waking #xyz

[Horab Fibslager]

rooting through my box here for a resume, i found soem old poems from when i could still write at the pub:

i dreamed a dream
i was a wake
and then i was
upon the merry
rolling hills of hell
crashing upon some distant tide
a folded sky from stars
shone down and you
your naked eyes
transfixed upon oblivion

oh these waking times
this terrible burden of
connected moments
held linear by a tether.
for dreams are what is true,
in those lucid times
events unconnected
with no memory
of purpose or name,
nor of self or being.
take me back then
to that fall
that bliss
which is tasted from
within the depths
of sweet abyss and
warm nothing.

[slothrop23]

dude, they are really top. you should post them on a forum or something. or better yet send them to a publisher.

[Horab Fibslager]

i have a carp load of stuff from this period that i might jsut do that with.

i thinkthis tuff is from teh waking. or the electric apple, tho electric apple i think was sposed to be poetic soemthign or other with ahab and ishtar(can't recall where i put that stuff, the best one of that may be gone now, teh rest got a bit too pretentious for my liking)

[slothrop23]

you should collect about 30 together. write a synopsis,and maybe an essay.faber and faber would be a good bet. or jim dodges publisher, i think that might be v or vintage.they would lap that up.i do. but id say thats pretty perfect as it is.and i normally hate poetry.

[Bella]

Yeah, your poetry is great, horab.
Hoshiko put a link to help people get published in the library forum.

[East Coast Hustle]

I'd suggest sending them to a publisher, pronto....at least, if that's the alternative to posting them on these here forums....

[Eldora, Oracle of Alchemy]

Yeah, your poetry is great, horab.
Hoshiko put a link to help people get published in the library forum.

That is some pretty good stuff.  Don't listen to the Goat McTurd

[Hoshiko]

Those are really good. Most major publishers (even for poetry) only accept agented stuff, but I found a list of publishers and magazines that take email and slush submissions. I'll post it in the Library.

[LMNO]

Admit it, Hosh... You're just ducking our game, because you don't want to re-enact the "prom" scene in Carrie....


Not that that'll be the punishment, of course...

[Horab Fibslager]

well thanks folks. i wouldn't hold yall's breath. the first couple of ppl who'ce seen soem of these said to get em published too, but i'm more of a mind to wait until i'm dead and have my kids or the benefactorees of my estate fidn em and go through th ehassle of it.

[East Coast Hustle]

spoken like a true artiste!

anyway, everyone knows that true genius almost always only receives its glory posthumously...

[Horab Fibslager]

spoken like a true artiste!

anyway, everyone knows that true genius almost always only receives its glory posthumously...

and there you are. i know i woun't be satisfied by success in having my work publicsed or makign money from it, since i've already decided the true test of  wether art is good or not is if people enjoy it many hundreds of years after one's death.

[Ben]

What's the point of being rich and famous if you're dead?

[Horab Fibslager]

maybe i don't want to be rich and famous? mayb ei want to beimpoverished marry a hooker so then goddess can make a real life analogy from that to mdoern day western society, such as ol yaweh did back in the book of hosea

[slothrop23]

i,d rather have money than fame.  cannongate. just saying.