*Poetry*

Ponygurl · Post edited by Ponygurl at 2017-05-11 21:11:44

@Kat "That's beautiful Ponygurl. Have you ever been published?"

No, I haven't..but I really enjoy your art as well. As of now, my artistic expression has only been shared amongst friends. I love writing though, I find it very cathartic. Poems are easy, because they're short and to the point. I actually started a novel years ago, but have yet to finish (kinda like alot of creative projects i engage in. Aries nature.) I would love to be published someday though..it would make all the energy put forth worth it. Btw, how's the Sex Ed book coming? Is it completed? Is there a section for gay sex? Just curious :D

KatRobin

Yeah, the book got finished and its sitting on someone's desk at a publishing house....I'm waiting,waiting...
Doubt if it'll ever get published. It's not what anyone here would think is an interesting read! It's planning and assessment tools for the subject, and yes, lessons re sexuality are definitely factored in.
In fact I taught two lessons today on that subject and was trying to draw an opinion from the pupils as to whether they think homosexuality is genetic or a lifestyle " choice" / nurture- driven.
Watching some vox-pop type video clips with them, it's shocking to hear how many people really believe that it's a lifestyle choice, but happily, the kids I teach didn't seem to think so.
As I pointed out to them, would a man in the 50s have chosen to be gay knowing that being " caught" would be punishable by death?
Would a woman in 1950s Germany have chosen to be " antisocial", remembering what happened to lesbians under the Nazis?
It never fails to amaze me how ignorant some people in our generation can still be, as if they've had their thinking brains cauterised. Tsk.

KatRobin

PS, more poems would be very welcome and thanks for the compliment! As I'm leaving my job very shortly I may even get time to pursue my own hobbies for a few weeks!

KatRobin

Pps, I'm Raurus but def have that Aries thing going on too...always starting something then flitting to something else. I keep telling myself that one day I'll tie up all the loose ends!
With a realistic head on at last, I am starting to gather ideas for a new work of fiction but I know it may only ever get drafted when I'm in retirement! That's another twenty odd years of ideas gathering to go! Epic!

Ponygurl

KatRobin said:
Yeah, the book got finished and its sitting on someone's desk at a publishing house....I'm waiting,waiting...
Doubt if it'll ever get published. It's not what anyone here would think is an interesting read! It's planning and assessment tools for the subject, and yes, lessons re sexuality are definitely factored in.
In fact I taught two lessons today on that subject and was trying to draw an opinion from the pupils as to whether they think homosexuality is genetic or a lifestyle " choice" / nurture- driven.
Watching some vox-pop type video clips with them, it's shocking to hear how many people really believe that it's a lifestyle choice, but happily, the kids I teach didn't seem to think so.
As I pointed out to them, would a man in the 50s have chosen to be gay knowing that being " caught" would be punishable by death?
Would a woman in 1950s Germany have chosen to be " antisocial", remembering what happened to lesbians under the Nazis?
It never fails to amaze me how ignorant some people in our generation can still be, as if they've had their thinking brains cauterised. Tsk.

Hmm, I love this topic..it's so interesting to me. I think it's a combo of genetics and experience. I've always been drawn towards other girls, except when I went through puberty. It's strange but if I'm being honest, I was bisexual then. Then at age 13, I escaped a rape attempt. It killed any kind of sexual thought towards males. It's funny, but I can see it in pictures of myself then. I completely stopped wearing skirts and dresses (I was wearing a skirt when it happened) and started dressing like a boy! Only now I can look back at it and see it was form of self protection. I was later disowned by my father for being gay! Needless to say, I have a great hatred for the Patriarchy. It's stone-age thinking and a means of social control.

lukasgardiner · Post edited by lukasgardiner at 2017-05-12 15:52:25

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_9zxh4prBQ

There's a certain Slant of light

BY EMILY DICKINSON

There's a certain Slant of light,

Winter Afternoons –

That oppresses, like the Heft

Of Cathedral Tunes –

Heavenly Hurt, it gives us –

We can find no scar,

But internal difference –

Where the Meanings, are –

None may teach it – Any –

'Tis the seal Despair –

An imperial affliction

Sent us of the Air –

When it comes, the Landscape listens –

Shadows – hold their breath –

When it goes, 'tis like the Distance

On the look of Death –

Urban_Tribesman

I saw this tonight on an edition of Elementary.

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
BY ROBERT FROST

Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

iuventus

Urban_Tribesman said:
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
BY ROBERT FROST

Great for teaching some basic literary devices.

Urban_Tribesman

It is a far more complicated structure than it first appears. In the first 3 stanzas, the 1st, 2nd & 4th lines rhyme, and the 3rd does not, but the 3rd does rhyme with the 1st, 2nd and 4th of the following stanza, giving the whole work an unusual meter. Then all the lines of the 4th stanza rhyme with each other and with the 3rd line of the preceding one.
Nice. Never seen this poem before.

iuventus

Urban_Tribesman said:
Never seen this poem before.

Really?! In the USA, it's probably one of the most read poems of the 20th Century.

Urban_Tribesman

I am guessing Robert Frost was American?

Whickwithy

Weirdly enough, as with a great many American poets, he was a North-easterner, along with my own very favorite poet and thinker, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Whickwithy

Ran across this while searching for that D.H. Lawrence quote. Kinda nice

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings

The free bird leaps

on the back of the wind

and floats downstream

till the current ends

and dips his wings

in the orange sun rays

and dares to claim the sky.

But a bird that stalks

down his narrow cage

can seldom see through

his bars of rage

his wings are clipped and

his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing.

The caged bird sings

with fearful trill

of the things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill for the caged bird

sings of freedom

The free bird thinks of another breeze

and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees

and the fat worms waiting on a dawn-bright lawn

and he names the sky his own.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams

his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream

his wings are clipped and his feet are tied

so he opens his throat to sing

The caged bird sings

with a fearful trill

of things unknown

but longed for still

and his tune is heard

on the distant hill

for the caged bird

sings of freedom.

Maya Angelou

serenity52

Beautiful poetry.

Whickwithy

Yah. I have a hard time finding poetry I like and this one popped up out of nowhere. I also almost agree with what it says. The only word that throws me is freedom.

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