Upon reading poetry inside the BUSI college

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wayoutwalt
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since 1999-06-22

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0 posted 2003-01-14 03:31 PM

Upon reading poetry
inside the BUSI college
maybe it's even banned
inside these bulging halls
of legal tender hearts.

Still the effect
on the passing pitchmen
the tough profs
like most everything
is priceless
(what paradoxical allusion is this?)
priceless
priceless

I think it’s the music
headphones wrapped around the cerebellum
MP3’s all of them
Fake

I mustn't be terribly serious
not mesmerizing the meanings
intense with the eyes
window shopping words
never going in to buy
Hell, the poet doesn’t even try

He must be one of us
reading required faire
That’s what we’ll tag him
For kicks even stamp him
"This End Up"
upside down

I wish the English college
had a football team
We would lose every game
but not for straight ties
and too many greenbacks on the field

I’ll take some

Defeat we would live for
and wash up on distant shores
Where they call it fútbol
and they play the game
without their hands

This is the end
I’m just waiting on a friend

[This message has been edited by wayoutwalt (01-14-2003 04:07 PM).]

Cpat Hair

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since 2001-06-05

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1 posted 2003-01-14 04:00 PM

walt..it is always a think fest for me when you show up..I have to think about every line and try to squeeze out what you intended..( chuckling)

but I do enjoy bud... I do enjoy

Midnitesun

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2 posted 2003-01-14 04:08 PM

Are you in a busy-ness school program?
LOL at the MP3 reference, and the 'legal tender hearts.'
What does a poet read there?

enchantingvamp
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3 posted 2003-01-14 06:28 PM

I've never read any of your work before but I have to go with Hair on this....I've read it 3 times and I'm still drawing ideas and meanings out of it....fabulous, I'm lovin' it.

smiles

Nature has a funny way of breaking that which will not bend....Jewell

Bill Charles
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highways, & byways, for now

4 posted 2003-01-14 10:22 PM

wayoutwalt- stirring write wayoutwalt...

BC

Seymour Tabin
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5 posted 2003-01-14 10:37 PM

wayoutwalt
An interesting write, enjoyed.

passing shadows
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6 posted 2003-01-15 03:16 AM

I enjoyed reading this one....very cool

Kethry
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7 posted 2003-01-15 07:39 AM

Walt,
that's giving them the business.

Kethry

Here in the midst of my lonely abyss, a single joy I find...your presence in my mind. Unknown

winston
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8 posted 2003-01-15 08:04 AM

What does MP3 stand for? I hope you don't mind me asking. Thanks.

"am a tourist not a terrorist, don't shoot, cause we are all on a journey to God" Michak

serenity blaze
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9 posted 2003-01-15 08:43 AM

hey stranger. In a strange land these days?
oh-but-I-KNOW...

there is an undercurrent of "lonely" here I understand all too well.

Nan

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10 posted 2003-01-15 09:42 AM

...Walty!!... Get back on that bus and write some more good stuff...

BluesSerenade
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By the Seaside

11 posted 2003-01-16 01:45 AM

This is the end
I’m just waiting on a friend

Like everything is priceless!!

Damn you're good!!!

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

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Florida, USA

12 posted 2003-01-16 02:26 AM

Walt, I like the way you had me reading it so fast. I was trying to see what the next line was before I got there, for some reason....

I did enjoy reading it.

"Love makes the world go around"
~~with love and hugs from Ethel~~

vlraynes
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13 posted 2003-01-17 02:49 AM

Hey there, Walty
Good to see you posting again.
I enjoyed reading this one.
Nicely done.
~Vicky
"...until you have read the verse on his heart,
you have not truly met the poet.
~vlraynes

Poet deVine

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14 posted 2003-01-17 08:01 AM

You get better with age, like fine wine. This was a good sip o'Walt!

wayoutwalt
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TEXAS (it's all big)

15 posted 2003-01-17 09:21 AM

I haven't been able to say thank you to all of you because I messed up my password on here so don't think I am mean or nothin'. Love all y'all yuh yuh!

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