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07/20/2008 4:46 PM  
Kelly and JJ, I understand that you have been such a HUGE help on the sculpture. You're right, you do deserve breakfast in bed!! As far as the sunburn - vinegar and ice water will have you tan in no time.

I watched part of the 2005 Mark Twain Award last night honoring Steve Martin and was reminded of a great song writer, Randy Newman:

Mr. President:
We've taken all you've given
But it's gettin' hard to make a livin'
Mr. President have pity on the working man

We ain’t asking you to love us
You may place yourself high above us
Mr. President have pity on the working man

I know it may sound funny
But people ev'ry where are runnin' out of money
We just can't make it by ourself

It is cold and the wind is blowing
We need something to keep us gong
Mr. President have pity on the working man

Maybe you're cheap
Maybe you're lyin'
Maybe you have lost your mind
Maybe you're only thinking 'bout yourself

Too late to run. Too late to cry now
The time has come for us to say good-bye now
Mr. President have pity on the working man
Mr. President have pity on the working man


A Wedding in Cherokee County:
There she is sitting there
Out behind the smoke-house in her rocking chair
She don't do nothin'
She don't say nothin'
She don't feel nothin'
She don't know nothin'
Maybe she's crazy, I don't know
But maybe that's why I love her so
Her papa was a midget
Her mama was a whore
Her grandad was a newsboy 'til he was eighty-four
Man don't you think I know she hates me
Man don't you think I know that she's no good
If she knew how she'd be unfaithful to me
I think she'd kill me if she could
Maybe she's crazy I don't know
But maybe that's why I love her so
I'm not afraid of the greywolf
Who stalks through our forest at dawn
As long as I have her beside me
I have the strength to carry on
Today we will be married
And all the freaks that she knows will be there
And all the people from the village will be there
To congratulate us
I will carry her across the threshold
I will make dim the light
I will attempt to spend my love within her
But though I try with all my might
She will laugh at my mighty sword
She will laugh at my mighty sword
Why must everybody laugh at my mighty sword?
Lord, hep me if you will
Maybe we're both crazy, I don't know
Maybe that's why I love her so

Jennifer
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07/20/2008 5:30 PM  

Hi everyone!  I wanted to share some poems that I wrote after going through a really tough, but good, break up.

 

The man that I miss doesn’t even exist…
How does one give their all and the other only take?
It’s really hard when you find out your true love is a fake.
Every moment you shared, every hug, every kiss
Is now in question as you fall away from bliss.
Was there ever a moment of truth? Was any part of it real? 
How will I ever know; can I even find the strength to deal?
You promised me the world, and left me feeling empty
You took everything from me, yet somehow, for you,  I have empathy.
What a sorry human being you turned out to be.
I am your victim, you did this to me.
I am all that I have now, it’s just me here, alone.
But don’t worry about me, because of you, I’ve grown.
 
 
 
You act like I’m a forgotten song.
You run around like nothing’s wrong.
Your day-to-day is the same as before.
Do you even realize our lives are no more?
Why aren’t you crying? Why aren’t you sad?
Why are you functioning? Why aren’t you mad?
Our dreams are broken; our plans are through.
What happened to us? What happened to you?
I fell in love with a glimmering light.
Now your heart is as dark as night.
Your eyes are gone, your soul is dead.
Why can’t you tell me what went through your head?
Wait…nevermind…..I don’t have the time.
I can’t stay to listen, I can’t wait around.
I have to plant my feet firmly in MY ground.
I’m taking the reins, it’s my turn to steer.
My dreams are becoming more and more clear.
The colors are streaming; I, once again, see the light.
Do something for me? This time, I just might.
There’s no more we, there’s no more ours.
It’s all about me now and I can’t wait to start.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Never Say Never
 
I wanted to tell you about this new feeling I’ve found
It’s the kind where you think there’s nobody around
No one to talk to, No one to see
No one to go out with, No where to be
As quick as it comes, I want it to leave
It leaves me exhausted and struggling to breath
It’s usually accompanied by pain and by tears
Along with the feeling of hopelessness and fear
I wasn’t prepared for it to hit me this way
All I can do is pray to God it won’t stay
I’m trying to get through it, I try to be strong
How did this happen, where did I go wrong
For so many years, I had a best friend
Now, I can’t believe that it came to an end
You told me you’d be there, you said forever
Now I know the true meaning of never say never
I once thought you’d never leave me, that you’d never stray
You’d never lie, hurt, steal, or deceive; that you’d never betray
But you did all of these things, you did them all in one day
Never say never say never, I say
 
 

 

Remember that line I told you to say
When my world was an unnatural shade of gray
It was a part of a song that I so loved to hear
It was a line that when sang to my eye brought a tear
I believe it went something like this:

            “Remind me that we’ll always have eachother
            When everything else is gone”
 
Well…..
I don’t hear your voice, you’re not singing to me
You told me you would, you crossed your heart for me
Everything’s gone now, but where did you go?
I need that reminder, I need it to show
You said we’d have each other, no matter what
Let me say that again, you said no matter what
Remind me that we’ll always have eachother
When everything else is gone..well…don’t bother.

 

I hope you enjoy them....Katie

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07/20/2008 5:59 PM  
Welcome, Katie! I have written poetry most of my life and found it a great way to explore emotions, situations and to heal, and I hope this has done the same for you. I'm hoping this dumb guy realizes what an adorable, smart and talented gal he lost! You'll find many friends here, sweetheart! Welcome!

Jennifer
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07/20/2008 6:01 PM  

Most impressive Katie, you are a welcome addition to this group., You are cute too.

 Yikes Jen might have written about me, there is a scary thought lol.

Greg

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07/20/2008 6:46 PM  
Hi Katie and welcome! your poems are beautiful and i sense the sadness. I'm sorry about your breakup but stay positive and know that there are " other fish in the sea" lol. I recently went through a breakup after 8 years!!
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07/20/2008 7:06 PM  

Hi Katie and thank you for the lovely words. Affairs of the heart are never easy and your first poem  especially, summed up what many of us have felt in the past. Please come back and share more of your thoughts with us, it is nice to know there are people who can still express themselves and who can offer such insight through words. I have often felt that those who love animals deeply approach people with the same regard.

 

Kelly

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07/20/2008 7:19 PM  
Every moment you shared, every hug, every kiss
Is now in question as you fall away from bliss.

 

Katie you will meet the right man for you one day. We have all been through bad situations that seemed so right at the time. Thank you for sharing your poems with us. This forum is about words and sometimes it is the effect they can have upon us. This is not a fun post or a game post and it has to do with thought and feeling oftentimes expressed in music or literature or the spoken word.

Thank you and hang in there, you are better off without him.

 

JJ

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07/20/2008 7:37 PM  

I just learned that Katies full name is Kathleen and she is half irish like me. What song could be more appropriate than this?

I'll take you home again, Kathleen
Across the ocean wild and wide
To where your heart has ever been
Since you were first my bonnie bride.
The roses all have left your cheek.
I've watched them fade away and die
Your voice is sad when e'er you speak
And tears bedim your loving eyes.

Chorus:
Oh! I will take you back, Kathleen
To where your heart will feel no pain
And when the fields are fresh and green
I'll take you to your home again!

I know you love me, Kathleen, dear
Your heart was ever fond and true.
I always feel when you are near
That life holds nothing, dear, but you.
The smiles that once you gave to me
I scarcely ever see them now
Though many, many times I see
A dark'ning shadow on your brow.

Chorus

To that dear home beyond the sea
My Kathleen shall again return.
And when thy old friends welcome thee
Thy loving heart will cease to yearn.
Where laughs the little silver stream
Beside your mother's humble cot
And brightest rays of sunshine gleam
There all your grief will be forgot.

chorus

Katie is also a big fan of St. Patricks day so she is hereby invited to my next ST Pattys day party if she is in the area. We drink, we sing, I get angry looks from boy friends as I draw gaelic tattoos on their girlfriends body parts, it is all in fun and so far no one has sustained permanent injury. I particularly love the song about Kathleen, and heard it pronounced Katleen more often than not as I grew up.

Greg

 

 

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07/20/2008 9:44 PM  

Is it too soon to RSVP?  I'll be there!  :) 

By the way, that song I quoted in my last poem is an Incubus song (Dig).

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07/20/2008 9:46 PM  

Thank you for the kind words!  Writing these poems, and going back and reading them, was definitely theraputic and helped me through a very hard time!

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07/21/2008 6:19 AM  

Katie I have been to one of those parties and you have no idea what you would be getting yourself in for lol. Practice drinking Guinness and Jamesons, start today if you can. You need to build up a tolerance. At least they do not color them green.

You will need to learn all the words to Finnegans Wake as well as this song:

As I was going over the Kilmagenny mountain
I met with captain Farrell and his money he was counting.
I first produced my pistol, and the produced my rapier.
Said stand and deliver, for I am a bold deceiver,

Kertos{je: musha ring dumma do damma da ( tai jotain )
whack for the daddy 'ol
whack for the daddy 'ol
there's whiskey in the jar

I counted out his money, and it made a pretty penny.
I put it in my pocket and I brought it home to Jenny.
She said and she swore, that she never would deceive me,
but the devil take the women, for they never can be easy

Kertos{e, elikk{ Chorus

I went into my chamber, for to take a slumber,
I dreamt of gold and jewels and for sure it was no wonder.
But Jenny took my charges and she filled them up with water,
and send for captain Farrel to be ready for the slaughter.

Chorus

It was early in the morning, before I rose to travel,
the guards were all around me and likewise captain Farrel.
I first produced my pistol, for she stole away my rapier,
but I couldn't shoot the water so a prisoner I was taken.

Chorus

If anyone can aid me, it's my brother in the army,
if I can find his station in Cork or in Killarney.
And if he'll come and save me, we'll go roving near Kilkenny,
and I swear he'll treat me better than me darling sportling Jenny

Chorus

Now some men take delight in the drinking and the roving,
but others take delight in the gambling and the smoking.
But I take delight in the juice of the barley,
and courting pretty Jenny in the morning bright and early

Chorus
I was glad to read your poems and it's good to hear it may have helped some.
 

JJ

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07/21/2008 5:48 PM  

Katie I have been to one of those parties and you have no idea what you would be getting yourself in for lol. Practice drinking Guinness and Jamesons, start today if you can. You need to build up a tolerance.

Excellent advice JJ

Entre Nous lyrics    Rush

We are secrets to each other
Each one's life a novel
No one else has read
Even joined in bonds of love
We're linked to one another
By such slender threads

We are planets to each other
Drifting in our orbits
To a brief eclipse
Each of us a world apart
Alone and yet together
Like two passing ships

[Chorus:]
Just between us
I think it's time for us to recognize
The differences we sometimes fear to show
Just between us
I think it's time for us to realize
The spaces in between
Leave room for you and I to grow

We are strangers to each other
Full of sliding panels
An illusion show
Acting well rehearsed routines
Or playing from the heart?
It's hard for one to know

[Chorus]

We are islands to each other
Building hopeful bridges
On a troubled sea
Some are burned or swept away
Some we would not choose
But we're not always free

[Chorus]

Kelly

 

 

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07/21/2008 7:01 PM  

Let administration handle this person. They should be pitied.
Julie

My favorite Rush song,

Words by neil peart, music by geddy lee and alex lifeson

There's a snake coming out of the darkness
Parade from paradise
End the need for eden
Chase the dreams of merchandise

There is tic and toc in atomic
Leaders make a deal
The cosmic is largely comic
A con they couldn't conceal

There is no safe seat at the feast
Take your best stab at the beast
The night is turning thin
The saint is turning to sin

Raise the art to resistance
Danger dare to be grand
Pride reduced to humble pie
Diamonds down to sand

Take heart from earth and weather
The brightness of new birth
Take heart from the harvest
Shave the harvest from the earth

Reasoning is partly insane
Image just an eyeless game
The night is turning thin
The saint is turning to sin

Miracles will have their claimers
More will bow to rome
He and she are in the house
But there's only me at home

Rose is a rose of splendor
Posed to respond in the end
Lonely things like nights,
I find, end finer with a friend

I hear in the rate of her heart
A tear in the heat of the art

The night turns thin
The saint turns to sin

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07/21/2008 7:57 PM  
You want to conquer
The perpetual fever of jealousy?
I will tell you a great secret:
Just love and become one
With your oneness - heart

Sri Chinmoy

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07/21/2008 9:11 PM  

funny lol.

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07/21/2008 10:28 PM  
I've been gone from this lovely forum for one day..i come back and there is a jealous, lonely, bitter person who cannot appreciate friendship and togetherness. How saaaaad lol. Well my friends, i'm sorry people must be so upset with their own selves and have to use this forum as a catharsis for their bitterness.. on a different note ..i just saw Dark Night and it was pretty good..such a long movie! ... On a different but much talked about note: Oh Greg how i would love to hear you sing!! Have a great night everyone!!

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07/22/2008 6:42 AM  

Ivet let admin handle it please. I am in contact with them (admin). I will start another post so JJs is not hurt by this if need be. This happened before when I said hello to the wrong woman lol. In a way I am flattered but my art and singing are not that good. My work interferes with relationships four or five months out of the year so it is hard to live up to their dreams I guess lol. Just laugh it off, life is too short.

Back to music..

We walked the lonliest mile
We smile without any style
We kiss alltogether wrong
No intention

We lie about each other's drinks
We live without each other thinking what anyone would do
Without me and you

It's like I told you
Only the lonely can play

So hold on here we go
Hold on to nothin we know
I feel so lonely
Way up here

You mention the time we were together
so long ago well I don't remember
all I know is it makes me feel good now.

It's like I told you only the lonely can play
Only the lonely only the lonely can play

Only the lonely only the lonely can play
It's like I told you only the lonely can play
Only the lonely
only the lonely can play

Greg

 

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07/22/2008 7:08 AM  
PS, Ivet you are adorable when you are feisty lol.
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07/22/2008 9:54 AM  
Greg, yes i guess i can become quite feisty sometimes.i guess its the Assyrian side of me :) here is one of my favorites by Jewel:

If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all OK
And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
And useless in times like these
I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
For light does the darkness most fear
My hands are small, I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
And I am never broken
Poverty stole your golden shoes
It didn't steal your laughter
And heartache came to visit me
But I knew it wasn't ever after
We'll fight, not out of spite
For someone must stand up for what's right
'Cause where there's a man who has no voice
There ours shall go singing
My hands are small I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
I am never broken
In the end only kindness matters
In the end only kindness matters
I will get down on my knees, and I will pray
I will get down on my knees, and I will pray
I will get down on my knees, and I will pray
My hands are small I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
And I am never broken
My hands are small I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
And I am never broken
We are never broken
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's mind
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's heart
We are God's eyes
God's hands
God's eyes
We are God's hands
We are God's hands
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07/22/2008 5:40 PM  

Very nice choice Ivet!

Things are back to normal and once again the world is spinning in greased grooves. (Steinbeck I think) 

Another quote from Cannery Row:

Doc: The only thing we have in common is that we're both wrong for each other.

I am off to find some dinner with Kelly. She has been putting in some long hours and deserves some steak and lobster and a vintage red wine.  I need to drink something besides limoncello lol, this is all Carolyns fault. (Cacky). I should mention Carolyn is like my older sister, she advises me about matters of the heart. I just wish she would post something here, she is a lovely sensible woman whom I bet loves literature and music.

Greg

 

 

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