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b.costen
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since 2003-11-02
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ontario, CAN

0 posted 2003-12-23 03:06 PM


glass or stone
both so easily thrown
yet as one shatters
the other bounces and rolls
home to its garble garden
of rock and earth
of sand and harden
but neither have seen
more a matching clink
than the sound of a glass
placed softly to a stony rink
perhaps you haven’t read
but the story as it goes
has sometimes been said
to say that stone was to glass
well met, well suited, and
at a time her lover’s lass
but now sand parts rather fast
whenever a rock is flung
dust, having broken asunder
has stolen the rib and lung
from her grey granite other
later finding its home in a glass
who is well met by the ring
of a smooth merry tone
when reunited they sing
and glass kisses stone
then sand is left wondering
to why bother leave
and spend time alone
while the tail of the tale
ends as begins
i mean more or less
a stone is a stone

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I tried this out in the open poetry, people there seemed to like it (I know, hardly a good system of qualification), but I thought I'd try it out here too...

[This message has been edited by b.costen (12-23-2003 03:08 PM).]

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wintertao
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since 2003-11-17
Posts 366
Okaloosa Island, FL
1 posted 2003-12-24 05:00 PM


OK this is my opinion...I likes it.

I think a few of the lines could be cut and not lose anything.

Yejun
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since 2007-11-21
Posts 49

2 posted 2007-12-02 06:11 PM


This has a charming roll to it.

Bumb!

oceanvu2
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since 2007-02-24
Posts 1066
Santa Monica, California, USA
3 posted 2007-12-03 10:41 AM


Yejun:

A stone is a stone
Which can be overturned.
Nonsense makes non-sense
From unlearned and learned.
A word is a word
With multiple usage.
I'd paste on a smiley
But I don't have the mucilage.


Overturn: 6.  change radically; "E-mail revolutionized communication in academe" [syn: revolutionize).

The poem is grand,
The point is moot.
OK,
I'll stop being cute.

Jim

Except I can't resist:  "The rock must slide past the hog line and stay in the house to be counted as a point."  From the Rules of Curling.  Nothing to do with rock in poem above, but much to do with the use of words.




chopsticks
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since 2007-10-02
Posts 888
The US,
4 posted 2007-12-04 09:49 AM


There once was this dear lass from Korea.
She would bump anything she thought gala.
And bumped them she did.
At the blink of a lid.
Would we like it if she kept them sub rosa ?

[This message has been edited by chopsticks (12-05-2007 01:38 PM).]

Yejun
Junior Member
since 2007-11-21
Posts 49

5 posted 2007-12-04 07:47 PM


Two oldsters are teasing a trickster
Forgetting that he's just a Mr.
But rules must be heeded
So kiss my deleted
And don't say these things as a Pipster.


TomMark
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since 2007-07-27
Posts 2133
LA,CA
6 posted 2007-12-04 10:03 PM


why nobody commnets on grammar of this poem?


chopsticks
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since 2007-10-02
Posts 888
The US,
7 posted 2007-12-04 11:17 PM


“ why nobody commnets on grammar of this poem? “

Tom, we are having to much fun to worry about the grammar.

Yejun, you told this oldster off good, I think I just fouled my drawers.

TAXI


TomMark
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since 2007-07-27
Posts 2133
LA,CA
8 posted 2007-12-04 11:23 PM


Chops, are we asked to be serious on CA by Sir Brad?
Yejun
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since 2007-11-21
Posts 49

9 posted 2007-12-05 07:14 AM


If nothing is wrong with writing in verse,
These comments in view can't be the reverse.
Let us rejoice
Like a Pound or a Joyce,
Who sometimes wrote with no reason or purpose.

chopsticks
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since 2007-10-02
Posts 888
The US,
10 posted 2007-12-05 07:38 AM


Tom, this poet has already said that this is the style he prefers .

I do think we should follow Brad’s whishes, like the minor god he is , so B. Costen please

try to do a little better with your grammar and maybe a capital ever once and a while.

Would it cramp your style to use a period now and then.

TAXI,

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