warzones and poetry

[bflagsst]

too many personal details for 2014

 

[bflagsst]

I guess you can tell I was into the Odyssey

Seraph gilded looking stern guides,
upon Charybdis’ vorticity
deck-steady ‘round the cape
past urban heat-haze, dust-dome;

Advant to mealy-mouthed martinet
shibboleth lay bare, from
cucking-stool to shining deva,
trade winds blow;

Tibetan low, Siberian high
Afrit of Africa in disguise
bibliophagist and avatar,
of Aarde, of Erin, of sound Western locution;

Adharmic recrudesced raja--richness resound
resonating the yoke of the yogi, interrobang
Moksha, untoward question and answer contained,
headmost ineffable banality,
a cry of jobbery in the publick house!

Scylla seethes,
abandon the wreck to the sea,
all held more in for her to seize,
hope thee were the first freed,
ye children of Providence,
who toiled all those hours,
entertained by now lost melody...

 

[Angeline]

Love the stories
Love the poem
Want to read more
Glad you're home.

My dad was a medic in WW2, as you can see.

 

[Maria2394]

welcome to Lit

and I second Ange on the "love the stories."

I could read you all day long.

also, epmd left a comment on a poem of mine a long time back, and your story about the dictionaries explains that comment . Sometimes a little back ground is so very interesting.



~m

 

[Maria2394]

Love the stories
Love the poem
Want to read more
Glad you're home.

My dad was a medic in WW2, as you can see.

Sis!! which one is your Dad? They are all gorgeous, lol.

you know me.....

ps, you might want to delete my non topic post, I wasn't thinking, sorry.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

You should write down all your memoirs get them published, you write in a way that makes me (and I am sure other people) want to know more.

 

[bogusbrig]

Johnny's Song by Steve Mason (Vietnam) and Grave's Registry by Keith Wilson (Korea) are two great collections of poetry by serving soldiers in the mix, without resorting to WWI poetry.

 

[Maria2394]

did angeline tell you about PAW?

 

[Epmd607]

He's blowing our autobio money giving it up here like an Elmira Notre Dame cheerleader after homecoming...I'd be ecstatic if anyone knew the reference.

I tried to talk to the brits about their culture, Marlowe et al, they just laughed at me with mouthfuls of that rotten hummingbird-sweet chocolate.

Afghanistan is illiterate and has no literate culture, aside from the fact that Rumi was born there, it's a bore. There's people who love renaissance fairs and dragons and fantasy and wanna be knights and go back in time--all they have to do is go to afghanistan to experience the middle ages.

I wonder if Angeline's dad had to deal with his fellow medics selling morphine, codeine, and such under the table?

Anyway, I wish you wouldn't tell them our secret adventures...

 

[UnderYourSpell]

What's rotten hummingbird-sweet chocolate?

 

[Epmd607]

What's rotten hummingbird-sweet chocolate?

fry's something creme, various rowntree, and the hideous curly wurly are three that I recall gagging on. Imagine that, gagging on a curly wurly...

 

[UnderYourSpell]

fry's something creme, various rowntree, and the hideous curly wurly are three that I recall gagging on. Imagine that, gagging on a curly wurly...

Fry's chocolate creme is very sickly I admit and I don't go much for Curly wurly as it's toffee, but we have lot's more lovely chocolate ....... you should try it sometime!

 

[Angeline]

Sis!! which one is your Dad? They are all gorgeous, lol.

you know me.....

ps, you might want to delete my non topic post, I wasn't thinking, sorry.

He's the one with the long apron on. Yup he was a handsome guy . He was always very proud of the fact that he was a medic during the war.

 

[Angeline]

He's blowing our autobio money giving it up here like an Elmira Notre Dame cheerleader after homecoming...I'd be ecstatic if anyone knew the reference.

I tried to talk to the brits about their culture, Marlowe et al, they just laughed at me with mouthfuls of that rotten hummingbird-sweet chocolate.

Afghanistan is illiterate and has no literate culture, aside from the fact that Rumi was born there, it's a bore. There's people who love renaissance fairs and dragons and fantasy and wanna be knights and go back in time--all they have to do is go to afghanistan to experience the middle ages.

I wonder if Angeline's dad had to deal with his fellow medics selling morphine, codeine, and such under the table?

Anyway, I wish you wouldn't tell them our secret adventures...

Dunno how much of it he knew about. Probably plenty, but he wasn't into telling his daughter about it! He called users "hopheads" and made a few comments from time to time about chickenbone pipes.

 

[bflagsst]

Love the stories
Love the poem
Want to read more
Glad you're home.

My dad was a medic in WW2, as you can see.

Thanks. Did he ever make it to the medic's museum in san antonio? just down the street from the silly billy alamo. I've got some ww1 and 2 era medic's bags, I use them to roleplay at home with my little nurse.

Maria, I've an idea what poets against the war is, I think I've read a bunch of the poems--though I'm against the war, I don't think I've ever written a poem directly about it. My favorite war poems are everything Yeat's wrote during and after ww1. I actually protested in washington during the invasion of afghanistan. How I became a soldier after that is a different story.

Lastly, I'll be more discreet with st. stephen's stories. He's yet to perform his third miracle, so I'll hold off 'til it happens then cash in as his biographer.

 

[Epmd607]

quit stealing my internet and come over and watch Joseph campbell with me and Chrissybird...

 

[Angeline]

Thanks. Did he ever make it to the medic's museum in san antonio? just down the street from the silly billy alamo. I've got some ww1 and 2 era medic's bags, I use them to roleplay at home with my little nurse.

Maria, I've an idea what poets against the war is, I think I've read a bunch of the poems--though I'm against the war, I don't think I've ever written a poem directly about it. My favorite war poems are everything Yeat's wrote during and after ww1. I actually protested in washington during the invasion of afghanistan. How I became a soldier after that is a different story.

Lastly, I'll be more discreet with st. stephen's stories. He's yet to perform his third miracle, so I'll hold off 'til it happens then cash in as his biographer.

He never did though I'm sure he would have dug it. He was in the Normandy Invasion, the third wave which is probably why he lived to tell about it. I know that photo was taken in France though I don't know where. He had a whole bunch of photos taken during the war years, some quite horrific. Unfortunately, my mom tossed them all after he died because she said they upset her. I would have liked to write some poems to accompany them. That photo is one of the very few left from his Army days.