Friday 10 June 2011

LovePoetsXXX session 8 June 2011, new poems on Conflict.

Hello everyone and welcome to my latest Blog!

Summary of contents (tags):

Lawrence Olivier, Stanley Holloway, Louis Armstrong, “West End Blues”, Twitter, Peter Tosh, “Testify”, Amazon, The Micah Insights, Words Flowing On, Words a bubblin’,  LovePoetsXXX, Conflict, Blues.


From the Tuesday LovePoetsXXX, session 08 June 2011: subject “Conflict” session exercise and work. http://twitter.com/#!/LovePoetsxxx

Topics mentioned:

Satire, poem to popular tune; words political or incisive comment re a person situation.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/satire

Alexander Pope, 18th Century poet satirist. Also Swift.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Pope

The Beggar’s Opera by John Gay.

A Folk Opera, popular tunes of the time with new words being included; still produced today. These YouTube clips are from the 1950’sfilm featuring Laurence Olivier and Stanley Holloway.
 
Laurence Olivier: “Over the hills and far away”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU6p3Ubq42U&feature=related
 
With Stanley Holloway: “The Lion and the Oak”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAHEaqJhZHk&feature=related


My Poems drafted in the LovePoetsXXX session;

 titles: “Conflict“, “Words Flowing on”, “Words a bubblin’ ”.



Conflict



Conflict.

Just a word getting real,

when you’re pushed around

then licked.



Conflict.

Better tool up in your mind,

polish up your arguments,

avoiding being dicked.



Conflict.

Waking eyes open too late to the ruse.

But I never knew or thought,

after always a poor excuse.



Conflict.

There’s a meaning underlying the word,

instead of war we sanitise,

the semantics of the deadly absurd.



Conflict.

Child soldiers, human traffic,

lives and souls daily bought.

Takes a brave man, maybe alone,

overcoming all the evil that’s been wrought.



Words Flowing On

What if all the words just went on?

Blethering torrent, slave to the rhythms,

insisting, urging,

on till meaning’s gone.



What if all our talking

was sounds of empty schemes.

Like to trying to sleep in daytime

with content-less dreams.
 

What if all the days

just came and went.
Like the leaves

falling from our calendars,

despairing when your money’s all spent.



Words a bubblin’

I love u like crazy; but u break mi heart in bits.

Mi head’s all clear; but mi body tourettes n fits.

Weez not getting on; but I’m loving tha juices n spark.

I’d like ta go pump iron; but mi feet stray into tha park.

When young I’s going live eternal, like superman;

now it’s all half over, days flushed down tha pan.
 

Adjectival descriptions of tha conflict phenomenon

curving n contrasting

as tha words a bubbling

going on n on.

How many alternatives do I think?

For I’s flowing wit tha words,

faster n a blink.
 

Adjectival descriptions of tha conflict phenomenon

curving n contrasting

as tha words a bubbling

going on n on.

This is mi end of tha conflict rhyme,

people get ready for I’s stopping,

simply now’s the time.


On my current music listening list:
Dean Chohan (this guy is a HOT singer, watch out for him!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evjnht2hpDg
 
Bach. St John’s Passion: “To release me from this prison”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNsvWeQCK8Q

Peter Tosh, The Gold Collection. “Testify”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ErukAK23Q

Louis Armstrong “West End Blues”. For Blues fans!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXHdqTVC3cA
 

The Micah Insights.

Now posting my “Micah Insights”on Twitter, @ LJCasson
Taken from my spiritual conversation program journal – next Micah meeting on 15 June info Links:

 My Twitter page: http://twitter.com/#!/LJCasson
The Micah Conversation: http://breathing-spaces.com/micah.html


NB: This Blog contents, poems, lyrics, copyright Louis J. Casson 2011. All rights reserved.