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Title: Poetry
Post by: libby on January 29, 2017, 11:40:24 PM
 I was born a dreamer. Still am. Always will be. It's a way to escape when the world gets too ugly. So, this evening I turned off the TV and thought about a way to get Trump out of my head.

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing
there is a field. I'll meet you there.

When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.

Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.   --Rumi

:)
Title: Re: Poetry
Post by: The Troll on February 04, 2017, 11:54:37 AM


  Would this be poetry?

  A woodpecker sitting on a school room door.

  He pecked and pecked until his pecker got sore!

  He flew away with his pecker limp and sore.

  I'll bet he won't peck on a school room door any more.

  :haha:  :tiphat:
Title: Re: Poetry
Post by: Locutus on February 04, 2017, 12:51:30 PM
Is that a personal creation Troll?  ;D
Title: Re: Poetry
Post by: libby on February 04, 2017, 07:42:25 PM
Quote from: The Troll on February 04, 2017, 11:54:37 AM

  Would this be poetry?

  A woodpecker sitting on a school room door.

  He pecked and pecked until his pecker got sore!

  He flew away with his pecker limp and sore.

  I'll bet he won't peck on a school room door any more.

  :haha:  :tiphat:
Sure.  :smile:

As for me, I don't sit around reading poetry all the time, but every now and then I read something that seems just right. And that poem by Rumi exactly expressed my feelings at the time. The remarkable thing, to me, was that Rumi was a 13th century Persian Sunni Muslim poet, jurist, Islamic scholar, theologian, and Sufi Mystic.
Title: Re: Poetry
Post by: AbbyTC on February 04, 2017, 10:21:49 PM
My favorite poem by Ogden Nash:

The cow is of the bovine ilk.
One end is moo,
The other milk.

:biggrin:
Title: Re: Poetry
Post by: libby on February 04, 2017, 10:37:38 PM
 :lol: