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Is It Fair by JB Barrington
I live in a prosperous city Rich in history and heritage and beauty that beguiles But take a look past the wall and the shops that enthral For somewhat contrasting lifestyles If my eyes can see injustice Surely your eyes can see it too We’ve all got the wisdom and courage to oppose it As a collective it’s not difficult to do I want fair and square just and honest I want them free from discrimination I wanna snap and unwrap the reels of red tape In the corridors of administration Where the regulators regulate In favour of the greedy Where a wave of cuts make and create More vulnerable and needy For them it’s a buyer’s market For I am of the plenty I’m one big pound sign as they buy my time Their purse gets fat mine stays empty It’s the same old theme in the same grand scheme In the same old day to day It’s the same fat chance and the same old dance To the same old tune they play Now that my children have gone My boxes and suitcase they wait in the hall But it’s all about numbers cos memories don’t matter As the last of the photos come down from the wall Is it fair that I now have to leave Just because I’ve grown old and alone Is it fair that I’m forced to leave behind My house that once was my family home I have no family heirlooms No crystal cut glass or antiques When death does bereave all I’ll bequeath Is some debt and more tears to soak cheeks I wish i could just have that something To pass down to my next of kin Instead of sleeping pills and unpaid bills In an empty biscuit tin Centuries ago the people of York Marched to London to have their say They said they wouldn’t accept poverty Or inequality So why should we accept it today?
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04-08-2015, 11:40 PM | #272 |
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Teacher assigned a 16 line poem.
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04-12-2015, 11:47 AM | #273 |
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Teach shoulda been more specific, I guess.
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04-20-2015, 01:14 PM | #274 |
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Distances
Swifts turn in the heights of the air; higher still turn the invisible stars. When day withdraws to the ends of the earth their fires shine on a dark expanse of sand. We live in a world of motion and distance. The heart flies from tree to bird, from bird to distant star, from star to love; and love grows in the quiet house, turning and working, servant of thought, a lamp held in one hand. Phillippe Jaccottet (translated from the French by Derek Mahon)
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The Oven Bird
by Robert Frost There is a singer everyone has heard, Loud, a mid-summer and a mid-wood bird, Who makes the solid tree trunks sound again. He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And comes that other fall we name the fall. He says the highway dust is over all. The bird would cease and be as other birds But that he knows in singing not to sing. The question that he frames in all but words Is what to make of a diminished thing.
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I have a hard time understanding that poem. And at first I wondered WTF? But then I saw your post in the other thread.
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05-01-2015, 11:33 AM | #277 |
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Well, ya see, Frost got a little confused when he stopped by the woods on that snowy evening when he took the road less traveled. I think I know, and that has made all the difference.
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Upon further reflection, I think it's about the passage of the seasons and abruptly switches to a bird coming to realize, to its great embarrassment, that it can't carry a tune.
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Uncle.
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Poetry is obfuscated communication.
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Um yeah...it was just joking around. it didn't occur to me for a second that grav might take it as an insult...because that seems far to go and grav has a great sense of jokery. Saying uncle just seemed a 'haha mudderpluckers, ya got me.'
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05-02-2015, 01:39 PM | #285 |
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That's pretty much all it was. No offenses.
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