Poetry and Potpourri ..... September 26, 2003

9-26-2003 | JustAmy; Mama_Bear; St.Louie1

[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.

[Darksheare]

Well, yes, that is true.
I've had people say to me that I give off the impression of being far older than I am while at the same time seeming to be perpetually young.
(In person, I also tend to find a corner, post myself there, and observe the room. Usually an out of the way corner that no-one sees when entering the room. I also come across as shy, or hyperactive depending on how nervous I am. I am much more 'gallant[?]' in cyberspace. As they say 'no worries here!')

But I will admit to being rather dense.
Subtlety doesn't translate well for me.
*chuckle*

[Darksheare]

I cannot cook worth beans.
I always find some way of making a cinderblock.

[Pippin]

LOL!

[Pippin]

Oh, LOUIE!

Where are you?

I'm almost off from work and I haven't seem my WOLFIE today!

Hope you have a nice weekend!

[Mama_Bear]

I'm just having a grilled cheese sandwich.

I will join you. That lamb hot pot thingy sounds just awful! All the things I hate....lamb, kidneys, mushrooms and lard. And I'm sure it improved it immensely by omitting the oysters. The onion is the only thing edible in it. LOL.

[dansangel]

You weren't here eons ago. :)

Ah, but some days my body tells me otherwise - LOL!

[MistyCA]

I think that is what they mean when they say...stop and smell the roses.

That reminds me of something. When my last daughter was born I had a blood infection that settled in my heart valve, grew, broke off into my bloodstream and eventually (a couple of months later) caused a massive stroke. I was in the hospital for 2 months trying to survive, overcome the infection with medications, and regain the sensation I had lost in my entire left side.

After I got out of the hospital I was walking down the street and a man stopped me and asked, "Why are you so cheery? Your smile is so contagious I want to smile with you!" I was surprised because I wasn't aware that it was so noticeable. I remember seeing old people and smiling. I would see flowers and smile. I would see young children and smile. I would see a little bug struggling to get over a large mound, and smile. Everything made me smile and it still does! I even find myself always putting the little :) on my posts because I am smiling or want to convey a positive context.

I think our life experience is (duh) only limited by our actual experiences. Confronting issues of mortality, either yours or someone else's, often gives a new and better perspective that others will never understand until they have been there. Mortality, pain, injury, attack, war, whatever. Those experiences give us something that many others have never had and will not understand.

I feel truly sorry for people who try to avoid unpleasantness in life because I really believe that you can not see the peaks of the mountains without traveling through the deepest valleys below. Can't experience all the good without some bad. And some people are simply devoid of that.

[MistyCA]

Yes, I was also very shy for a long time. I am not anymore. Life is too short. :)

[MistyCA]

LOL! Mine too!

[Countyline]

Glad to see the return of a poetry thread.

Perhaps, if you really want poetry in some form, from beginners to masters, it might work better if all the potpourri is on a thread of its own. In looking quickly through the threads so far ... the poetry is slim and almost lost amid all the jokes, recipes, general banter, images, etc.

How it works for some is a poem inspires ideas for another poet to write one. Makes for interesting ideas. Too much stuff in between loses the poetry. Of course comments are important and getting to know others is a good part of it too.

For what it is worth ... your use of three or more screen names is confusing and I'm thinking, what is the point of all the names? Your right of course. Only how do you feel when you meet someone and turn around and they give you another name? then another? After a couple of times it simply is not worth trying to keep straight.

What ever floats your boat. Only it will interfer with the success of a poetry thread.

Thanks for the ping. Gotta leave now, I'll be back to write a poem or two.

[Darksheare]

I've always had a shy disposition for the large part.
(Part of the reason I didn't date much.)

I had people ask me why it didn't bother me when I had someone try to run me down with a car, shoot at me, wiped out on a bike bad enough I should be flatlined, or joined the military.
My answer was always: I can deal with my own mortality fine.
It's the mortality those close to me I have a hard time dealing with it.
Like my friends younger than I dying through accident or suicide.
The thinking runs that I being the oldest of that group should naturally live to an old age and go before they do.
Not how it turned out, though.

I remember being stuck in a situation where I should by rights have taken a dirt nap myself, and instead lived through it to see the next sunrise.
My friends who saw it, and others like it, cracked wise about me being 'immortal'.
I told them with a sense of foreboding NOT to say such things.

One question I was asked that I have no answer for was: WHY am I comfortable with my own mortality.
I could mention belief in God, but does that really answer it fully?
Does belief in something better actually answer the question?
Probably not, but it is a good question.
*chuckle*
Maybe I'm comfortable with it because the friends I've had meant alot to me and I know that I mattered to them?
That this life is about being important to someone and making a difference in other's lives for the better?
That I have had people say that knowing me has been an overall positive point in their lives?
*shrugs*

I'm not a philosopher by nature, I just draw and speak of life as my eyes and ears perceive it.
Maybe that's the point of things?
Cripes I'm a long winded Drek!

[MistyCA]

Excuse me....what does that mean, three or more screen names? Just curious because I object to anyone who does that and would like to be enlightened. I believe your statement might be misplaced.

[larryjohnson]

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[MistyCA]

I remember going into a store with my sister once. The clerk was rude and miserably slow to tend to the people waiting so my sister, in her normal fashion, layed into him with a barrage of well-deserved criticism. I, however, shrunk into the display rack embarrassed enough to just die! I would never intentionally draw attention to myself, and even though those around her cheered, it blew me away that she could be so.....so.....ballsy! LOL!

Well, time has shown me that if you do not stand up and say what you believe to be true and right, no one else will do it for you. Not that I expected anyone else to do it, but I would have allowed people to walk over me and wait for them to pass before I got up and dusted off! That is not even a remote option anymore! LOL! Thankfully so! :)

[MistyCA]

Hi, Larry! Good to see you!

[JustAmy]

Thanks for you comments.

Please do return and share your poems.

[JustAmy]

Nice to see you at Poetry and Poetry again, Larry.
Looking forward to hearing from you again, again and again.

[MistyCA]

Perhaps the format is not what you are used to, but it certainly works well for those who like to frequent this thread. I hope you will join in with your poetry. And I hope you will see that it is often the banter back and forth that serves to inspire those of us who write. It is very often the images that are inspirational or serve to highlight the poems written by others.

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You've come to post an accusation
For which you offer no proof
Perhaps it's meant to cause sensation
Although it was aloof

It seems you may have just meant to disrupt
A place that was doing just fine
Your comments were a bit abrupt
I hate it when people whine

And now you've become my inspiration
I need to thank you my friend
I would otherwise have no inclination
To write this or preview and send

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Looking forward to your submissions. :)

[Jen]

For what it is worth ... your use of three or more screen names is confusing and I'm thinking, what is the point of all the names? Your right of course. Only how do you feel when you meet someone and turn around and they give you another name? then another? After a couple of times it simply is not worth trying to keep straight.

Huh? I think you posted to the wrong person.

[Sabertooth]

Am I aging like wine
Or Limburger cheese?

Oh no... another birthday?