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11/29/2005 12:55:11 AM · #201 |
Originally posted by Nordlys:
If I get bored this evening I may play around with compiling the photos and poems on a website.
Nordlys |
(Yes, I'm talking to myself.)
Here's a start: //cosmos.ucsd.edu/~jbordner/dpc-poems/237747/
Have about 13 or so. No top-level page, but each photo/poem page has links to the previous and next one.
The image, photographer name, and poet name should all link to their respective DPC pages.
Suggestions, corrections, comments, etc. welcome.
Thanks, Jeff, for being bored. :-)
Nordlys |
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11/29/2005 01:07:06 AM · #202 |
| James that is awesome, the mist and majesty pic was from Daniel Sigurdsson, you have rikki on it but other than that it is great. |
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11/29/2005 01:07:17 AM · #203 |
Originally posted by Jammur:
Originally posted by bandit:
Bandit, "Concealed in a Monet Garden" |
Domestication is but a myth.
Across ten thousand years the jungle calls
I hunt by tooth and claw,
beneath my sudden rush my prey still falls.
The lion is my kin,
and though my antelope is merely mouse,
upon my head there sits a crown.
For I am still the King in my own house.
(Thought I'd adopt an orphan.) |
That poem is purrrrfect! I love it.
Look at the smile you put on Bandit's face!
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11/29/2005 01:07:42 AM · #204 |
This is a fine beginning, nordlys. If I may make a couple comments, though: I prefer my name rendered as "Robt. Ward" (there's another Robert Ward writing). In the poem Stephen, the last line of second verse should be "world entire", not "entire world". Finally, I find the electric blue on black type to be pretty glaring. I think it's easier on the eyes not to have to read poetry off a black background, so I'd consider a zone IV gray BG as an alternative, rich but not glaring.
Can't wait to see hwo this turns out :-)
R. |
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11/29/2005 01:08:48 AM · #205 |
Originally posted by Nordlys:
[quote=Nordlys]
Here's a start: //cosmos.ucsd.edu/~jbordner/dpc-poems/237747/
Have about 13 or so. No top-level page, but each photo/poem page has links to the previous and next one.
The image, photographer name, and poet name should all link to their respective DPC pages.
Suggestions, corrections, comments, etc. welcome.
Nordlys |
another great initiative!! |
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11/29/2005 01:11:36 AM · #206 |
Originally posted by bandit:
Originally posted by Jammur:
Originally posted by bandit:
Bandit, "Concealed in a Monet Garden" |
Domestication is but a myth.
Across ten thousand years the jungle calls
I hunt by tooth and claw,
beneath my sudden rush my prey still falls.
The lion is my kin,
and though my antelope is merely mouse,
upon my head there sits a crown.
For I am still the King in my own house.
(Thought I'd adopt an orphan.) |
That poem is purrrrfect! I love it.
Look at the smile you put on Bandit's face!
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LOL that is what I thought, fits just right. |
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11/29/2005 01:23:18 AM · #207 |
Originally posted by Nordlys:
Originally posted by Nordlys:
If I get bored this evening I may play around with compiling the photos and poems on a website.
Nordlys |
(Yes, I'm talking to myself.)
Here's a start: //cosmos.ucsd.edu/~jbordner/dpc-poems/237747/
Have about 13 or so. No top-level page, but each photo/poem page has links to the previous and next one.
The image, photographer name, and poet name should all link to their respective DPC pages.
Suggestions, corrections, comments, etc. welcome.
Thanks, Jeff, for being bored. :-)
Nordlys |
Thanks James for doing this. |
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11/29/2005 01:33:01 AM · #208 |
Originally posted by jsas:
"Adam"
As Adam sat there in all his glory
He didn't know how good he had it
We all know the plot and story
but we never got to live it.
Blind to the naked truth
Adam took it all for granted
leisure and freedom come to an end
His life his ignorance will supplant.
Once the ruler of nature
Now the servant. |
Thanks a lot for your poem! I admire your talent.
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11/29/2005 01:45:13 AM · #209 |
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11/29/2005 01:46:34 AM · #210 |
Originally posted by taterbug:
You Rock Jeff!
I keep coming back to this thread and just finding one delight after the other. Truly great stuff here! If you do get the time and feel like another, I would love to see one for this photo:
thanks :-) |
Tater, this a specific request of Jeff, or can an old bear have a crack at it? 'Cuz if so, this is my next project :-)
R. |
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11/29/2005 01:47:40 AM · #211 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
Originally posted by taterbug:
You Rock Jeff!
I keep coming back to this thread and just finding one delight after the other. Truly great stuff here! If you do get the time and feel like another, I would love to see one for this photo:
thanks :-) |
Tater, this a specific request of Jeff, or can an old bear have a crack at it? 'Cuz if so, this is my next project :-)
R. |
We can give two for one Robt. |
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11/29/2005 02:19:40 AM · #212 |
Jeff, thanks for the correction. Sorry Daniel!
Robert, thanks for your corrections and suggestions. Incidentally, I'm just grabbing and pasting poems from the thread, and some things like emphasized text and certain characters don't come out correctly. I just happened to notice that in the one line that I messed up in "Stephen" (both the italicized text and the m-dash(?) didn't come out right). I'll try to be on the lookout, but that sort of thing is easy for me to miss, so extra pairs of eyes are welcome.
About the background, I have a dark gray up now. I'm working on a laptop, and "black" on my laptop is pretty much a dark grey already. ;-) It still looks glaring to me, but I can fiddle with the color scheme more tomorrow (it's trivial to do--I'm using style sheets, so changing one number changes all backgrounds on all the pages).
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11/29/2005 02:24:35 AM · #213 |
Originally posted by Nordlys:
Jeff, thanks for the correction. Sorry Daniel!
Robert, thanks for your corrections and suggestions. Incidentally, I'm just grabbing and pasting poems from the thread, and some things like emphasized text and certain characters don't come out correctly. I just happened to notice that in the one line that I messed up in "Stephen" (both the italicized text and the m-dash(?) didn't come out right). I'll try to be on the lookout, but that sort of thing is easy for me to miss, so extra pairs of eyes are welcome.
About the background, I have a dark gray up now. I'm working on a laptop, and "black" on my laptop is pretty much a dark grey already. ;-) It still looks glaring to me, but I can fiddle with the color scheme more tomorrow (it's trivial to do--I'm using style sheets, so changing one number changes all backgrounds on all the pages).
Nordlys |
In case you don't know it, you can generate an em-dash by activating numlock and holding down the alt key while typing 0151.
Robt. |
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11/29/2005 02:38:35 AM · #214 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
In case you don't know it, you can generate an em-dash by activating numlock and holding down the alt key while typing 0151.
Robt. |
Not if you're using Linux, you can't! ;-) Though I found that I can use — in HTML, which seems to have done the trick.
Nordlys
P.S. I'm on my CRT now, and the background is noticeably darker than on my laptop. :-/ (No wonder the colors on my edited photos are all messed up.) Anyway, I desaturated the text color which seems to help some with the glare. |
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11/29/2005 12:48:23 PM · #215 |
Robt / Jeff - if either you can find something for this one it would be much appreciated!
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11/29/2005 05:41:54 PM · #216 |
Hi Jeff or Robert
I have a huge, huge favor to ask. I don't have a picture for you to write a poem for, but can I paint you a picture with words and ask for a poem. A dear friend recently lost his wife to cancer and today would have been his wedding anniversary.
Mary was a quiet, gentle woman.. a teacher of young children. Her life centered around her husband Stuart and their son Gabriel. She loved music and poetry and the Boston Red Socks :)
She is still a very real part of Stuarts life. He feels her presense often especially when he sees a butterfly.
Mary had a passion for butterflies and her husband now considers them a symbol of her life. At the school where she taught they are building a butterfly garden in her honor.
If you could write something about this precious lady I would so appreciate it and it would mean a great deal to her husband and son.
Picture a beautiful butterfly and go from there :)
Thanks so much
Faye
Message edited by author 2005-11-29 17:43:31.
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11/29/2005 05:47:36 PM · #217 |
Originally posted by fayepek:
Hi Jeff or Robert
I have a huge, huge favor to ask. I don't have a picture for you to write a poem for, but can I paint you a picture with words and ask for a poem. A dear friend recently lost his wife to cancer and today would have been his wedding anniversary.
Mary was a quiet, gentle woman.. a teacher of young children. Her life centered around her husband Stuart and their son Gabriel. She loved music and poetry and the Boston Red Socks :)
She is still a very real part of Stuarts life. He feels her presense often especially when he sees a butterfly.
Mary had a passion for butterflies and her husband now considers them a symbol of her life. At the school where she taught they are building a butterfly garden in her honor.
If you could write something about this precious lady I would so appreciate it and it would mean a great deal to her husband and son.
Picture a beautiful butterfly and go from there :)
Thanks so much
Faye |
Age of wife please? And of son? And of father/husband for that matter :-) I doubt I can have anything tonight (anniversary night) but I can let it percolate and try for later?
R.
Oh yeah, we have a nice butterfly photo earlier in this thread, maybe you can get permission to use that and mate it with whatever jeff or I come up with?
Message edited by author 2005-11-29 17:48:19. |
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11/29/2005 08:18:57 PM · #218 |
Originally posted by bear_music:
Age of wife please? And of son? And of father/husband for that matter :-) I doubt I can have anything tonight (anniversary night) but I can let it percolate and try for later?
R.
Oh yeah, we have a nice butterfly photo earlier in this thread, maybe you can get permission to use that and mate it with whatever jeff or I come up with? |
Robert whenever you could do it would be great. Mary was 58, Stuart is 57 and Gabriel is almost 16.
A few other things about Mary. She always accepted everyone for who they were right where they were with no judgements. She loved the children she taught and was always patient and kind with them. She was generous and liked to help others but did it quietly with no show or expectation of thanks.
She was VERY brave during her illness. She fought like hell to live as long as she could but once she knew she lost the fight she accepted it with grace and did not complain even when she was in tremendous pain.
Her death was a loss to the whole community.
I'll have to go back and see who posted the butterfly. Maybe they would let us use it with the poem :)
Thanks again
Faye
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11/29/2005 08:51:53 PM · #219 |
Originally posted by jsas:
Originally posted by bandit:
Originally posted by Jammur:
Originally posted by bandit:
Bandit, "Concealed in a Monet Garden" |
Domestication is but a myth.
Across ten thousand years the jungle calls
I hunt by tooth and claw,
beneath my sudden rush my prey still falls.
The lion is my kin,
and though my antelope is merely mouse,
upon my head there sits a crown.
For I am still the King in my own house.
(Thought I'd adopt an orphan.) |
That poem is purrrrfect! I love it.
Look at the smile you put on Bandit's face!
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LOL that is what I thought, fits just right. |
Thank you and big skricthes to Bandit, his smile is one to best compliments I've ever recieved on my work.
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11/29/2005 11:38:52 PM · #220 |
Originally posted by tfaust:
Originally posted by jsas:
"Peeking Through"
Butterflies
More like flying flowers
with beauty and elegance.
They come in various size and colors,
each one is splendidly made.
Floating through the air
with effortless ease.
Like dreams
they fall from the sky
and when they fly.
Time seems to stand still.
Look there!
Infront of you
is one right now
peeking through. |
Jeff, this is absolutely perfect, thank you! |
This is one of the butterfly pics and poems. |
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11/29/2005 11:42:15 PM · #221 |
I think this one of Tina's is better for what you want. I asked for her permission to use it. |
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11/30/2005 12:27:38 AM · #222 |
"My Mentor"
May I please have your attention,
My mentor in youth is worthy of mention.
For after all he taught me pooh-atry's rhyme,
He taught me to.. think, think, think
and open my mind.
He gave me short stories of great adventures.
He gave us all the simplest of treasures.
The funny way he always tumbled down the trees.. bump.. bump..bump
after tricking the bees.
See it is the simple things we take for granted,
Like goofy little games and silly dreams planted.
So now I give honor to whom honor is due,
and honor my good friend Winnie-the-Pooh.
Message edited by author 2005-11-30 23:25:32. |
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11/30/2005 12:35:57 AM · #223 |
I could spend a happy morning
seeing Roo.
I could spend a happy morning
being Pooh.
For it doesn't seem to matter,
if I don't get any fatter
(and I don't get any fatter!)
what I do....
(wink)
R.
Message edited by author 2005-11-30 00:37:17. |
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11/30/2005 12:52:52 AM · #224 |
I can't believe you two. You're amazing. You need to put a book together. Some of the photos on this site with your poetry. I would sure buy one.
Message edited by author 2005-11-30 00:55:13.
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11/30/2005 12:53:40 AM · #225 |
Originally posted by jsas:
I think this one of Tina's is better for what you want. I asked for her permission to use it. |
This one is beautiful
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