Originally Posted by Cherry Flavored Antacid

a hangout thread centered around discussing... fancy stuff. :lol: Fine art, classic literature, that sort of general snobbery.

.....ToS etcetera etcetera.

Please, be kind. This thread is ostensibly for those interested in "culture", but ALL ARE WELCOME. You needn't have designs on being a 'regular', nor do you have to know anything about the topics being discussed. As long as you have an inquiring mind, you have a place here. Even if you don't, we aren't going to snub you.

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LADY BIGGLESWORTH'S POETRY SEASON, SYMPOSIUM, AND SLAM

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Inspired in part by the BBC's Poetry Season, this wee artistic occurance and gathering is a chance for Menewsha's users to share their tastes, their work, their thoughts and their experiences of a poetical nature. All are welcome, all earnest contributions are embraced, and all two cents valid- after all the artform is subjective.

This will be my contribution to the fray: HELEN ADAM

Helen Adam (1909-1993) was a Scottish poet and a member of the San Francisco Renaissance movement of the mid 20th century, and had ties to the celebrated Beat movement (though how strong or tenuous these ties are is subject to debate and opinion) Her work usually has definitive Victorian aspects, with a powerful modern bite.

The Chestnut Tree

I caged my love in the early spring.
He beat his cage with a broken wing.
He beat his cage with a broken wing
Through the languid nights of summer.
Beside my window a chestnut grows,
A chestnut tree with its towering snows,
Where a breeze from Paradise gently blows,
And joy is the next new comer.

I’ll hang his cage in the chestnut tree,
In the chestnut tree, in the chestnut tree,
Among the haunts of the drunken bee,
’Mid a fragrance overpowering.
Those bees are drunk with the honey wine,
With honey wine and the hot sunshine.
They’re raving drunk with the honey wine
In the chestnut flowering, flowering.

Oh! then, perhaps he may sing to me,
In the chestnut tree, in the chestnut tree;
May sing as loud as a drunken bee
Down the green and golden gloaming.
When royally drunk with the honey wine,
With honey wine, and the hot sunshine,
He’ll sing, and swear he is mine, mine, mine,
While the bees are roaming, roaming.

The body caged, but the heart gone free.
I want his wild heart singing for me
In the chestnut tree, in the chestnut tree,
With a music fierce yet tender.
I want his song while the sunlight flows
Through the chestnut tree with its towering snows,
While a breeze from Paradise softly blows
And sighs for the heart’s surrender.

Hush, hush, the chant of the roaming bee.
I know he never will sing for me,
Though I hang his cage in the chestnut tree
Where joy is the next new comer.
For my sweet sake he never will sing.
He beats his cage with a broken wing.
He beats his cage with a broken wing
In the bee-hive house of summer.

Find other diverse works by Adam here: Helen Adam Sampler

Watch Adam perform her work Cheerless Junkie's Song here: Helen Adam - YouTube





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*peeks in*
First post!
Woot!
Interesting thread you've got here!

Am I fancy enough to post here?!?! :yumeh1:

Originally Posted by emma22422

*peeks in*
First post!
Woot!
Interesting thread you've got here!

The post that hurts the most! It had to be said. In my mind at least. And thank you. Interesting is definitely what I was going for.

Originally Posted by Soda

Am I fancy enough to post here?!?! :yumeh1:

Yes, everyone is fancy enough!

Welcome both!

Thanks, ^^ I Love your sig! I saved it to my computer due to it making me burst out laughing.. Haha.

I couldn't resist posting it. I actually have a bumper sticker somewhere around here that says

Rock is dead. Long live scissors and paper.

Lol wow, that's great... I'll have to remember that.

I try to keep interesting things in my mind tank just so I can a) amuse myself b) bring them up at times like this.

You know what is a bit strange? The fact that the first letter of whatever I wrote corresponded to the alphabetical letter I had designated them.

Hmm yes it tis... And that you realized it...

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Time to run, nice meeting you!

Nice seeing you again (for I believe we have met before, if only in passing)!

(Yes I recognize you... From some where.... No idea where though!)

I'm about. Always looking for action. That may have come out wrong.

Ahh, alphabetizing. Is that considered a fancy thing? If so, I am quite the fancy person. The only thing that is not alphabetized is my book collection, since books are of varying heights, and I hate how it looks when the heights vary randomly. So I broke all my books up into mini genres, and then organize them by height, alternating the height order. So it goes largest to smallest, smallest to largest, largest to smallest, etc. So "books about rockstars" is largest to smallest, "books by Max Barry" is smallest to largest, "books about mental illness" is largest to smallest, "dark/dystopian" is smallest to largest, etc. etc.
I also have the tendency to be incorrect when alphabetizing a proper name. I tend to go by the first letter of the first name, not the surname. Terribly incorrect. What's worse is that I'm not even consistent with it. Alanis Morissette is under A, but Scott Weiland is under W.

I need a life, don't I?

It's nothing that a course in Library Science can't cure.
A well organized bookcase is an important factor of a well lived life. You are far from off the track.

*sips fancy tea* Quite.
So let us discuss the arts! Or art, no plural. Or perhaps literature. *waxes mustach*

-waxes fruit-
so glad to see the thread alive again ^.^
Any books you would like do discuss in particular? I'm powering my way through a compendium of Sherlock Holmes stories at the moment. Oh Holmes, the things I would do to you ;)

Have you read much Orwell? I'm quite the fan of 1984.

I read Animal Farm when I was about thirteen, whilst making my way through a jaw breaker...
I have a copy of 1984 around here somewhere I think...

Edit: I just thought I'd post this, because... It's interesting: http://coilhouse.net/2008/02/bad-pope-no-pulpit/
Especially on the heels of this: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/w...nt?oid=4179994
Which I believe I posted a month or two ago somewhere in the quest forum?

You sound so indifferent... :lol: Go read 1984!

Interesting papal tales there... I don't know what more I can say without being smote.

Dante placed a few of the popes in the ninth circle of hell, as I recall. He had some misfortunes, but I don't believe he ever spontaneously combusted.


Plus, as a cardinal, I am giving you absolution. I can do that right? Anyway, run wild.

*booze and hookers*

Wait, this is a fancy thread. None of that! *liquor and gentlemen's clubs*

So... art. Are you a fan of surrealism?