"O,

"The art world was fortunate that it was Jesse
Helms instead of someone with more credibility
And standing in the Congress
Making these arguments."

~ John Frohnmayer,

Quoted message said:

From "Leaving Town Alive"

[p. 44]

"Huh ~ ?"
~ Twittering

"Let's build a funeral pyre
Out of the desiccated conventions
Piled around us

And watch the ancient, spangle-feathered,
Unkillable phoenix rise

Quoted message said:

From the ashes."

~ Dana Gioia,

Quoted message said:

From "Can Poetry Matter?"

1991

http://www.danagioia.net/essays/ecpm.htm

"This is why cross ~ posting is great ~
That is because my poasting rate has been very poor.

Busy time of year
An' all that."
~ Baron P. Parsnip of Formaldehyde

"April is the cruelest month."
~ Folly

~ * ~

The Grillage
.... Inc.

A Very Fine Eatery, Drinkery,
& Quaint Curiosity ~

West Edge Off Center, en Morning Wood

~ * ~

"Grrrrr ~ !

When's a growl only a maniacal
Menacing Meow ~ !"
~ Grail, A Grillage

"In the room of Vermeer."
~ Blanc Toad

"UBIQUITOUS, ESOTERIC, OXYMORON,
SERENDIPITY,
HUBRIS, OBSEQUIOUS,

And ECLECTIC ..."
~ Patek Phillipe

"Flub-a-dub, fourscore, frat rat, freight rate,
Frito Bandito, fuddy-duddy,
Funny money,

Gaggin' wagon,
Gator freighter, gender bender,
Gritz blitz, ground round, hanky-panky, harum-scarum,

Get a Head Start
On Hector The Collector ~ !"
~ Sir Cumference

"Hector The Collector sent urgent
Word,
Beware, be very, very wary ~

The heebie-jeebie(s), helter-skelter, hemidemisemiquaver,
Herky-jerky, hexaflexagon, higgledy piggledy,
Hipper-dipper, hobnob, hobson-jobson,

Hocus-pocus ~ !"
~ Merryvale

"Hoity-toity, hokey-cokey, hokey-pokey,
Holy moly ~ !

Honey-bunny, hootchie-kootchie,
Hop on Pop,

Hotch-potch, hot shot, Hubble-bubble,
Hugger-mugger, hully-gully ~ !"
~ Black Rock

"Humba Wumba (a good magician in Banjo-Tooie video games),
Humpty Dumpty, hurdy-gurdy, hurly-burly, hurry-scurry,

Ill will,
Itsy-bitsy,

Jeepers creepers ~ !

Look at that jet set
Legal Beagle

Sailing in ..."
~ Twittering

"I heard the hush of a captured bird,
The twisted wings, the pounding heart."
~ Dana Gioia,

Quoted message said:

From "Nosferatu,"

An opera

"Jeepers creepers ~ !"
~ Fobby

"Heck, yeah ~ !"
~ Trefethen

"I came to a table set for a feast,
Decked with silver and delicate lace.
The crystal shimmered in candlelight.
A long-stemmed rose adorned each place."
~ Dana Gioia,

Quoted message said:

From "Nosferatu,"

An opera

"As in an earlier phase, commonplace expressions
Go mad with jealousy, call off the affair,
Migrate to other seasons, warmer climates
Where shores invest themselves with over ~ heated meaning.
Embellish the picture. Dolly back

To an angle where highlights frame the text
Of their own accord after you've left the room.
Beautiful swimmers wearily assemble to guard the coast.

Arrange the silver tea service. Embellish the absence.
Shapes return to claim their place at table."
~ Virginia Hooper,

Quoted message said:

From "Postcards"

"... &
What If
I own no silver tea service ~ ?"
~ Sharon Olds,
1988, On the steps
Of the Columbia Unversity library

"It's just a poem."
~ Virginia Hooper,
1988

"But when the moth lay in its trap,
I saw the prey was you."
~ Dana Gioia,

Quoted message said:

From "Nosferatu,"

"And if by air, now, I call desperately
Out ~

'What say you
To me, if prayers of mind no longer answer,
If air too silvered, my heart too shredded,
My bed too unwedded, for heart's anchorage
To whole ~ ?"
~ Twittering

"I came down a stair to a bolted door.
I touched the lock, and it fell away."
~ Dana Gioia

"And if lingering on my stair, I spot
You here, you point me the rest of the way,
What words would you say, what consortium
Tumbles letters falling, if only Cardinals
Know a combination's lock upon a sundial,
Or touchstone fingers tap, for sightless way ~ ?
~ Twittering

"Rough stuff,
Wooooooooooooof Wooffffffffffffffffffff ~ !

Not the only Max
In town, or Man
Of Style."
~ Maria Kalman

"On this part of town, know squirrel's gone abroad,
No Silver Scottie or funny money's
Befallen my way
Today, or yesterday ~ But most certainly on The Day
Of the Island of the Day Before,
Where I own my own spruce on Park Place,
Evergreen forevermore."
~ Fobby

"The room a chapel lit by candles,
But the cross had been broken in two."
~ Dana Gioia

"Lust, (m.; en)[~Lat. lascivus (dartel), Gr. lastè (hoer), Russ.
Laska (liefkozing)], begeerte, trek, aandrift.

Food and eroticism seldom really go together,
Although they have much in common.

Both are physically satisfying,
Both are indispensable,
And both are usually considered extremely pleasant.
Both are matters of personal taste ..."
~ National Library of the Netherlands

"O a fine cookbook, I urgently require ~
Our guests this evening, Higher
Society, Cornish Hens, A Pair of Partridges,
Too Cuckoos, and A Dutch Cartographer ...
For dessert, Bartlett Pears, Petit Fours, and Smores ~ !"
~ La Crema

~ * O ~
Oranje

"Oran'je, (m.-v.;-s) 1 vorst of vorstin uit het huis van Oranje.
2 (sportt.) Nederlandse nationale ploeg.

The Netherlands may be a democratic nation to the bone,
But the Dutch hold
The House of Orange dear."
~ The Library of the Netherlands

http://www.kb.nl/galerie/wonderbaarlijkalfabet/o-en.html

~ * ~

"Quaffing, as your taintless way is,
From a chalice
Lucent ~ weeping out of the dayspring."
~ Francis Thompson,

Quoted message said:

From "The Hound of Heaven"

"Quoof Quoof ~ ! My lustful figure ruffs,
Cascade of stripes
Stellar showers splash, out of night christens,

Quench drunk, your milky way, I thirst ~
A cast of stars from a chase
Lucent ~ spilling
Out of Quarks, as your swallow sings,

Wanton wings, bated luminary

Quoted message said:

From a chalice

Scales ascend upon, a flutter past your cheek ..."
~ Equus Quagga

"!Hottentots!"
~ Mer Loleil

~ * Restoring
The QUAGGA ~ !

"In 1883, biologists believed the world had lost one of its zebra
species. The last known Quagga, an unusual brownish, partly striped
zebra, died in the Amsterdam Zoo.

Hunters had already exterminated its wild cousins, sought for their
striking hides and because ranchers believed they competed with
livestock for grasses.

Now, more than 100 years later, researchers in South Africa are on the
verge of bringing the Quagga ~ or at least a modern version of it ~
back to life."

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/horsetigers/quagga.html

~ * ~

"Try
Solid ~ rough."
~ Francesca

"Rufffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ~ !"
~ Max,
A frightfully festive French Poodle,
Avec oodles & oodles of Snooker Doodle's
Kisses

"... a study
In contrasts, by conte crayon ~

The Tao of Too."
~ Mum

"The room a chapel lit by candles,
But the cross had been broken in two."
~ Dana Gioia

"Lust, (m.; en)[~Lat. lascivus (dartel), Gr. lastè (hoer), Russ.
Laska (liefkozing)], begeerte, trek, aandrift.

Food and eroticism seldom really go together,
Although they have much in common.

Both are physically satisfying,
Both are indispensable,
And both are usually considered extremely pleasant.
Both are matters of personal taste ..."
~ National Library of the Netherlands

"O a fine cookbook, I urgently require ~
Our guests this evening, Higher
Society, Cornish Hens, A Pair of Partridges,
Too Cuckoos, and A Dutch Cartographer ...
For dessert, Bartlett Pears, Petit Fours, and Smores ~ !"
~ La Crema

~ * O ~
Oranje

"Oran'je, (m.-v.;-s) 1 vorst of vorstin uit het huis van Oranje.
2 (sportt.) Nederlandse nationale ploeg.

The Netherlands may be a democratic nation to the bone,
But the Dutch hold
The House of Orange dear."
~ The Library of the Netherlands

http://www.kb.nl/galerie/wonderbaarlijkalfabet/o-en.html

~ * ~

"Quaffing, as your taintless way is,
From a chalice
Lucent ~ weeping out of the dayspring."
~ Francis Thompson,

Quoted message said:

From "The Hound of Heaven"

"Quoof Quoof ~ ! My lustful figure ruffs,
Cascade of stripes
Stellar showers splash, out of night christens,

Quench drunk, your milky way, I thirst ~
A cast of stars from a chase
Lucent ~ spilling
Out of Quarks, as your swallow sings,

Wanton wings, bated luminary

Quoted message said:

From a chalice

Scales ascend upon, a flutter past your cheek ..."
~ Equus Quagga

"!Hottentots!"
~ Mer Loleil

~ * Restoring
The QUAGGA ~ !

"In 1883, biologists believed the world had lost one of its zebra
species. The last known Quagga, an unusual brownish, partly striped
zebra, died in the Amsterdam Zoo.

Hunters had already exterminated its wild cousins, sought for their
striking hides and because ranchers believed they competed with
livestock for grasses.

Now, more than 100 years later, researchers in South Africa are on the
verge of bringing the Quagga ~ or at least a modern version of it ~
back to life."

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/horsetigers/quagga.html

~ * ~

"Try
Solid ~ rough."
~ Francesca

"Rufffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ~ !"
~ Max,
A frightfully festive French Poodle,
Avec oodles and oodles of Snooker Doodle's
Kisses

"The sun is not a lightbulb."
~ The Annotator

"Sunday Night
In Santa Rosa ~

The carnival is over. The high tents,
the palaces of light, are folded flat
and trucked away. A three-time loser yanks
the Wheel of Fortune off the wall. Mice
pick through the garbage by the popcorn stand.
A drunken giant falls asleep beside
the juggler, and the Dog-Faced Boy sneaks off
to join the Serpent Lady for the night.
Wind sweeps ticket stubs along the walk.
The Dead Man loads his coffin on a truck.
Off in a trailer by the parking lot
the radio predicts tomorrow's weather
while a clown stares in a dressing mirror,
takes out a box, and peels away his face.,
~ Dana Gioia

"Le Masque pour Luminaire,
La Masque pour Noir ~
For a casket both opens
And conceals, if a garden flowers hours
Rung,

A Vesper's whispering call
For supper,

Not last
Not lost.

First

Whether by hearse or horse
Your carriage bears you down Fifth,

Your forebears
Waving,

Your marriage carriage,
Your sacred confession,

A Processional
Paving your way's Heaven ..."
~ Capsicum

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Quoted message said:

"Sunday Night
In Santa Rosa ~

I suppose this proves that the "Shock Treatments" didn't take ?

H.J.

"Sunday Night
ON Santa Rosa Island ..."
~ Dana

"I suppose this proves that the 'Shock
Treatments' didn't take ~ ?
~ H.J.

"Birds do It, Bees do It,
For Vesper's supper

Alas ready, a heady serving
Of hot soup, ladled

Quoted message said:

From the cradle.

Not least, remember,
No loss is original

If through a star's deserted tear
First you wink

While inhearse or upon horse
The Deade Boyz blink,
Rattle chains, if weather cloudy

Wintery or windy, if
Your carriage bears you forth,

For sails
Sally you forth toward a sale,

Breakfast, O alas,
@ Tiffanys first, before

Down Fifth,
A Pee Promenade, you prance

Your Im Pee Dance
By romance

Or unbearable
Wait of Love."
~ Twittering

"If from wake or slumber
Your humble dreams whisper,

Remember ~ Wishes on your fingers
Number

Quoted message said:

From One

To Ten

& back again."
~ Mum

"Until
A wave

Or mourning's tide washes your
Attic vessel

Homeward bound

Again ..."
~ Ashberry

"Homeward bound

Again
Across the sound, for

Mooring's anchor,
Your Ship of Foole's anchorage

For Cast,
O, still a ways off course,
O, mon cher, of course."
~ The Annotator

"When she revived, she was not dead,
But on the ocean's floor instead."
~ Edward,

Quoted message said:

From "The Tuning Fork"

"The room a chapel lit by candles,
But the cross had been broken in two."
~ Dana Gioia

"In Too, I broke, my cross to bear,
But Rothko's chapel, by candles lit,
My form, if wax lost, I found here,
As well, my cast, by craven ravens bit,
Madness, a lunar flight no candle lights,

But by Star's a spotlight
A shadow cast of Noir, if ravens

Quote forevermore."
~ Twittering

"!Snap!"
~ Star Noir