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I popped back on to have another go at the poetry thing! Let's see how I get on. :ROFLMAO:

"If the phone won't ring, make the call
If the mountain won't move, shift it
If the birds won't sing, sing to them all
And if the sun won't rise, lift it"

(quote from 'Let The Light Pour In')

Lemn Sissay
British-Ethiopian writer

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oh god, here I go!

A poem from Billy Collins:

Introduction to Poetry​

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem’s room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author’s name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

from The Apple that Astonished Paris (University of Arkansas Press, 1996)
 
Byrd / Laudibus in sanctis

"Performed during a live BBC Choral Evensong, 6 November 1974, from the chapel of Christ Church College, Oxford. Choir of Christ Church Oxford (Oxford Cathedral), directed by Simon Preston.

The words are the Latin version of Psalm 150."

6m 34s

 
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The Japanese language reigns supreme in omomatopoeic words.
Kasa-kasaett lätt, prasslande ljud
Gasa-gasaett tyngre, rasslande ljud
Ton-tonlätt, knackande ljud
Don-donbankande ljud
Sara-sara
slät yta 😱
Zara-zaragrov yta 😱
 
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