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Poems--from anywhere, for Brokeback Mountain sensitized feelings...
twistedude:
Punch up "Amazon.com; then type in "CD--Lili Marlene". THEN click on "z-shops." There's a real expensive one, but two cheap ones, too. The tune is lovely. I think a lot of people don't know that the song was sung by BOTH sides in WW2, and Marlene Dietrich recorded it for the OSS. A lot of people think of it as a Nazi marching song..hmmm,. how HANDY. "Lili Marlene" was the song the freezing Germans and Americans dug into fox holes started harmonizing on one night, the Germans in German, and the Americans in English (Vor der Kaserne, vor dem grossen Tor, steht eine Laterne, und steht sie noch davorn..she waits for a boy who marched away...and so on...)
This story better get a move on, or I'm going to be adding chapters myself...just kidding.\
I sent the verse to my GFIC (gay friend in closet), and added, "how'd you like to pay a visit to Germany, 1933...me neither." he wrote back," '33, maybe, '43 no."
Oh, I'm Jewish.
So I wrote back: after the election of Hitler as Chancellor, things weren't too pleasant for Guys Like Me...or even Guys Like You...
twistedude:
He's the Lilly of the Valley,
The Bright and Morning Star,
He's the Fairest of 10,000 to my Soul.
---part of a hymn by Charles W. Fry, 19th century England
dly64:
Wild Nights
by Emily Dickinson
Wild nights. Wild nights!
Were I with thee,
Wild nights should be
Our luxury!
Futile the winds
To a heart in port
Done with the compass
Done with the chart.
Rowing in Eden.
Ah, the sea.
Might I but moor
Tonight with thee!
The Clod & the Pebble
by William Blake
Love seeketh not Itself to please,
Nor for itself hath any care;
But for another gives its ease,
And builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.
So sang a little Clod of Clay,
Trodden with the cattle's feet;
But a Pebble of the brook,
Warbled out these metres meet.
Love seeketh only Self to please,
To bind another to It's delight:
Joys in another's loss of ease,
And builds a Hell in Heavens despite.
twistedude:
Love Blake!
dly64:
--- Quote from: julie01 on July 15, 2006, 12:34:59 am ---Love Blake!
--- End quote ---
Ditto! I think he's great!
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