, Mr. Ink, your family probably told you that you were a descendant of Poe to get you kick started into writing poetry...they figured they had to do something to get you to finally start talking at 12...and I'll bet you they weren't sorry for that act, even if they had to keep you hidden because of your resemblance of Poe for most of your teenage years. You're cool, my man...

hide, here comes that little boy who looks like Poe

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If youre still awake, I just posted another POEm. It's quite gloomy, but no ravens or pendulums. Beside Ocean Pier: a short excursion into murky waters...

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I got there before your post...really good.............................................g