[Janet Kenny]

Wail in Lost Muddle Earth Dialect


I waked up an’ t’ world were al smashed’n broken
Sea wus hoigh an’ fushes ariz a-spewin’
Men gone mad wus kullin’ n’slashin, pratin’
Of the end comin’

Skoy wus fulled with fushes an’ birds gone sully
Jesters casting rods in the bilin’ ocean
Headless fush-men stumblin’ al blind’n clumsy
Narry a wumin

Cold and seethin’ ocean coughs oop ald monsters
Satan sends his armies of fushy taunters
Nowt to do but doi before the torment
Blackens the vullage

Granny Sorgum warned us that bad wud follow
When we foired the vullage across the watter
She wus bornt and al the folks made t’ watch it
God uv our fathers

World has turned against us an’ we wull perish
We hev sunned’n now we will pay the divil
Lothar howls in kennel beside his chulder
All’v them taken

Priest is gone and nabody kens the prayin’
Feard’n bloind we turn al our een t’heav’n
Intercede for us pore fushermen someone
God uv our fathers


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[Robt_Ward]

WHOO! God of our Fathers, indeed! That's extraordinarily inventive and original, Janet.

NOW can we please have 4 (at least) more entries? I'll give y'all until my Birthday, October 23. I will compile an anonymous jury from respected 'spherans who have NOT entered, and we'll do an anymous poll.

The winner will be directed to www.robtward.com to look at pictures (anyone can look) and will be allowed to zero in on an area ("That's a nice Rose, do you have any excellent Tulips?") and we'll work like this to select a photo to the winner's taste.

The winner may also "assign" his/her prize to anyone else.

The signed & numbered, archival photos sell for $250 retail. This is a very nice prize.

And it's a WONDERFUL engraving. Come on, poets, let's have a crack at it. I've done one myself, of course, but won't show it 'til after the contest.

(robt)

[Julie Steiner]

Yes, a nice prize, indeed, but what about the nice package Michael Cantor got? A homecooked Mexican meal with all the fixin's, followed by a photo session? Now THAR'S an incentive for you!

Julie Stoner
(Still hard at work on my own fish story.)

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[Janet Kenny]

Great photographic trip Robert!!!
You would love New Zealand houses (the good ones.)
Janet
ps: I don't have a two button mouse. I have an optical mouse. is there some other way to access the site with the Breughel?
Got Meadowstung on Google


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[Robt_Ward]

Julie,

I'd extend such an invitation to any 'spherean who passed my "screening process" regardless of whether they won the contest or not, so consider yourself invited. (Yeah, you passed)

Janet,

You must be on a mac, eh? All PC mice have 2 buttons except the antiques, and optical/mechanical has nothing to do with it. If you're on a PC, then fagawdsake get one. If you're on a mac, you're on your own.

With a PC, when we right-click an image (or anything online) we get a long list of options that apply to that thing, which include printing it (the image alone) or saving it to our hard drive. I am sure there is a way to do this with a mac, I just don't know what it is...

I'll mail it to ya, though...

(robt)

[Renate]

The Boatman Speaks

Look! the fisher on the beach,
his catch is one and yet it yields
a hundred fold. Shall I beseech
his art? And see the knife he wields;
the mark upon the blade is clear.
What is the bait, the line, the hook?
I’m smelling something fishy here,
And I suspect it’s not a snook.




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[Robt_Ward]

AH, so! TWO entries in, BOTH from Australia? Is it something about the antipodes that causes them to appreciate this fishy engraving?

Let's GO USA! Rack 'em UP, Britain/Wales/Scotlan/Eireland/France/Belgium/Sweden/Singapore/EVERYONE!

Hell, if we get TEN entries I'll give TWO prizes!

(robt)

[Roger Slater]

MONA LISA

Perhaps it's just the eyes that smile.
The mouth does not participate
but sports a non-committal style
that might be love, but might be hate.

But then again, it may just be
the mouth alone that gives the sense
that she enjoys a mystery
and is amused at your expense.

[Janet Kenny]

Roger
Concise and clever. Only it's "Monna" short for Madonna--a repectful form of address in those times for ladies of quality. Mary was included and later took it over.
(Lisa is a better name for that face despite the excellent Nat King Cole.)

Janet

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[Susan Vaughan]

Carcass in the Moon

We batter it with breath, yet it dies on.
No gasp of air surrenders to our knife,
for time is but a carcass in the moon.
It eats the thing it feeds to us: our life.

Let us dig in to love! How sharp to think
of when we shall become mere pungent dishes,
all eking from a gaseous hole of stink
of fishes eating fishes eating fishes!

Though soon we shall be swallowed by the sea,
yet let us crawl across our heartless sky,
and swim into the selves we mean to be,
no more to lie and lie and lie and lie.