I wrote a verse

Discuss any questions in English. Practise your writing skills.

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Juliemiracle пишет: 12 июл 2022, 20:45 это дословный перевод "начистить табло"?
А, понял, нет не сам придумал:
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cl ... %27s+clock
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Juliemiracle пишет: 12 июл 2022, 20:59 кое-где пришлось подумать
Juliemiracle, а где именно?
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VictorB пишет: 12 июл 2022, 21:01 нет не сам придумал:
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/cl ... %27s+clock
ого!
VictorB пишет: 12 июл 2022, 21:02а где именно?
в конце :)
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On a graveyard the night mist is sprawling, kind of, lazily, leisurely.
There, two youths, the night knockers on duty, are yawning nervously.
Although they've been given the night sticks, handcuffs and pepper sprays,
They still feel afraid of spending the whole night among tombs and graves.

But what they are really afraid of are those so-called walking dead,
On whom most kids by movies and books since long have been fed.
And even if they had been armed with AKs and F-1 hand grenades
And met their fear alive, they'd for sure have wet their pants.
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VictorB,
literally the graveyard shift :)
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Juliemiracle, thanks a lot for not missing this thing, too :)
Juliemiracle пишет: 14 июл 2022, 10:19 literally the graveyard shift
If this somehow relates to some of Stephen King's work, then yes, at least one word, a night knocker, I borrowed for my piece from The Institute.
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VictorB пишет: 14 июл 2022, 14:00 If this somehow relates to some of Stephen King's work
No, it doesn't. I didn't even know King's got such a book.
I just think it's fun that you read the title Graveyard Shift and guess it's a poem about some night shift job like an EMT, but it turns out to be a night shift at the real graveyard :)
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Juliemiracle пишет: 14 июл 2022, 10:19 literally the graveyard shift :)
Now I got it)))
There's a short story by Stephen King titled Graveyard Shift too, and that's what I thought of and was wrong:)
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Inspired by this:
diggerzz пишет: 17 июл 2022, 18:03 Хороший врач имеет кладбище пациетов за спиной.
Twenty years in surgery is a long time and an onerous burden to lug.
He is mentally walking along the graves he might think he himself has dug.
He occasionally stops and sighs heavy sighs at those graves' impressive amount.
Yet, since he's sure he's being doing his best, to him it's the saved lives that count.
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An Hour in the Life

One single hour in the life, be it the very, very last,
Is still worth living through by every single minute.
Indeed, despite the saying that time flies (and sometimes it does fly real fast),
What seems a short time span to some, to someone else may seem to have no limit.
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When you feel it's closing in,
Who does not?
When you dream of all these things
You might have got.

Make your life a paradise,
That's for sure.
Right all wrongs to everyone,
And be mature.

Get a chance to live your life
Just one more time.
Cheating Death a little bit
Would be no crime.

Reconsider, and then change
Things passed, and more.
It's so easy to pretend,
There's no before.

Pay your dues and pay the bills,
All along.
Good to dream of all these things,
What can go wrong?
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diggerzz,
I find it thought provoking.
And I do hope it won't be the last one you've felt like coming up with.
Good work. Way to go! :-)
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VictorB,
Just followed this song
VictorB пишет: 06 сен 2022, 17:10 And I do hope it won't be the last one you've felt like coming up with.
If there would be something like that I would run into, and can aptly ape, why not. :)
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VictorB пишет: 06 сен 2022, 19:09
diggerzz пишет: 06 сен 2022, 18:45 Where and when I offended you?!!
No, no – it's just the case of a slight misinterpretation on my part, and it's me to say "excuse me" to you :-)
Friends?
Never be your enemy.
Anyway, what does the cause of such a such?
I just wanted to be modest and honest.
Placed a link to the song from what I got the inspiration.
Aped the song, as I saw that.
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diggerzz пишет: 06 сен 2022, 19:31 Aped the song, as I saw that.
Taking the very general idea for a new song, or verse, doest mean plagiary, at least to me.
There's nothing new under the Sun - everything you start writing about was already described, in different words. And it's the difference in wording, rhyme, and meter that count in poetry, IMHO :)
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VictorB пишет: 06 сен 2022, 19:46 There's nothing new under the Sun
Exactly how I see it.
There are same boys, same gels.
There are same mistakes making over and over under the same Sun.
There's no way to fix it.
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diggerzz пишет: 06 сен 2022, 19:58 There are same boys, same gels.
There are same mistakes making over and over under the same Sun.
And it, kind of, inspired this rhyme:

The boys are the same as they were long ago,
And so are the girls, not less pretty than girls were before.
They all talk and act like their parents would – time ago – do,
All playing the same funny game that their kids will play, too.
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There's both the good and bad in man, by the varying score.
And what may seem the good to some, the others may abhor.
And there is nothing but the bad of which the good is made.
And there's no good without the bad, and there's no pure bad.
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I know for sure why you're frowning, gloomy Sky.
Being all alone, who won't feel rather gloomy?
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Warning: Foul language! :)

You say you hate to read my rhymes?
Fuck you, the wiener, saying that!
Think you can do it better? Go ahead,
And let us see how good you are at that,
Me meaning rhyming words within your shit-full head
And putting those in lines, at that,
So, that they'd be by any asshole not just read,
But also understood, and taken as not very bad
Pieces of poetry ... yet somewhat rather oddish.

But, isn't this one, absolutely crazy piece, exactly that?
If yes, then so am I, the poet who's gone slightly mad.
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I dreamed I looked out of the window to see the night
Which – in regard to starless, moonless skies – was oddly light.
Although I knew for sure it was night, there seemed to be the daytime outside,
Yet, as it always is at night, the town and its residents were soundly sleeping..

I somehow knew then: there was no living soul but me to be awake
And privileged to see the odd night turning into yet an odder morning
Without any trace of any form of life on Earth...
How so?! But that was what I saw in
That dream of mine, which, though, evaporated just a jiff before daybreak.
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I think I may proudly call myself a translator
From English to Russian and sometimes vice-versa,
For having the Google-translate as my aider,
I'm doing what no one before me have guessed of!
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Seeking persistently complexities in what's as simple as the ABC
May make you end up in a mental institution.
Until you stop trying to see what others cannot see,
You won't find to your qualms appropriate solution.
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Although for the alive the only way to know that they are that
Is that so is the way that they may still be feeling,
And even if there's something guiding them through their lives
Is what they may or they may not believe in,
There is no way for anyone who was alive to know that now - lo! - they are dead...
At least, not earlier before they meet with that omniscient something,
Well-knowing how to make it clear to the newly dead —
That is, explain to them that now they are the dead.
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What can be easier than reconcile
yourself to rather harsh
yet too certain a fact
that you are what you are
and never will be someone
who's young, lynx-eyed,
quick on their feet,
strong, slim, ambitious, lustful?

What can be easier than reconcile
the way the others see you
with what's looking back at you
from a full-length framed mirror
unless the image showing there
will represent that of one of Seraphim?

What can be easier
than reconcile with foes
that long ago you called
your friends or lovers
unless there's none of those
that you did not outlive
to never reconcile with?

What can be easier than reconcile the fact
that there're too many things (to name them)
that may be worth being reconciled with,
or to – upon the context it'll depend.
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