kafka Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 Please debate the greatness of this poem: AS kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies dráw fláme; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell’s Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves—goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying Whát I do is me: for that I came. Í say móre: the just man justices; Kéeps gráce: thát keeps all his goings graces; Acts in God’s eye what in God’s eye he is— Chríst—for Christ plays in ten thousand places, Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his To the Father through the features of men’s faces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 De fish bite de bate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafka Posted January 25, 2009 Author Share Posted January 25, 2009 [quote name='Saint Therese' post='1761460' date='Jan 25 2009, 04:05 PM']De fish bite de bate.[/quote] yeah the title is pretty provocative Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icelandic_iceskater Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 well that's a pretty poem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christie_M Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 did you cut and paste? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Therese Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 That poem makes me think of winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafka Posted January 25, 2009 Author Share Posted January 25, 2009 [quote name='Christie_M' post='1761564' date='Jan 25 2009, 05:14 PM']did you cut and paste?[/quote] I was hoping someone would ask. Of course I did. If I wrote this one I'd fall over dead, for it is deadly brilliant. It was written by the priest-poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. He lived in the 1800s. His rhymes are considered ahead of his times. Sort of jazzy schmazzy; glitz and glimorish. Jeweling jewelish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christie_M Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 yep it is. but you just commited a crime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafka Posted January 25, 2009 Author Share Posted January 25, 2009 [quote name='Christie_M' post='1761589' date='Jan 25 2009, 05:23 PM']yep it is. but you just commited a crime [/quote] perjury! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafka Posted January 25, 2009 Author Share Posted January 25, 2009 [quote name='kafka' post='1761592' date='Jan 25 2009, 05:25 PM']perjury! [/quote] wait perjury? wrong crime. which one did i committ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
picchick Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 [quote name='Christie_M' post='1761564' date='Jan 25 2009, 05:14 PM']did you cut and paste?[/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christie_M Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 haha yeah, that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 [quote name='picchick' post='1761597' date='Jan 25 2009, 06:27 PM'][/quote] she obviously hasn't talked to him much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafka Posted January 25, 2009 Author Share Posted January 25, 2009 [quote name='rachael' post='1761602' date='Jan 25 2009, 05:28 PM']she obviously hasn't talked to him much. [/quote] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rachael Posted January 25, 2009 Share Posted January 25, 2009 [quote name='kafka' post='1761606' date='Jan 25 2009, 06:29 PM'][/quote] um. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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