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defenestrate
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States579 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-15 07:46:42
May 12 2008 21:52 GMT
#1
Goya's Third of May, 1808

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The Lord’s our shepherd, so they say.
But does he herd us for the fleece,
Or, rendered happy and obese,
We’re doomed upon the feasting-day?

Such blasphemy we mustn’t imply!
Still, public stomachs make demands.
Perhaps His bishops, round and sly,
May surreptitiously supply
Hell’s bottomless shawarma stands?

No. Neighbors from their pastures stray;
A flock no more, but brutal gangs
Advance, to horror and dismay,
All clad in predatory gray
With rifles tipped with metal fangs.

Alas, tonight is not your night.
Your horns provide a poor reprieve.
You cannot win, though try you might.
Professionals; they live to fight,
And fight to eat, and eat to live.

Arranged and crucified by fear,
You finally beseech your God:
"My shepherd, help!" He does not hear.
Perhaps he's busy nursing beer.
You stand before the firing squad.

As curtains fall, you feel within
The nagging of a dull regret.
If you could once again begin,
Don wolfen shako, wolfen skin,
And hold a wolfish bayonet...

Come hurry, mutton does not keep,
So scrape those bodies from the wall,
A feast of sheep, by sheep, for sheep,
A doner party, food for all.

*****
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
DrainX
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
Sweden3187 Posts
May 12 2008 22:10 GMT
#2
[image loading]
Xeofreestyler
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
Belgium6771 Posts
May 12 2008 22:47 GMT
#3
You rock.
Graphics
HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1922 Posts
May 12 2008 23:03 GMT
#4
sorry dude but i dont think your poem quite matches up to the painting in terms of artistic quality but gooood try
"Oh no, we've drawn Judge Schneider" "Is that bad?" "Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog" "You did?" "Yeah...if you replace the word *kinda* with *repeatedly*...and the word *dog* with son"
Dknight
Profile Blog Joined April 2005
United States5223 Posts
May 12 2008 23:07 GMT
#5
On May 13 2008 08:03 HamerD wrote:
sorry dude but i dont think your poem quite matches up to the painting in terms of artistic quality but gooood try


Its a bit obvious the poetry won't match up with the painting considering it is one Spain's greatest artists.
WGT<3. Former CL/NW head admin.
HamerD
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United Kingdom1922 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-05-12 23:44:11
May 12 2008 23:43 GMT
#6
Alas, tonight is not your night.
Your horns provide a poor reprieve.
You cannot win, though try you might.
Professionals; they live to fight,
And fight to eat, and eat to live.

this is my favourite stanza

rhyming reprieve with live is reminiscent of siegfried sassoon (i think) in that poem where he rhymes silent with salient to convey unease and despair. I also like how that ties in with the urgency of the soldiers, desperate to earn a living through any deplorable means possible; as if the stanza is so desperate to rhyme it accepts the half rhyme willingly.

Btw yeah this painting is seriously seriously emotional and amazing so dont take offense at my previous comment.
"Oh no, we've drawn Judge Schneider" "Is that bad?" "Well, he's had it in for me ever since I kinda ran over his dog" "You did?" "Yeah...if you replace the word *kinda* with *repeatedly*...and the word *dog* with son"
defenestrate
Profile Blog Joined March 2007
United States579 Posts
May 13 2008 00:39 GMT
#7
Heh, no offense taken. Goya's one of the greatest artists of all time, and that happens to be my favorite painting of his. Of course there's no way that poem (or anything else I'll scribble in my lifetime) can come near.
We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges.
Yogurt
Profile Blog Joined June 2005
United States4258 Posts
May 13 2008 03:20 GMT
#8


Come hurry, mutton does not keep,
So scrape those bodies from the wall,
A feast of sheep prepared by sheep,
A doner party, food for all.

damn i really liked that

you're pretty talented, whats the name of how it is written?
ok dont not so good something is something ok ok ok gogogo
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