Poetry and Potpourri .... October 27-28, 2003

10-27-2003 | JustAmy, St.Louie1 and Mama_Bear

[JustAmy]

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The Poetry Branch has been in limbo since the prior hostess left FreeRepublic April 15th 2003. We've since learned that said hostess has lost her posting privilege. That being the case, and Jim Robinson having given his ok, I wanted to renew the thread.

FreeRepublic is blessed with many fine poets, and we look forward to seeing their poems posted on FR once again. There were many non-poet FReepers who visited the Poetry Branch for the camaraderie; we hope they will return.

I would like to invite everyone to visit and relax at Poetry and Potpourri. Hopefully you will renew old acquaintances for chatting, sharing jokes, telling stories, posting cartoons, etc. Everyone needs a place to escape from the everyday news, make Poetry and Potpourri that place.

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The Belvedere's Guardian Wolf ~
the always charming, lovable, huggable,
LouieWolf.

[JustAmy]

[JustAmy]

Have a wonderful vacation ..... we will expect pictures when you return. LOL

[MeekOneGOP]

Alrighty !! Enjoy your vacation !

[MeekOneGOP]

:O) While Carl is busy with refills, he sometimes daydreams too ...

[JustAmy]

Hey ..... if Carl is going to spend so much time in the donut shop, he should bring donuts for all of us. LOL

[JustAmy]

"Dover Beach"

The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits;--on the French coast, the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves suck back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.

Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the Ægean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furl'd.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.

Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.

By Matthew Arnold (1822-88).

Ken5050 suggested this poem; "Dover Beach" is said to have a Nostradamus like quality, in that some feel it foreshadows both WW I, WW II, and 9/11..and since the later is by 134 years..quite amazing.....

what are your thoughts?

[JustAmy]

Gifts For A Friend

Poetry, perfume and stars,
Music and lovely flowers,
These are the gifts my heart would send
To you today,
Because are my friend.

Poems with thougths profound,
Perfume from rarest flowers,
Stars that shall sing till time shall end,
I'd send today
Because you are my friend.

By Laressa Cox McBurney
Published in Always The Prairie in 1949
(Laressa was my great half-aunt)

[MeekOneGOP]

haha ! Why not ?? ...

Better hurry, tho. They seem to be going fast ! ...

[JustAmy]

Hey ..... who took mine? The filled one with with chocolate frosting!

[MeekOneGOP]

Hey ..... who took mine? The filled one with with chocolate frosting!

I think it was this little fella. How'd he get in here ?? ...

Here ya go ! Carl snuck another box. You get FIRST pick !! ...

[Pippin]

MINE! ALL MINE!!!

HEE! HEE! HEE!

[Calpernia]

Morning (err, afternoon) to Potpourri!

[JustAmy]

Sorry, Pip .... you get to choose after I grab the one in the center with chocolate frosting. Ahhhh .... delicious.

Thanks Meekie and Carl. Sure glad you kept that little guy out for a few minutes. Now, just need to keep Pippin out for a minute. LOL

[Calpernia]

Humor of the Day

Subject: Jesus


There were 3 good arguments that Jesus was Black:

1. He called everyone "brother"
2. He liked Gospel.
3. He couldn't get a fair trial.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Jewish:

1. He went into His Fathers business.
2. He lived at home until he was 33.
3. He was sure his Mother was a virgin and his mother was sure he was God.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Italian:

1. He talked with his hands.
2. He had wine with every meal.
3. He used olive oil.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was a Californian:

1. He never cut his hair.
2. He walked around barefoot all the time.
3. He started a new religion.

But then there were 3 equally good arguments that Jesus was Irish:

1. He never got married.
2. He was always telling stories.
3. He loved green pastures.

But the most compelling evidence of all, 3 proofs that Jesus was a woman:

1. He fed a crowd at a moment's notice when there was no food.
2. He kept trying to get a message across to a bunch of men who just didn't get it.
3. And even when he was dead, He had to get up because there was more work to do.

AMEN!

[JustAmy]

I wondererd where you were .... you been out rounding up those unicorns this morning?
Great to see you, Cal.

[Billie]

I've missed the last three or four days here and wanted to drop in and catch up with the latest offerings. This one by Elizabeth Barrett Browning is probably the most well-known and oft-repeated love poems of all time.

Thanks, Amy, for keeping this thread alive with beauty. It's a quiet little room where we can come and sit back and read good stuff or just say hello if nothing else.

[Alamo-Girl]

Jeepers, your great half-aunt was talented! Thank you!

[MeekOneGOP]

Amy already got hers, thank goodness ! :O)

[MeekOneGOP]

lol !

[Pippin]

I see you "monkeying" around again! :O)