The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poem Thread, 9/4/07

[BlueIris]

"The Vanity of Human Wishes"

at 16
I dreamed of
a bushy beard
and a purple Ford
souped up deuce
4 on the floor
able to outrun
any cop alive

or drifting
change in my jeans
from town to town
wowing the girls
bad man
James Dean back from the dead
Brando on a
hog

16
and here I am at 26 teaching English
not even
a mustachio
to tickle my wife

—John Leax

[ThomCat]

1. nice, but not one of the powerful ones

that grabs you and really makes you think.

:shrug:

But, yes, daydreams and fantasies make fools of us all.

[BlueIris]

2. Uh, okay. Is that a request for a powerful one?

Hmmm. A challenge.

[ThomCat]

3. Cool.

:)

[BlueIris]

4. Alright, but don't be surprised if it tanks as hard as my "powerful" ones usually do.

[ThomCat]

5. I am not sure poety has a wide audience here

regarless of the choice of poems. :(

[BlueIris]

6. Yeah. But also, there's what Don Marquis said:

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you."

[ThomCat]

7. You would hope that would not be the case here

but unfortunately, that quote has been proven correct countless times.

[BlueIris]

8. 'Kay, here's you powerful one:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x6897227

[BlueIris]

9. Kick.

[BlueIris]

10. Kick.

[skygazer]

11. That's kind of a sad poem

I'm happy to say that at 46, I've lived most of my wishes. And continue to do so. I think sometimes people are too careful for their own good. :hi:

[BlueIris]

12. "(S)ometimes people are too careful for their own good."

Yep. Agree totally.

[BlueIris]

13. Kick.

[BlueIris]

14. Kick.

[wildhorses]

15. mustachio

cool word...

:hi:

[BlueIris]

17. Heh. I don't have a copyright date for this one, or we could

find out when that word was last popular as a slang term.

[ismnotwasm]

16. Kind of sad

I reminds me a little of "Old Man" by Neil Young. (24 and so much more) For me 26 was 20 years ago, but I remember feeling stuck in life at the time. I wasn't, time proved that, and I'm still not. (Of course it helps the kids are out of the house, one of the few advantages to being a too-young breeder)

[BlueIris]

18. Kick.