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What are your favorites (Songs or poems or both), and why?

 

EX, some I like:

 

THE DESTINY OF MAN

By: Edmond Danken Sailor

 

 

It is the destiny of man to move forward,

doing the things he cannot do,

accomplishing the tasks that could not be done,

reaching farther than anyone would imagine.

 

Birthed under a star,

he cannot rest until he is among them,

reaching them, touching them,

feeling the power of the Universe.

 

He will ride comets across the sky,

and rest himself among the moons.

 

His whole being is a desire to know,

and only the answers

to the ultimate questions,

will ever satisfy him.

 

Only touching unknown shores,

will his soul be fulfilled.

Time will pass and bend to his will.

No power known can stop him,

 

for his forehead is touched with fire,

fire from within,

a surging force, a power so intense;

it alone will carry him to the stars.

 

(I like his poem because of my interests in astronomy.)

 

Wierd Al - White n Nerdy

 

I like this song because I can relate to it more than any other song.

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If by Rudyard Kipling

 

If you can keep your head when all about you

Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too:

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,

Or being hated don't give way to hating,

And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

 

If you can dream -- and not make dreams your master;

If you can think -- and not make thoughts your aim,

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster

And treat those two impostors just the same:

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken

Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,

Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,

And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

 

If you can make one heap of all your winnings

And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,

And lose, and start again at your beginnings,

And never breathe a word about your loss:

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew

To serve your turn long after they are gone,

And so hold on when there is nothing in you

Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

 

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,

Or walk with Kings -- nor lose the common touch,

If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,

If all men count with you, but none too much:

If you can fill the unforgiving minute

With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,

Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,

And -- which is more -- you'll be a Man, my son!

 

 

 

 

As for a song, I know a lot of people look upon it as cheesy, heck even I think it's cheesy, but I really enjoy More Than Words by Extreme every time I hear it.

 

Also, when starting a thread, one typically provides examples to set a presidence and to get the ball rolling. *WINK*

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The closest I get to poetry since being out of school is music.

 

 

Under The Milky Way by Steve Kilbey and Karin Jansson.

 

Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty,

Sounds of their breath fades with the light.

I think about the loveless fascination,

Under the Milky Way tonight.

 

 

Lower the curtain down in memphis,

Lower the curtain down all right.

I got no time for private consultation,

Under the Milky Way tonight.

 

Wish I knew what you were looking for.

Might have known what you would find.

Wish I knew what you were looking for.

Might have known what you would find.

 

And it’s something quite peculiar,

Something that’s shimmering and white.

Leads you here despite your destination,

Under the milky way tonight

 

(chorus)

 

Under the milky way tonight.

 

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This is my most listen to song on iTunes by far. Even a remake version is in my top 25 most played songs. It is a really good late night driving song. The song reminds me of someone who was once special to me and that reminds me not to be a jerk to those I care about.

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Tennyson's Ulysses, or Poe's Annabell Lee.

If you liked "Ulysses" you might want to take a look at the lesser-known "Tithonus", which is a sort of counterpart to it. Here are the opening lines:

 

"The woods decay, the woods decay and fall,

The vapours weep their burthen to the ground,

Man comes and tills the field and lies beneath,

And after many a summer dies the swan.

Me only cruel immortality [awesome, carnivorous (and Virgillian) enjambment going on here; that's what Tennyson's all about, aesthetic mastery]

Consumes; I wither slowly in thine arms,

Here at the quiet limit of the world,

A white-hair'd shadow roaming like a dream

The ever-silent spaces of the East,

Far-folded mists, and gleaming halls of morn."

 

I'm not a massive poetry person, myself but the final soliloquy from Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (a play which famously has a beginning, a muddle, and an end) is pretty spellbinding:

 

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Ah, Faustus,

Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,

And then thou must be damn'd perpetually!

Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,

That time may cease, and midnight never come;

Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make

Perpetual day; or let this hour be but

A year, a month, a week, a natural day,

That Faustus may repent and save his soul!

O lente, lente currite, noctis equi![Latin: O slowly! Run slowly, horses of the night!]

The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike,

The devil will come, and Faustus must be damn'd.

O, I'll leap up to my God!--Who pulls me down?--

See, see, where Christ's blood streams in the firmament!

One drop would save my soul, half a drop: ah, my Christ!--

Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!

Yet will I call on him: O, spare me, Lucifer!--

Where is it now? 'tis gone: and see, where God

Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!

Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on me,

And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!

No, no!

Then will I headlong run into the earth:

Earth, gape! O, no, it will not harbour me!

You stars that reign'd at my nativity,

Whose influence hath allotted death and hell,

Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist.

Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud,

That, when you vomit forth into the air,

My limbs may issue from your smoky mouths,

So that my soul may but ascend to heaven!

[The clock strikes the half-hour.]

Ah, half the hour is past! 'twill all be past anon

O God,

If thou wilt not have mercy on my soul,

Yet for Christ's sake, whose blood hath ransom'd me,

Impose some end to my incessant pain;

Let Faustus live in hell a thousand years,

A hundred thousand, and at last be sav'd!

O, no end is limited to damned souls!

Why wert thou not a creature wanting soul?

Or why is this immortal that thou hast?

Ah, Pythagoras' metempsychosis, were that true,

This soul should fly from me, and I be chang'd

Unto some brutish beast! all beasts are happy,

For, when they die,

Their souls are soon dissolv'd in elements;

But mine must live still to be plagu'd in hell.

Curs'd be the parents that engender'd me!

No, Faustus, curse thyself, curse Lucifer

That hath depriv'd thee of the joys of heaven.

[The clock strikes twelve.]

O, it strikes, it strikes! Now, body, turn to air,

Or Lucifer will bear thee quick to hell!

[Thunder and lightning.]

O soul, be chang'd into little water-drops,

And fall into the ocean, ne'er be found!

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Currently:

 

Sponge: World of Human Wreckage

 

Youtube is under maintenance and getting moody on me so:

 

Huey Lewis & the news: It's Hip to Be Square

 

Iron Maiden: Hallowed be Thy Name, Run to the Hills

ZZ top: Sharp Dressed Man

 

Gonna break my rusty chains (unknown, unsure of song title)

 

Evan's Blue: Blind (might have different title but the band name is the same)

 

Smile Empty Soul: Bottom of the Bottle

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Are you talking about Rusty Cage by Johnny Cash and covered by Soundgarden?

 

I thought Soundgarden did it first, but Johnny Cash's version just blows any competition away.

 

So, for that reason, my favourite song is Cash's cover of Hurt. It's just mind-blowing, and seems the perfect end to a career spanning almost 5 decades.

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My favourite? It has to be Victory song by Ensiferum... Always brings a couple of tears to my eyes. Im serious it really does, and im a freaking MAN MAN! :p Great lyrics, such great lyrics.... And another one is Starchild by Wintersun, both are just damn good.

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If you liked "Ulysses" you might want to take a look at the lesser-known "Tithonus", which is a sort of counterpart to it.

 

Yeah, it's pretty awesome. I just don't enjoy the emotional context as much as Ulysses. Not that it isn't brilliant, it just doesn't have the same effect on me that the story of a world-weary traveller does. Maybe it's the fact that I'm a Doctor Who fan. :p

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