02-22-2014, 11:12 AM | #196 |
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So another favourite poet. Welsh.
Wrote one of my favourite poems of all time, which I have already posted. Damn I wish Brianna was here. The Welsh Hill Country Too far for you to see The fluke and the foot-rot and the fat maggot Gnawing the skin from the small bones, The sheep are grazing at Bwlch-y-Fedwen, Arranged romantically in the usual manner On a bleak background of bald stone. Too far for you to see The moss and the mould on the cold chimneys, The nettles growing through the cracked doors, The houses stand empty at Nant-yr-Eira, There are holes in the roofs that are thatched with sunlight, And the fields are reverting to the bare moor. Too far, too far to see The set of his eyes and the slow pthisis Wasting his frame under the ripped coat, There's a man still farming at Ty'n-y-Fawnog, Contributing grimly to the accepted pattern, The embryo music dead in his throat. R S Thomas
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That's awesome.
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While I am on a Welsh bent.
Welsh Incident 'But that was nothing to what things came out From the sea-caves of Criccieth yonder.' 'What were they? Mermaids? dragons? ghosts?' 'Nothing at all of any things like that.' 'What were they, then?' 'All sorts of queer things, Things never seen or heard or written about, Very strange, un-Welsh, utterly peculiar Things. Oh, solid enough they seemed to touch, Had anyone dared it. Marvellous creation, All various shapes and sizes, and no sizes, All new, each perfectly unlike his neighbour, Though all came moving slowly out together.' 'Describe just one of them.' 'I am unable.' 'What were their colours?' 'Mostly nameless colours, Colours you'd like to see; but one was puce Or perhaps more like crimson, but not purplish. Some had no colour.' 'Tell me, had they legs?' 'Not a leg or foot among them that I saw.' 'But did these things come out in any order?' What o'clock was it? What was the day of the week? Who else was present? How was the weather?' 'I was coming to that. It was half-past three On Easter Tuesday last. The sun was shining. The Harlech Silver Band played Marchog Jesu On thrity-seven shimmering instruments Collecting for Caernarvon's (Fever) Hospital Fund. The populations of Pwllheli, Criccieth, Portmadoc, Borth, Tremadoc, Penrhyndeudraeth, Were all assembled. Criccieth's mayor addressed them First in good Welsh and then in fluent English, Twisting his fingers in his chain of office, Welcoming the things. They came out on the sand, Not keeping time to the band, moving seaward Silently at a snail's pace. But at last The most odd, indescribable thing of all Which hardly one man there could see for wonder Did something recognizably a something.' 'Well, what?' 'It made a noise.' 'A frightening noise?' 'No, no.' 'A musical noise? A noise of scuffling?' 'No, but a very loud, respectable noise --- Like groaning to oneself on Sunday morning In Chapel, close before the second psalm.' 'What did the mayor do?' 'I was coming to that.' Robert Graves Damn, I can't format it properly. Some of the lines are set in, which breaks the line of the poem up and implies pauses. I've inserted breaks but it's not the same.
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Thoroughly enjoyed that.
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Look up The Journey of the Magi.
I always wanted to narrate it to you. It's so wonderful spoken aloud.z
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That's very strong, I like the meter.
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03-05-2014, 07:49 AM | #203 |
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The illustration matches the poem. Very simple and powerful. No waste. Everything is on message.
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I am suspicious.
But I do like it.
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Dark and lonely on the summer night.
Kill my landlord, kill my landlord. Watchdog barking - Do he bite? Kill my landlord, kill my landlord. Slip in his window, Break his neck! Then his house I start to wreck! Got no reason -- What the heck! Kill my landlord, kill my landlord. C-I-L-L ... My land - lord ... --Tyrone Greene |
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C-I-L-L ...
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Recursive Viscera Intercourse
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It's Saturday and Sundae can sleep in and catch up on the sleep that Ortho doesn't get and neither has to listen to Wake Up to Money There's another day until the Merkins lose an hour to Edison's greed Any day that happens is a good day for Sundae and me Orthodoc
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Awesome.
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