Absolutely! I love epigrams.
Hal
"Getting shot hurts."
--Ronald Reagan
Halvard Johnson
================
[log in to unmask]
http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
http://www.hamiltonstone.org
http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
On Jul 29, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Anny Ballardini wrote:
> 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/
>>>
>>> ===================================
>>>
>>
|