[bookshare-discuss] poets and poetry

  • From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:48:26 -0700 (PDT)

Thanks, Bob. That's my kind of poetry and now I'll go
to bed with a smile on my face.

And I'm not embarrassed to admit that I love RL
Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. I think of "I
have a little shadow" every time I walk my
granddaughter and see our shadows, and his poem about
swinging when I swing her--and when I used to
swing--and although I no longer live in a winter
climate, when I did and got dressed in the winter
morning, I always thought of the poem Bed in
Summer.."In winter I get up at night 
and dress by yellow candlelight. ..."

G.Cindy

--- Bob <rwiley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I agree that Cummings is hard to understand, so,
> here is a little poem 
> offered by the poet laureat of synicism Ogden Nash.
> No obfiscation here.
> 
> The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus
> by
> Ogden Nash
> 
> In Baltimore there lived a boy.
> He wasn't anybody's joy.
> Although his name was Jabez Dawes,
> His character was full of flaws.
> 
> In school he never led his classes,
> He hid old ladies' reading glasses,
> His mouth was open when he chewed,
> And elbows to the table glued.
> He stole the milk of hungry kittens,
> And walked through doors marked NO ADMITTANCE.
> He said he acted thus because
> There wasn't any Santa Claus.
> 
> Another trick that tickled Jabez
> Was crying 'Boo' at little babies.
> He brushed his teeth, they said in town,
> Sideways instead of up and down.
> Yet people pardoned every sin,
> And viewed his antics with a grin,
> Till they were told by Jabez Dawes,
> 'There isn't any Santa Claus!'
> 
> Deploring how he did behave,
> His parents swiftly sought their grave.
> They hurried through the portals pearly,
> And Jabez left the funeral early.
> 
> Like whooping cough, from child to child,
> He sped to spread the rumor wild:
> 'Sure as my name is Jabez Dawes
> There isn't any Santa Claus!'
> Slunk like a weasel of a marten
> Through nursery and kindergarten,
> Whispering low to every tot,
> 'There isn't any, no there's not!'
> 
> The children wept all Christmas eve
> And Jabez chortled up his sleeve.
> No infant dared hang up his stocking
> For fear of Jabez' ribald mocking.
> 
> He sprawled on his untidy bed,
> Fresh malice dancing in his head,
> When presently with scalp-a-tingling,
> Jabez heard a distant jingling;
> He heard the crunch of sleigh and hoof
> Crisply alighting on the roof.
> What good to rise and bar the door?
> A shower of soot was on the floor.
> 
> What was beheld by Jabez Dawes?
> The fireplace full of Santa Claus!
> Then Jabez fell upon his knees
> With cries of 'Don't,' and 'Pretty Please.'
> He howled, 'I don't know where you read it,
> But anyhow, I never said it!'
> 'Jabez' replied the angry saint,
> 'It isn't I, it's you that ain't.
> Although there is a Santa Claus,
> There isn't any Jabez Dawes!'
> 
> Said Jabez then with impudent vim,
> 'Oh, yes there is, and I am him!
> Your magic don't scare me, it doesn't'
> And suddenly he found he wasn't!
> From grimy feet to grimy locks,
> Jabez became a Jack-in-the-box,
> An ugly toy with springs unsprung,
> Forever sticking out his tongue.
> 
> The neighbors heard his mournful squeal;
> They searched for him, but not with zeal.
> No trace was found of Jabez Dawes,
> Which led to thunderous applause,
> And people drank a loving cup
> And went and hung their stockings up.
> 
> All you who sneer at Santa Claus,
> Beware the fate of Jabez Dawes,
> The saucy boy who mocked the saint.
> Donner and Blitzen licked off his paint.
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Grandma Cindy" <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 1:51 AM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: E. E. cummings
> 
> 
> > Rick, I don't know about you and Ann and google. I
> put
> > the words, As freedom is a breakfast food into
> google,
> > even without quotation marks, and the first site
> on
> > google gave me the poem. Maybe google only works
> well
> > for Macs? grin I even put it in with breakfast
> food as
> > two separate words, though in the poem it is one.
> >
> > Well, the poem is below. I'm afraid I like my
> poems
> > easier to understand--I like to have them bring
> > emotions and images to mind rather than have to be
> > intellectual about them.
> >
> > I do, I think, understand the main point. I
> believe
> > this is one of his love poems and I can see that,
> but
> > to me it's a bit overblown. I like Shakepeare's
> > somnets and Elizabeth Barret Browning's better.
> smile
> >
> > G.Cindy
> > -
> > as freedom is a breakfastfood
> >
> > as freedom is a breakfastfood
> > or truth can live with right and wrong
> > or molehills are from mountains made
> > --long enough and just so long
> > will being pay the rent of seem
> > and genius please the talentgang
> > and water most encourage flame
> >
> > as hatracks into peachtrees grow
> > or hopes dance best on bald men's hair
> > and every finger is a toe
> > and any courage is a fear
> > --long enough and just so long
> > will the impure think all things pure
> > and hornets wail by children stung
> >
> > or as the seeing are the blind
> > and robins never welcome spring
> > nor flatfolk prove their world is round
> > nor dingsters die at break of dong
> > and common's rare and millstones float
> > --long enough and just so long
> > tomorrow will not be too late
> >
> > worms are the words but joy's the voice
> > down shall go which and up come who
> > breasts will be breasts and thighs will be thighs
> > deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
> > --time is a tree (this life one leaf)
> > but love is the sky and i am for you
> > just so long and long enough
> >
> > ee cummings
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