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aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

if you have a poem you would like to be read, put it in here (except the ones that i already read elsewhere, of which, there are some)

technically, anybody may do a reading of any poem. recently i been jammin to mary oliver and a buncha haiku from the ol' classics

if you would have never read a poem for a recital or recording and would like a suggestion, here is a thing i recommend: https://www.loc.gov/programs/poetry-and-literature/poet-laureate/poet-laureate-projects/poetry-180/how-to-read-a-poem-out-loud/

if you would like some inspiration for a poem to read, here is a reading of mary oliver's "Wild Geese": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv_4xmh_WtE

i shall post a poem and a recording as soon as i find one, which is right...now

# ? Nov 12, 2020 01:29

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 12:14

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

https://voca.ro/182vgIzM837Y

quote:

I Go Down To The Shore

I go down to the shore in the morning
and depending on the hour the waves
are rolling in or moving out,
and I say, oh, I am miserable,
what shall�
what should I do? And the sea says
in its lovely voice:
Excuse me, I have work to do.

# ? Nov 12, 2020 01:29

Chewbecca: Just chillin' : )

Old Man Platypus, by Banjo Paterson

Far from the trouble and toil of town,
Where the reed beds sweep and shiver,
Look at a fragment of velvet brown,
Old Man Platypus drifting down,
Drifting along the river.

And he plays and dives in the river bends
In a style that is most elusive;
With few relations and fewer friends,
For Old Man Platypus descends
From a family most exclusive.

He shares his burrow beneath the bank
With his wife and his son and daughter
At the roots of the reeds and the grasses rank;
And the bubbles show where our hero sank
To its entrance under water.

Safe in their burrow below the falls
They live in a world of wonder,
Where no one visits and no one calls,
They sleep like little brown billiard balls
With their beaks tucked neatly under.

And he talks in a deep unfriendly growl
As he goes on his journey lonely;
For he's no relation to fish nor fowl,
Nor to bird nor beast, nor to horned owl;
In fact, he's the one and only!

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# ? Nov 12, 2020 01:44

Macnult

Skateboarding, by Peter Davis

I skate for me and my homeboys!
We grind and carve!
Let�s skate! We yell that poo poo, Tina.
We loving yell it!
We�re behind the grocery store, Tina,
shredding this curb and
John Law comes up and is like
Scram! Fuckers! So lame!
And I�m adjusting my beret.
And Tina, my skate Betty, I know
you love me, but I can�t
even explain how much
I will skate or die!

# ? Nov 12, 2020 02:02

Macnult

a blinking light, by macnult

sometimes i see
a blinking light
across the river
doing blinky things
and i'm like yeah so
i time my own blinking
to create the illusion
that the light is always on
and i'm just like drat
this is how god feels

# ? Nov 12, 2020 02:05

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

Chewbecca posted:

Old Man Platypus, by Banjo Paterson

https://voca.ro/1lXiNkDJONlb

:platypus:

# ? Nov 12, 2020 02:10

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

Macnult posted:

Skateboarding, by Peter Davis

https://voca.ro/1mRzTwD7DIup

neat

# ? Nov 12, 2020 02:15

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

Macnult posted:

a blinking light, by macnult

https://voca.ro/1btrDGNUvfr4

a fine words from macnult

# ? Nov 12, 2020 02:18

Stoner Sloth

I'm sure it's quite well known but always liked this one:

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# ? Nov 12, 2020 02:31

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

Stoner Sloth posted:

I'm sure it's quite well known but always liked this one:

https://voca.ro/1nKWGZ1J483C

roberto frosterino

# ? Nov 12, 2020 02:42

Bright Bart: False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped

If you tell me this doesn't count I cut you

quote:

Oh Shenandoah, I hear you calling,
Hi-o, you rolling river.
Oh Shenandoah, I long to hear you.
Hi-o, I'm bound away,
'Cross the wide, Mis-sou-ri.

Mis-sou-ri, She's a mighty river.
Hi-o, you rolling river.
When she rolls down, her topsails shiver,
Hi-o, I'm bound away,
'Cross the wide, Mis-sou-ri.

Farewell my dearest, I'm bound to leave you.
Hi-o, you rolling river.
Oh Shenandoah, I'll not deceive you.
Hi-o, I'm bound away,
'Cross the wide Mis-sou-ri.

# ? Nov 12, 2020 02:46

Heather Papps: hello friend

aldantefax posted:

https://voca.ro/1mRzTwD7DIup

neat

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# ? Nov 12, 2020 02:54

owlhawk911: come chill with me, in byob

a Poem about Selling Out for OP to Read

taking shelter from the cold
getting comfy, growing old
partaking of the finest potions
abandoning your youthful notions
no more pain now only pleasure
luxury but never leisure
everything in life has its price
sometimes nice things aren't so nice
take it easy, slow your roll
don't let your lifestyle cost your soul

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# ? Nov 12, 2020 03:10

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

Bright Bart posted:

If you tell me this doesn't count I cut you

I don't know how to sing this one particularly well (or at all) so I can only give you this:

https://voca.ro/11z8ZrZhz2ZI

if i can figure out how to do it properly i will put in a recording

will put this here for later analysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khxx3sCVhtE

aldantefax fucked around with this message at 03:18 on Nov 12, 2020

# ? Nov 12, 2020 03:15

Bright Bart: False. There is only one electron and it has never stopped

aldantefax posted:

I don't know how to sing this one particularly well (or at all) so I can only give you this:

https://voca.ro/11z8ZrZhz2ZI

if i can figure out how to do it properly i will put in a recording

No way

# ? Nov 12, 2020 03:17

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

owlhawk911 posted:

a Poem about Selling Out for OP to Read

https://voca.ro/1cNqTJMhWwku

quality submission, my friend, quality

# ? Nov 12, 2020 03:25

TedHornsby: Refined Taste

stacked golden pyramids
and a few sips of beer
three minutes later
what's that? i can't hear.

lost in the mindscape.
but i got no fear
never forget
my homeboy's right here.

few hours later
punch through with a grin
now i'm ready
for the fun to begin

zebra-striped sky
all purple & green
one giant eye
and all that it's seen

egg in the sky
not just a moon
the queen keeps it warm
it'll hatch sometime soon

sharing our memories
of friends since long past
their ghosts keep us warm
but nothing can last

night draws to a close
but the drugs soldier on
can't seem to care
what planet i'm on

now one to one
sharing thoughts with a grin
where does man end
and chair truly begin?

# ? Nov 12, 2020 03:27

Chewbecca: Just chillin' : )

My router, by Chewbecca

gently caress you router
Why do you stop working when I'm trying to chill
With time to kill
But not when I'm at work
With work to shirk
gently caress you router
I've got threads to post
I don't want to receive an email
Even from a female
gently caress you router
I just want to post

# ? Nov 12, 2020 03:30

SIDS Vicious

i tried my hand at writing a poem it is about my son

for so long life meant suffering
and then you came along
and while i sometimes still hurt
i can look at you and heal a little
you told me once i made your heart smile
often that thought passes through my mind
it keeps me going when im at my darkest
and when im at my brightest
my
heart
smiles
too

# ? Nov 12, 2020 03:34

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

Chewbecca posted:

My router, by Chewbecca

https://voca.ro/1av0hWKV8dyU
https://voca.ro/1fIsAkV37cCy - my mind has been opened

Sid Vicious posted:

i tried my hand at writing a poem it is about my son

https://voca.ro/17kl1ZZPI1GT

good poem for a good lad

# ? Nov 12, 2020 03:38

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

TedHornsby posted:

.

https://voca.ro/11OsYe0IZIND

content that delivers

# ? Nov 12, 2020 03:42

PHIZ KALIFA: #mood

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42541/conversation-56d2211ab459b

We smile at each other
and I lean back against the wicker couch.
How does it feel to be dead? I say.
You touch my knees with your blue fingers.
And when you open your mouth,
a ball of yellow light falls to the floor
and burns a hole through it.
Don�t tell me, I say. I don't want to hear.
Did you ever, you start,
wear a certain kind of silk dress
and just by accident,
so inconsequential you barely notice it,
your fingers graze that dress
and you hear the sound of a knife cutting paper,
you see it too
and you realize how that image
is simply the extension of another image,
that your own life
is a chain of words
that one day will snap.
Words, you say, young girls in a circle, holding hands,
and beginning to rise heavenward
in their confirmation dresses,
like white helium balloons,
the wreaths of flowers on their heads spinning,
and above all that,
that�s where I�m floating,
and that�s what it�s like
only ten times clearer,
ten times more horrible.
Could anyone alive survive it?

(the image of the wreaths spinning over the head is seriously, oh my goodness. profound)

crimes

# ? Nov 12, 2020 04:01

Macnult

aldantefax posted:

https://voca.ro/1mRzTwD7DIup

neat

aldantefax posted:

https://voca.ro/1btrDGNUvfr4

a fine words from macnult

lol these are great thank you

# ? Nov 12, 2020 04:03

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

PHIZ KALIFA posted:

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42541/conversation-56d2211ab459b

https://voca.ro/14yRddIDyvlJ

oops at ball line

i'll be back later, kind and beautiful poetic ones

# ? Nov 12, 2020 04:28

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

i'll start poemsing again in a bit

# ? Nov 12, 2020 06:31

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

quote:

SELF-PORTRAIT
by Mary Oliver

I wish I was twenty and in love with life
and still full of beans.

Onward, old legs!
There are the long, pale dunes; on the other side
the roses are blooming and finding their labor
no adversity to the spirit.

Upward, old legs! There are the roses, and there is the sea
shining like a song, like a body
I want to touch

though I�m not twenty
and won�t be again but ah! seventy. And still
in love with life. And still
full of beans.

https://voca.ro/19phYPfpVE9y

this one's for all the bean havers

# ? Nov 12, 2020 07:44

owlhawk911: come chill with me, in byob

i'm all outta beans

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# ? Nov 12, 2020 07:45

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

quote:

On Meditating, Sort Of: Mary Oliver

Meditation, so I�ve heard, is best accomplished
if you entertain a certain strict posture.
Frankly, I prefer just to lounge under a tree.
So why should I think I could ever be successful?

Some days I fall asleep, or land in that
even better place � half asleep � where the world,
spring, summer, autumn, winter �
flies through my mind in its
hardy ascent and its uncompromising descent.

So I just lie like that, while distance and time
reveal their true attitudes: they never
heard of me, and never will, or ever need to.

Of course I wake up finally
thinking, how wonderful to be who I am,
made out of earth and water,
my own thoughts, my own fingerprints �
all that glorious, temporary stuff.

https://voca.ro/1flpmv67u8cW

g'night everybody! post more poems for tomorrow

# ? Nov 12, 2020 07:52

pork never goes bad

My Brothers Have Not Read “Little Women”

Scarlett Curtis

We sailed to Treasure Island,
Became Lord of the Flies,
We saw ourselves in Holden C,
Damaged, sad and wise.

We gave our time to Oliver,
Our hearts to Spider-man.
Followed Charlie to the factory,
Took flight with Peter Pan.

Your words are universal.
Your characters are true.
Your stories transcend gender,
But women write books too.

# ? Nov 12, 2020 08:01

TedHornsby: Refined Taste

aldantefax posted:

https://voca.ro/11OsYe0IZIND

content that delivers

Thank you! It is original. I wrote it after a particularly intense LSD trip. :-)

# ? Nov 12, 2020 17:04

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

pork never goes bad posted:

My Brothers Have Not Read “Little Women”

Scarlett Curtis

https://voca.ro/15bHyV8n2qm3

deep

# ? Nov 12, 2020 23:37

TedHornsby: Refined Taste

For anyone wondering, man ends & chair begins beneath the folds of infinity.

# ? Nov 13, 2020 00:47

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

quote:

The Other Kingdoms

Consider the other kingdoms. The
trees, for example, with their mellow-sounding
titles: oak, aspen, willow.
Or the snow, for which the peoples of the north
have dozens of words to describe its
different arrivals. Or the creatures, with their
thick fur, their shy and wordless gaze. Their
infallible sense of what their lives
are meant to be. Thus the world
grows rich, grows wild, and you too,
grow rich, grow sweetly wild, as you too
were born to be.

~ Mary Oliver

https://voca.ro/1f318pxDGzKF

every time mary oliver writes the word "wild" i am a fan, but also, my folks were eating and stirring forks or something

# ? Nov 13, 2020 02:34

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

aldantefax posted:

your life is your life

don�t let it be clubbed into dank submission.

be on the watch.

there are ways out.

there is light somewhere.

it may not be much light but

it beats the darkness.

(1-7)

�The Laughing Heart.� The Laughing Heart. Black Sparrow Press, 1993.

https://voca.ro/1iwg2k7fJvrH

I wish I knew where that orange book of chuck's poems went

# ? Nov 13, 2020 04:11

owlhawk911: come chill with me, in byob

another poem for op to read

my calm, steady voice
renders shitposts as mp3s
i cast them into the digital sea
perhaps my true love will hear one, and be drawn t-(incoming message noise)
alas, my art goes ignored. they'd rather show bobs and madturbate

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# ? Nov 13, 2020 04:37

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

owlhawk911 posted:

another poem for op to read

https://voca.ro/1bI4Tm0ZJvvt

draownt

# ? Nov 13, 2020 05:09

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

I did order more poetry books in the hopes that I may find interesting poems that aren't all just terrifically wonderful masterworks by Mary Oliver, need some variety in the garden of words. I will go fetch some haiku to read in a moment

# ? Nov 13, 2020 05:11

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

aldantefax posted:

near-death season

sunfire forbore the shelter the cold over the ink that etches

us // i am waiting to sieve more loam & more breath from

the hush that surrounds // all used up i am fallen & rooted

but never sit still // the bark-carven glyphs stay charred //

the strobes of mourning bless the dark patterns & the still

waters of the womb // the lake of decay smears the cobwebs

ethereal // soon the moths will spin silver silk // the brood of

black magic & alchemy twines soft the chosen lameness //

abuse & trauma legacy + genes still the reasons i feel what i

feel

https://voca.ro/1kzyKHVsSav6

punished

# ? Nov 13, 2020 05:24

aldantefax: ALWAYS BE MECHFISHIN'

aldantefax posted:

fetch your haiku books
select a poem to read us
post it in the yob

https://voca.ro/19GFTpPEjdFU

aldantefax posted:

autumn wind --
with two different patterns
two plates

so lonesome
when I write my name --
summer dawn

pond smelt
both in life and death
have their bodies bent

saffron in bloom --
the movie yesterday
murdered a man

the soul, the breasts,
and all else are held in the arms
when autumn arrives

beautifully
the cremation ends
before noon

https://voca.ro/1gBeyObRwVcS

i said three but i did three and three

# ? Nov 13, 2020 05:31

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# ? Apr 26, 2024 12:14

vanisher

pretty good poets
in this thread
this isn't a poem
good job all

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# ? Nov 13, 2020 06:41

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