pic-a-thon

Hey, Angeline, think I could have a run down on your soundtrack while you're writing? I could stand to have some of that rub off...
 
Something that has been troubling me

Amina Lawal

Beautiful brown woman,
from slender neck down,
pressed by native soil
for gentle crimes
of touch and baby's birth.

Who will hold her child
while hands release stones?

Link to photo and story
Amina Lawal is a 30 year-old Nigerian mother sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock. If the sentence is carried out, she will buried up to her neck and stoned.
When you follow the link, please take time to sign the letter posted.
 
King Umaru

Some little boy I know wrote this when he was eight years old. I recently realized it has great value as poetry.

King Umaru

King Umaru wears a solar compactor
and a storer cape

He has wings and feather hair
stubby legs and one eye

King Umaru commands the
Knights of the Square Table

he can outrank any emperor
he can dance to Irish music

he can heal himself with solar cubes

King Umaru eats
Klonks (a type of fish)

when he is sick
he eats solar circles

he is also a carnivore
he eats submeat

(artificial meat)

King Umaru lives on Ekroh Celyah
he lives in Olohala town

he controls it

Olohala town is backwards

if another town were inventing
computers

they would invent armor.


(P.S. the best line i think is "he controls it." there's just a world of childhood angst in that. lol)
 
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La Luna Desnuda

la luna desnuda

Si mi olvida
Quiero que sepos una cosa
Que viste morir y nacer

Porque ahora
Y no sabes que hacer
Con la luna desnuda

Sabio que todo vuelve mi boca
Mi patria o mi piedra fresca
Siguire vivo


And now--if I got it right--the translation:

The naked moon

If you forget me
I want you to know one thing
You’ve seen me living and dying

But now
You don’t know what to do
With the naked moon

I know that everything
Comes back to my mouth
My country and my cool stone
I’m still alive
 
Re: Something that has been troubling me

WickedEve said:
Amina Lawal

Beautiful brown woman,
from slender neck down,
pressed by native soil
for gentle crimes
of touch and baby's birth.

Who will hold her child
while hands release stones?

Link to photo and story
Amina Lawal is a 30 year-old Nigerian mother sentenced to death by stoning for having a child out of wedlock. If the sentence is carried out, she will buried up to her neck and stoned.
When you follow the link, please take time to sign the letter posted.

signed my name i pray that it works. but it got me thinking,,..

what bout the sins of the father.
revisted on the mother this time.
why has he not been metioned.
whats his part in this so called crime.
 
Re: Darling Billy

Angeline said:
. . .

the child’s song she knew
and sang once then

she whispers now again

Can you bake a cherry pie Billy boy, Billy boy?
Can you bake a cherry pie, darling Billy?

the sound of tires crying on the
highway driving home

Incredible, Angeline. Bravo, bravo! As good as any poem I have ever read. (* tears and a big sigh at the wonderful ending *)

;)
- Judo
 
I painted my soul on to canvas
But you didn't see what I wanted ,
Your eyes admired the colours ,
The placement of the brush
But you missed the big picture ,
 
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always check

Ladies,
When a lover brings a friend, do you check their backgrounds?
Make photocopies of their hard driving licenses?
Ask for Social Security numbers and check their teeth?
 
I forgot to give credit for the photo to smithpeter. smithpeter thanks for the photo. Actually, I used it without asking, but thanks anyway! :D
 
thanks for the credit

Eve~
I should be thanking you,
your poem is welcome on my photo
 
sp, just curious...

what technique did you use to make that background.jpg?
 
I need to remember,

it all happened so long ago

#1 the background is made from a piece of paper that was stained on the opposite side by some fluid. The ink bled through and then was scanned. Actually there were a bunch of photos of women on the other side and it gets boring after that.

#2 it is a scan from a book of poems by an author whose book I needed to return to the library and did not write down her name. It was mostly about animals and city living, the contrast and the uncertainty of life in small towns versus large cities.

#3 I left my cake out in the rain, I can't believe I'll never have that recipe again, ooooh nooo!
Oh no! :eek:

#4 none of your infernal bees wax.

so stop bugging me

:p
 
Re: I need to remember,

smithpeter said:
it all happened so long ago

#1 the background is made from a piece of paper that was stained on the opposite side by some fluid. The ink bled through and then was scanned. Actually there were a bunch of photos of women on the other side and it gets boring after that.

#2 it is a scan from a book of poems by an author whose book I needed to return to the library and did not write down her name. It was mostly about animals and city living, the contrast and the uncertainty of life in small towns versus large cities.

#3 I left my cake out in the rain, I can't believe I'll never have that recipe again, ooooh nooo!
Oh no! :eek:

#4 none of your infernal bees wax.

so stop bugging me

:p
#1 does sound boring but I wonder about the fluid.
#2 sounds like a lie.
#3 well, you can't have you cake and eat in the rain.
#4 speaking of bugging, did you get my bug haiku?
 
Bug-ku?

Eve, are you writing bug-ku? Man, the poets on this board just keep getting weirder.

And that MacArthurs Park song gives me a bad headache. Dave Barry says it is the worst song in history and I tend to agree. lol
 
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well, I have wasted too much time trying
to get the quote about the "cold dead fingers"
about some guns and some stupid slogan.
anyway,
You will only pry my vintage
1975 Topcon /Super Dm 35mm slr
from my cold dead fingers
if we have an altercation in the grave,
you a shooter of bullets,
me a shooter of image and souls.
so we have something in common,
taking things, life and souls.

you can have my camera
I don't want that pretty gun
 
flooding the board

there,
have you just wanted to say, "there"
and it is done?
I want to say "done" when it is not.
so there, we are all big dummies.
so there
 
Re: Bug-ku?

Angeline said:
Eve, are you writing bug-ku? Man, the poets on this board just keep getting weirder.
Yes, I have been writing bugku. I'm a bugku collector.

stomped spider
forgotten web
sticky face

fly floats
sip contemplated
last tea bag

Red Cross
no donation
mosquito bite
 
Nice Bugku Eve

And what an amazing photo. I have never seen a spider do anything quite like that. Think she's a descendent of Charlotte? Maybe she has another web that says "Some Pig."
 
sp said something to me about it looking as though the spider did some repair work to its web. It really is unusal. I wonder if sp kept tearing up the poor thing's web until it had to do that!
 
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