Poetry1

[kuhlenberg]

Lilly: your last entry, I am not there, is familiar to me. I believe I have a book somewhere around here with this and other poems by the same author. When I get a chance to dig, next month perhaps, I'll find it and pass on some info. I remember how much it reminded me of Robert Frost's work.

Zhenya: The following is a piece of warning I wrote for my high school graduating class, 26 years ago. Back then, being lost in the shuffle was a worry. However, these days it seems that folks work hard to fall into the line. Anyway, here it is.

Common Kind

Caught in the coffin
of office and papers
He mumbles the madness
of ink-smeared erasers
and he covets his sadness
in the patent of patience
He is waiting for my smile
He'll be waiting for a long, long while

The hours pass slowly
and the years, they go faster
Mocking the blindness
that made him a master
And it shoulders all the virtues
of undoing all the wrongs
He is thin and long
He is waiting for my smile all the while

The song of the subway
is droned in his ears
And he seems a bit deafer
than his conscience appears
And it comforts his fellows
to see a vegetable so mellow
He is gentle
He is waiting
He is thin and so long

But,
He's the very common kind
He's as common as pennies
and shiney as dimes
The common kind

So, let your dreams roll along
and your wisdom temper strong
Roll on
Grow strong
Roll on.

[Adunis]

hello all,
hello Philip and Lily
hey guys I had to do a research for a lecture on the Islamic Philosophy [ with a friend of mine]for the last 2 weeks and that took up all my time , beside a full-time job...
Now I was trying to answer an email, I happen to write the following text. Here I share it with you in its first stages of life / death


crazy how words desert us
when we need them most.

i feel disarmed and empty
nothing to say
nothing to think
just void

i am not the words
when i can't be the speaker
and I am not a speaker
when I have no words

silence envelops the
most miserable
absence in me

Anything left
for me to say?
_______
khalifa

[Phillip]

I missed ya mate - welcome back!

[Phillip]

I like dark poetry as long as it ends with something good-ish

Poetry is for explanation. It can be from any point of view, and never something to be ashamed of!!

I'd love to write that collaborative poem (especially if we can entice Lilly), but a story would be good...

We are in a landfall of good minds here. Anybody who pokes up their hand on this aim - would be good - esp kuhlenberg and John - it could be funny...

Perhaps we could do it via e-mail.

Any Ideas???

[kuhlenberg]

We could all collaborate on a poem, something inspirational, and maybe with a little humor. Then, we can put it to music and get some hot, new female singer, like Bic Runga, to sing the main verse's, and we'll sing the chorus -- a sort of "We are the World" kind of thing, but with some laughs -- everybody likes to laugh. Then, we'll make a music video out of it. Perhaps one of us can make up a new dance to go with it. Then, we can sell advertising spots and digitally introduce the product advertisements into the backgrounds of the scenes in the videos. Then, we can promote the video in it's film version to movie distributors and theater chains so they can run the film before the main attraction. It would be a great success and we would be sitting on a pile of money. The media attention will make us into international business pop idols. We'd get speaking engagements, book deals and movie offers. We'd retain the rights to 82% of the profits from all of the merchandising opportunities in T-shirts, jackets, sunglasses, truck mudflaps -- you name it. It will be huge!

...or not.

[kuhlenberg]

Seriously though, it would be really fun to write a story together. It could be written as a narrative, with each of us writing dialog for our own characters. We should start out by writing profiles on the central characters. Next, establish an event or circumstance that brings them together. The narrative will set it all into motion and provide continuity as the story progresses. This could really be fun.
If you'd like to include me in this project, e-mail me at blackrabbit@msn.com . If you are in the States, you may also reach me at my toll free number which I will e-mail back to you. That goes for the rest of you folks, too. I would be happy for any of you to call so that I may put voices to these names.

[Phillip]

I am pasting the e-mail I sent to Brad here; to save repeating myself...

To Brad kuhlenberg,

I Like your idea. I am stumped with creating a character though - how closely should it relate to my/ourselves?

Who would be the narrarator? you?

It sounds like you are thinking of making a full length book because you are talking about more then just central characters. that's ok, and I think the story will grow easily because we have alot of different ideas at hand and surely somebody can further the plot at any given time... If you were the narrartor then I think it would help it gell.

I think I'd have to see how the story is forming and how serious the charactors are etc, but that is a cop out!

I am not used to creating characters - my stories usually have only one, and I race that one through a surreal world. For me it would be easier if the event was established first - I don't know.

If somebody gets it started I'm sure I''ll be able to jump in.

Sincerely,

Phillip Schmidt.

P.S. I would be great if everyone on this board got involved - I think the more the merrier.