the power of poetry...

[bigpoppapuff]

anyone here,other than me,that digs poetry??...


an example......

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0fhWX2F6G7Y

[bigpoppapuff]

and this....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pff61X0E3zc

[bigpoppapuff]

and this.........and trust me...these are all worth watching and listening....



http://youtube.com/watch?v=8N_MKr5Nu5s

[Shelby07]

Thanks Sid. They were quite powerful.

[bigpoppapuff]

and another very strong example of the power of the spoken word.....


http://youtube.com/watch?v=GbYqrhjg8...elated&search=

[MCsommerreid]

Poetry it
Turns my hair completely grey
Haiku makes me nuts

That would count, methinks (right off the top of my head).

[heftysmokes]

Poetry it
Turns my hair completely grey
Haiku makes me nuts

That would count, methinks (right off the top of my head).

Sorry, doesn't count.

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Thanks for playing though! Made me laugh.

[designwise1]

I thought parts of all of them were good, Sid. I just prefer poetry set to music - like Led Zepplin, for instance. I applaud the way those poets have with words and only wish I had half as much talent. Like everything else I did find things to disagree with them about but that's freedom of speech at work.
Thanks for sharing!

[bigpoppapuff]

He's five foot-two, and he's six feet-four,
He fights with missiles and with spears.
He's all of thirty-one, and he's only seventeen,
Been a soldier for a thousand years.

He'a a Catholic, a Hindu, an Atheist, a Jain,
A Buddhist and a Baptist and a Jew.
And he knows he shouldn't kill,
And he knows he always will,
Kill you for me my friend and me for you.

And he's fighting for Canada,
He's fighting for France,
He's fighting for the USA,
And he's fighting for the Russians,
And he's fighting for Japan,
And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way.

And he's fighting for Democracy,
He's fighting for the Reds,
He says it's for the peace of all.
He's the one who must decide,
Who's to live and who's to die,
And he never sees the writing on the wall.

But without him,
How would Hitler have condemned him at Dachau?
Without him Caesar would have stood alone,
He's the one who gives his body
As a weapon of the war,
And without him all this killing can't go on.

He's the Universal Soldier and he really is to blame,
His orders come from far away no more,
They come from here and there and you and me,
And brothers can't you see,
This is not the way we put the end to war.

- Universal Soldier - Buffy Ste Marie

[bigpoppapuff]

"universal soldier"....sung by donovan....


http://youtube.com/watch?v=IxbvJyYb2eI

[SmokinDVM]

anyone here,other than me,that digs poetry??...


an example......

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0fhWX2F6G7Y

Very good stuff!