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mark woolard Member
since 2001-01-02
Posts 143 |
(my heart feels the need to be light as well!) my brother and i were discussing what Vulcan poetry would be like. since Vulcans pride themselves on their abilities to supress emotion, would this affect their poetry? i imagine Spock (or for that matter, Tuvok) would find much of today's human poetry unnecessarily riddled with "illogical metaphors pretaining to love--an emotion that is highly illogical." so would their poetry be strictly a mathematical placement of words to paint pictures void of emotion, or would they simply be statements of logic? (Hardcore Trekkies--i ask you forgive me if there actually is a Vulcan poetry form somewhere in the cosmos) this is all i could come up with: Precipitation will vary with the density of clouds; and my heart remains silent despite the thunder. or, if that's not rigid enough: In the spring trees have leaves. In the winter they do not. anybody else? |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
I think Vulcan poetry would be PERFECT. A poem that fit the form it was written in...but there would be NO feeling!! (I read with my heart not with my head!) What is love but an emotion having none I cannot relate Logic surrenders to what is just covering Vulcan unemotional lust |
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MrsRabbit New Member
since 2000-12-24
Posts 2 |
Being a Vulcan means Nothingness. No emotion = no experience; surely? If a Vulcan had no emotion, I doubt s/he would even be bothered to write poetry. They would probably just meditate in a cave for years on-end, stretching a mere piece of bread out to last their tummies months, and such-like things. Even the mechanisms needed to process a mathematic equation requires emotion in humans, because they cannot be automated when it comes to the intellect. Although, I suppose they could practice and practice until this-something became completely fluent, but without emotion, why would they even bother trying to get to that stage? Most human past-time are rather emotionally-bound and quite illogical. Without the emotion I doubt people would be worrying about the squash-club tournament; they would more likely be flying over the world to help feed third-world kiddies, or something like that, doing the most "Logical" thing they can do with their time. |
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fractal007 Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958 |
Man! I thought people would think I was wierd for putting something up on the Alien films. Anyhow, I think Vulcan poetry would likely be something similar to the metaphysical poetry. Perhaps some form of under the surface satire of emotion. |
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Stephanos
since 2000-07-31
Posts 3618Statesboro, GA, USA |
Attempting to imagine what kind of poetry Vulcans might wright, I will attempt to go where no man has gone before... I launched a soaring mission into farthest bands of distant space, not looking for anomalies or planets of eccentric race that I could study from and learn, or rogue some high grade fuel to burn. I'm not the Kirk of "Enterprise", and neither am I Janeway lost. But what I seek, desired by me, I must obtain at any cost. I've heard galactic rumors from the milky way to quadrants far, whispered on the primal Earth whose grapevines reach the utmost star. "Those somber pointed eared ones, Yeah those smartsome rigid weird ones like that Spock dude on T.V. are quite adept at poetry." So ever since my blunt ears heard, I've been suspended like a bird that always seeks it's furry pray. "Real Vulcan Poetry?? NO WAY!" Yet in my quest I've come across too many frauds and cheats. Acrostics by the androids signed "Tuvak" on scan-lined sheets, Epics by Cardacians, And Klingon light verse styles, Haiku by the Borg, a dime a dozen through the miles. I do wonder if I'll ever find this mystic straight-laced rhyme for which I've journeyed countless parsecs splayed through space and time. But when I do, I hope I'll not be disappointed sore, sulkin', reading Vulcan poetry yet wanting more than that which sage faced "DATA" might appreciate supreme. And it would stand to logic seeing what was in my recent dream. . . I saw a warthog slumped inside my head. (Note how he slumbers.) For Neelix just can't hang with Vulcan rhymes composed with NUMBERS!!!! Oooooh Spock, your poetry doth ROCK!!!! 67484965 83467498767 34957348975934857 598577557 609686 43908758975 509584304968349068 409683469084-2 5098690568 3047489745973450 059 3-458430598345908 <-------(ENJAMBMENT) or (EARJAMbment?) (Not Logical!) 435-0834-509345-09 609860976345790 34059834690834690 3-468936-0834560-34560-93460-9346-09 34580346-08664985689 6985 369834560-4560-456084580-6 [This message has been edited by Stephanos (edited 01-27-2001).] |
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Gene Senior Member
since 2000-01-23
Posts 935Colorado, USA |
I wrote this a while back as part of an "Alien Love Trilogy" --three love poems from a Borg, Vulcan, and Klingon. If anyone is interested, you can find the complete trilogy here: /pip/Forum27/HTML/000151.html --Gene ------ A Vulcan Love Poem If I had it within me, to show emotion, My circulatory organ would be full of human-like feelings for you. For, I do appreciate you. Your mind is an incredible object to meld with. It is most illuminating and logical. I find your appearance extremely satisfying in a most cerebral way: Your ears; so perfectly acute, Your eyebrows; so uplifting, Your hair; each strand, so logically placed, And you spread your fingers with such accuracy and grace; Always an exact 46.1378mm between middle and ring-finger. I do need you in a most physical and intellectual way, And require your partnership. Therefore, if you will be my biological, necessary companion, Together, we shall live long and prosper. ____ [This message has been edited by u_gene (edited 01-28-2001).] |
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mark woolard Member
since 2001-01-02
Posts 143 |
hey everyone! these are great! Ms. Devine: so true. Mrs. Rabbit: excellent point! Frac.: weird is purely state of mind. Steph: followed you till the numerics took over. . .good god, man! u_gene: incredible! have you ever visited vulcan? this sounds like a field study of a courting ritual! (46.1738! HA!) thanks for responding! and before i leave: What did spock find in the executive bathroom of the Starship Enterprise? . . ."captain's log". . . |
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Brad Member Ascendant
since 1999-08-20
Posts 5705Jejudo, South Korea |
I didn't go and check but I'm pretty sure they do have poetry. I always thought that Vulcans were there to show the folly of pure logic as a way to view the world (and don't forget their mysticism)-- Spock sure smiles a lot. On the other hand, the first five movies show a kind of thematic arc if you will. One -- logic without feeling (Veeger) Two, Three, Four -- death and rebirth of Spock (the re-completion and synthesis of logic and feeling) Five -- feeling without logic (the quest for Eden and Kirk's "If you're God, why do you need a starship?" In the fifth movie, one of the first scenes involves a Klingon bird of prey shooting a Voyager spacecraft-- everything else falls into place after that. Okay, maybe I've watched these things one too many times.  Brad |
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Jamie Member Elite
since 2000-06-26
Posts 3168Blue Heaven |
I would think that Vulcan Poetry would be in the vein of something akin to haiku-- remember the soft melodies Spock used to play on that vulcan musical instrument. ( I am happy to say I don't recall what it's proper name was...lol) [This message has been edited by Prometheus (edited 01-31-2001).] |
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Irish Rose Member Patricius
since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263 |
Oh, this is priceless. Yes, Vulcan poetry. It IS illogical....but then so is falling in love!!!!! It could work!!! Kathleen |
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fractal007 Senior Member
since 2000-06-01
Posts 1958 |
Here's a little attempt at some Vulcan poetry... Small And Very Difficult To destroy, atoms Float within a primeval void. Slow And Simple Reactions Produce the stuff of Stars and planets and nebulae. Clouds Of Dust start To come near To eachother to Form Vulcan, that logical place. Life Starts To form On the world, First in the form of Simple single-celled life forms. Then Life Begins To move on Toward a higher Nature of conscious mind and thought. Our Great Biped Vulcan race Comes to be born, and Flounders in wars from emotions. But Then Our one Messiah Of the Kolinar Saves us from our final dimise. Hope you like the Fibbonacci series expressed in the number of syllibles found in each progressive line of each stanza, lol. |
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Gene Senior Member
since 2000-01-23
Posts 935Colorado, USA |
Mark, quote: LOL Don't know what the Vulcan word is, but in Klingon, I think the word for Men's Room is, lod pu' I think that pretty much says it, don't you? LOL Gene (formerly, u_gene) |
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