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Posted by: jersey girl! ® 03/07/2003, 22:21:07 Author Profile Mail author |
Dear Friends, I wonder how many of you are feeling saturated by the ongoing news concerning Iraq? Me too. How about joining me in a little tangent thread...haven't done one of those in several months. I seem to have been diverting into Frost poetry posts, "You Come Too?" :-) I'll go first, follow me and share your favorite poems? There is a Frost for every occasion...here's one for the sublime thinker's of 2Think!
The last step taken found your heft
-Robert Frost
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Poe - "Sonnet to Science" Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
Posted by: ramona ®
03/08/2003, 06:49:32
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Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes.
Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart,
Vulture, whose wings are dull realities?
How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise,
Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering
To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies,
Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing?
Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car?
And driven the Hamadryad from the wood
To seek a shelter in some happier star?
Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood,
The Elfin from the green grass, and from me
The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree?Edgar A. Poe
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Re: Poe - "Sonnet to Science" Re: Poe - "Sonnet to Science" -- ramona Top of thread Archive
Posted by: bosquero ®
03/08/2003, 23:03:53
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--Bosquero
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Paul V. Judiasm Re: Re: Poe - "Sonnet to Science" -- bosquero Top of thread Archive
Posted by: ramona ®
03/09/2003, 06:38:14
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Parisees were teachers of the law. Geneology wasn't required.
Hanging around ans knowing all about a rock star doesn't make you a rock star, but a very knowledgeable groupie.I also agree wiht you point about Greeks and Romans not caring about controversy unless political rebellion was involved.
R
P.S. You carry a familiar voice. Do I know you from a post life?? What was your handle?
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Re: Paul V. Judiasm Re: Paul V. Judiasm -- ramona Top of thread Archive
Posted by: bosquero ®
03/09/2003, 21:40:33
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My earlier contributions to this forum, over a year ago, I think, were under my initials, AGF. --Bosquero
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Re: Paul V. Judiasm Re: Re: Paul V. Judiasm -- bosquero Top of thread Archive
Posted by: ramona ®
03/12/2003, 13:44:51
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I didn't and don't dispute Saul's geneology. I was trying to make a point that saying one is something doesn't make it true. I question Paul's (his roman name) jewishness. The stoning he experienced causes me to question heresy. Saul, the tentmaker was without question from the tribe of Benjamin. One could even have called him Rev Saul.
It was Paul who taught openly that the law was abolished for the Jews themselves. Hmm, sounds like he left the faith since The Law is what defines Judaism.
In Titus 1: 10 For there are many insubordinte, both idle talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision. Are these the words of someone that embraces Judaism, or are these the words of a man that appears to be the individual that most contributed to creating a new religion?
And from the Catholic encyclopedia:
D. The Person of the RedeemerNearly all statements relating to the person of Jesus Christ bear either directly or indirectly on His role as a Saviour. With St. Paul Christology is a function of soteriology. However broad these outlines, they show us the faithful image of Christ in His pre-existence, in His historical existence and in His glorified life (see F. Prat, "Théologie de Saint Paul").
(1) Christ in His pre-existence
(a) Christ is of an order superior to all created beings (Eph., i, 21); He is the Creator and Preserver of the World (Col., i, 16-17); all is by Him, in Him , and for Him (Col., i, 16). (b) Christ is the image of the invisible Father (II Cor., iv, 4; Col., i, 15); He is the Son of God, but unlike other sons is so in an incommunicable manner; He is the Son, the own Son, the well-Beloved, and this He has always been (II Cor., i, 19; Rom., viii, 3, 32; Col., i, 13; Eph., i, 6; etc.). (c) Christ is the object of the doxologies reserved for God (II Tim., iv, 18; Rom., xvi, 27); He is prayed to as the equal of the Father (II Cor., xii, 8-9; Rom., x, 12; I Cor., i, 2); gifts are asked of Him which it is in the power of God alone to grant, namely grace, mercy, salvation (Rom., i, 7; xvi, 20; I Cor., i,3; xvi, 23; etc. before Him every knee shall bow in heaven, on earth, and under the earth (Phil., ii, 10), as every head inclines in adoration of the majesty of the Most High. (d) Christ possesses all the Divine attributes; He is eternal, since He is the "first born of every creature" and exists before all ages (Col., i, 15, 17); He is immutable, since He exists "in the form of God" (Phil., ii, 6); He is omnipotent, since He has the power to bring forth being from nothingness (Col., i, 16); He is immense, since He fills all things with His plenitude (Eph., iv, 10; Col., ii, 10); He is infinite since "the fullness of the Godhead dwells in Him" (Col.ii, 9). All that is the special property of the God belongs of right to Him; the judgment seat of God is the judgment seat of Christ (Rom., xiv, 10; II Cor., v, 10); the Gospel of God is the Gospel of Christ (Rom., i, 1, 9; xv, 16, 19, etc.); the Church of God is the Church of Christ (I Cor., i, 2 and Rom., xvi 16 sqq.); the Kingdom of God is the Kingdom of Christ (Eph., v, 5), the Spirit of God is the Spirit of Christ (Rom., viii, 9 sqq). (e) Christ is the one Lord (I Cor., viii, 6); He is identified with Jehovah of the Old Covenant (I Cor., x, 4, 9; Rom., x, 13; cf. I Cor., ii, 16; ix, 21); He is the God who has purchased the Church with his own blood" (Acts, xx, 28); He is our "great God and Saviour Jesus Christ" (Tit., ii, 13); He is the "God over all things" (Rom., ix, 5), effacing by His infinite transcendency the sum and substance of created things.
Man as God? Hmm, sounds like more heresy to me.
Ramona
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HERO'S Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
Posted by: Jerome ®
03/08/2003, 10:46:05
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Spinning with the tides’ pull and tow
Stands the end of the days’ journeys end.
The Hero’s of today and the here and now
Are of human form, and will bend.
They are not of rigid stuff that breaks
Or falls into small tiny bits.
The Hero's are of what it takes
To be a mortal in a soul that fits.
A soul that is sheltered in a body’s shell
That protects and provides a form of life.
One that can stand the rigors of a living hell,
And resist the frustrations of strife.
We’re all like the Hero’s, we’re all the same
Inside this soul’s outside wall.
It will take more than pressure of everyday blame,
Or for the everyday problems of all,
To break us or shatter us into small pieces
Or to make us have conscience of weight.
We’ve learned what it is to be free of the needless
And unworthy, inane mind-control of
"the Great".Suzanne A. Lamene
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Frost : Skeptic Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
Posted by: jersey girl! ®
03/08/2003, 11:25:34
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Far star that tickles for me my sensitive plate
And fries a couple of ebon atoms white,
I don't believe I believe a thing you state.
I put no faith in the seeming facts of light.I don't believe I believe you're the last in space,
I don't believe you're anywhere near the last,
I don't believe what makes you red in the face
Is after explosion going away so fast.
The universe may or may not be very immense.
As a matter of fact there are times when I am apt
To feel it close in tight against my sense
Like a caul in which I was born and still am wrapped.-Robert Frost
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Joplin: Too Bad Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
Posted by: Jerome ®
03/08/2003, 13:04:31
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The world is brightly lit,
And in the middle of it we sit.
In our complacency we stand,
And let others lead the band.
In our ignorance and in our fear,
We exist from year to year.
Never knowing from where we came,
And it is such a terrible shame.
That we let nothing penetrate our mind,
Or let ourselves ever find
The answers to questions we care about,
Like where we got what we got,
And what were all about.
Too bad So sad.
You can not be Glad.
... Janice Joplin.
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Birds are bad, from a worms perspective Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
Posted by: ramona ®
03/08/2003, 14:01:13
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The Conqueror Worm
by Edgar Allan PoePublished as a part of Ligeia
Lo! 'tis a gala night
Within the lonesome latter years!
An angel throng, bewinged, bedight
In veils, and drowned in tears,
Sit in a theatre, to see
A play of hopes and fears,
While the orchestra breathes fitfully
The music of the spheres.Mimes, in the form of God on high,
Mutter and mumble low,
And hither and thither fly --
Mere puppets they, who come and go
At bidding of vast formless things
That shift the scenery to and fro,
Flapping from out their Condor wings
Invisible Wo!
That motley drama! --oh, be sure
It shall not be forgot!
With its Phantom chased forever more,
By a crowd that seize it not,
Through a circle that ever returneth in
To the self-same spot,
And much of Madness and more of Sin
And Horror the soul of the plot.
But see, amid the mimic rout,
A crawling shape intrude!
A blood-red thing that writhes from out
The scenic solitude!
It writhes! --it writhes! --with mortal pangs
The mimes become its food,
And the seraphs sob at vermin fangs
In human gore imbued.
Out --out are the lights --out all!
And over each quivering form,
The curtain, a funeral pall,
Comes down with the rush of a storm,
And the angels, all pallid and wan,
Uprising, unveiling, affirm
That the play is the tragedy, "Man,"
And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
-The End-
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The Bell, it tolls for you Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
Posted by: Jenny ®
03/08/2003, 18:05:58
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by John DonneNo man is an island,
Entire of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less.
As well as if a promontory were.
As well as if a manner of thine own
Or of thine friend's were.
Each man's death diminishes me,
For I am involved in mankind.
Therefore, send not to know
For whom the bell tolls,
It tolls for thee.
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News of the day Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
Posted by: ramona ®
03/08/2003, 18:19:09
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Yes...
I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes
And make it go away
How long...
How long must we sing this song?
How long? How long...
'cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...
Broken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end street
But I won't heed the battle call
It puts my back up
Puts my back up against the wall
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
And the battle's just begun
There's many lost, but tell me who has won
The trench is dug within our hearts
And mothers, children, brothers, sisters
Torn apart
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
How long...
How long must we sing this song?
How long? How long...
'cause tonight...we can be as one
Tonight...tonight...
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Wipe the tears from your eyes
Wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
Oh, wipe your tears away
(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Oh, wipe your blood shot eyes
(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
Sunday, Bloody Sunday (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
And it's true we are immune
When fact is fiction and TV reality
And today the millions cry
We eat and drink while tomorrow they die
(Sunday, Bloody Sunday)
The real battle just begun
To claim the victory Jesus won
On...
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday...
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That helps alot... Re: News of the day -- ramona Top of thread Archive
Posted by: Jenny ®
03/08/2003, 18:25:54
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Damn Ramona,
You must have been there right where I'm at with a needle and an armelite (armalite?)But since we are in Ireland...
The Fields of Athenry:
By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young girl calling
"Michael, they have taken you away,
For you stole Trevelyan's corn,
So the young might see the morn.
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay."Chorus:
Low lie the fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly
Our love was on the wing
We had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.By a lonely prison wall, I heard a young man calling
"Nothing matters, Mary, when you're free
Against the famine and the crown,
I rebelled, they cut me down.
Now you must raise our child with dignity."By a lonely harbor wall, she watched the last star fall
As the prison ship sailed out against the sky
For she lived to hope and pray for her love in Botany Bay
It's so lonely round the fields of Athenry.
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Re: That helps alot... Re: That helps alot... -- Jenny Top of thread Archive
Posted by: ramona ®
03/08/2003, 18:44:48
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I understand the very effective human hunting use of the armalite, but what of the needle?
Isn't it interesting how the words of the author may have been for a specific area, but how well the words can carry elsewhere?
Ramona
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Green Fields of France Re: Re: That helps alot... -- ramona Top of thread Archive
Posted by: Jenny ®
03/08/2003, 19:19:59
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The needle taunts and flays a bit. But you have me going now on Irish war songs (the Fields of Athenry is a war song too, the famine...the economic/political starvation). But this was my first anti-war song. My mother used to play it for me when I was a child...enjoy! (I think Peter Paul and Mary did a rendition of this, I'm not sure.)
Green Fields of France
- by Eric Bogle (mostly, I guess)
Well, how do you do Private William McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
And rest for awhile neath the warm summer sun
I've been walking all day, and I'm nearly doneAnd I see by your gravestone, you're only nineteen
When you joined the great fallen in nineteen sixteen
Well I hope you died quickly, I hope you died clean
Or poor Willy Mcbride, was it slow and obscene?Chorus:
Did they beat the drums slowly?
Did they play the pipes lowly?
Did they bugles carry you over as they lowered you down?
And did the band play 'The Last Post' in chorus?
Did the pipes play 'The Flowers Of The Forest'?And did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
In some loyal heart is your memory enshrined?
And though you died back in nineteen-sixteen
In that faithful heart are you always nineteen?Or are you a stranger without a name?
Forever enshrined behind some glass pane
In an old photograph, torn and tattered, and stained.
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame.(Chorus)
Well the sun's shining down on these green fields of France
The warm wind blows gently, and the red poppies dance
The trenches have vanished long under the plow
There's no gas, no barb wire, there's no guns firing nowBut here in this graveyard that's still no-man's land
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man
The whole generation was butchered and damned(Chorus)
And I can't help but wonder young Willy McBride
Do those that lie here know why that they died?
And did they really believe you when you told them the cause
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?Well the suffering, and the sorrow, the glory of pain
The killing and dying they were all done in vain
For young Willy McBride it's all happened again,
And again, and again, and again, and again...(Chorus)
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Being an unfortunate resident of Dublin Re: News of the day -- ramona Top of thread Archive
Posted by: Another Bob ®
03/08/2003, 22:35:34
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Not only are U2 played more often than anything other than The Pogues, with construction beginning on their new studio, they shall soon too be the owners of the second largest eyesore in Dublin (the largest being the Fuck ugly spire the corpo decided to put up in the city centre.Present rumors place it as a likely place for the impaling of the heads of one of the 'rampant paedo's').
Should this request be ignored, I shall have to resort to childishly sticking my fingers in my ears and humming loudly and out of tune.
You have been warned...
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In the name of love ;-) Re: Being an unfortunate resident of Dublin -- Another Bob Top of thread Archive
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03/10/2003, 12:37:19
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Dreadful sorrow... Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
Posted by: Jenny ®
03/08/2003, 18:19:15
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Crap Vicki, can we go back to numbers and strategy and leave poetry to those without fear.
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Very scary indeed Re: Dreadful sorrow... -- Jenny Top of thread Archive
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03/08/2003, 19:19:26
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From my head to your screen, Jen Re: Dreadful sorrow... -- Jenny Top of thread Archive
Posted by: vicki ®
03/08/2003, 20:00:26
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I am going to do something I've never done here before. I pray I am in good hands. Spontaneous and unrehearsed, you are to blame for this!
Let Your Heart Break
Let your heart break
Let it open wide
Let it flood with humanity
And bleed for humanity
Lose your fear of the current
And learn to ride it
Find courage for the journey
And the pacing and waiting
for the returnOkay, do the hard thing...and post it!
Modified by vicki at Sat, Mar 08, 2003, 20:07:33
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My flesh my blood Vicki Re: From my head to your screen, Jen -- vicki Top of thread Archive
Posted by: Jenny ®
03/08/2003, 21:31:27
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Every solution that includes destruction destroys me and destroys you, a beautiful mind, a though unemerged, a beautiful city, a center of civilization and architecture and art. Every solution that relies on force destroys you and me and a beautiful hope and a million dreams and a heart and a sea of hopes. We are ONE people interconnected and interdependant and inter-related.
"When things go wrong, wrong with you, they hurt me too." Stevie Ray Vaughn
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Re: From my head to your screen, Jen Re: From my head to your screen, Jen -- vicki Top of thread Archive
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03/08/2003, 21:39:03
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Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
Posted by: rdl ®
03/08/2003, 19:03:10
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> by Ellen Bass (www.ellenbass.com)
>
> Pray to whoever you kneel down to:
> Jesus nailed to his wooden or marble or plastic cross,
> his suffering face bent to kiss you,
> Buddha still under the Bo tree in scorching heat,
> Yahweh, Allah, raise your arms to Mary
> that she may lay her palm on our brows,
> to Shekinhah, Queen of Heaven and Earth,
> to Inanna in her stripped descent.
>
> Hawk or Wolf, or the Great Whale, Record Keeper
> of time before, time now, time ahead, pray. Bow down
> to terriers and shepherds and siamese cats.
> Fields of artichokes and elegant strawberries.
>
> Pray to the bus driver who takes you to work,
> pray on the bus, pray for everyone riding that bus
> and for everyone riding buses all over the world.
> If you haven't been on a bus in a long time,
> climb the few steps, drop some silver, and pray.
>
> Waiting in line for the movies, for the ATM,
> for your latté and croissant, offer your plea.
> Make your eating and drinking a supplication.
> Make your slicing of carrots a holy act,
> each translucent layer of the onion, a deeper prayer.
>
> Make the brushing of your hair
> a prayer, every strand its own voice,
> singing in the choir on your head.
> As you wash your face, the water slipping
> through your fingers, a prayer: Water,
> softest thing on earth, gentleness
> that wears away rock.
>
> Making love, of course, is already a prayer.
> Skin and open mouths worshipping that skin,
> the fragile case we are poured into,
> each caress a season of peace.
>
> If you're hungry, pray. If you're tired.
> Pray to Gandhi and Dorothy Day.
> Shakespeare. Sappho. Sojourner Truth.
> Pray to the angels and the ghost of your grandfather.
>
> When you walk to your car, to the mailbox,
> to the video store, let each step
> be a prayer that we all keep our legs,
> that we do not blow off anyone else's legs.
> Or crush their skulls.
> And if you are riding on a bicycle
> or a skateboard, in a wheel chair, each revolution
> of the wheels a prayer that as the earth revolves
> we will do less harm, less harm, less harm.
>
> And as you work, typing with a new manicure,
> a tiny palm tree painted on one pearlescent nail
> or delivering soda or drawing good blood
> into rubber-capped vials, writing on a blackboard
> with yellow chalk, twirling pizzas, pray for peace.
>
> With each breath in, take in the faith of those
> who have believed when belief seemed foolish,
> who persevered. With each breath out, cherish.
>
> Pull weeds for peace, turn over in your sleep for peace,
> feed the birds for peace, each shiny seed
> that spills onto the earth, another second of peace.
> Wash your dishes, call your mother, drink wine.
>
> Shovel leaves or snow or trash from your sidewalk.
> Make a path. Fold a photo of a dead child
> around your VISA card. Gnaw your crust
> of prayer, scoop your prayer water from the gutter.
> Mumble along like a crazy person, stumbling
> your prayer through the streets.
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:-) Re: Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- rdl Top of thread Archive
Posted by: Jenny ®
03/08/2003, 21:37:09
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Re: REMEMBER Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
Posted by: JAK ®
03/08/2003, 19:22:55
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* Remember that you are a unique and unrepeatable person.* Remember that your life can be what you want it to be.
* Remember to take the days just one at a time.* Remember to count your benefits, not your troubles.
* Remember that you'll make it through whatever comes along.* Remember that most of the answers you need are within you.
* Remember those dreams waiting to be realized.* Remember that decisions are too important to leave to chance.
* Remember to always reach for the best that is within you.* Remember that nothing wastes more energy than worry
* Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.* Remember that the longer you carry a grudge, the heavier it gets.
* Remember not to take things too seriously.* Remember to laugh.
* Remember that a little love goes a long way.* Remember that a lot goes forever.
* Remember that happiness is more often found in giving than getting.* Remember that life's treasures are people, not things.
Author Unknown
JAK
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Re: An Eighth Grade Education Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
Posted by: JAK ®
03/08/2003, 19:32:15
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Remember when our great grandparents, grandparents, Aunts and Uncles and such used to say that they only had an 8th grade education? Well check this out. Could any of us have passed the 8th grade in 1895? This is the eighth grade final exam from 1895 in Salina, KS, USA. It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina, KS and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
8th Grade Final Exam Salina, KS -1895
Grammar (Time, 1 hour)
1. Give nine rules for the use of Capital Letters.
2. Name the Parts of Speech and define those that have no modifications.
3. Define Verse, Stanza and Paragraph.
4. What are the Principal Parts of a verb? Give Principal Parts of do, lie, lay and run.
5. Define Case, Illustrate each Case.
6. What is Punctuation? Give rules for principal marks of Punctuation.
7-10. Write a composition of about 150 words and show therein that you understand the practical use of the rules of grammar.Arithmetic (Time, 1.25 hours)
1. Name and define the Fundamental Rules of Arithmetic.
2. A wagon box is 2 ft. deep, 10 feet long, and 3 ft. wide. How many bushels of wheat will it hold?
3. If a load of wheat weighs 3942 lbs., what is it worth at 50 cts./bushel, deducting 1050 lbs. for tare?
4. District No. 33 has a valuation of $35,000. What is the necessary levy to carry on a school seven months at $50 per month, and have $104 for incidentals?
5. Find cost of 6720 lbs. coal at $6.00 per ton.
6. Find the interest of $512.60 for 8 months and 18 days at 7 percent.
7. What is the cost of 40 boards 12 inches wide and 16 ft. long at $20 per meter.
8. Find bank discount on $300 for 90 days (no grace) at 10 percent.
9. What is the cost of a square farm at $15 per are, the distance around which is 640 rods?
10. Write a Bank Check, a Promissory Note, and a Receipt.U.S. History (Time, 45 minutes)
1. Give the epochs into which U.S. History is divided.
2. Give an account of the discovery of America by Columbus.
3. Relate the causes and results of the Revolutionary War.
4. Show the territorial growth of the United States.
5. Tell what you can of the history of Kansas.
6. Describe three of the most prominent battles of the Rebellion.
7. Who were the following: Morse, Whitney, Fulton, Bell, Lincoln, Penn, and Howe?
8. Name events connected with the following dates: 1607; 1620;
1800; 1849; 1865Orthography (Time, 1 hour)
1. What is meant by the following: Alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication?
2. What are elementary sounds? How classified?
3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals?
4. Give four substitutes for caret 'u'.
5. Give two rules for spelling words with final 'e'. Name two exceptions under each rule.
6. Give two uses of silent letters in spelling. Illustrate each.
7. Define the following prefixes and use in connection with a word: Bi, dis, mis, pre, semi, post, non, inter, mono, sup
8. Mark diacritically and divide into syllables the following, and name the sign that indicates the sound: Card, ball, mercy, sir, odd, cell, rise, blood, fare, last.
9. Use the following correctly in sentences, cite, site, sight, fane, fain, feign, vane, vain, vein, raze, raise, rays.
10. Write 10 words frequently mispronounced and indicate pronunciation by use of diacritical marks and bysyllabication.Geography (Time, 1 hour)
1. What is climate? Upon what does climate depend?
2. How do you account for the extremes of climate in Kansas?
3. Of what use are rivers? Of what use is the ocean?
4. Describe the mountains of North America.
5. Name and describe the following: Monrovia, Odessa, Denver, Manitoba, Heca, Yukon, St. Helena, Juan Fernandez, Aspinwall and Orinoco.
6. Name and locate the principal trade centers of the U.S.
7. Name all the republics of Europe and give capital of each.
8. Why is the Atlantic Coast colder than the Pacific in the same latitude?
9. Describe the process by which the water of the ocean returns to the sources of rivers.
10. Describe the movements of the earth. Give the inclination of the earth.This gives the saying "she/he only had an 8th grade education" (when speaking of an early 20th century person) a whole new meaning. Most of us could use an 8th grade education when compared to what is called a diploma or a degree today!
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*and they didn't have "spell-check" to tell them that "never mind" is two words.
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6th graders and well known proverbs Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
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03/08/2003, 19:42:32
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each child in her class the first half of a proverb and asked them to come up with the remainder of the proverb. It's hard to believe these were actually done by first graders. Their insight may surprise you. While reading these keep in mind that these are first graders...,"6" year-olds,because the last one is classic!
Better to be safe than.............punch a 5th grader.Strike while the.................bug is close.
It's always darkest before.........Daylight Saving Time.
Never underestimate the power of.............termites.
You can lead a horse to water but.............how?
Don't bite the hand that.............looks dirty.
No news is..................impossible.
A miss is as good as a.............................Mr.
You can't teach an old dog new................math.
If you lie down with dogs, you'll.......stink in the morning.
Love all ,trust..........................................me.
The pen is mightier than the.....................pigs.
An idle mind is......................the best way to relax.
Where there's smoke there's...................pollution.
Happy the bride who.....................gets all the presents.
A penny saved is....................................not much.
Two's company, three's...........................the Musketeers.
Don't put off till tomorrow what.......you put on to go to bed.
Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, cry and.........you
have to blow your nose.
There are none so blind as......................Stevie Wonder.
Children should be seen and not........spanked or grounded.
If at first you don't succeed.....................get new batteries.
You get out of something only what you........see in the
picture on the box.
When the blind leadeth the blind...........get out of the way.
And the favorite:Better late than...........................pregnant!!!!
A smile increases your face value...JAK
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Re: COUNTRY BOB'S RULES OF HOUSEKEEPING: Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
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03/08/2003, 20:45:56
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1. Vacuuming too often weakens the carpet fibers.2. Dust bunnies cannot evolve into dust rhinos when disturbed.
3. Layers of dirty film on windows and screens provide a helpful filter against harmful and aging rays from the sun. It has an SPF factor of 5
4. Cobwebs artfully draped over lampshades reduce the glare from the bulb, thereby creating a romantic atmosphere.
5. In a pinch, you can always claim that the haphazard tower of unread magazines and newspapers next to your chair provides the valuable protection from a tiger attack.
6. Explain the mound of pet hair brushed up against the doorways by claiming you are collecting it there to use for stuffing hand sewn play animals for underprivileged children.
7. If unexpected company is coming, pile everything unsightly into one room and close the door. As you show your guests through your tidy home, rattle the door knob vigorously, fake a growl and say, "I'd love you to see our den, but Fluffy hates to be disturbed and the shots are SO expensive."
8. If dusting is REALLY out of control, simply place a showy urn on the coffee table and insist that "THIS is where Grandma wanted us to scatter her ashes..."
9. Don't bother repainting. Simply scribble lightly over a dirty wall with an assortment of crayons, and try to muster a glint of tears as you say, "Johnny did this when he was two. I haven't had the heart to clean it..."
10. Mix one-quarter cup pine-scented household cleaner with four cups of water in a spray bottle. Mist the air lightly. Leave dampened rags in conspicuous locations. Develop an exhausted look, throw yourself onto the couch, and sigh, "I clean and I clean and I still don't get anywhere..."
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Yet another taste of the Juvinile Mind Re: Official Poetry Thread (tangent) -- jersey girl! Top of thread Archive
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03/08/2003, 22:54:10
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I try to fill a maybe in my mind, quick cut, flick, a TV scene.
Geek/nerd, nervousness. He stands, a door.
'All treasure lies within.'
But thinly veiled, but 7 veils, but fears to strip down naked.
'The only beautiful exists without boundaries, just
pull the room through the keyhole, the door opens in your mind.But why won't she look at me...
Why can't I look at HER…
I'm still delaying till I cry...
I am a big boy Daddy, I shan't shed a tear,
Not
ONE
Crystalline
Drop,it sparkles through the air to shatter the ground, my world collapsing into the remaining emptiness as she leaves, not even a word to give this world meaning.
Creation can only begin with a word.
So what would you say?
I envision a tale, a quest for an idea in a desolate landscape. Peoples to wander and ask on
'The word'The only question being of hope or hopelessness. Or both, if you're greedy.
Happy ending and premature death.And at the end?
I discover God is a woman with laughter on her tongue, Daggers in her smile,
Eyes a bloody gash, Flowers at her brow.God and I Make Love
And I am damned to the purifying light of ecstasy, crying as I speak the name that opens the gates of paradise so wide the devils crawl out in vicious testimony of a truth that remains…
UN
UTTEREDNeedless to say this is not and cannot be fiction,
Reality mocks the poet.If anyone considers this at all interesting, email me at
I'll send you the properly formatted version.
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