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out of the ring
Posted: July 24, 2014 in My PoetryTags: @dVersePoets, art, boxing, club, cruelty, energy, fight, guilt, honesty, life, media, poem, poema, poesia, poesie, poet, Poetry, sport
those hands punched me
knocked the wind out of me,
reflecting what is ugly
my flat face,
i wondered if anybody
had beaten them,
corroding life
with the spit of minutes
splashing on my face
no shadows
as i grunted
accepting what passes,
age no longer a pleasure
but a cruel joke
i wore the bruises
clotted flesh no longer taut,
another whiskey
salute that clock,
wood rimmed containing
the mechanism
that makes time work,
what a load of crap,
i close my eyes
and my own minutes passed
i would not be reliant on it
anymore
A great selection of influential artists
Thanks for reading this installment of drunk poetry. This will be one of many posts showcasing some of my favorite poems of all time. Stay drunk, stay writing.
Humanity I Love You
Humanity i love you
because you would rather black the boots of
success than enquire whose soul dangles from his
watch-chain which would be embarrassing for both
parties and because you
unflinchingly applaud all
songs containing the words country home and
mother when sung at the old howard
Humanity i love you because
when you’re hard up you pawn your
intelligence to buy a drink and when
you’re flush pride keeps
you from the pawn shop and
because you are continually committing
nuisances but more
especially in your own house
Humanity i love you because you
are perpetually putting the secret of
life in your pants and forgetting
it’s there and sitting down
on it
and because you…
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The Planet of the Apes series I have enjoyed since reading Pierre Boulles book so be amazed
2014
20th Century Fox
Directed by Matt Reeves
Produced by Peter Chernin Dylan Clark, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
Written by Mark Bomback, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver
Based on characters created by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver
Premise suggested by “Planet of The Apes” by Pierre Boulle
“Rise of The Planet of The Apes” was one of those movies that surprised me in a good way as I didn’t expect a reboot of the classic “Planet of The Apes” series to be quite that good. I appreciated how “Rise” had so much determination to be a true science fiction movie and not simply an action movie wearing a science fiction dress and makeup. And I think it succeeded. And now we have the sequel with continues and amplifies the story and it’s also a very successful movie on a lot of levels. Like “Rise” it doesn’t depend on the major battle…
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Promiscuous Translations and the New Palestinian Poetry Collection, ‘A Bird is not a Stone’
Posted: July 17, 2014 in UncategorizedIt looks to be a collection that will reinforce the fact Palestinians are robust and resilient and have a unique artistic voice
Note: Yesterday on Facebook, A Bird is not a Stone editors announced, “We’re sad to have heard that the family home of Raed Issa, the artist who painted the beautiful image used on the cover of A Bird is not a Stone, was destroyed yesterday in an Israeli air attack. The house was in al-Bureij refugee camp.”
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The metaphor of the “faithful” (or unfaithful) translation is as well-worn as that of the text going “lost” in translation. This faithfulness — or not-getting-lost — is often presented as a particular sort of pedantic, dictionary-based equivalency. This sort of equivalency might sometimes serve prose, but it generally does poetry few favors.
A Bird is not a Stone takes an entirely different approach to fidelity, as twenty-nine of Scotland’s celebrated poets co-translate work by twenty-five contemporary Palestinians. The works are brought not just into English, but into Scots, Gaelic, and Shetlandic.
It is immediately…
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