POEMS - With Tongue In Cheek

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Re: POEMS - With Tongue In Cheek

Post by keithgood838 » Fri Mar 18, 2016 1:37 pm

It is sad to watch the American electoral system
descending into brawling and fisticuffs.
Here's a reminder of the country's greatness:

SONNET TO AMERICA

America! At this thy Golden Gate
New travelled from those portals of the West
Parting - I make my reverence! It was best
With backward looks to quit a queen in state!
Land of all lands most fair, most free, and great,
Of countless kindred lips, wherefrom I heard
Sweet speech of Shakespeare - keep it consecrate
For noble uses! Land of Freedom's Bird,
Fearless and proud! So let him soar that, stirred
By generous joy, all lands may learn from thee
A larger life, and Europe, undeterred
By ancient dreads, dare also to be free
Body and soul, seeing thine eagle gaze
Undazzled, upon Freedom's sun full-blaze.

Sir Edwin Arnold
(1832-1904)

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Re: POEMS - With Tongue In Cheek

Post by Eman » Sat Mar 19, 2016 2:10 am

True Keith, I just have to shake my head and shut of the telly. The bickering is senseless.

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Re: POEMS - With Tongue In Cheek

Post by keithgood838 » Mon Mar 28, 2016 12:58 pm

Hi Eman, here is a classic short poem:

ETERNITY

He who binds himself to joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.

William Blake

It is thought that the poem may have resulted from Blake's
encounter with a butterfly. It provides an insight into the nature
of life; beauty and joy cannot be possessed except in the minds
of shallow people. Keeping a beautiful butterfly can only be achieved
at the expense of the insect's life. The poem also points to the selfish
act set against the reward of the selfless gesture.

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Post by keithgood838 » Sat Apr 23, 2016 7:35 pm

Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564,
and died 23 April 1616.

SONNET 33

Full many a glorious morning have I seen,
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green;
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy:
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride,
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
With all truimphant splendour on my brow,
But out alack, he was but one hour mine.
The region cloud hath masked him from me now,
Yet him for this, my love no whit disdaineth,
Suns of the world may stain, when heaven's
sun staineth.

William Shakespeare

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Re: POEMS - With Tongue In Cheek

Post by Eman » Sun Apr 24, 2016 8:42 pm

Hi Keith,
Thanks for the poems! :-)
Looking forward to some new originals from you!

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Post by ROBERT M. » Mon Apr 25, 2016 3:34 am

Coincidence .........with it being England's patron St Georges day :)
"My Tears Will Fall Now That You're Gone,
I Can't Help But Cry, But I Must Go On" :(

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Post by keithgood838 » Tue Apr 26, 2016 9:50 am

UPSTAGED IN SIXTEEN

Finding himself in a supporting role
and denied his spotlight place this year,
St George was outshone by the Sovereign,
his young namesake and superstar Shakespeare.

Keith Good

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Post by ROBERT M. » Wed Apr 27, 2016 3:35 am

:) :)
"My Tears Will Fall Now That You're Gone,
I Can't Help But Cry, But I Must Go On" :(

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Post by keithgood838 » Thu Apr 28, 2016 11:35 am

HILLSBOROUGH

They strode through the grim aftermath
of the cruel, preventably tragic occurrence,
were emboldened by the darkness of incompetence,
lies, cover-ups and misrepresentation
and, at long last, were lulled by the sweet
sound of vindication.
Never averting their gaze from a golden horizon
despite rained-on hopes and dreams wind-blown,
and sustained by a solidarity that brightly shone,
they never walked alone ...

Keith Good
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Re: POEMS - With Tongue In Cheek

Post by ROBERT M. » Sat Apr 30, 2016 3:34 am

Nicely said Keith :) ............after 27 years of hurt for the families :(
"My Tears Will Fall Now That You're Gone,
I Can't Help But Cry, But I Must Go On" :(

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Post by keithgood838 » Sat Apr 30, 2016 12:02 pm

Thanks Robert, I was hoping that you, a kindred spirit,
would put your seal of approval on the piece. Also it is
pleasing that the Matt Monro website enabled us to add
our pennyworth of fellow-feeling for the families.

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Post by keithgood838 » Thu May 12, 2016 7:06 pm

I was delighted to read, in this month's issue of the West Cork
magazine, about my cousin Anna Gabriel's scintillating appearance
on Ireland's foremost live t.v. programme, The Late Late Show.
Anna was plucked from the horrors of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
and adopted by my first cousin Robert and his wife Helen.
The report brought forth this verse:

REPRISED REFULGENCE

A new star discovered before
and colourfully covered by
The Opinion, as she once more
lit up the media sky,
refreshingly like heavenly manna -
a Gabriel whose name is Anna.

Keith Good

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Re: POEMS - With Tongue In Cheek

Post by ROBERT M. » Mon May 16, 2016 4:10 am

Keith, as Mrs Brown would say ............that's nice :)
"My Tears Will Fall Now That You're Gone,
I Can't Help But Cry, But I Must Go On" :(

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Post by karl » Wed May 18, 2016 6:20 pm

ROBERT M. wrote:Keith, as Mrs Brown would say ............that's nice :)
Yes and we all know what she's really trying to say !!! :oops:

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Re: POEMS - With Tongue In Cheek

Post by keithgood838 » Wed May 18, 2016 7:49 pm

Thanks Robert, and good luck to Hull AFC on their playoff
decider versus Sheffield Wednesday. :)

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