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O/T Its National Poetry Day

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by Chazz Rheinhold, Oct 2, 2014.

  1. where's les mutrie now

    where's les mutrie now Well-Known Member

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    'While you and I have lips and voices
    Which are for kissing and to sing with
    Who cares if some one-eyed son of a bitch
    Invents an instrument to measure spring with.' E.E.Cummings.
     
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  2. Trumpton Tiger.

    Trumpton Tiger. Well-Known Member

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    Mr Tidyman, red tracksuit/turning pink, see Kes, bad tempered, sadistic and ignorant with it.
    Not a patch on Mr Robinson (arts) Fred Cowell, Mr Merriweather, or Dally Duncan.
    Crap footballer too.
     
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  3. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

    Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC Well-Known Member

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    Well, she was just 17
    You know what I mean
    And the way she looked was way beyond compare
    So how could I dance with another (Ooh)
    When I saw her standing there

    Well she looked at me, and I, I could see
    That before too long I'd fall in love with her
    She wouldn't dance with another (Whooh)
    When I saw her standing there

    Well, my heart went "boom"
    When I crossed that room
    And I held her hand in mine...

    Whoah, we danced through the night
    And we held each other tight
    And before too long I fell in love with her
    Now I'll never dance with another (Whooh)
    Since I saw her standing there

    Well, my heart went "boom"
    When I crossed that room
    And I held her hand in mine...

    Whoah, we danced through the night
    And we held each other tight
    And before too long I fell in love with her
    Now I'll never dance with another (Whooh)
    Since I saw her standing there
     
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  4. Bengals Tiger

    Bengals Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Yes, one who knows da proper woids. Who's a pretty boy then?
     
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  5. Bengals Tiger

    Bengals Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Yes, they were written down anonymously in Noo Joizee. You have a problem wid dat?
     
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  6. C'mon ref

    C'mon ref Well-Known Member

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    A couple of mine take the p*ss if you must.

    [FONT=&amp]Sunshine[/FONT]


    [FONT=&amp]The sun is shining brightly colouring the sky [/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]With golden beams of sunlight dazzling the eyes[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]A crisp and chilly morning is changing by the hour [/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]As yellow shafts of sunlight engulf us with their power[/FONT]

    [FONT=&amp]A big bright ball of fire hanging up above [/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Make the world seem a better place spreading out its warmth[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]People seem much better in everyday walks of life [/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]With little balls of sunshine lightening the strife[/FONT]

    [FONT=&amp]Lovers walking hand in hand laughing along the way [/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Sunshine in their faces, for them a lovely day[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]A lonely cloud drifts on by, blocking out the light [/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]But as it slowly floats along soon again it's bright[/FONT]

    [FONT=&amp]When everything clouds over with many faces glum, [/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Only then do we realise we really miss the sun[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]So as it sinks to yonder shores and another day does end, [/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]We hope that when tomorrow comes the sunshine never ends.[/FONT]

    [FONT=&amp]©2014[/FONT]




    [FONT=&amp]

    Sorrow[/FONT]


    [FONT=&amp]
    Enough of all this sorrow[/FONT]

    [FONT=&amp]Enough of all this pain[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]I've lost the girl I loved so much[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Never to see again[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]My heart is breaking up right now[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Pieces all around[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]The tears come falling from my eyes[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Like teardrops on the ground[/FONT]

    [FONT=&amp]I'd love to hold her tenderly[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Just for one more time[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Kiss her lovely lips again[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Pretending she is mine[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]But I know it's all a dream[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]She's gone for evermore[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Never to come back again [/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]I know that now for sure[/FONT]

    [FONT=&amp]My life just seems so empty now[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]I cannot just let go[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Of the memory of the girl[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Who's love I cherished so[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]I let her down so badly[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]A fool right to the end[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]Now I nurse a broken heart[/FONT]
    [FONT=&amp]I know will never mend.[/FONT]

    [FONT=&amp]©2014

    I actually turned the second poem into a song, added a few chords to the words and I don't think its that bad but that's just me.
    [/FONT]
     
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  7. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    Remember this?

    Raggy is a bastard
    Raggy is a ****
    All he ever says is
    Get out to the front (that last line said in his nasal whine)

    Which is what he used to always say when you were messing about. Where he would then cane ya. Happy days.
     
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  8. Polly13

    Polly13 Well-Known Member

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    Mary had a little lamb
    Green beans and roast potaters
    I had chicken, we served ourselves
    It was a carvery, no waiters


    Shuttleworth.
     
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  9. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

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    One of my favourite poems, I could post it on the obit thread anarl..

    “I sit beside the fire and think
    Of all that I have seen
    Of meadow flowers and butterflies
    In summers that have been

    Of yellow leaves and gossamer
    In autumns that there were
    With morning mist and silver sun
    And wind upon my hair

    I sit beside the fire and think
    Of how the world will be
    When winter comes without a spring
    That I shall ever see

    For still there are so many things
    That I have never seen
    In every wood in every spring
    There is a different green

    I sit beside the fire and think
    Of people long ago
    And people that will see a world
    That I shall never know

    But all the while I sit and think
    Of times there were before
    I listen for returning feet
    And voices at the door”
     
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  10. where's les mutrie now

    where's les mutrie now Well-Known Member

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    'I don't love you for your graveyard eyes
    I don't love you for your shaven thighs
    I just love you for that
    Beat beat beat beat beating

    I've got a safety pin stuck in my heart
    For you, for you..."
    Patrik Fitzgerald.
     
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  11. Boothferry2Wembley

    Boothferry2Wembley Well-Known Member

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    If you acted like a "lime brained cotyledon" in class you were in for four strokes there and then, supplemented by two more from "Jake" after the next assembly. Happy days indeed.
     
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  12. Fez

    Fez Well-Known Member

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    No problem, but are you sure the Bronx National Anthem (try Googling it) was penned in New Jersey? As for the correct words, there are numerous versions out there; you enjoy yours and I will enjoy mine. Are you always this precious? :emoticon-0118-yawn:
     
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  13. Craigo

    Craigo Well-Known Member

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    A took me girl a fishin', a fishin' on a punt
    ..... Can't remember the rest.
     
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  14. Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC

    Dr.Stanley O'Google, HCFC Well-Known Member

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    The version I know is "Phooey, phooey, dat's absoid, surely the wings is on the boid."
     
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  15. Fez

    Fez Well-Known Member

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    Did she have a flat bottom?
     
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  16. Happy Tiger

    Happy Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Roses are red
    Violets are blue
    Dutch is a nobhead
    and PLT is too

    You're welcome.
     
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  17. WhittlingStick

    WhittlingStick Well-Known Member

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    Neil , Neil ,
    orange peel
    why did you have to die


    Rik
     
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  18. Ernie Shackleton

    Ernie Shackleton Well-Known Member

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    There’s a girl I’m told who rolls her eyes at the Gok Wan acolytes
    Underneath her bed there lies a collection of ammonites
    And she lives somewhere you wouldn’t wanna get stuck
    That can’t be found in the Domesday Book
    Cromwell’s troops never billeted there
    Dick Turpin never had Bess shoed where
    This girl I’m told rolls her eyes at the Gok Wan acolytes

    This spoon in my drawer, a reminder of childhood
    Stayed loyal down the years in a way others never could
    The wine has coiled its way around my understanding
    And I’m deaf to your libertarian jeers
    They should just brick Jim Beglin up with the Gok Wan acolytes
    Brick him up



    One of 179 lyrics I could have chosen by Britain's greatest living folk poet, Nigel Blackwell.


    New Half Man Half Biscuit album out later this month.
     
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  19. Bengals Tiger

    Bengals Tiger Well-Known Member

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    Yes, and it's "Spring in the Bronx"; the Bronx National Anthem is something else--you need to try harder with Google. And yeth, I uthually am, but not alwayth. Xxxx.
     
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  20. Fez

    Fez Well-Known Member

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    It's both and you are wrong, as it is also called The Brooklyn (or Bronx) National Anthem. The reality is that it is wrongly attributed to a number of poets simply because it parodies their style, nothing more tangible than that. The original version is not known, folk simply referring, as you might be, to the first version they became aware of - unless you have an authoritative source that takes away it's anon status and has evidence of original script then you are being precious for no good reason. <ok>

    http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/brooklyn_national_anthem_spring_is_sprung

    Here's a fairly apt poem by Ted Scheu:

    My class has got a know-it-all— the kind who likes to tell the proper way to sit and walk and count and speak and spell.
    My class has got a know-it-all— the kind who always knows the stuff that happened yesterdays or even long agos.

    She’s constantly correcting me if I’m a little wrong, like when I bring a bug to class or when I sing a song.

    You wonder why a rooster crows? Exactly how a flower grows? And who invented radios? Or even if a glowworm glows? (I can't believe it, but she knows.)

    You wonder why the sky is blue? And how your paper airplane flew? Just if a fact is false or true? Or when our book report is due? (I can’t believe she knows that, too.)

    You might think I’d be angry with this showy, knowy creature. But someday I will be like her: I’m going to be a teacher.

    or there is by Sara Fielder (she has a way with words <laugh> ):

    How does it feel to know it all?
    I'm curious, do tell
    To be so arrogant enough
    The rest can go to hell
    It must be nice up on your throne
    You intellectual snob
    To think the worlds so black and white
    And we are but it's dogs.

    It must be nice to know it all
    Forgive, but I must ask
    Ever lose an argument?
    No, no. There's not a chance
    When others bow and kiss your feet
    The hem that trims your robe
    Does your huge ego jump for joy
    On top but all alone?

    It must be nice to know it all
    The rest of us so small
    We'll just pull weeds
    And mind the sheep
    And drink the bitter gall
    We'll just sit back as best we can
    Obligingly and nod
    Yes yes, you're right, of course you are
    Let's not forget you're God
     
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