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GMAFB!! I graduated from HS in 1958!!
Even birds know not to land downwind!
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Recommend Googling and reading:
Ozymandias, Shelley
The Second Coming, Yeats
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An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
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I tried to think of a poet,
but it was no use.
The only one I could think of,
was Dr. Seuss.
Black Cows Matter!
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Most people don't have what it takes to get old
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I tried to think of a poet,
but it was no use.
The only one I could think of,
was Dr. Seuss. Aggggggh!!
Most people don't have what it takes to get old
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There once was a man from Nantucket....
“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”
― G. Orwell
"Why can't men kill big game with the same cartridges women and kids use?"
_Eileen Clarke
"Unjust authority confers no obligation of obedience."
- Alexander Hamilton
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A man said to the universe:
“Sir, I exist!”
“However,” replied the universe,
“The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation.”
Stephen Crane
Joyce Kilmer
Robert Frost
Omar Kyan
Rudyard Kipling
Brenden Behan
Jonathan Swift
A tale told by an idiot,
full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Wlm Shakespeare
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it."
Francis Marion - The Swamp Fox
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Frost
Emily dickinson
Longfellow
e e Cummings
Siegfried sassoon
Coleridge
I like many individual poems without liking the whole compass of their works
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Poems: out out. Because I could not wait for death. Ryme if the ancient mariner. The man I shot. Evangeline.
anyone lived in a pretty how town
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Left out inadvertently the painter with words, Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"suffering humanity" today might be painted as average Americans drowning in the materialism: "on a freeway fifty lanes wide/ a concrete continent/ spaced with bland billboards/ illustrating imbecile illusions of happiness"
Coney Island of the Mind
“To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. It is best to plan for all eventualities then believe in success, and only cross the failure bridge if you come to it."
Francis Marion - The Swamp Fox
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always liked W.B. Yeats, especially this simple one…
“Youth and Age”
Much did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.
Last edited by Doc_Holidude; 02/21/24.
Livin ain’t killed me yet, but it’s workin on it!
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Wallace McCrae who wrote Reincarnation!
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I don’t know. The original was first known as Jack Hall, circa 1719. It evolved through several iterations until the Vietnam era and is now titled Sammy Small. Dos Ringos recorded it 2008.
Don’t recite it at work unless you’re in the military, and drunk.
I am..........disturbed.
Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass. -Twain
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Jack Kerouac - On The Road
"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so, on the road."
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Thinking about it, I guess that I don't have a favorite poet; I just have favorite poems.
Not a real member - just an ordinary guy who appreciates being able to hang around and say something once in awhile.
Happily Trapped In the Past (Thanks, Joe)
Not only a less than minimally educated person, but stupid and out of touch as well.
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Elizabeth Walton
Mary had a little lamb
His feet was black as soot
And everywhere that Mary went
His sooty foot he put.
That's as poetic as I get , unless you count John Prine as a poet.
Grumpy old man with a gun.....Do not touch .
Better to be judged by 12 than carried by 6.
Don't bother my monument and I'll leave yours alone.
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