unbelievable
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Re: Megalithic mishap
Aug 10, 2008, 22:01
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Just to clarify the above posts,
Certain posts have been removed from this thread, and they were simply poetry based, some by ,but not all by the origonal poster called cropredy.
is this common practise upon this site?
If so, beware all posters.
Unbelievable
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Littlestone
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Edited Aug 24, 2008, 16:33
Persephone Vandegrift: Henge of stones...
Aug 13, 2008, 07:03
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Henge of stones and dreams of old
I am a fool.
From a distance
An ocean-span shall we say
I thought you were just stone sticks.
On my stomach
I floated
In dreams mind you
down the Avon
to prove my thoughts wrong.
I am jealous of you
I should like to wear a henge
as sophisticated as you do
that would make scholars wonder
and trowels pause in mid air.
And what was burned here?
What was burned?
And no lying
just how old are the ashes found?
No more fairy tales
and alignments
or spiritual ownership.
Come, come now,
these stone sticks
should be full of confessions
and of pride-pocked veins
that do not warrant such fertile
emotional destruction.
If I could grant you one thing
despite the limited power I possess
it would be the freedom
to escape back down the river
and the right to finally collapse
into your parents grieving arms.
© Copyright Persephone Vandegrift 2008
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Seph
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Re: Garryglass
Aug 13, 2008, 17:24
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Oh Mr G, this is a very touching piece, squeezes the heart, and capturing the emotional attachment....so well done mate.
seph
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gjrk
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Re: Garryglass
Aug 14, 2008, 14:14
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Thank you S. I wish that I could always find it so easy to get things across. But then again, maybe not!
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Littlestone
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Edited Aug 16, 2008, 15:12
Paul Muldoon: TARA OF THE KINGS
Aug 16, 2008, 06:38
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TARA OF THE KINGS
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
Paul Muldoon
Poets and Musicians at Tara
"Save Tara campaigners are proud to announce that an international gathering of the Irish diaspora of poets and musicians will perform at "Feis Teamhra, a turn at Tara" on the Hill of Tara, Co. Meath on Sunday 24th. August at 3.30pm.
"Paul Muldoon, Pulitzer prize-winner, will read his poetry to celebrate and honour Tara and will be joined by musicians: Grammy award-winner Susan McKeown, Laoise Kelly, Aidan Brennan and others."
Thanks to moss for this press release. For more information go to -http://www.savetara.com/statements/081408_poets.html
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handofdave
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Edited Aug 17, 2008, 08:01
Re: Megalithic Poems
Aug 17, 2008, 04:46
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There once was a plinth of great height
that incited the maiden's delight
it was made of pink stone
and shaped like a bone
and was paid tribute with flowers by night
To the south of the village a tunnel
formed by aeons of watery funnel
yawned open and blew
warm wet foggy dew
into which the young men would pummel
Those ancestors are no more,
with their stone yings and yangs and their lore:
It's all fine to talk,
But rock is rock..!
Their naughty bits just got too sore!
-A variant on the ever popular 'man from Nantucket' alley of the poetic arts.
-Dave
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gjrk
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Re: Paul Muldoon: TARA OF THE KINGS
Aug 17, 2008, 09:21
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What did you get for cleaning your hands?
A few broad beans and a word from an ass?
There was no sword on the road to Moab
and I can’t see your beanstalk, Jack.
Show me your broken heart.
For the Greens who changed their minds and looked away and for what? I don't know. The references are to Matthew 27; Pilate's dismissal of Jesus and Numbers 22; Balaam's ass seeing the angel. And a popular fairytale.
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gjrk
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Aug 17, 2008, 09:23
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Ha, ha! That's excellent.
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moss
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Aug 17, 2008, 10:42
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;) Tis sunday after all, American limericks, but I wished you'd left Paul Muldoon up a bit longer....
actually what you need with your limerick Dave is a 'saucy' english postcard, it would at least liven up the forums..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_once_was_a_man_from_Nantucket
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gjrk
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Re: Persephone Vandegrift: Henge of stones...
Aug 18, 2008, 14:10
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Great work S; like looking at a great old elephant on display in a zoo.
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