your poetic history

[bluerains]

Florida has so much not written about ...just its beaches but it has so much grass roots such as the history of okeechobee...and Marjorie Rawlings and so much undiscovered ...what are your areas secrets~...share with me your beauty...I just returned from a concert from The Ashley gang...a history of itself..and so much of Florida not known...here is there bluegrass songs in short ...:The Creek is Marjorie Rawlings...share your local...

http://artists2.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/The_Ashley_Gang/

 

[bluerains]

uh!

I must eat humble pie and ask forgiveness ...as to the fact I was under the influence of the pub genie when I added this thread...ugh...to much fun under the sun in florida....it was a Martian I say....

 

[annaswirls]

I must eat humble pie and ask forgiveness ...as to the fact I was under the influence of the pub genie when I added this thread...ugh...to much fun under the sun in florida....it was a Martian I say....

why? It is a cool idea for a thread-- I just got in and am trying to think about beauty in Baltimore. eh hem. I might have to research the history....

where I come from, NE PA, my families musical history was the fiddle and banjo and piano and whatever percussion they could come up with. Everyone played music at night around the piano. I know they would throw together their own songs, I think that it for my poetic history.

Needlepoint. Lace. Christopher Schultz's Journals, Frakturr. Clockmakers.

 

[normal jean]

hey blue

I think its a wonderful idea for a thread. Youre right, Florida can be misunderstood, so I am here to plug the swamps...( I wonder if that could be done? yeah, they did it in Louisiana, rea d it in a smithsonian magazeine )

Theres a place called 6 Mile Cypress, outside Ft Meyers. It is just a tremendous example of beauty, leaves me in awe everytime I see it. The beaches are just okay...

and Pamama City has a state campground, Andrews, that you can walk out to a sand bar off the beach, about a half mile out and the water is only a few inchjs deep, its a good way to spend a day

And the glades, ohhh, I miss'em and the old spanish architecture In St Augustine

I wish I lived in Florida, thanks for making me think of some really good times.

 

[Du Lac]

I think this is a great idea for a thread. As expressed in another thread we cannot experinece "ALL THINGS" so we look for others to share in order to learn and widen our own experience. There is so much out there to drench ourselves within and so little time to do so...

I remember when I lived in Florida I was amazed driving down from Pensacola to Orlando at the large horse farms that lie within the center of the state. Also I remember the tiny little towns that looked as if they should belong in the Smoky Mountains.... Pensacola beach is stunning... I think back and my breath still is held when I envision Snow white sand melting into torquise blue waters...

A grasp of reality clashing with the impossible when watching the space shuttle zoom into the unknown from my front porch...

Alligators sunny themselves on the lake's edge as I looked down upon them from the shows 100 foot ladder at Cypress Gardens....

1000's of fools almost killing others on the hiways of Kissimmee trying to save 2 cents on the purchase of 5 t-shirts that they just have to bring home for those who are freezing up north....

The stunning reds and oranges that fade into the blue of the ocean off the Keys...

so many things... so little time...

My lastest desire lies in Utah... I have to go...it calls to me... maybe my new home.. I have been here way too long!

Wait till I write about Oregon!!! Now there is some God touched land...you know that life is worth living with one breath of that air and a slip of a glance of a glacier topped mountain...

write blue and all others share so we may learn.....
Du Lac~

 

[PatCarrington]

I must eat humble pie and ask forgiveness ...as to the fact I was under the influence of the pub genie when I added this thread...ugh...to much fun under the sun in florida....it was a Martian I say....

the girls are getting all nice and polite again, blue.

i smelled the pub genie right away.

 

[bluerains]

been there...

and Peace River is grand also...thanks for the feed...lots of history in the real Florida.
I used to think like all yankees ...that its was the beaches...and if you ask most ,,they don't explore the wetlands...
A great Book By Patrick Smith..."A Land Remembered" is a good historical novel ...I met him once at the Okeechobee Library..
and Cross Creek is another good read...
when time allows would love to hear grassroots history...even If I really started this thread after the concert and too much pale ale.. but, am honored you replied ,,if you notice I had much misspelled work on the beginning...ugh..thanks/blue

hey blue

I think its a wonderful idea for a thread. Youre right, Florida can be misunderstood, so I am here to plug the swamps...( I wonder if that could be done? yeah, they did it in Louisiana, rea d it in a smithsonian magazeine )

Theres a place called 6 Mile Cypress, outside Ft Meyers. It is just a tremendous example of beauty, leaves me in awe everytime I see it. The beaches are just okay...

and Pamama City has a state campground, Andrews, that you can walk out to a sand bar off the beach, about a half mile out and the water is only a few inchjs deep, its a good way to spend a day

And the glades, ohhh, I miss'em and the old spanish architecture In St Augustine

I wish I lived in Florida, thanks for making me think of some really good times.

 

[Maria2394]

and Peace River is grand also...thanks for the feed...lots of history in the real Florida.
I used to think like all yankees ...that its was the beaches...and if you ask most ,,they don't explore the wetlands...
A great Book By Patrick Smith..."A Land Remembered" is a good historical novel ...I met him once at the Okeechobee Library..
and Cross Creek is another good read...
when time allows would love to hear grassroots history...even If I really started this thread after the concert and too much pale ale.. but, am honored you replied ,,if you notice I had much misspelled work on the beginning...ugh..thanks/blue

is pale ale the pub genie? Im kinda slow at things like that

Dont you see how many wods normal jean misspelled? her ciatica was just killing her and she was doed on oxy's

anyway, du lac reminded me of when I left home when i was 16. went to a town, well, ended up there, called Ovieda. Not too far down Hwy 50 was a place caleld Horse world. I cleaned stables for 50$ a day and I also got lunch and could ride for an hour. It was great. One of my fondest memories.

again, reminiscing about places is good inspiration, nice thread. i will post some more on it later when the sun aint shining, pulling me out to the garden

maria

 

[bluerains]

well!!

the girls are getting all nice and polite again, blue.

i smelled the pub genie right away.

some girls just have to kick that halo to the curb and tiptoe thru the barley...hee hee..

blue

 

[Rybka]

. . .
Wait till I write about Oregon!!! Now there is some God touched land...you know that life is worth living with one breath of that air and a slip of a glance of a glacier topped mountain...
Du Lac~

What is it about Oregon? Almost all my family and my childhood friends have relocated from New England to Oregon. What is so enticing about it? I would love to read some poetry about the state.

 

[bluerains]

yep !!

is pale ale the pub genie? Im kinda slow at things like that

Dont you see how many wods normal jean misspelled? her ciatica was just killing her and she was doed on oxy's

anyway, du lac reminded me of when I left home when i was 16. went to a town, well, ended up there, called Ovieda. Not too far down Hwy 50 was a place caleld Horse world. I cleaned stables for 50$ a day and I also got lunch and could ride for an hour. It was great. One of my fondest memories.

again, reminiscing about places is good inspiration, nice thread. i will post some more on it later when the sun aint shining, pulling me out to the garden

maria

the pub genie is the little imp that kicks off my halo and say's drink up...your not gettin any younger...ugh..

 

[DeepAsleep]

The old market, here in Omaha, is pretty sweet. Six streets of disyilled midwestern calm, brick streets and small shops rubbing elbows with the very hoi of the polloi. It's nice. Central nebraska is flat and quiet, corn and beans and alfalfa as far as the eye can see. You can walk across the rivers, the plattes (north and south) and the Loup (my favorite river). Everything is so green and farmlike, here. It's neat, sometimes.

I still want to move. But I'm a city boy.

~D.A.

 

[Du Lac]

The old market, here in Omaha, is pretty sweet. Six streets of disyilled midwestern calm, brick streets and small shops rubbing elbows with the very hoi of the polloi. It's nice. Central nebraska is flat and quiet, corn and beans and alfalfa as far as the eye can see. You can walk across the rivers, the plattes (north and south) and the Loup (my favorite river). Everything is so green and farmlike, here. It's neat, sometimes.

I still want to move. But I'm a city boy.

~D.A.

DA
good to see you back... been missing your writes..
Du Lac~

 

[Du Lac]

What is it about Oregon? Almost all my family and my childhood friends have relocated from New England to Oregon. What is so enticing about it? I would love to read some poetry about the state.

Rybka..
I can not explain it.. but there is something celestial about Oregon. First the people are the friendliest people I have ever met. I go to the Bend area which is just at the edge of the High desert. It is 90 something in the day... and 40 at night. In August (when I usually go..) my best friends and I sit back and watch the shooting stars fly through the air passing at least one a minute.

There is something about a hot summer day and riding down an ancient glacier ice top on your ass.... does not make sense but is so much fun!!!!

The pinks, blues, reds and oranges are the most vivid colors I have ever seen in a sunset. Bouncing off of white topped mountains and vivid indigo skies ...

Sitting and watching... blue bird flocks, elks roam next to the BLM... ice cold glacier water running swiftly in the river as you canoe through age old Ponderosas....who have seen more in a wink of their life time than you will if you live to be 100.

Standing in the middle of an Obsidian flow... spiritual mineral that makes me feel at home. ... knowing that at one time this mineral held the value of gold in trading... touch the vivid blackness in the middle of a hot summer sun feel the burn of life torched forever in your young heart....

Eagles, flickers.. birds sing daily... I cry when I go ... I cry when I leave... it is Gods land... and I know there is so much more in this universe than me...

That is a small part of my Oregon...
Du Lac~

 

[bluerains]

Ok!

Here is one of my Lucy tales...
Finding myself in a crossroad of changes ..The great ones decided I needed to move from my great life on the beach over looking the ocean for 8 years...I was sent to Okeechobee lake....on one of those little canals...to say the least I was taken in with the beauty of the spainish moss and giant oaks...birds galore..peacocks as well...blue herons nesting in the trees ..even a couple of otters on my porch..I made friends with a great egret and named her Irish because she like to get on my swing and listen to enya...then one day a couple of friend I had met ..baked a birthday cake for me
and placed this chocolate cake on the picnic table and came knocking on my door..
to our surprise..Irish was perched up on the table pecking away at my cake..
flailing it into the wind...it was the best present I ever had...we laughed and laughed...I'll save the duck story for next time...wyhl/blue

 

[The Poets]

bumping

 

[Angeline]

April in Trenton

Sadly, New Jersey
has neither romance
nor mystery

No one sings April in Trenton,
for example,
or contemplates a visit
to the castle

because there isn't any.
There's White Castle,
but no tours
and smaller bathrooms.

On the other hand.
unlike Prague,
no websites for tourists
that say

The Flood is over!
Postpone your trip no longer!

(because you
weren't planning one)

And don't tell,
but George Washington
could have crossed
the Delaware in hip boots
Eight steps max.

Still the pizza is great.
And in winter,
sometimes snow.


Alternatively, you can read my poem Boardwalk Life at Thieves Jargon, which further explores my Garden State adventures.

 

[bluerains]

hum...

April in Trenton

Sadly, New Jersey
has neither romance
nor mystery

No one sings April in Trenton,
for example,
or contemplates a visit
to the castle

because there isn't any.
There's White Castle,
but no tours
and smaller bathrooms.

On the other hand.
unlike Prague,
no websites for tourists
that say

The Flood is over!
Postpone your trip no longer!

(because you
weren't planning one)

And don't tell,
but George Washington
could have crossed
the Delaware in hip boots
Eight steps max.

Still the pizza is great.
And in winter,
sometimes snow.


Alternatively, you can read my poem Boardwalk Life at Thieves Jargon, which further explores my Garden State adventures.

a lot of pilgrims and snow birds in florida hail from jersey...it can't all be about the weather...your pen brings across the hub of the mundane...I have never been to jersey ..there must be something hiding in the bushes....oops I mean concrete...blue

 

[bluerains]

just

a lot of pilgrims and snow birds in florida hail from jersey...it can't all be about the weather...your pen brings across the hub of the mundane...I have never been to jersey ..there must be something hiding in the bushes....oops I mean concrete...blue

was watching the news and a whale is in trenton..people are lining the bridge to see..thats cool...blue

 

[Angeline]

was watching the news and a whale is in trenton..people are lining the bridge to see..thats cool...blue

I know that bridge! I wrote a poem about it!

Is it this one?

 

[bluerains]

I know that bridge! I wrote a poem about it!

Is it this one?

Dixie

reminds me of an old saying...when one is half way in darkness he is always halfway out..nice visions

 

[bluerains]

I like this poem about dixie

Hot days and dead air in the summer
Below the Mason Dixion line
Uncovered sweaty limbs intwine
Overhead fans turn hypnotic
Gin and sin behind closed doors
Down in the bible belt.
Coloured lights festoon the humid nights
Sirens wailing, lovers sighing
Dogs barking, babies non-stop crying
Lewd and nude dancing, Showtime
Boasting Johns and laughing Whores
Down in the bible belt.
The Stars and Bars hang loosely down
From their staffs around the town
Dripping down blood and tears
Upon the gravestones of passing years
Way down in the deep South
Down in the bible belt.
by Freeman Lewis Newhall

 

[bluerains]

beach bums

the eighties...
happy hour
conchy joes
reggae rhythm
two for one
fritters and draft
everyone from
somewhere else
looking for
action
long lines
at dusk
on the causeway
going nowhere
bikers ride
the moon
keeping watch
on freedoms honor
as red bandanas
search for
the closest
cabana

 

[Angeline]

Dixie

reminds me of an old saying...when one is half way in darkness he is always halfway out..nice visions

Thank you. I forgot there's also a Trenton in Mississippi, right? I was wondering how that whale got up the Delaware.

 

[bluerains]

article

Thank you. I forgot there's also a Trenton in Mississippi, right? I was wondering how that whale got up the Delaware.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/04/13/nj.whale.ap/