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Post by bamajohn1 on Nov 25, 2010 1:20:56 GMT -5
It's Thanksgiving here in the US and truth be told, here in the state of Alabama, the holiday many are looking forward to as much or even more is the Iron Bowl college football game between the University of Alabama Crimson Tide and the Auburn Tigers. This takes place the day after Thanksgiving, Friday. The rivalry has often been cited as the greatest in college football and one of the greatest in all of sport. It is hard to explain the magnitude to those who have not lived here; but if one does ever find themselves residing here; the first thing they will be compelled to do is choose either Alabama or Auburn as 'their team'. This is always a big game, but with Alabama being the defending national champion and Auburn being in line to play for this year's title if they get by the Tide, it will be the most anticipated college game in all of the country so far this year. I say this knowing full well the game is taken too seriously by a large segment of fans. ![:-/](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/undecided.png) Not because of the game itself, but because of the bickering that can go on between the rival fans for 365 days a year. I know that part is not healthy, but the sportsmanship of the game itself is something to behold! The players exhibit great class and do not resort to late hits and such that is common in rivalry games; especially in a rough and tough sport like American style football. I dug out a poem I wrote after Alabama suffered a disappointing last second loss to Auburn in 1997 in which it had the game apparently wrapped up but made a devastating boneheaded play call that cost them the game. ![:'(](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cry.png) It is a sort of lament and also sort of a celebration of the sportsmanship displayed on the field. The Iron Bowl Sonnet Everybody said Auburn was going to win in a rout. What could've, should've been, will not make Bama fans pout. I am sitting here pondering what could have been. Monday Morning Quarterbacking, the 8th Deadly Sin. Character, integrity, dedication; that is what this game is about. Qualities this country is slowly growing without. In sport, taunting, prancing, and dancing seem to be a birthright; But in 21 years watching the Iron Bowl, I have never seen a fight. There is one reason this game is the ultimate sports spectacle. Trash talking is not allowed, it's dumped in a receptacle! If you want to put this game in further perspective. It does not take Sherlock Holmes, or even a bad detective. The reason this game could draw a two million crowd, Is the way the kids play, makes their mommas proud! Author: John B. the poet laureate of anyone who will claim me ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) 101,000 people will be in the stadium and roughly 3.5 million of the state's 4.5 million people will be enjoying the 2010 edition of the Iron Bowl via tv! Millions more will be watching across the US and even around the world! PS: Monday Morning Quarterbacking is a term that means reflecting obsessively on Monday about plays in the game the past weekend that could have changed the outcome of the game. I thought it would be cool if we started a thread based on literary art; similar to the one for painting. I don't have a lot of poems that are not too personal to share, but I hope others do! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) I know my bro maddog is a published poet and writing has been sort of his life's work/passion, so I'm hoping he'll contribute something as well! ![;)](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/HollH/smileys/10nid1z.gif)
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Post by maddogtim74 on Nov 25, 2010 1:36:22 GMT -5
Great idea big bro! I like that poem too, very descriptive of a classic rivalry. Here's one with a bit of musical reference, I have others that even mention The Kinks.
Water On The Smoke
Feet on the planks
feeling pier pressure
above high or hell water
I’ve jumped to
conclusions but forgotten
how to swim again.
- Tim L. Taylor - October 29, 2002
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Post by maddogtim74 on Nov 25, 2010 1:42:34 GMT -5
This one was written in a darker period of my life, and many of the words used in it are song titles of a metal band called Angel Dust. It also has the obvious Kinks reference.
Dead End Street
The liquid angel endangers my sanity should I surrender and become addicted to serenity
nightmarish memories follow me follow me follow me
as I run through neverending black rain bleeding but I feel no pain
chase me now and disbelieve me later the world is an equal-opportunity hater
should I trust fallen angels and find security in insanity
should I give in give up go down this path I share with the apes of wrath
the road of mice and many that few realize they’ve taken
mistaken for an exit instead it’s a dead end.
- Tim Taylor - January 23, 2006
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Post by bamajohn1 on Nov 25, 2010 1:48:20 GMT -5
Those are some deep (purple) waters you are delving into bro on Water On The Smoke! ![;)](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/HollH/smileys/10nid1z.gif) Excellent stuff! ![:-X](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/HollH/smileys/f4ntab.gif) I'm so glad you've left those valleys behind that inspired this (Dead End Street) very clever poem! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by maddogtim74 on Nov 25, 2010 2:02:28 GMT -5
Here's one to celebrate sweet slumber:
Sleep
O, to know the blessings of bliss found in my bed’s heavenly abyss;
to dream away in another land where peace divine holds my hand;
to listen to those sounds unheard by all who speak the written word;
to rest in slumber’s solitude and have my solemn soul renewed;
to feel my chest rise and fall as I listen to sleep’s angelic call;
to experience this majestic state in which hearts feel no hate;
O, to be clothed in sleep’s attire with closed eyes, soon to retire.
- Tim L. Taylor - July 2, 1999
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Post by maddogtim74 on Nov 25, 2010 2:04:11 GMT -5
Those are some deep (purple) waters you are delving into bro on Water On The Smoke! ![;)](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/HollH/smileys/10nid1z.gif) Excellent stuff! ![:-X](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/HollH/smileys/f4ntab.gif) I'm so glad you've left those valleys behind that inspired this (Dead End Street) very clever poem! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Thanks big bro! I may have been depressed back then, but it was also a very fertile period in my creative life.
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Post by sleepwalker24 on Nov 25, 2010 6:06:57 GMT -5
Wow! Great poems Tim and John You are both very talented,can't believe you've never mentioned your poems before - they're really very good I especially liked 'Sleep' Tim - beautiful! Hope you'll both share some more with us ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by maddogtim74 on Nov 25, 2010 13:18:29 GMT -5
Thank you very much Sleepwalker! I will definitely post some more.
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Post by bamajohn1 on Nov 25, 2010 14:19:40 GMT -5
Wow! Great poems Tim and John You are both very talented,can't believe you've never mentioned your poems before - they're really very good I especially liked 'Sleep' Tim - beautiful! Hope you'll both share some more with us ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Be careful what you wish for sleepwalker! What I'm particularly prone to do is write 'odes' to a particular business or social setting I've been involved in! I remember one 'ode'e' but goodie had about 50 rhymed couplets dedicated to associates. Don't think it hasn't crossed my mind here ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) ! Actually, I have let rhymes slip into some of those dreadful puns and often slip alliteration into what appears to be ordinary prose. I actually was quite amused at the faux sort of Irish poetry I did around the 'scalawag, carpetbagger' references I made a few days ago on the Kinky Fans thread. There were actually US historical references, a psychological one, a couple of musical references, and an anagram thrown in a couple of lines! ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) So it may have been bad, but it was a 'smart bad' ![:-[](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/HollH/smileys/27yd7xljpg.gif) ! Tim, in his heart of hearts, would be a professional poet. It's the kind of bug or obsession for Tim that musicians have I guess. Tim writes also as a sort of catharsis. I write more to commemorate or for my own amusement; which tends to be more 'personal' or beholden to the 'setting' being commemorated. I've referred to Tim's reams of puns on the board; while I really knew he has a database of poetry too. ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) When I say Tim has plenty of 'pfun', I'm talking from personal experience that Tim can hit you with puns like an assembly line of rhymes coming off a rapper with true flow's tongue. ![:-X](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/HollH/smileys/f4ntab.gif) I've been a bit surprised that Tim has been so 'composed' here and not shown that side of himself very much. I'm glad to see he's been drawn out a bit ![:-X](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/HollH/smileys/f4ntab.gif) ! I look forward to other Kinky fan contributions as well! And thank you sleepwalker for your kind words, sentiment, and encouragment! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Note from Johm's Inner Adult: For heaven's sake Johm, what the world needs now is a little peace, love, and understandin'; so go about yer way and stop yer scalawaggin'; just congrat Martin on his fine carpetbaggin'; and as for yer spin of the ole puns Johm, yer skills are a bit a laggin'!
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Post by HollyH on Nov 25, 2010 22:52:42 GMT -5
I love how you started this thread with your own poem, John -- but I bet you knew you'd flush Tim's out into public.
And I'm so glad you did. Love reading your work, guys! (And I'm glad that that "dark" period is behind you, Tim.)
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Post by bamajohn1 on Nov 26, 2010 0:12:09 GMT -5
I love how you started this thread with your own poem, John -- but I bet you knew you'd flush Tim's out into public. And I'm so glad you did. Love reading your work, guys! (And I'm glad that that "dark" period is behind you, Tim.) Well, I felt that you hadn't run me off yet Holly, so why not go for broke (he says ![:P](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/tongue.png) firmly in cheek, I think ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) )! Thanks a lot Holly! Yes, a secondary motivation was the strong feeling that this would smoke Tim out! ![:-X](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/HollH/smileys/f4ntab.gif)
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Post by sleepwalker24 on Nov 26, 2010 9:54:51 GMT -5
Thank you very much Sleepwalker! I will definitely post some more. ![;)](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/HollH/smileys/10nid1z.gif) I look foward to reading them Tim ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by sleepwalker24 on Nov 26, 2010 10:03:51 GMT -5
I liked your little poem John - next time i want a mention as well as Martin though! ;D You should definately get to work writing an ode about this forum and its members - bet it would be great! And by the way i like your 'terrible puns' and musical references, although i'm not always the sharpest knife in the drawer so i'm sure i've probably missed a few good ones ![::)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/eyesroll.png) Its great that you've exposed Tim's talent for poetry,I agree with Holly - I bet you had a bit of a hidden agenda starting this thread - its great that you did though because Tim really is a very good poet,look foward to reading more of his stuff - and yours of course! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png) Youv'e reminded me that I promised to post more paintings soon so I really must get round to it. I'd like to start a new one but I probably won't get chance before Xmas Anyway,hope to hear more from you both soon
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Post by maddogtim74 on Nov 27, 2010 18:30:04 GMT -5
Here's one of my punny ones:
Mantis To Society
If dogma is man’s best friend, then he’s barking up the wrong tree. The love of cotton is the root of all weevils.
If you want to stay in the KKK, better practice what you bleach. If Pharisees had been cave men, they would have cast the first stone.
When Dracula lost his glasses, he was blind as a bat. Constipation got him fired so he had an Ex-lax to grind.
He wanted to work as a miner but couldn’t get in on the ground floor. He never sold the backpacks, so the boss said “Take a hike!”
The chairman of the board had a checkered past. Microsoft may be a monopoly but it’s no trivial pursuit.
I bought a tornado watch cos I wanted time to fly. She thought she’d bonded with Elmer but it was too good to be glue.
She’s faster than a speeding ballet, more powerful than a mocha votive. I dreamed I was a spastic track star, my imagination was running wild.
I fell for the acrobat and she went head-over-heels for me. It’s not the thighs, it’s how you use them.
She disliked her pen-pal cos he only spoke in four-word letters. He wrote a song about movie popcorn - “Like a Bridge Over Troubled Butter.”
The man was truly boring - his eyes could pierce right through you. She was deaf and invisible but that’s neither hear nor there.
He did everything right but for all the wrong reasons. The gypsy retracted her guess cos she wanted her Hunch Back.
Give a man a book and he’ll dream for a night, teach him to write and he’ll dream for a lifetime.
Today is the worst day of the best of my life. I’ve been the butt of many jokes but I know the end is near.
- Tim L. Taylor - October 26, 2000
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Post by sleepwalker24 on Nov 27, 2010 18:49:58 GMT -5
![:-X](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/HollH/smileys/f4ntab.gif) Brilliant Tim! I love it! -Very,very clever, I especially liked the last three verses. Hope theres more to come! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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