Topic: OF THINGS POETIC (Read 35763 times)

bk · « **on:** May 14, 2004, 12:01:40 AM »

Well, you've read the notes, you feel lazy and poetic and therefore ready to post until the poets come home. To it, I say.

A toast
To those who post
On either coast
Let's eat a roast

George · « **Reply #1 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:08:27 AM »

Last post yesterday, and first post today! Huzzah!!

bk · « **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:15:59 AM »

That's poetic?

Like this:

I was last
Now I'm first
That makes me blessed
And not accursed.

bk · « **Reply #3 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:17:27 AM »

Welcome nine GUESTS.

The GUESTS they lurk
They do not post
It's too much work
And then they're toast

Panni · « **Reply #4 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:17:41 AM »

Since we're waxing (or shaving) poetic, a Haiku follows:

Denizens of night
Do post all your pretty thoughts
Haines his Way sleeps not

Panni · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:19:35 AM »

The beauty of Haiku is you don't have to rhyme. You just have to be able to count.

George · « **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:19:39 AM »

BK, I was never poetic. "Not a poet, don't ya know it?" is about as poetical as I can get. It's a flaw, I know.

In my DVD player (since I just got them in the mail on Thursday!): a Sondheim double-bill...Sweeney Todd and The Last of Sheila!!

In my VCR: the tape with yesterday's (Thursday's) last episode of "Frasier" and the 55 minute pre-final-episode clip-fest. I started watching "Frasier" at about 9:10, so I didn't see anything before that. I knew that I would be home late and I had the forsight to not only set my VCR to tape the shows, but to actually put a brand new blank tape into the VCR!

In my CD player at work: the new Broadway cast recording of Wonderful Town...to be listened to at work when I'm actually at work.

In my CD burner in my computer at home: nothing, yet...because I'm not at home, I'm house-sitting and anyway I have to break up the big long .wav files of Candide before I can burn the final CDs. Hopefully, I'll be able to do that this weekend.

George · « **Reply #7 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:20:49 AM »

Here we are at night,
Trying to rhyme for B-K.
It isn't working.

How's that, Panni?

bk · « **Reply #8 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:22:53 AM »

Wussburgers of the night
They sleep tightly in their beds
Whilst we post away
They rest their weary heads

Panni · « **Reply #9 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:23:06 AM »

Anna goes to bed
Wussberger some may just say
She laughs and cares not

bk · « **Reply #10 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:24:57 AM »

Welcome nine GUESTS

I see Pogue,
He's quite a rogue
And I see Jed
He's not in bed

Panni · « **Reply #11 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:25:35 AM »

Excellent, George.

bk - I must be psychic

- I posted my wussberger haiku at the same time you posted your wussberger poem.

Charles Pogue · « **Reply #12 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:26:07 AM »

Video: One taped off of A & E when it actually was Arts and Entertainment. A wonderful production of OEDIPUS THE KING with Michael Pennington, Claire Bloom, and John Gielgud. Really good stuff. A perfect example of how inexorable tragedy can be...

DVD...The terrific British Comedy Series, YES, PRIME MINISTER...

bk · « **Reply #13 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:26:29 AM »

S. Woody White
And even Jay
But will they post?
If not, they'll pay.

bk · « **Reply #14 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:28:15 AM »

If anyone has the DVD of Pollyanna with Hayley Mills and IF you've read Kritzer Time - you might want to go to the sequence where Hayley and some girls sing America the Beautiful. You might want to look at the last girl on the right.

Panni · « **Reply #15 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:29:53 AM »

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove,
That valleys, groves, hills and fields,
Woods or steepy mountains yields.

Panni · « **Reply #16 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:30:58 AM »

...Okay, I didn't make that one up. But I could have if I'd tried really hard.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #17 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:31:27 AM »

In answer to DR Jose's question from yesterday's thread, yes, the citizens of Brigadoon would have had ale for breakfast. And ale for lunch, and dinner too.

Which explains why it didn't bother them, sleeping for a century between some of those meals.

Truth to tell, the story of Brigadoon is kind of creepy. They only live one day per century? So, if they plant a crop, by the time they awaken, that crop will have gone to seed a hundred times already? How are they supposed to live, if they can't grow new food? After a certain number of millenia, they'd all starve to death! And I'd not want to consider what they'd be like during the end time, when there's only a teensy, weensy amount of food left and they're all battling for the last crumb! This marvelous fairy tale could rapidly turn into a retelling of the Donner Party story!

Like I say, creepy.

The moral being, of course, be careful what you wish for.

Panni · « **Reply #18 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:32:23 AM »

Quote from: bk on May 14, 2004, 12:28:15 AM

If anyone has the DVD of Pollyanna with Hayley Mills and IF you've read Kritzer Time - you might want to go to the sequence where Hayley and some girls sing America the Beautiful. You might want to look at the last girl on the right.

That's not fair to the people who DON'T have the DVD of Pollyanna -- which I suspect would be a lot of people.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #19 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:34:14 AM »

I'm three hours ahead of some of you; 'tis time to Wussburger.

bk · « **Reply #20 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:34:40 AM »

Oh, I think quite a few hainsies/kimlets have Pollyanna. There is a Kritzer Time connection in that scene. Just look where I said.

Panni · « **Reply #21 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:35:11 AM »

I'm off to bed... wondering about the last girl on the right. We know it's not George Chakiris.

bk · « **Reply #22 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:35:55 AM »

Jay, don't you want to tell us what you saw tonight?

George · « **Reply #23 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:36:39 AM »

Time to say good night.
Haines His Way keeps me up late.
I must wake refreshed.

This is me sleeping:

I am wearing a sleep mask,
Undisturbed by light!

bk · « **Reply #24 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:38:26 AM »

Oh, and I watched the two little documentaries on the Night at the Opera and Day at the Races DVDs. Terrible. Whoever is allowing the people who make these to make these should be flogged like Judge Turpin. Nothing but talking heads, no thought, lots of repetition, and they use the strangest people, as well as overuse the already overused Robert Osborne. I mean, these docs can be really good, but Warners is getting too reliant on people who just slap these things together. I mean, they're PAYING for these, they might as well pay someone who's good at it.

bk · « **Reply #25 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:39:32 AM »

Nope, I guess Jay didn't want to post. I guess Jay didn't want to tell us about what he saw tonight. I guess Jay read and run. SHAME.

bk · « **Reply #26 on:** May 14, 2004, 12:43:45 AM »

And now it's time for old bk
To say goodnight and hit the hay
But I'll be back, you can be sure
For tomorrow is another day

Jrand74 · « **Reply #27 on:** May 14, 2004, 01:42:23 AM »

I saw POLLYANNA....and watched the girl on the right, and of course thought of Benjamin Kritzer!

In the DVD player: POLLYANNA, duh!

In the VCR: Kismet

In CD Player: State Fair Original Broadway Cast Album

That's all I can think of right now.
It's early morning - and how!
Sleep won't come, but that is fine.
On Game Show Network: What's My Line?!!

Tomovoz · « **Reply #28 on:** May 14, 2004, 02:20:33 AM »

Who says we live vicarious lives
I've been listening to MBarnum's 45s
Next will be Michael's "Indian tracks"
With the volume turned up to the Max.

********

This weekend my Cd player will be full
Of Eurovision songs - this year from Istanbul!

No DVD for me in store
Tonight it Eurovison;
On Sunday - more!

Songs often win if they mention peace
This year's tip is the song from Greece.

For results you'll have to surf the NET
Can we cope with another Abba yet?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #29 on:** May 14, 2004, 03:07:06 AM »

MichaelBarnum sent me mail.
I will receive it without fail.
The box I'll check
And know, by heck,
The subject will be male.

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