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In what sense? In case it is offence to your belief system, I hardly ever find the man funny. I am sick of hearing "comic genius" Eye Ore On 18 August 2014 16:53, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The first clause in your last sentence is just plain shocking, Lawrence. > > "*Vraiment*, > Poetry can be so many more things > Than what people mostly believe it is." > > --Anselm Hollo > > Halvard Johnson > ================ > > [log in to unmask] > > < > http://www.amazon.com/Remains-To-Be-Seen-Works/dp/1933132787/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1367618323&sr=8-1&keywords=Halvard+Johnson > > > New from Gradient Books > < > http://gradientbooks.blogspot.fi/2014/06/halvard-johnson-songs-my-mother-taught.html > >: > *Songs My Mother Taught Me* > > Poems by Others . . . <http://anotherpoetrysite.blogspot.com/> > On Barcelona <http://onbarcelona.blogspot.com/> (submissions sought; email > to my address above) > Truck <http://halvard-johnson.blogspot.com/> (no submissions; new > drivers/editors monthly) > Entropy and Me <http://entropyandme.blogspot.com/> > Images without Words <http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com/> > Hal & Lynda's homepage <http://sites.google.com/site/halvardjohnson/Home> > Hamilton Stone Editions <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/> > Hamilton Stone Review <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/hsr.html> > <http://www.hamiltonstone.org/>Vida Loca Books > <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/> > > *Songs My Mother Taught Me > < > http://gradientbooks.blogspot.fi/2014/06/halvard-johnson-songs-my-mother-taught.html > >, > Remains > To Be Seen <http://www.spuytenduyvil.net/remains-to-be-seen.html>, > *Sonnets > from the Basque & Other Poems < > https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/> > *, *Mainly Black <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>, *Obras > Públicas <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>; **The Perfection > of Mozart's Third Eye and Other Sonnets > < > http://www.scribd.com/doc/27039868/Halvard-Johnson-THE-PERFECTION-OF-MOZART-S-THIRD-EYE-Other-Sonnets > >; > **Organ > Harvest with Entrance of Clones > < > http://www.amazon.com/Harvest-Entrance-Clones-Halvard-Johnson/dp/0965404390/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1283182804&sr=8-1 > >; > **Tango > Bouquet <https://sites.google.com/site/vidalocabooks/>; **Theory of > Harmony > < > https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall04/theory1.pdf > >; > **Rapsodie > espagnole > < > https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/rapsodi.pdf > >; > **Guide > to the Tokyo Subway > < > http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Tokyo-Subway-Other-Poems/dp/0971487316/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1283183153&sr=1-3 > >; > **The > Sonnet Project > < > https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/hsonnet.pdf > >; > **G(e)nome > <http://xpressed.wippiespace.com/fall03/genome.pdf>; **Winter Journey > <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.winter.html>; **Eclipse > <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.eclipse.html>; **The Dance of the Red > Swan <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.dance.html>; **Transparencies & > Projections <http://capa.conncoll.edu/johnson.transp.html>* > > > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > Noted! I heard an outtake from Robin Williams at the comedy store in > > London. Anyway astronauts in the space station as WWIII starts. One says > > something like "Did you hear a noise?" I don't normally laugh at RW but > > the timing was just right then > > > > L > > > > > > On 17 August 2014 03:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > Perhaps, L, it is only no postings from Raynes Park which will indicate > > > eradication of the British Isles. With Pat on hols this week, I'd watch > > out > > > if I were you. > > > > > > Bill > > > > > > > > > On 15/08/2014, at 2:05 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote: > > > > > > > It has been claimed, and denied, that the failure of BBC's Radio 4 > > Today > > > > programme (6 a.m. - 9 a.m.) to broadcast would be taken as an alert > > > signal > > > > for UK's Trident submarines, suggesting that UK had been "taken out" > > > > > > > > I wonder if the Captain of HMS Teapot ever worries that postings on > > > > PoetryEtc have dropped: "not much poetry coming out of the UK - > little > > > bit > > > > from Raynes Park and that's it - I do hope they're all right. Keep an > > eye > > > > on it Number One. If there's nothing next time we check, maybe we > ought > > > to > > > > consider lobbing one towards Moscow" > > > > > > > > (HMS Teapot is cartoonist Steve Bell's name for a UK expeditionary > > > > force.Teapot it was which went to the Falklands) > > > > > > > > L > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 13 August 2014 11:33, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > > > >> poetryetc at this time of year is always quiet, I seem to remember - > > > >> > > > >> holiday and travel time for the northern hemisphere... > > > >> > > > >> Otherwise I expect by now someone would have wondered aloud whether > > > >> pouchily > > > >> and > > > >> springlessly > > > >> were maybe uncomfortable coinages from Bill. > > > >> But let them pass... > > > >> > > > >> I have some difficulty with eye sockets changing > > > >> probably because for me a socket is made of bone. > > > >> The turn at line nine is welcome, yet - > > > >> eight lines of 'concreteness' seem to me to call for a turn > > > >> that does not lapse into a big abstraction - > > > >> Hopkins poems have similar problems shifting from the experiential > to > > > the > > > >> abstract. > > > >> Is there a way for 'beauty' to be held over until we can sense what > > > might > > > >> bring it to mind. > > > >> Lines ten to twelve don't quite do this. > > > >> Choughs? fussing and fossicking? > > > >> sinister birds with sharp beaks. > > > >> For you, Bill, but not for me. > > > >> > > > >> (Earlier today in the park I noticed a dead magpie - handsome but > very > > > >> dead.) > > > >> > > > >> Oddly I am about to post a verse snap with 'beauty' in it. > > > >> > > > >> Max in Melbourne > > > >> > > > >> On 13 Aug 2014, at 8:04 am, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> > > > wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> Compensations > > > >>> > > > >>> Cheeks hang baggy. > > > >>> Face spills onto pillow. > > > >>> Eye sockets fold and droop > > > >>> forgetting former close bone cling > > > >>> > > > >>> Skin sags pouchily from shoulder > > > >>> bone, as if from Brahman cow. > > > >>> Muscles think before flexing, > > > >>> withdraw springlessly. > > > >>> > > > >>> Yet beauty still bounces, > > > >>> choughs fuss and fossick. > > > >>> And tonight - so they say, > > > >>> The moon will be Super. > > > >>> > > > >>> bw > > > >> > > > > > > > > > >