[Poetic Peter]

Re: Critical Inputs Forum no.1

Poetry and critique of the emplaced poems!
That's the ticket!

Godly men, arise! In virile verse! nO women please, not unless it's

interesting stuff.

[Poetic Peter]

Epistle to Izaak Walton

Sir,


One is cool and is safe-most

in Purity of dig-he-must

for come-what-may,

though lately slower

in this cold Stuff—

the Currency of Food Banked.


The only time when I grow Vexed

is now—I am fain to perhaps drown

in my lately sodden Mine

rather than be tender—

to the Point:


Regrets for your Invitation

of last week—I think—

I do not care to Fish.


Yr Ob'd't, Etc.


Earth Worm


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for Pastor Al E Pistle

[Pastor Al E Pistle]

Re: Epistle to Izaak Walton

Yr Ob'd't, Etc.

for Pastor Al E Pistle

I like it! But I remember the closing, possibly incorrectly, as "Yr Ob'd't, & etc."

[Poetic Peter]

Re: Critical Inputs Forum no.1

I had to cogitate for a day, but I do agree with your finish.
Could you adjust the finish in just that way?

After thinking of Walton and of that interesting era of the Restoration,
I learned of the ODD characters of the lettered lives of those colorful days.

Among them was a butler; a fellow named Robert Gould.
He was in service to a puckish genius named Lord....well,
In my imagination, I find myself a collaborator with Gould.
Google him if he's unfamiliar. He was quite something.
They all like ribald humour then (see, I'm lapsing back by centuries already)


This next item is a time trip--I become part of the scene.
And it's all in fun and all in character for that great time of light indecencies.

------If it's incomprehensible, blame me. I wrote this stone sober,
and for poets, that's not generally a good way to be.

God forgive me? Robert Gould already has.

[Poetic Peter]

Of the Restoration Era, in two Aspects

Aspect No.1
by Rob't Gould

So it was that
my Lord Dorset was travelling
with a small party including myself,
Mr. Peter, and with several other
Poets of no notice worth to name,

and along with us was the Vicar B - - -.

We were then in passage through
that dismal place, Parson Drove,
where was Encountered a
surely halfe-witted Youth
driving a sheep Flock in our way.

And by the Commotions of the sheep,
entailing the same in our Party,
we were delayed for some minutes.

In my Lordship's buttering Manner,
which, bye the bye, is not always
of Good Intent,
he secretly induced the Bucolic one
by coin and by Authority. I saw
a whispering of seeming-exact
Instruction wedg'd tight
into the herder's ear.

Some moments later
that Innocent, bringing forth

a single Lambe, he

did approach the Vicar B - - -,

and he did make
a very Pretty Scene
for near all who witnessed.

After the Ruse—was

out, we laughed,—all
except for the Vicar! He was the Butt—
for the lad had applied to him
with this profess'd Wish—

to become married to the lambe.

And so it was, say I,

Rob't Gould

_____________________


Aspect No.2
by Mr. Peter


The Shepherd's Best

He shewed but one of his white Flock,
More pure of wool than the Parson's Frock
Of black—who blush'd Fiery red
For this is what the Shepherd said—

"Fain I am to marry her.
And you, Sir—do you
Marry Ewes?"

_____________________
_____________________


And so it is a waggish Joke
So well—Owe'd to our Brightest,
The impish Lord of Dorset.

_____________________


Post Script:

It has since occurred to us
there can be no reason countermanding
to blend with gentle harmony
poets of like-empathy
of alternated eras

who, by bold temporal strides
collaborate in crossing forth on these

Pages for all of Time,

R.G.
P.P.






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[SUV]

Re: Epistle to Izaak Walton

I like it! But I remember the closing, possibly incorrectly, as "Yr Ob'd't, & etc."

I love the stuff from a more Polite time: "We are in receipt of your offensive missive...."

[Poetic Peter]

Re: Epistle to Izaak Walton

I love the stuff from a more Polite time: "We are in receipt of your offensive missive...."

Well, if you can wade through the new poem just placed at the bottom of the previous page,

and if you are curious enough to look up Robert Gould and also that Lord of Dorset,

you'll learn that people were never truly polite.
That'd be no fun at all.

Oh, the scamps! They were running the show.
Calvinism was about to clamp down on it all;
not perfectly, but enough

to kill the joy for a few hundred years.

I do think that Jesus laughed with them, quite a lot!
I don't think Jesus has laughed once in the past century, though.

It has all gone so badly lately.

[SUV]

Re: Epistle to Izaak Walton

I don't think Jesus has laughed once in the past century, though.

You are Correct, Brother, I don't think that The Christ has had a really Good belly-laugh or even a hardy-har-har in many years now.

However, I do think I heard him snickering around the Malls on Black Friday when Mothers were clawing each others' eyes out trying to get one of the few PlayStation3s that were offered for sale at $600

[eliot mayfield]

Re: Critical Inputs Forum no.1

Well, in an effort to understand what's going on in here, I googled a bit and found this.
http://www.voicesofchrist.org/

This is where you people are heading! I warned you!
I can't cut and paste anything, but you look carefully at that page!

[Poetic Peter]

Re: Critical Inputs Forum no.1

Well, in an effort to understand what's going on in here, I googled a bit and found this.
http://www.voicesofchrist.org/

This is where you people are heading! I warned you!
I can't cut and paste anything, but you look carefully at that page!

PRAISE for you, Brother! PRAISE for God's Good-Doers.
Thank you for this discovery.
I never knew of these wonderful people:
Poet Christians in league with the Lord.

I will Gadwin Printscreen (freeware on the web) some small excerpts of the best poems and poets' intros. and place them here.

Surely we can try,
try to equal the quality of that site's Godly artists.

Thank you Brother Elliot. You are appreciated everywhere, but nowhere more than in the hearts of Jesus Christ's most loving poets.

http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/

http://imageshack.us/

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Critical Inputs Forum no.1

Well, in an effort to understand what's going on in here, I googled a bit and found this.
http://www.voicesofchrist.org/

This is where you people are heading! I warned you!
I can't cut and paste anything, but you look carefully at that page!

I couldn't possibly agree more with you Brother Eliot. Giving an "open mic" to nigras is just asking for trouble. If this is where this poetry nonsense leads, then we need to turn back to GOD!

[Poetic Peter]

Re: Critical Inputs Forum no.1

I couldn't possibly agree more with you Brother Eliot.
Giving an "open mic" to nigras is just asking for trouble.
If this is where this poetry nonsense leads, then we need to turn back to GOD!

OH. You know what, friends? He's right.
My face is red. They are not white.
I did find one brown among the blacks.

http://www.voicesofchrist.org/Poetry...a_morales.html




(snip)





So never mind. Her poem is not good.
It could drive lemmings off cliffs, it's so not good.

She means well and is great to look at,
which is why I chose to highlight the God-given talents of Magdalena:
makeup and making babies. And wallowing. Lots.

[eliot mayfield]

Re: Critical Inputs Forum no.1

38 year old single mom and grandmother!!!???
Harlot!
Poetry is bad news it seems.

[Pastor Ezekiel]

Re: Critical Inputs Forum no.1

38 year old single mom and grandmother!!!???
Harlot!
Poetry is bad news it seems.

...and she's probably a nigra lover to boot. That is the only explanation...God hates the mongrelization of the races!

Numbers 25:6 And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand;
25:8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
25:9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.
25:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
25:11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, while he was zealous for my sake among them, that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.
25:12 Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:
25:13 And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

Praise Jesus, this proves that poetry is unGodly.

[Poetic Peter]

exampling a non-wallowing Christian poem

Landover poets, a new and small thing
made to contrast with Ms. Morales' maudlin simper.

I began to start a second strophe.
Then a voice said to me,
"Stop. it is perfect."




Our Modern Crusade

In righteousness in our Iraq
are Christian men unbending
except when it comes time to pray
"Lord help us in our mending."

...and she's probably a nigra lover to boot. That is the only explanation...God hates the mongrelization of the races!



Praise Jesus, this proves that poetry is unGodly.

Yes, but inasmuch as I have not been knocked up,
and used to always wear a "helmet" when I went out "racing",
my poetry pains no one but sinful repentant readers.

God approves of men making Christian poetry,
otherwise he would have made us mothers
pregnant at fourteen.

(knock on wood)