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- Sun Jun 18, 2023 11:06 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: When I Was
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11655
Re: When I Was
I have never understood human need for wrathful gods - good gods yes but one that punishes makes little sense A mean and vengeful God has traditionally been a prime weapon of government for social control of its citizenry. The church-state deal has historically been the church legitimizing the aut...
- Sun Jun 18, 2023 8:05 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: When I Was
- Replies: 8
- Views: 11655
Re: When I Was
What delicious irony so gently presented amidst a wealth of imagery. I can see N in her bed at night, terrified by what she has been taught. By adults. People who are entrusted with her care. People who should know better. But I guess that was the intention then. Scare the shit out of her in ord...
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:53 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Well Scuff My Shoes!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10833
Re: Well Scuff My Shoes!
Huh, I thought I posted this -- but here's {again} maybe: I understand the arguments for uniforms--to remove class distinctions evidenced by personal fashion choices, but I have a hard time ascribing that to Brits and Brits' cultural offspring. More a sign of elitism perhaps. IN any event, it may ...
- Sat Jun 10, 2023 4:44 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Night Vision
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9804
Re: Night Vision
Oh my, our N experiences a late night visitation from an apparition, and gets charged with a celestial mission--to proclaim the miracle of electric cars . What excitement might the next episode bring? Oooooh. Ahhhhh! I recall the NSP adds proclaiming that electricity is penny cheap. Improve your ...
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 2:20 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Whale Tale
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9300
Re: Whale Tale
Ah -- the why-not ontological argument. But to me, if Gaia constituted a conceptual acceptance, then she would, by definition, already be a complex entity. If am catching your drift correctly.
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 12:44 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Words
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7439
Re: Words
And Life seems more and more to be
a dance upon the wings
of chance vibrations of love and death
and other nonsense things.
[my apologies]
a dance upon the wings
of chance vibrations of love and death
and other nonsense things.
[my apologies]
- Mon Jun 05, 2023 10:22 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Well Scuff My Shoes!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10833
Re: Well Scuff My Shoes!
Mark -- ties to school -- it was a decidedly different world then.
Cheers.
Cheers.
- Fri Jun 02, 2023 8:39 am
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Well Scuff My Shoes!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10833
Re: Well Scuff My Shoes!
Greetings, Indar -- I can't imagine the fashion push-pull for women. Hopefully few get as undie-knotted as this Narrator.
Cheers.
T
Cheers.
T
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 6:09 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Well Scuff My Shoes!
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10833
Well Scuff My Shoes!
~ Well Scuff My Shoes! For Ian Hard to believe he showed up at the wrong time and with a Half Windsor---may as well have been in a donkey cart, with a red fedora--worn by the donkey. Half Windsor, my ass! -- makes him look lopsided--so hard to trust a guy who look...
- Thu Jun 01, 2023 3:24 pm
- Forum: Post Your Poems
- Topic: Words
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7439
Re: Words
Mark -- glad you are finding practical solutions for what has to be a frustrating situation.
Good poem.
T
Good poem.
T