I love epigrams,
it seems to me that Hal's signatures are epigrams but I might be wrong
as it often happens, :-(
On 7/29/07, kasper salonen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> yeah not huge interest from me either; though several of these are
> amusing. 'kathemeripoesis' for instance (some people throw everything
> away no matter when they've written it). and 'puzzlement' should be a
> couplet in a poem, though it probably works the best on its own out of
> all these. the epigram seems a pretty lifeless form, like obvious
> poetry & aphorism mixed.
>
> KS
>
> On 29/07/07, Jon Corelis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > LIFE
> >
> > You start out young and strong and bold
> > and end up doing as you're told.
> >
> >
> > PUZZLEMENT
> >
> > I sometimes cannot help but wonder
> > why God doesn't speak in thunder.
> >
> >
> > CATULLUS: ODI ET AMO [FROM THE LATIN]
> >
> > I hate and love: it may seem strange to you,
> > but I am crucified between the two.
> >
> >
> > ANNALES VOLUSI [AFTER CATULLUS]
> >
> > The Volusian "Saga of Rome"
> > has a place in every home,
> > since "The Saga of Rome" by Volusius
> > makes a wonderful wipe for your tooshius.
> >
> >
> > CREDO [FROM THE GREEK OF CALLIMACHUS]
> >
> > I hate political poems. Not for me,
> > the human wad that clogs the great high way.
> > A love that's everyone's business? Forget it. A drink
> > from the common trough? No, thanks. The public: yuck.
> >
> > CALLIMACHUS: HERACLEITUS
> >
> > The news you were gone, Heracleitus, brought me to tears:
> > I remembered how many twilights we'd worn out together,
> > talking the sun to his rest. And now, I suppose,
> > you are nothing but dust, old friend, in your home far away.
> > But your nightingales are singing, too quick for the touch
> > even of death who robs us of everything.
> >
> >
> > THE MARQUIS DE SADE
> >
> > The Marquis de Sade
> > was decidedly odd.
> > He provides some diversion
> > if you share his perversion.
> > Else better let be
> > that appalling Marquis.
> >
> >
> > KATHEMERIPOIESIS
> >
> > It's fine to write a poem a day,
> > provided you throw them all away.
> >
> >
> > ARCHILOCHUS: THE SHIELD [FROM THE GREEK]
> >
> > Some Thracian soldier's got my shield;
> > I tossed it when I ran away.
> > So fuck the shield. I'll get one new
> > and fight again another day.
> >
> >
> > ANOTHER VERSION:
> >
> > I jettisoned my gear
> > when I ran from the recent strife,
> > so I'm out the price of a shield:
> > not much to pay for your life.
> >
> >
> > ON THE DEATH OF AN ENEMY
> >
> > Unjust, that this will happen to me too,
> > who am so much a better man than you.
> >
> >
> > THE CONSTRUCTION OF SEXUALITY IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY
> >
> > An ancient Roman bard, or vates,
> > highly praised his puer's nates.
> > But since this poet was the doer,
> > he counts as straight, unlike the puer.
> >
> >
> > A MEDITATION
> >
> > I'm going to die.
> > God knows why.
> >
> >
> > SIMONIDES: EPITAPH FOR THE SPARTANS AT THERMOPYLAE [FROM THE GREEK]
> >
> > Stranger, report to the Spartans
> > we lie here, mission accomplished.
> >
> >
> > NONBEING [FROM THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY]
> >
> > Kiss my ass, world, after I'm dead and gone.
> > No reason I should care what's going on.
> >
> >
> > --
> > ===================================
> >
> > Jon Corelis www.geocities.com/jgcorelis/
> >
> > ===================================
> >
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