The most beautiful-sounding words...

[CharleyH]

Here's a thread that I just posted on the Author's Hangout. With poets being, by definition, so attuned to words, I would love your input:

The most beautiful-sounding words

 

[Angeline]

Well, you know me baby. I don't think any of the graphic sex words sound so good when you're writing them down--as opposed to when you're actually fucking when they sound sexy and delightful.

I think, in poetry, euphemisms sound much more interesting because they engage one's imagination without wapping you over the head.

To wit: a poem I wrote a few years ago that is full of images without a single graphic word, but the meaning is (I think) quite clear.

Fruition

Strawberry shine
sliced dewy fresh
by half-parted almandine,
so sweet and oozing
pearlescent drops of honey,
glistening, sliding down
glabrous melon.

Between his lips
one fragrant sprig
of mint to delicately
drop.

Knees part.
Dessert is served.

*************************


Yknow?

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Have inputted lol

 

[Tzara]

The most beautiful-sounding words

are in Italian, my dear.

 

[Angeline]

are in Italian, my dear.

I tend to agree with you, but do you think you could change your av soon? You look disconcertingly like my father-in-law-to-be in this one.

(And I'm pretty sure he has never had anything stronger than scotch.)

 

[Tzara]

I tend to agree with you, but do you think you could change your av soon? You look disconcertingly like my father-in-law-to-be in this one.

(And I'm pretty sure he has never had anything stronger than scotch.)

Oh, sorry. I didn't want UYS to think she'd chased me away from this AV. I may go back to Iron Man, since the movie is about to launch. Then again, I might be Dennis Quaid in that environmental catastrophe movie that I forget its title.

A 'cuz it is SNOWING. A LOT. Here in Seattle in like fucking APRIL! Geezus!

Perhaps it's truly that Ragnarök has come.



Hell. Where the fuck did I put my sword? I know it's here somewhere! How will I fight off the Frost Giants?!

 

[Angeline]

Oh, sorry. I didn't want UYS to think she'd chased me away from this AV. I may go back to Iron Man, since the movie is about to launch. Then again, I might be Dennis Quaid in that environmental catastrophe movie that I forget its title.

A 'cuz it is SNOWING. A LOT. Here in Seattle in like fucking APRIL! Geezus!

Perhaps it's truly that Ragnarök has come.



Hell. Where the fuck did I put my sword? I know it's here somewhere! How will I fight off the Frost Giants?!

Ah that is so much better. Now you just look, well mighty cute.

It's snowing there? It was in the 70s here today. Heeeheeeheee! Yes, that's maniacal glee that someone has worse weather than us for a change. Sorry. It'll be all yucky like here tomorrow, I'm sure.

 

[champagne1982]

Ah that is so much better. Now you just look, well mighty cute.

It's snowing there? It was in the 70s here today. Heeeheeeheee! Yes, that's maniacal glee that someone has worse weather than us for a change. Sorry. It'll be all yucky like here tomorrow, I'm sure.

I think living so close to Canada has caused your "Excessive Self-Blame" switch to flip on. Don't apologize for your glee at someone else's lousy weather. Here in Coool Poool we dance in the street whenever we have better weather than Ft McMurray, Grande Prairie, Edmonton, Hinton, Calgary, Lethbridge.... hell, if the bad weather ain't here, we're in frenzied ecstacy.

 

[champagne1982]

I blinked on over to Charley's thread and for the condensed version:

Don't waste your effort looking for a word to name what you see, instead, use as many words as it takes to describe it.
and that I like to fuck big cocks with my cunt

 

[Tzara]

Ah that is so much better. Now you just look, well mighty cute.

It's snowing there? It was in the 70s here today. Heeeheeeheee! Yes, that's maniacal glee that someone has worse weather than us for a change. Sorry. It'll be all yucky like here tomorrow, I'm sure.

I have an inch of snow in my yard. In motherfucking April, fer Gawd's sake! I have never seen that before. Never. And I am 55 years old and have lived here all my life, 'cept for that one unfortunate year southward. Yeah. 'Cept for that.

Is this global warming thing a myth? Global climate muck-up, though, yeah. I'm looking out my window at it.

Oh, by the way. Your av? This new one, with the really big glasses?

It's just, well, I have a thing for girls with glasses. It's kind of like Myopia! In which we all share!

Or something.

My best to the Mister. Tell him to write some more poems. We miss him.

 

[The_Fool]

I think someone is just a sound whore...

 

[unpredictablebijou]

It just gets so snarky so fast in the AH. I do lose patience with it...

But it's still a worthwhile discussion. I know I really struggle with terminology and get frustrated at the lack of choices sometimes.

I blinked on over to Charley's thread and for the condensed version:

Don't waste your effort looking for a word to name what you see, instead, use as many words as it takes to describe it.
and that I like to fuck big cocks with my cunt

god I love it when you talk dirty.

I think someone is just a sound whore...

who told you?

o wait. everyone.

bj

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Oh, sorry. I didn't want UYS to think she'd chased me away from this AV. I may go back to Iron Man, since the movie is about to launch. Then again, I might be Dennis Quaid in that environmental catastrophe movie that I forget its title.

A 'cuz it is SNOWING. A LOT. Here in Seattle in like fucking APRIL! Geezus!

Perhaps it's truly that Ragnarök has come.



Hell. Where the fuck did I put my sword? I know it's here somewhere! How will I fight off the Frost Giants?!

NOW what did I do? Whatever it was I didn't know I was doing it it's just you sounded hunky and oh well never mind ~~ sigh ~~

I blinked on over to Charley's thread and for the condensed version:

Don't waste your effort looking for a word to name what you see, instead, use as many words as it takes to describe it.
and that I like to fuck big cocks with my cunt

How big is big? I can't take ginormous!!

 

[champagne1982]

<snip>How big is big? I can't take ginormous!!

Well, not so big as I'd run away screaming but I do appreciate a little ache afterwards, the kind that makes you tighten your pelvic floor muscles and gets your nipples hard when you think about it.

Ooook, that's bordering on TMI. Especially since it's really really blizzarding right now and my darling hasn't got DSL or phone service. squirms antsily

 

[unpredictablebijou]

NOW what did I do? Whatever it was I didn't know I was doing it it's just you sounded hunky and oh well never mind ~~ sigh ~~


How big is big? I can't take ginormous!!

He is hunky. But you'd never get him to admit it.

Well, not so big as I'd run away screaming but I do appreciate a little ache afterwards, the kind that makes you tighten your pelvic floor muscles and gets your nipples hard when you think about it.

Ooook, that's bordering on TMI. Especially since it's really really blizzarding right now and my darling hasn't got DSL or phone service. squirms antsily

lawzy.... *fanning self*

bj

 

[bluerains]

to me

it all boils down to...how the etching claims its energy

 

[Blicero]

it all boils down to...how the etching claims its energy

Love this! Should be over on the Tristan Tzara surrealism thread.

 

[CharleyH]

I tend to agree with you.

Shame on you! The most poetic language is in fact, Portuguese.

 

[Angeline]

Shame on you! The most poetic language is in fact, Portuguese.

So your wife keeps telling me.

 

[CharleyH]

So your wife keeps telling me.

It's an historical fact! It's the only language that was being specifically used to write poetry before it was even officially a language!