slumpystones
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Re: slumpy & Joy Division - A Means To An End II
Aug 12, 2007, 19:06
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Joy Division - A Means To An End
a legacy so far removed,
one day will be improved.
eternal rights we left behind,
we were the better kind.
two the same, set free too,
i always looked to you,
i always looked to you,
i always looked to you.
we fought for good, stood side by side,
our friendship never died.
on stranger waves, the lows and highs,
our vision touched the sky,
immortalists with points to prove,
i put my trust in you.
i put my trust in you.
i put my trust in you.
a house somewhere on foreign soil,
where ageless lovers call,
is this your goal, your final needs,
where dogs and vultures eat,
committed still i turn to go.
i put my trust in you.
i put my trust in you.
i put my trust in you.
i put my trust in you.
in you. in you. in you.
put my trust in you, in you.
http://www2.crosswinds.net/~wintermoon/jd/music/joyd_meanstoend.zip
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tjj
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Re: Megalithic Poems:- Alexander Thom: Ancient Monuments
Aug 19, 2007, 13:54
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Extract from 'The Open Air' (Wildflowers Chapter) by Richard Jefferies - first published 1885
The great stone of the fallen cromlech, crouching down afar off in the plain behind me, cast its shadow in the sunny morn as it had done, so many summers, for centuries - for thousands of years: worn white by the endless sunbeams - the ceaseless flood of light - the sunbeams of centuries, the impalpable beams polishing and grinding like rushing water: silent, yet witnessing of the Past; shadowing the Present on the dial of the field: a mere dull stone; but what is it the mind will not employ to express to itself its own thoughts?
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Littlestone
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Richard Jefferies: The Open Air
Aug 19, 2007, 15:02
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Thanks for that tjj.
Thought that Richard Jefferies must have written something about megaliths somewhere but that's the first time I've seen anything on the subject by him - hopefully there's more to be discovered.
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nigelswift
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Tara of the Kings by Professor Paul Mundoon
Sep 10, 2007, 07:44
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Paul Mundoon has been described by The Times Literary Supplement as "the most significant English-language poet born since the second World War."
Not exactly a "pseud" then. ;)
TARA OF THE KINGS
by Professor Paul Muldoon, Princeton University
(The Irish Times on Saturday Sat Jun 24, 2006)
WE MET AT THE SUMMER SOLSTICE
WHEN EVERYTHING STOOD STILL
HER SLOPING AWAY LIKE ISEULT
LEFT ME OVER THE HILL
I RAISED THE CHAMBER IN THE MOUND
THE OAK-FRINGED SACRED SPRING
THAT FEEDS THE STREAMS THAT RUN AROUND
TARA OF THE KINGS
SHE WAS THROUGH WITH CARBON DATING
STAKEHOLDERS WITH NO HAIR
SHE WAS THROUGH WITH MONSTER MEETINGS
IN FLATS OFF PARNELL SQUARE
SHE WAS THROUGH WITH CROWNED AND UNCROWNED
YEW TREES WITH COUNTLESS RINGS
THE DITCH THAT USED TO RUN AROUND
TARA OF THE KINGS
COULD WE WHO ENDURED THE PENAL
AND EDWARD POYNING’S LAWS
(NEVER MIND THE BEEF TRIBUNAL)
NOW SOMEHOW BE IN AWE
OF A ROAD RUNNING THROUGH THE GROUND
ON WHICH STOOD OUR ALTHING
AND NOT ENSURE IT RUN AROUND
TARA OF THE KINGS?
WE KNOW THE STONE OF DESTINY
WAS SET UP IN THIS SOIL
NOW THE SOLDIERS OF DESTINY
ARE SET TO BANK THE SPOILS
AND LEST THEY WISH TO BE RENOWNED
FOR RAPE AND RAVISHING
THEY’LL NOT GIVE US THE RUNAROUND
ON TARA OF THE KINGS
WE’RE FATED TO BE REMEMBERED
AS SPOILERS OF THE DEAD
AND THOUGH WE SEEM QUITE UNHAMPERED
BY HONOUR OR BY DREAD
YET WE ARE DREAD- AND HONOUR-BOUND
TO OUR UNBORN OFFSPRING
TO ENSURE THE M3 RUN AROUND
TARA OF THE KINGS
Also -
http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/opinion/25muldoon.html
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Littlestone
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Tori Amos: 1000 Oceans
Sep 30, 2007, 20:04
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well i can't believe that i would keep
keep you from flying
and i would cry 1000 more
if that's what it takes to sail you home
sail you home, sail you home
i'm aware what the rules are
but you know that i will run
you know that i will follow you
over silbury hill through the solar field
you know that i will follow you*
Tori Amos, Live performance of 1000 Oceans @ The Hard Rock Cafe
* Listen and watch at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvZz5NMUZJ0
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sharman1
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Re: Fiona Colligan-Yano - Bodmin Moor
Oct 01, 2007, 07:01
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It's a fabulous poem, Fiona. I loved it when I read it first years ago, and I still appreciate it now.
Cheers,
Sharman
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sharman1
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Re: Fiona Colligan-Yano - Bodmin Moor
Oct 01, 2007, 07:03
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Hi Fiona,
Is it possible to find you here? Or are you lost on Bodmin Moor?
Sharman
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nigelswift
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The Old Serpentine Temple at Avebury - Rev C Lucas
Oct 01, 2007, 07:25
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http://books.google.com/books?id=ubgHAAAAQAAJ&dq=lucas+%22old+serpentine+temple%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=_6kvGaQmKn&sig=pb4OwmfXWG1qQ29dw-Vo3v5Ez8U#PPA7,M1
He goes on a bit, and is a bit mad, but there are some interesting bits in the footnotes.
I love his description of it as "a snakey pile"
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Littlestone
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Re: The Old Serpentine Temple at Avebury - Rev C Lucas
Oct 01, 2007, 11:43
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Core blimey Nigel, that's tonight's bedtime reading sorted out :-)
Have only just skimmed through it but notice some references to Silbury - the last line being especially meaningful. Where neither Time can Hurt or Man destroy. Let's hope so.
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nigelswift
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(Appropriate to) "Silbury" from Bode's Ballads
Oct 04, 2007, 12:19
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Rightly quoted by Rev AC Smith as appropriate to Silbury on page 144 of his (fascinating) paper on Silbury in the The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine in 1862
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KDYGAAAAQAAJ&dq=The+Wiltshire+Archaeological+and+Natural+History+Magazine+By+Edward+Hungerford+Goddard&pg=PA1&ots=2QvYknPk0s&sig=9RzuoCa7-9VydT1MBo8BVWO5Q_k&prev=http://www.google.co.uk/search%3Fhl%3Den%26q%3DThe%2BWiltshire%2BArchaeological%2Band%2BNatural%2BHistory%2BMagazine%2BBy%2BEdward%2BHungerford%2BGoddard%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch%26meta%3D&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=1#PPP7,M1
Unchanged it stands: it awes the lands
Beneath the clear dark sky ;
But at what time its head sublime
It heavenward reared, and why—
The gods that see all things that be
Can better tell than I
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