eng
&
fin
I like this it is a snap!the mind reels- but who are eng
And fin some wild warriors 'of yore'or are these two new forms of poetry ???
Cheers unca P
dan
&
eng
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Kasper Salonen
Sent: 21 December 2010 00:22
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Subject: Re: Seasonal Greeting's from Frederick of Prussia
this is cheeky and joyfully inventive, and I love the private journal style!
one of the more memorable xmas poems I've read, tbh, I can envision the
garrison/camp in dirty snow and the white landscape, and Fred the G
sashaying around.
makes me want to finish a snowy poem I've been meaning to write, two
actually (eng & fin). haven't been snapping for so long, it doens't come as
easily anymore.
KS
On 20 December 2010 21:31, David Bircumshaw
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> *Frederick the Great's
> Christmas Preparation*
>
>
> *Advent Offensive*
>
> Obtain two large rubber boots (preferably same footed for inconvenience to
> the lower orders. See later.) Nota Bene: not Wellingtons. Procure one
quart
> of rough brandy, preferably from under a Spaniard's nose at breakfast, a
> magnum of any Grand Cru champagne, the more expensive the better, and two
> bottles of alleged cooking sherry from *Happy Saturdays* off-licence, 95
> Al-Fireis Road, Sneinton, Nottingham, near Sherwood Forest, England.
Admire
> the social disjunctions.
>
>
> *Sankt Stockade*
>
> Avoid agitated Spaniard. Prepare one cup of your finest, favourite,
> darkest,
> ground coffee. Allow to drip meditatively. Scan any possible horizons for
> passing galleons, map-makers or magi. Compose tome on the socio-economic
> obsolescence of shepherds. Exchange a nod *avec Voltaire*.
>
>
> *Herbst Enfilade*
>
> Take one large jar of German mustard (obtainable from any local hardware
> store or chemists). Paste throughout boots, liberally. Pour in coffee,
> brandy, sherry and champagne, in that precise order, order is all, 's
exact
> precise price, dusting in between with hog hair and sawdust.
>
>
> *Winter Garrison*
>
> Impress Swabian peasant. March impressed peasant around parade-ground
> square
> for two months in full battle-gear. *O my bombardier*. Exact price order.
> Be
> proclaimed among remote provinces. Hunch above maps and dialects. Stalk
the
> borders of irreverent detail and rumbunctious gazetteers. Deny the
> allegations of unnatural stars. Recite the Odes of Anachronism. Upend
> Swabian and strain out winter warmer. *Waes thu hael.*
>
>
>
>
> *(Frederick the Great was apparently found of adding champagne and
mustard
> to his coffee. I have altered the recipe, as well as other facts,
> somewhat.)
> *
>
>
>
>
>
> --
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