poetry

[zin]

Hey Glimmer, what happened to the pouring out poem? I saw it and thought about something from CS Lewis we had spoken before... I will put a part of the Waterfall chapter of his book the Great Divorce : )
 

Before me green slopes made a wide amphitheatre, enclosing a frothy and pulsating lake into which, over many-coloured rocks, a waterfall was pouring. Here once again I realised that something had happened to my senses so that they were now receiving impressions which would normally exceed their capacity. On earth, such a waterfall could not have been perceived at all as a whole; it was too big. Its sound would have been a terror in the woods for twenty miles. Here, after the first shock, my sensibility 'took' both, as a well-built ship takes a huge wave. I exulted. The noise, though gigantic, was like giant's laughter: like the revelry of a whole college of giants together laughing, dancing, singing, roaring at their high works.

Near the place where the fall plunged into the lake there grew a tree. Wet with the spray, half-veiled in foam-bows, flashing with the bright, innumerable birds that flew among its branches, it rose in many shapes of billowy foliage, huge as a fen-land cloud. From every point apples of gold gleamed through the leaves.

(*note: then a ghost takes one of the apples but it is too heavy for it, it starts to carry it with difficulty)

"Fool. Put it down," said a great voice suddenly. It was quite unlike any other voice I had heard so far. It was a thunderous yet liquid voice. With an appalling certainty I knew that the waterfall itself was speaking: and I saw now (though it did not cease to look like a waterfall) that it was also a bright angel who stood, like one crucified, against the rocks and poured himself perpetually down towards the forest with loud joy.

"Fool," he said, "put it down. You cannot take it back. There is not room for it in Hell. Stay here and learn to eat such apples. The very leaves and the blades of grass in the wood will delight to teach you."

[glimmer]

HHey Zin, poetry should flow like the waterfall, and the heart. That one just didn't flow as it should have. Mr Lewis .. ah yes, indeed.

[zin]

Apr 1, 2016 1:37:24 GMT -5 glimmer said:

HHey Zin, poetry should flow like the waterfall, and the heart. That one just didn't flow as it should have. Mr Lewis .. ah yes, indeed.

I had liked it, but OK! Please write another one including an 'edge', if possible... It was near the end (in the former one) but I forgot now.

[zin]

the edge of my mind
a zigzag line
compatible with nothing

no 'seamless flow'
no boundlessness
a borrowed I
& a borrowed eye

can catch poems
can invent them, too
that's not too bad!

[charliegee]

hey, saw a CS Lewis adaptation of the Screwtape Letters .. it was a fine production ..

[zin]

Apr 12, 2016 14:40:28 GMT -5 charliegee said:

hey, saw a CS Lewis adaptation of the Screwtape Letters .. it was a fine production ..

I had started to read the letters but didn't continue... just now looked at quotes from them and got interested again. They give me the impression that the 'demons' can put ideas into people's minds (to serve "Our Father Below" ( )) and also can prevent useful ones from coming into minds... and that can make wonderful fun. One quote:

"When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours."

[laughter]

Where are they flying off to?
Soaring into a sky on fire ..
They're heading out into the darkest and richest of blue, with only an expanse of the deep below them
At home now in the unknown, there is no charting their course
Those few clouds, off in the distance, bear a silent witness to their freedom
Refrain from melancholy at a departure of what blew in on the bay breeze
They had circled the city regarding the spires and people below
A hum as if from the network of wires snaking through the streets lent turbulence to their flight
As they pass on into the great wild ocean wind
It only seems the going that matches the past arrival
Like book ends on an empty shelf

[dason02]

we're un~numb and heartpounding and full of remixes.
we can forever get oshoe opus ourself straight ~ we can toss better thought puffous.
proud acme to choose what's strong ~ all else does take off from there

[dason02]

we be gorilla pressing on,
then complicated is the only onpois real restrictioned.
we beat them complicated shutes
and so we feel it inside we won what be aught to.

[charliegee]

spare change

I need to get low
cut down, halved
filleted, trimmed
you get the picture

sometimes I get too tall
too opinionated
so sure of myself
negating all others

so wrapped up in
my own ideation that
I think I'm thriving
within systems

truth is, its without
do we question
thought at all?
separate identity?

or free will for that matter
hell, we've been wrong
on lots of things
why not these?

don't think the hi-tech preachers
or the sciences can make it clearer
sometimes the ancient knowledge is best
not to be exclusive

as a light to current things
besides who has questioned
when faced with a baby's smile?
getting wet in a sun shower?

truth be told there are mysteries
in the simplest of acts
in the mastery of words
the shimmer of silence

maybe I don't need to get low
maybe I'm okay at this size
'sides if I were to be halved
you'd have to lend me two quarters

charlie giardino 5/2/16

[dason02]

it's not that bad,
was open to all-view.
it's not that bad,
was happier.
it's not that bad,
was the everyday and everyday people.
it's not that bad,
was fresh than my average.

hug.

[dason02]

stuff's not easy'd - we're strong -
--
we're strong cause stuff's not easy.
--
we're on be how come we can,
--
we're off be how come it be mighty of us to exist.
--
back back forth forth ..

[laughter]

May 2, 2016 13:35:35 GMT -5 charliegee said:

spare change

I need to get low
cut down, halved
filleted, trimmed
you get the picture

sometimes I get too tall
too opinionated
so sure of myself
negating all others

wrapped up in
my own ideation that
I think I'm thriving
within systems

truth is, its without
do we question
thought at all?
separate identity?

or free will for that matter
hell, we've been wrong
on lots of things
why not these?

don't think the hi-tech preachers
or the sciences can make it clearer
sometimes the ancient knowledge is best
not to be exclusive

as a light to current things
besides who has questioned
when faced with a baby's smile?
getting wet in a sun shower?

truth be told there are mysteries
in the simplest of acts
in the mastery of words
the shimmer of silence

maybe I don't need to get low
maybe I'm okay at this size
'sides if I were to be halved
you'd have to lend me two quarters

charlie giardino 5/2/16

nice one Chazz.

[dason02]

we're shield cause for all there's answer
--
and for all correct answers in one
--
there be cuddles on your inside's true.
--
we're happy that this be
--
living's flat up that we be still
--
good just cause we might even think
--
clear news will make us through.
--
we can boy act rough and back up or soft and floats
--
at anything and it be
--
good as fixing us up and cause we got empowering believe,
--
and just empowering believe will set us above free. --

i follow.

[dason02]

challenges box out - does keep it that way,
--
does keep it that way - does keep it that way.
--
does keep it that way: keeping keep that way flopping up: