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(Message started by: Jeepgun on Jan 5^th, 2005, 8:05am)

Title: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Jan 5^th, 2005, 8:05am

Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull

Swaying on the narrow ledge
forty-six stories up.
The blue lights of the nightsky shout
in my bloodshot eyes while
the cello wind sings through
girders and glass, slapping at me and
stealing my breath.

Through gritty teardrop haze, the
blurring tilted world spins below and
your photo with your jagged smile ripping
your face open and exposing your glaring teeth
flutters and falls
from my fingers like
a sparrow snared in barbed wire.

Toes hanging in empty space, I
consider one little step: How irrevocable, how the
ledge would look as I fell away, wondering if I would grab
in vain for it, and at what point I would surrender to grim
velocity and screaming space, wondering what my last thoughts would be,
and whether my heart would stop before
IMPACT
Or if I would plummet with eyes as white and round as peeled grapes,
bloody laughter sweet and metallic in my throat
as the brutal concrete rushed to split me like an overripe tomato.

-Frank H. Weeden

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Langa on Jan 5^th, 2005, 10:17am

Frank, this one almost started a worry frenzy for you a few weeks back.

You're still okay, right? ;)

As usual though, great writing...

Langa

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by becky8 on Jan 5^th, 2005, 10:20am

I'm with Langa on that one!! Frank please don't write ones like that!!! They make us worried you're not doin good! We love and you shouldn't do this to people who care about you so much! :'(

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Jan 5^th, 2005, 10:29am

Did I already post this? Oops! Pardon the redundancy.

Becky, if I had a choice about what I write, I wouldn't write anything at all. LOL... I don't mean to worry anyone, though. I've already been there and tried it a few times, and I don't think anything will ever push me to that brink again. Still, when standing on a high, precarious ledge, one can't help but think.... "One little step... How bad could it be?"

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Jan 5^th, 2005, 10:31am

On a brighter note, then:

I Have Become You

For this fleeting, exquisite moment,
there is nothing and there is everything
No division
No "me and Thee"
No chasm to bridge
No bridge
No prayer
No beseeching
No one to sing these psalms to.
All of my utterances of love for You have
become Your tenderest confessions of love for me,
pouring from my lips and pen, until it all has become
the ocean and i have become the ocean and the
song and the triumph of the storm thundering and
raining across the land in cumulus radiance is really
our own benevolent smile beaming from everywhere.

Less of me has become more of You until there is
no understanding of which is which and who is what or
where anything begins and no end or horizon to grasp.
No past
No future
No paradox
No direction or weighing upon left or right or wrong,
and how these words are only the vainest, feeblest attempt
to chronicle this vast and boundless thing...

Enough of words.
In its most concise and eloquent terms:
A smile and a single sparkling teardrop.

-Frank H. Weeden

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Langa on Jan 5^th, 2005, 10:46am

on 01/05/05 at 10:31:02, Jeepgun wrote:

Beautiful ! ;;D

Langa

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by becky8 on Jan 5^th, 2005, 10:49am

Wow!!

Pouring from my lips and pen until it all has become the ocean.

Great line, can I use that? Frank such talent! :-*

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Jan 5^th, 2005, 10:54am

Thanks... :) Yeah, you can use that line if you like. The words and inspiration come from somewhere else... I can't explain it, but although I wrote them, I don't think I can claim ownership. It's more like taking dictation...

-Frank

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jonny on Jan 5^th, 2005, 6:10pm

Gravitational constant: G = 6.67 X 10-8 cm-3 gm-1 sec-2

....................................;;D

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Jan 5^th, 2005, 7:14pm

on 01/05/05 at 18:10:08, Jonny wrote:

Gravitational constant: G = 6.67 X 10-8 cm-3 gm-1 sec-2

Gravitational constant: G = 6.67 X 10-8 cm-3 gm-1 sec-2=SPLAT!!!!

Fixed it for ya', Jonny. ;;D [smiley=laugh.gif]

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by cray on Jan 6^th, 2005, 7:25am

Geez Frank ,you seem to do a couple of poems a day that are 2 me real good stuff. Ever thought about putting a book of them together? Russ.

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Jan 6^th, 2005, 8:38am

Thanks, Russ. The problem with professional publishing, is that the Almighty Dollar is King. Most publishers aren't willing to take a chance on an unknown author unless they are guaranteed to sell at least 5,000 copies. Poetry is a narrow market, so the compromise is that the publisher expects the author to foot the bill for printing, distribution, and to actually go around and hock the book to book sellers. I just don't have that kind of time or money.

What would be really neat, is if I could find a small press willing to take a chance, and then get set up with a photographer or illustrator, and turn out a small book with poetry and illustrations/photos to go with each one, and yet, keep the printing runs under a hundred at a time, and sell them locally. Probably an impossible dream...

Thanks for the kind comments. :)

-Frank

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by lionsound on Jan 6^th, 2005, 8:40am

on 01/05/05 at 19:14:24, Jeepgun wrote:

Gravitational constant: G = 6.67 X 10-8 cm-3 gm-1 sec-2=SPLAT!!!!

Fixed it for ya', Jonny. ;;D [smiley=laugh.gif]

I'm sorry Frank......but this jumped instantly to mind. ;;D
The First Paragraph of the Fall of Furgal: The first Unlikely Exploits, by Philip Ardagh:
(children’s books described as “darkly Hilarious” and they are. We’ve read three.:))

The very last words young Fergal McNally heard in his life were:”Don’t lean out the window!” The very last sounds were probably the air whistling past his sticky-out ears as he fell the fourteen stories, the honk of traffic horns below (getting nearer and nearer, of course), and–– possibly–– the SP of the SPLAT! He himself made as he hit the pavement. Fergal certainly wouldn’t have heard more than the SP, though, because by the time the LAT! Part had followed he would have been well and truly dead.

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by cray on Jan 6^th, 2005, 8:46am

Hey,who knows,friend of a friend. Like you say,if it could be a hobby style thing. Fantastic. Russ

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Jan 6^th, 2005, 8:54am

ROFL, Lionsound!

Thanks again, Cray. For now, I just enjoy sharing my work with friends, and here, with the family. :)

-Frank

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by high_commander on Jan 6^th, 2005, 1:49pm

Quote:

What would be really neat, is if I could find a small press willing to take a chance, and then get set up with a photographer or illustrator, and turn out a small book with poetry and illustrations/photos to go with each one,

Have camera...do photography....willing to travel...
;;D

Danielle

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Jan 6^th, 2005, 1:56pm

Cool! :) I'm looking at a plan that I may be able to do, right now. Hashing out the details... :) Thank you for your generous offer!

-Frank

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by CC2004 on Jan 7^th, 2005, 11:56pm

man Frank, your poems are awesome!
How many clusterhead members are there ? - we'd all buy a copy
Talent like yours should be shared - thanks so much
CC

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Jan 8^th, 2005, 12:14am

Thank you, CC. :) I'm considering the layout and what pieces I would include in a book, and maybe a short run of books, and the costs. Thanks again!

-Frank

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Charlie on Jan 8^th, 2005, 2:32am

Quote:

Most publishers aren't willing to take a chance on an unknown author unless they are guaranteed to sell at least 5,000 copies. Poetry is a narrow market, so the compromise is that the publisher expects the author to foot the bill for printing, distribution, and to actually go around and hock the book to book sellers. I just don't have that kind of time or money.

An awful lot of people got started in stuff like the New Yorker, and all the others that keep sending me offers to resubscribe. Just an idea.....what's the worst thing than can happen?

Charlie

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Jan 8^th, 2005, 10:40am

Yes... I've looked at this, Charlie. Still kickin' around ideas. :) Thank you again, pal. :)

-Frank

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by CC2004 on Jan 8^th, 2005, 6:46pm

An enchanted veil is over me - time has passed and I can see a messenger with silver wings - HOPE again is whispering...

Just a few lines I lifted from something I wrote years ago, it says a little how Im feeling about being more or less PF for 2 weeks now - YAHOO I dare hope again

Keep up the good work Frank

wishing you all PFDANs
CC

Title: Re: Ruminations On Velocity And Gravitational Pull
Post by Jeepgun on Jan 8^th, 2005, 8:01pm

That's terrific, CC! Both the line that you lifted and the fact that you are pain-free! Congratulations! May it continue forever....

-Frank