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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2002-05-03 23:53
Some Heavy Metal, Rock and Roll
(All Sounds of Raucous Ilk);
Sooth Not, Bob Gardener's Savage Breast--
For That, Try Acker Bilk!
So, "What Is Music", He Did Ask,
(Philosophically Sublime).
To Vent Your Spleen About This Thread,
Your Post MUST BE IN RHYME!!
Bob A
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Author: Fred
Date: 2002-05-04 01:00
Don't know for sure that I can add
To what has already been said;
To play or not, at any age,
Is the choice to which you're led.
If you enjoy a jazzy tune,
An anthem, or a ditty;
Surely you can play along
And have it come out pretty.
Others strive for higher goals,
And higher notes as well.
To play in higher circles now,
The talent begins to tell.
Practice, Practice . . . all the time;
A joy to those inspired.
But if you aren't cut out for that,
Then all you get is tired.
So what's to do? Should I give up
The horn I hold so dear?
Or play the tunes I love to play,
With friends from far and near?
I'll choose to play! I'll take the chance!
I've found a group of friends!
My choice is made with no regrets . . .
Your choice on you depends.
Fred
Age 51
Enjoying it more now than I did the first time around!
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-05-04 01:41
Although some students have high hopes,
of playing something new.
Tonality is just a dream,
but not all dreams come true...GBK
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2002-05-04 01:44
Oh Fred, I laud your choice of rhymes
with tempered metric feet.
You'r choice of friends dictates all tunes
you play so free and sweet.
But what if those you come across
think Mozart is a BORE.
They all would rather listen to
"A Stranger On The Shore."
Or, "Mozart's fine when played by Kell,
but not that Benny thing,"
So then, dear Fred, where do we turn?
The Gauntlet's in the ring!
Bob A (76 and still going on!)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-05-04 02:11
With Bob and Fred, I've met my match,
They're the poets of the day.
I'll quietly retreat for now,
and practice my Klosé...GBK
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Author: Fred
Date: 2002-05-04 02:47
Another verse I can't conceive
To continue with this thread;
But retreat in face of noble words
Brings souls not rest, but dread.
Tis true that some find challenging
The melodies you name.
But when your friends show ghastly taste,
You love them just the same.
For if you don't you too will see
The writing on the wall.
That one man's thoughts of sheer delight,
Do ne'er seem right for all.
The velvet Elvis in the den,
A leisure suit the same;
And if I should go on long enough,
A flaw of thine I'd name!
Perfection's not required in life;
A thought you'll sure agree.
For putting up with others' faults
Helps them put up with me!
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Author: BeckyC
Date: 2002-05-04 02:56
A query has been aloft.
Is music, what it is?
Is music, what it's not?
For it's all in ones own ear,
to discern the sound
that they hear.
For listening to it's air
It may enchant relief.
For us, it's joy that we share,
For others it may afflict grief.
For what a sad life for those
who find that grief amicable.
For it's joy is far from woes.
(even if the quality is passable)
Whether you do this for your work or play
It still remains ones verdict,
to behold what it may,
after they heard it.
haaaaaaaa, A+ for effort????
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Author: Lisa
Date: 2002-05-04 02:59
A Haiku for you
My musical friends and foe ...
No, not all can play.
Cinquain:
Agreed
Most want to play
Alone, in pairs, or in
Groups though not all have the innate
Talent
Limerick:
I am lucky to have a nice kitty
But she thinks that my music's quite sh***y
She quickly doth go
when I play altissimo
And even I admit it's not pretty!
Blank Verse:
Because I find it difficult to rhyme,
I choose instead to write in Blank Verse here
Though many in this world would choose to play
Alas, not all are given the good luck
To play whatever instrument they'd like.
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Author: BeckyC
Date: 2002-05-04 03:09
For not being a poet,
I sure had fun.
(I guess my post did show it!)
But for now I'll duck and run................
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Author: Fred
Date: 2002-05-04 03:51
BeckC, you've made my point!
Enjoyment came a'callin';
You took the challenge of the day,
And arose victorious - not fallen.
If I could write like Lisa does,
With style and education;
I would, no doubt, find something else
To lead me to frustration.
We're all a part - We're not the Whole;
Just a pebble in the sea.
But called to round each other out,
As you bump into me.
And GBK, my friend so wise,
Your gift nobody questions.
The verse you add makes perfect sense,
In neat, compact selections!
Now I tire as it is late;
A testament to aging.
I tire not from exchanging rhymes,
But hear the Sandman paging.
Now I lay me down to sleep,
You know how the story goes.
I lay up hope and faith and joy,
Against life's pains and woes.
And if I should die before I wake,
The verse shall not here continue;
But carry on in grander style
In my new change of venue.
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Author: Kat
Date: 2002-05-04 04:55
Rhyme??
I'm afraid I don't have the time! 
(Vizzini: "No more rhymes, I mean it!"
Fezzik: "Anybody want a peanut?")
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-05-04 13:47
VUNDERBAHR, [to the above] If I'm a poet, I sure don't know it! Please copyright the poems, someone, they are great, perhaps even consider a publication or other retrievability [Mark C?] . Don
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Author: BeckyC
Date: 2002-05-04 14:58
So Fred, thanks for the compliment??
My style is quiet lacking,
For my English class I did not supplement;
And from the Poets Society, I was sent a'packing.
From the ducking, my head is tired;
my running I shall cease.
I know from this call I will be fired;
Away with my rhyming, we shall greet peace.
I'll leave it up to those few;
Fred, Lisa, GBK & Bob
For with their lyrics in MY veiw;
They Do A Better Job
;) Thanks......haha
somebody Stop me
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Author: Fred
Date: 2002-05-04 16:18
A compliment indeed it was -
I dare not criticize;
For who am I to rightly judge,
Just who should get the prize?
Life is not a contest, that
Rewards those that never fell.
The prize is not to those who win -
But to those that run it well.
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Author: Lisa
Date: 2002-05-04 16:36
Iambic pentameter (well, sort of:)
Though most often it's my choice to express
my talent through music (well, more or less)
I have not recently found more pleasure
than this poetry thread, it's a treasure!
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Author: IHL
Date: 2002-05-04 22:11
did I miss something major here
when my 'puter was not turned on?
I simply wish to now inquire
wtf is going on?!
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Author: RA
Date: 2002-05-04 22:57
A pebble in the Sea
A student of elegeance and perfect timing may we see
For when the beat goes on, and continues
It is a mastermind at it's best on the 'puter
Not of long ago, was I just a beginner
Now it seems that I am a student of 'the other'
Advanced pieces, Pachebel's Canon in D,
Learning to laugh and love and sighread correctly
It is with deepest regard, that I must regret even coming
RA
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Author: Jas
Date: 2002-05-05 00:22
Rap, Country, Rock and Roll
Mozart's "word" and Strauss's scroll
Punks and Classics, Jazzers galore,
Make some dance, make some snore....
What is music, that's the quest
of our ever present guest
to this I tell you whole..
That music pleasing to the ear,
Is never judged by you as dear,
Unless it touches your soul.
Jas
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-05-05 00:59
Jas wrote:
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> Rap, Country, Rock and Roll
> Mozart's "word" and Strauss's scroll
> Punks and Classics, Jazzers galore,
> Make some dance, make some snore....
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> What is music, that's the quest
> of our ever present guest
> to this I tell you whole..
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> That music pleasing to the ear,
> Is never judged by you as dear,
> Unless it touches your soul.
That goes great with the music from King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man" ... from 27 years ago ... seems like just a couple of years ...
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Author: Jas
Date: 2002-05-05 01:18
Okay, Mark... gonna date us here....
It was acutally, 33 years ago.... '69... pass the bedpan.
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2002-05-05 01:19
A thread on this bulletin board
Brought responses by a very large hoard.
Though our harmony's intact
As we 'lectronically interact,
On this subject there'll ne'er be a-chord.
I'll give my opinion in verse
As limericks (What could be worse?)
If you don't like my rhyme
(I'll tell you one time)
Quit surfing and begin to rehearse.
Anyone who practices enough
Can play the greatest of stuff;
But playing a part
Without the right heart
Will never be really enough.
You can learn to blow, bang or strum
On a trumpet, guitar or drum
But it'll never be real
If your really don't feel
The soul that your music comes from.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2002-05-05 01:22
Jas wrote:
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> Okay, Mark... gonna date us here....
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> It was acutally, 33 years ago.... '69... pass the bedpan.
Yup. You're right. Still have the original LP in playable condition.
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Author: Jas
Date: 2002-05-05 01:22
Ooops....
Okay, Mark... gonna date us here....
It was acutally, 33 years
Album out in '69
pass the bedpan, indeed,
I forgot the ryhme
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Author: Don Poulsen
Date: 2002-05-05 01:23
[Last limerick, slightly revised by author:]
You can learn to blow, bang or strum
On a trumpet, guitar or drum;
But your song won't be real
If your really don't feel
The soul that true music comes from.
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Author: RA
Date: 2002-05-05 04:10
Practicing to the enth degree
Wondering where everyone could be
Hush! they're all in thier own private room
With the Clarinet playing back at their tone
For where the quality begins is with a metronome keeping the timing
Our souls long for more searching to be satisfyed even though we're dying from our own perfectionism never failing to not be enough even though he symphony says we're better
Longing for new pieces of music, hoping to give up so much mozart, even Bach is tiring, whose the new composer?
Yes, someone we know very well, someone who was a great jazz clarinetist of the 1930's
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Author: bob gardner
Date: 2002-05-05 14:28
You guys are a sound to behold. What talent!!!!!
you are a hoot!!!!!!!!!
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Author: Bob Arney
Date: 2002-05-05 23:19
Well Fred, we gave it our best shot,
To answer Gardner's teaser's.
For what IS music when its played
by us "over fifty geezers."
Whose teeth don't fit, whose ears are shot,
Whose Bifocals peer at the Score;
And whose Conductors, like Poe's Raven
Croak, "Nevermore! Nevermore! Nevermore!"
So having said all this in fun, we play to give us pleasure,
and your responses, most in rhyme, have added to this treasure.
I doubt I'll try this stunt again, until I think like Fred
Please recall some cogent verse--for this is what he said:
Perfection's not required in life;
A thought you'll sure agree.
For putting up with others' faults
Helps them put up with me!
Thanks Fred and all,
Bob A
Bob A
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-05-06 00:38
Damn I hate being in the southern hemisphere ... but here goes
If music be a sweet, sweet tune
I'll serenade beneath the moon
This Thread's a touch' poetic gild?
Of verbage much is taxing filled
To play the clarinet would thus inspire
And surely sets our hearts on fire
Of Bob, the Arney, I would swoon
Though GBK's a mighty boon
Where’s Jez to add a ‘pommy’ guild
If Brenda’s Symphonie's near chilled?
To play the clarinet would thus inspire
And surely sets our hearts on fire
(sorry - very poor attempt)
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-05-06 00:41
Bravo, Lisa - you made me laugh with your shi**y kitty
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Author: RA
Date: 2002-05-06 01:18
So, it all must end. What a joy it all has been. The writing, the musicianship all abiding by the laws of chemistry all is defining. Toot! Toot! What is that I hear? A horn playing for we all will soon be here once again playing the game of magic poetry.
RA
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Author: GBK
Date: 2002-05-06 02:37
Are we going to stop this thread now?
All you poets arise. Take a bow!
From "Down Under" to Beverly Hills
A career path this surely instills.
No sir, not all have the drive.
Many work hard, few arrive.
To play for your pay is not rare.
Just open your case in Times Square. ...GBK
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-05-06 03:16
't'd be a shame to put an end to such an entertaining thread.
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Author: RA
Date: 2002-05-06 16:04
I agree for now I see it is all defining. Players from around, in every single town, we shall not put down our pens for it is mightier than the sword.
RA
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