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The Firefalls of Gal'gathong (rewrite and repost)
Dear Denny, This contribution from a member of the old Triumvirate might serve your purposes nicely... wr ()() ----------------------------------- THE FIREFALLS OF GAL’GATHONGWritten and translated by D_deridex I was too young, really,to understand what I was seeing:an endless cycle of fire,magma erupting from some deep pocketand flowing into ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 26, 2009
The Rabbit has returned...
'Twas a mind-numbing time, MaryAnn -Overwhelming, for lack of a plan.But the odd, charming gimmicksThat are NoStar's droll lim'ricksBrought me back (I should hope) with elan. NoStar and MaryAnn, I've been so busy that I haven't even had time to visit, let alone contribute to, the Poems Fray. This is in response to NoStar's e-mail to me. I see ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on May 12, 2009
Re: Paradise Lost
We find the reference to ''Pandaemonium'' here: Mean while the winged Haralds by command Of Sovran power, with awful Ceremony And Trumpets sound throughout the Host proclaim A solemn Councel forthwith to be held At PANDAEMONIUM, the high Capital Of Satan and his Peers (...) ''Wherefore with thee / Came not all hell broke loose?'' (Book IV, lines ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 11, 2008
Paradise Lost
John Milton had a large body of work, but his most famous is naturally Paradise Lost. Upon looking for online texts of it, I found a PDF of the 1667 first edition (in ten volumes) here. Apparently the same ten-volume text is found here online at Literature.org. We owe several famous neologisms (e.g., ''Pandemonium''), colorful phrases (''has all ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on December 10, 2008
Re: "A Place in Maine" (short review & HOTR)
Lunesta:Fine, fine job, you Master Parodist, you. It almost hurts me, ''quite pity'' to read your parody (well-done as it is...) because I am aching for that seemingly unloved (and forgotten?) mother. (The contrast with my own happy situation as ''mere et puis plus'' makes me hurt more for her, too.) You really are so good at this, WR. Have to ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on May 7, 2008
(יוחנן רכב) Bin Laden and the Taliban
This is a reprint, and not without flaws, but I won't revise it now. (Yes, I know ''the Taliban'' is plural.) BIN LADEN AND THE TALIBAN(with profuse apologies to Lewis Carroll) The carriers were on the sea,Steaming with all their might;Planes did their very best to makeOld Kabul smooth and bright-And things looked dark, because it wasThe middle ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 28, 2008
(יוחנן רכב) Snow in Jerusalem
SNOW IN JERUSALEM(January 30, 2008)*Snow comes as rarely as peaceto this place of golden stone.Time’s ruinous tides comingnow in waves, now in tsunamis,have made the layers of historythick, intermingled, confusingin buildings and peoples alike.One more white layer on topand the city shuts down from the weight.For one icy, fast-melting daythe ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 21, 2008
(יוחנן רכב) "Love When Lost"
This poem was submitted to the Poems Fray in 2002 by our inscrutible Permanent Archivist, Johanan Rakkav. It is (so far as we know) his one and only attempt to date to write in iambic pentameter. wr ()() ===================== LOVE WHEN LOST I wish that love when lost could be regained Like missing pencils tucked behind the ears, Or ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 8, 2008
Setting up a link for you is easy...
...producing the MP3 (or the WMA) is what would take time. Be careful what you wish for...my singing voice (especially a capella) ought to be presented to the current Administration as an aid in interrogating suspected terrorists. (For proof, check out some of the YouTube videos here.) wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on April 2, 2008
The best part is...
...the song is completely original (melody, arrangement, MIDI sequencing, and MIDI-to-MP3 transfer)! ()() Angel: That's so sweet! I almost couldn't pick it up though -- the ''dot'' was missing from the ''dot'' com. I'll do a link below for you. <link> You're the best, bunny. Angel Thanks for the correction! The song Hey, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on March 12, 2008

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