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serenity blaze
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0 posted 2003-10-09 12:44 PM


I used to talk to gods at night.
I listened for them in the day.
I have a list of things I heard
sublime in the surreal absurd
wish and smiles--"what did you say?"

Then
a rolling
on the drum
cymbal crash
to drive it home--
in the spotlight
all alone
I tell the gods
those
bad "god-jokes".

Gods are not amused by me
until I speak the serious.
I should learn to juggle
since
that's the thing that jesters must
do well--lest they die...

crash

"Anybody here from Hades?"

(a smatter of applause)

"I know, I know, it's Hell down there--
but hey?"

a shrug

"It's better than playing Peoria..."

[This message has been edited by serenity blaze (10-09-2003 12:46 AM).]

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Sunnyone
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1 posted 2003-10-09 12:49 PM


Oh yeah!!!  This really appealed to my sense of humor and I enjoyed every line here...excellent, and went especially well with my morning coffee!!!!  ~S~

Accept these small gifts from my gypsy heart  ~S~

serenity blaze
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2 posted 2003-10-09 01:58 PM


*chuckle*

I worry about you. You seem to share my sense of humor. And here I AM playing Peoria...grin. But what are YOU doing here?

thanks for reading, yer a doll!

Wind
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3 posted 2003-10-09 08:44 PM


I read this on the other site which I am now adicted to thanks a lot

seriously I can relate. and you have an awsome sense of humor ser


What about China? Have you seen the Great Wall?
All walls are great, if the roof doesn't fall.
-yorke/bjork

[This message has been edited by Wind (10-09-2003 08:45 PM).]

Enchantress
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4 posted 2003-10-09 08:58 PM


"a shrug

"It's better than playing Peoria..."

I was smiling all the way through this...
gee, I don't think I have played Peoria yet.

Good stuff!

Love ya lady!

Hugs~

~Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile~

Mistletoe Angel
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5 posted 2003-10-11 07:35 PM




(giggles) Well the Gods better be laughing....cuase if they don't... (giggles) This is wonderful humor, sweet friend, those gods must be crazy I suppose, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Karen, thank you for sharing!



May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sun set and I perceive

***Live***

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6 posted 2003-10-11 08:11 PM


     <---  bad jokes juggled save the jester every time!
Yuck, yuck!


[This message has been edited by Mysteria (10-11-2003 08:13 PM).]

Local Parasite
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7 posted 2003-10-11 09:16 PM


I don't talk to the Gods anymore, they got bored of me.  I like the humour in this poem, but I think it distracts a bit from what this work is undoubtedly a very deep and meaningful symbol of.  Whatever it might be.  You still confuse me with your poetry, mostly because you still claim to know nothing about meter.

Read this poem out loud and you'll realize you're an absolute meter whiz.  Congrats on the poem.  Talk to me sometime.  

Much love to you,
Brian

Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
~~~Emily Dickinson

Magnus
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8 posted 2003-10-11 09:22 PM


Karen,  I have come to the conclusion that
you are a little....mind you,  "little"
out of kilter......(trying not to say the
I word)  (Insane)....ooops....

Good poem.  Cute...Thanx!

Mag.

Nan
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9 posted 2003-10-12 08:54 AM


...God DOES have a sense of humor... Yep...

Sunshine
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10 posted 2003-10-12 09:03 AM



You had me snort into my coffee...
Peoria...

good grief girl...

welcome to our world...

Susan Caldwell
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11 posted 2003-10-12 09:03 AM


yanno....

I was reading the replies, thinking..funny yes..but I got another message as well...so I tend to agree with LP...

and meter??? what the heck is that??

Love ya Karen!

Susan

Janet Marie
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12 posted 2003-10-12 09:32 AM


she doesnt have to "know" meter...
she IS meter.

serenity blaze
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13 posted 2003-10-13 12:41 PM


oh my...yer all too good to me. But I HAD to come back and tell Mag thanks, with a little story: Just last week, my sister (who is known as "twisted" btw) obligingly gave me a ride to my orthopedic doc. In our haste, we didn't realize that we were on the wrong street, but spying the street address on a medical facility, we thought we had found the place. We parked the car, and attempted to enter the building, but the door was locked, and there was a sign saying, "All patients please use the entrance located in the rear." Huh? shrug. Okay.

So we go around back, and the door is locked there too. But there was a window, reinforced by wires, with a buzzer. (Huh? Shrug, Okay.) We rang the bell.

Then a very large man looked at us quizzically through the glass, and just at that moment we noticed the sign:

"Behavioral Sciences"

oh.

OH.

"Behavorial Sciences!"



and to think, that after all this time? They wouldn't even let us IN.

I looked at my sister and asked, "D'ya think we've finally managed to drive ourselves SANE?"

smile. Apparently if ya KNOW you are crazy, that makes ya sane...

Hugs, Mag. With love from the twisted sisters.

Local Parasite
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14 posted 2003-10-13 01:22 PM


Ouch... don't I know how that is.  Those behavioral scientists aren't the most friendly people in the world, are they?     Good thing you figured it out before you were in there getting treatment.  That could have gone very wrong.

Faith is a fine invention
When gentlemen can see
But microscopes are prudent
In an emergency.
~~~Emily Dickinson

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