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Here are some haiku I did years ago which I found on a bad haiku website where I posted them. I like haiku because done well they can be exquisite but done for fun/silliness/diversion they can be very entertaining and still expressive. Even when crap! 8) Especially when crap. Winston Smith-a-like y...

And what is good ? "that which all things aim at" (Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, book 1, chapter 1) We all aim at truth, and therefore truth is good. Or does someone here aim at a lie ? Truth will out? The conspiracy exposed? Why not? Why not this and not the other? It seems to me the a...

mark black wrote:IT DOESN'T MATTER

The personal quote just made me smile. :)

Mark's personal quote--my quote is far too inrense for anything more than a quick wink. :) cheers Stu

ps Good luck with the bureaucracy. Been there, done that :-( Deep breath, a little prayer and off you go :-))))) The secret of life Is in enjoying the passage of time Theres nothing to it All you have to do is do it Einstein said noone can know it all planets drifting through space the smile upon y...

Bravo!!! Bus Girl Fire and Grace Limbs moan to the winds soft touch, Leaves whisper as lovers must. Primal forest young in time, Evoke passions long denied. Moon rising, joins the dance, Stars of worship, a druid’s lust. Fire burns for the night, Embers spark, her delight. Here she lay amongst the ...

I lie here in my bed, my laptop angled to my gaze. resigned n,ot to pass the night in a sea of sleepy therapy for the day watching night turn into wakey day another night up oh woe is me perturbed with dreaded philosophy i come here like a man obsessed who tries to be his intellectual best and soci...

[Please note, that the following use of the word 'psychonaut' is not being used to denote myself via my nom de guerre, and is instead a more general use of this term] The Hedonistic Psychonaut His teeth fall out of his shit-eating grin as he gobbles down yet more sin His twisting eyes see places in...

Since you asked so nicely :) The Bloodsucker Proxy I'm battered and busted dented and dinted I'm flattened and flustered I'm stunted and stinted Well and I don't begrudge mosquitoes their blood they'll do more with it than I ever could I'm foolish and stupid I've been misled thought I was living wh...

Psychonaut wrote:Can we keep this thread for dumping of poetry, and perhaps commenting on a particular poem's qualities, rather than discussing issues of poetry?

I saw a spark, a kite, a wisp of sight, and alight

There has been some talk about revenge lately, some in the thread that was originally about education but that has become about the prison system.. So, here is a poem that exults in the notion of revenge Blood The life of me in my veins falls in gobs as of rain, a yawning maw does protest for a der...

Psychonaut wrote:Ummm

I was responding to a post by arising...
that has vanished...

The pixies stole it!

Kiked up, saw out, sought out
light and dark the occasional spark
keeping a light

Blessings on all of us for 2009!
To be powerful is to listen carefully! :) cheers Stu

ha we get alot of attention but Achilles shield was a shoddy version made in 5 min by me and the lead guitarist and blackface lux was a crap recording with a 12 year old drummer. the proper version of Achilles shield is alot better but we put it on the back since its really hard to play since its i...

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Rick, Just wanted to say thank you for all you are doing and looking forward to many discusions. Thanks for those kind words, Miss Lewis! :oops: Actually all the work was done by our webmaster, Bora Dogan, but he hasn't posted here yet. Welcome to the forum, medusasmiles. I'm sorry the old forum wa...