You're acting as if what I pointed out doesn't count because I didn't actually perform a poem myself? Perhaps we should try and take a moral from Linricks piece:
Will, you please actually read my arguments for keeping the event in the form as it is.
As, I also said, a solution to the problem you see, but I don't. would be to change it to once every 3 or 6 month instead of once every fourteen days.
Sure, sorry. I think instead of starting things off yourself with some lifted material you could potentially let others take stage with their own stuff, then whenever you're ready with original content you can bring that up. No need to reschedule this thing you have going, it was a nice little meeting :)
And for once Bertel will not be reciting lyrics, as poems, from other less known artist.
But instead, in light of the latest respond on this thread, he will recite lyrics from my own original songs.
In my own, maybe less valid and maybe a bit pretentious and smug, opinion this will not influence on the quality of the material though.
Likewise, in the future, although I always make sure people can find the songs recited via Google, based on the information Bertel gives, I will also post links here to the songs in question, after the meetings, so people can check them out for them self, and hopefully that way discover new interesting music with great lyrics.
Next meeting will be Friday the 18th of September at the back of Mage District in Stormwind, by the well. 8 Pm (server time)
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A big thanks to the people who showed up, and a special thanks to those who contributed, not least to Zoey Emberfrost.
As promised I will post the originals used by Bertel in the future here after the meeting, starting from last meeting.
In this case the poems were from the lyrics of my own original songs, taken from my solo project "...and for such a long time" and the electronic duo I am a part of called "Electro Jar", credited by Bertel as Jacob Laeby, which is my real name:
....and for such a long time - a dream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IKa9kN7SLM
....and for such a long time - she's a seahorse https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1hHMcbkV1k
....and for such a long time - sad folk song (for the sake of the meeting renamed to "sad folk poem") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzI6a9PpoWU
Electro Jar - In Dreams : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kvPu70jqNE
Next meeting will be Friday the 2nd of October at the back of Mage District in Stormwind, by the well. 8 Pm (server time)
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Thanks to all who showed up, and a special thanks to those who contributed, not least Lester Melsted.
This time Bertel recited two poems taken from lyrics to songs by respectively Nick Drake and Ween, represented by Bertel as Nick Sundrake and Gene Ween (which is what the main songwriter in Ween calls himself).
Nick Drake - Northern Sky: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAgPPoPBXQg
Ween - Tried and True: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzZAPagFF_o
Next meeting will be Friday the 16th of October at the back of Mage District in Stormwind, by the well. 8 Pm (server time)
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Sorry for the late announcement, and thank to everyone who attended and contributed.
Last meeting Bertel recited 4 poems, 1 original send to him by someone who wished to be known as Alabaster Zypher, called "The Real Devastation"
The Real Devastation
His name was horse, he was the cource of the herd. He was sometimes a bird, word. He was the third preffered in the herd. He is dead, like bread. I can't believe I fled, now he is most likely covered in red. His death was a Real Devastation, I wish he could still be my transportation, but in this situation, he cant.
And 3 poems taken from song lyrics:
Have love, will travel (Richard Berry, originally "Richard Berry and The Paroahs")
Well I travel from Dalaren to New Tinkertown Just to find a little gnome that'll love me so No matter where, no matter where I'll be I'm lookin' for a gnome that'll satisfy me
Have love, baby will travel Have love, Darlin' will travel If you need lovin Then I'll travel
Well I might take a boat, or I'll take a gyro-copter Might hitchhike, or jump a tram Your kind of lovin' drives a gnome insane So look for me a walkin' just any ol' way
If you need lovin' Then I'll travel
Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biwW1Zx2KDU
Strange Meeting (Nick Sundrake, originally Nick Drake)
Deep down in the depths of forgotten dreams So far away So long ago it seems The memory comes of a distant beach Pale sand stretching far from reach It was there that I found my princess of the sand
As I traced the foam, pebbles beneath my feet I looked behind And I saw this one so sweet She came to me and I saw in her eyes The heavy toll of a thousand sighs I called her my princess of the sand
She stared at me and my mind was in a maze As we moved along in a summer sea-dream haze She moved her mouth but there came no sound The message she brought can never be found But I called her my princess of the sand
One moment we walked with the night breeze in our face Then I looked-- she'd gone, Of her presence, there was no trace Where she went or came from, Who can know? Or if she'll ever return To help me know who she is My princess of the sand
Sometime when the summer nights come back I'll go back to the sea And I'll follow that sandy track I'll look around And I'll hope to find That strange young dream close behind I'll call her my princess of the sand
Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCWN3yO8Xqk
Reflection (James Keenan, originally a Tool song with lyrics by Maynard James Keenan)
I have come curiously close to the end, down Beneath my self-indulgent pitiful hole, Defeated, I concede and Move closer I may find comfort here I may find peace within the emptiness How pitiful
It's calling me...
And in my darkest moment, fetal and weeping The moon tells me a secret - my confidant As full and bright as I am This light is not my own and A million light reflections pass over me
Its source is bright and endless She resuscitates the hopeless Without her, we are lifeless satellites drifting
And as I pull my head out I am without one doubt Don't wanna be down here feeding my narcissism. I must crucify the ego before it's far too late I pray The Light lifts me out Before I pine away.
So crucify the ego, before it's far too late To leave behind this place so negative and blind and cynical, And you will come to find that we are all one mind Capable of all that's imagined and all conceivable. Just let The Light touch you And let the words spill through And let them pass right through Bringing out our hope and reason ... before we pine away.
Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja3LGFY1i0o
Next meeting will be Friday the 16th of October at the back of Mage District in Stormwind, by the well. 8 Pm (server time)
Update with the 3 pieces of lyrics Bertel recited as poems the the last poetry meeting Friday the 16th:
A Minor Place (By Will Oldham with his project Bonnie 'prince' Billy, introduced by Bertel as Billy Oldham )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeO0q2o8aa4
I've been to a minor place and I can say I like its face if I am gone and with no trace I will be in a minor place
well I put the shoes in line separate the women mine as we do what we do fine so victorious, so benign
only take the weather warm and the job that does me harm the scars of last year's storm rest like maggots on my arm
thank you man if for the thought that all my loving can be bought was wisely in your gullet caught before my loyalty you sought
oh, it's not a desert nor a web nor a tomb where I lay dead minor in a sound alone yes a clear commanding tone
singing from my little point and aching in my every joint I thank the world it will anoint me if I show it how I hold it
I Can't Breathe (By Sharon Van Etten)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZixNE7NEJ4
You don't rush. You don't want. You don't push. You don't need. And I can't Breathe I can't Breathe
So I fall But you don't hurt And I run, to not fall And I can't Breathe I can't Breathe And It's so And I wanna cry but I don't wanna scare you Cause your so soft, and you move slow And your not green, but your growing up I can't Breathe And I can't believe that I might be
You I want You Love I Can't Breathe I Can't Breathe, Around you
Dominoes (By Syd Barrett, as far as I remember introduced by Bertel as Roger Barrett, which is his birth name)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQdo8efJtSs
It's an idea, someday in my tears, my dreams don't you want to see her proof? Life that comes of no harm you and I, you and I and dominoes, the day goes by...
You and I in place wasting time on dominoes a day so dark, so warm life that comes of no harm you and I and dominoes, time goes by...
Fireworks and heat, someday hold a shell, a stick or play overheard a lark today losing when my mind's astray don't you want to know with your pretty hair stretch your hand, glad feel, in an echo for your way.
Next meeting will be Friday the 30th of October at the back of Mage District in Stormwind, by the well. 8 Pm (server time)
This time it will be partially Hallows End themed...
You are encouraged to wear a costume and Bertel will recite some scary poems (costumes are not mandatory).
Thanks to the people who showed up and contributed to the meeting.
Last meeting was partially Hallows End themed and Bertel showed up in a scary costume and recited 3 spooky poems.
These poems were taken from, in some cases slightly altered, song lyrics, and was as follows:
Where are you? (By Coil, referred to by Bertel as John Coil, since the main song writer of this electronic band was John Balance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvqwVMd7kek
Where are you? Are you hiding from me? Are you still looking for things that no-one else can see?
Where are you? Are you in some place that we cannot reach? Are you bathing in moonlight or drowned on the beach?
Where are you? Are you surrounded by things we cannot penetrate? Is the cage you love the home you also hate?
Your fear of death attracts such strange objects Smothering you, hiding you, don't let it spoil you Show yourself so the others may see you So the others may feed you They want to be near you
If you can't get enough of your hypnotic injection Then it's time to put an end to this invalid function Poor little ghost boy Let me be your human toy
Where are you? No-one's seen you for years Have your wounds grown wings? Are you feasting on fears? I can see your dark corona is eating into you You're surrounded by things we cannot penetrate Is the cage you love the home you also hate? Life lies with the scissors inside her The surgeon was a butcher All of us are wounded, anaesthetised in A.E. Numbed by stuff we should not see Each of us lies bleeding Our rivers intermingling Poor little ghost boy Let me be your human toy
I'll wrap my last kiss in a bandage
Dark Avenger (By Manowar, referred to by Bertel as Joey Dimaio, as he is the main songwriter of this heavy metal band)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHjNUmUMThk
He broke the laws of the elders So they plucked out his eye, Took his land and fortune, Left him to die Bound on the shoreline, Left for the tide, Sees his life-blood leaving... Circling lower, the vultures fly His bones may be broken But the spirit can't die And the Gods see his anguish And give him a sign From the floor of the ocean The ship of the lost souls rise And they take him where no one sleeps while the undead cry, Where no one sleeps while the undead cry... And in the world above The elders sing, On his land they live... Let death's bell ring
He was met at the gate of The Twisting Nether By the Guardian of the Lost Souls, The Keeper of the Unavenged And He did say to him: "Let ye not pass Abaddon Return to the world From whence you came And seek payment Not only for thy known anguish But to vindicate the souls Of the Unavenged" And they placed in his hands A sword Made for him Called: Vengeance Forged in brimstone And tempered By the woeful tears of the Unavenged And to carry him up on his journey Back to the upper world They brought forth Their Demon horse Called: Black Death A grim steed So fiercely might And black in colour That he could stand as one: Darkness... Save from his burning eyes of crimson fire And on that night They rode up from the twisting nether The pounding of his hooves Did clap like thunder!
Burning, death, destruction Raping the daughters and wives In blood I take my payment In full with their lives No one can escape me On Black Death I ride When kissed by the sword of Vengeance Your head lays there by your side I take the lives of all that I once knew The torn flesh of a slow death waits for you
Sargeras Sam (Original tittle "Lucifer Sam" by Pink Floyd, referred to by Bertel as The Madcap after Syd Barrett who wrote the song's first solo album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbIMx2MYNXk Sargeras Sam, siam cat Always sitting by your side Always by your side That catâs something I canât explain
Jennifer Gentle youâre a witch Youâre the left side Heâs the right side Oh, no! That catâs something I canât explain
Sargeras go to sea Be a hip cat Be a shipâs cat Somewhere, anywhere That catâs something I canât explain
At night prowling sifting sand Hiding around on the ground Heâll be found when youâre around That catâs something I canât explain
Next meeting will be Friday the 13th of November by the well at the back of Mage District in Stormwind, at 8 Pm (server time)
And thanks to the people who showed up to the last meeting, a special thanks to not least Ozirus or just plain Oz as Bertel know him as for his wonderful contribution.
Last meeting Bertel recited 3 poems, one which was his own composition and he had recited before at the Gnomumental Memorial Service, written in honor and memory of Bertel's friend Lester Melsted, and two witch originally written by Syd Barrett, that Bertel introduced as Roger Barrett (Which is his birth name).
The King of The Keg (Bertel Wobblespring)
A true friend and leader not your regular cheater have the heart of a lover and fight like a cheetah vigilant one eye a sight for sore eyes a handsome gnome icon perfect to the micron strength of a python
Lester Melsted, The King
Is not dead he's the face of The Keg he will live on forever in our hearts and our heads
Dark Globe (Syd Barrett)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEr6w7P44Nk
Oh where are you now Pussy willow that smiled on this leaf? When I was alone you promised the stone from your heart My head kissed the ground I was half the way down, treading the sand Please, please, lift a hand I'm only a person whose armbands beat On his hands, hang tall Won't you miss me? Wouldn't you miss me at all?
The poppy birds way Swing twigs coffee brands around Brandish her wand with a feathery tongue My head kissed the ground I was half the way down, treading the sand Please, please, please lift the hand I'm only a person with tuskarr chain I tattooed my brain all the way Won't you miss me? Wouldn't you miss me at all?
Feel (Syd Barrett)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjIHFTVE2EA
You feel me away far too empty, oh so alone! I want to go home Oh find me inside of a nocturne - the blonde how I love you to be by my side they wail... the crowd on her side she straggled the bridge by the water...
She misses her crawl far ley grew heady aside in a dell inside an eye be the lonely one, my bride how I leave on the waddling wheel they flail... a gasp shringing a bad bell's ringing the angel - the daughter...
Next meeting will be Friday the 27th of November at 8Pm (server time) by the well at the back of Mage District in Stormwind
Next meeting will be Friday the 11th of December at 8Pm (server time) by the well at the back of Mage District in Stormwind
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Thanks to everyone who showed up at the last meeting.
Bertel recited following lyrics from songs as poems.
Late Night(by Syd Barrett, inroduced by Bertel as Roger Barrett, which was Syd's birth name)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9gM-blNvdM
When I woke up today and you weren't there to play then I wanted to be with you when you showed me your eyes whispered love at the skies then I wanted to stay with you inside me I feel alone and unreal and the way you kiss will always be a very special thing to me...
When I lay still at night seeing stars high and light then I wanted to be with you when the rooftops shone dark all alone I saw a spark spark of love just to stay with you inside me I feel alone and unreal and the way you kiss will always be a very special thing to me...
If I mention your name turn around on a chain then the sky opens for you when we grew very tall when I saw you so small then I wanted to stay with you inside me I feel alone and unreal and the way you kiss will always be a very special thing to me...
Golem II: The Bionic Vapour Boy (by Mr. Bungle, introduced by Bertel as Mister Bungle Megavolt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkRAuUUhjl8
Golem II: the self-perfecting Lie-rejecting Gnomish mind correcting
Totem of the living Self-organized, wrought from the metal Our king by night, our slave by the day
Mini-mini-Mimiron
What do you know? Watch the gnomish life show OK let's go
O my double He can pop your bubble That means trouble
Stronger than a lion Golem II: the bionic paper boy
Self-perfecting World-inspecting Lie-detecting
Our instructions His induction Big production
Golem II: the bionic puppet boy
Mini-Mimiron Miniminiminimini Beast of burden
Spirit lifting Master of shape-shifting Seamless drifting
Shining spotlight Screaming mobs and stage fright You get it right
Building a new Ulduar Golem II: the bionic vapour boy
War-directing Mind-inspecting Gnome-correcting
Our instructions His induction Big production
Golem II: the bionic vapour boy
Next meeting will be Friday the 11th of December at 8Pm (server time) by the well at the back of Mage District in Stormwind
The bi-weekly poetry meetings are back after a minor Winter Veil break.
Next meeting will be Friday the 15th of January at 8Pm (server time) by the well at the back of Mage District in Stormwind
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Bertel recited two poems last meeting, taking from song lyrics as most usual.
Mazzy Star's Fade Into You, presented by Bertel as just that, and Leonard Cohen's The Guests, presented by Bertel as Leon Cohen.
The Guests (Leonard Cohen) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhy1xpRitfQ
One by one, the guests arrive The guests are coming through The open-hearted many The broken-hearted few And no one knows where the night is going And no one knows why the wine is flowing Oh love I need you Oh . . . I need you now
And those who dance, begin to dance Those who weep begin And "Welcome, welcome" cries a voice "Let all my guests come in."
And no one knows where the night is going ...
And all go stumbling through that house in lonely secrecy Saying "Do reveal yourself" or "Why has thou forsaken me?"
And no one knows where the night is going ...
All at once the torches flare The inner door flies open One by one they enter there In every style of passion
And no one knows where the night is going ...
And here they take their sweet repast While house and grounds dissolve And one by one the guests are cast Beyond the garden wall
And no one knows where the night is going ...
Those who dance, begin to dance Those who weep begin Those who earnestly are lost Are lost and lost again
And no one knows where the night is going ...
One by the guests arrive The guests are coming through The broken-hearted many The open-hearted few
And no one knows where the night is going ...
Fade Into You (Originally by Mazzy Star, but I have allowed my self to link to my own favorite cover version by J. Mascis from Dinosaur Jr.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em8I6EnPtUY
I want to hold the hand inside you I want to take the breath that's true I look to you when I see nothing I look to you to see the truth
You live your life, you go in shadows You'll come apart and you'll go black Some kind of night into your darkness Colors your eyes with what's not there
A stranger's light comes on slowly A stranger's heart without a home You put your hands into your head And then smiles cover your heart
Fade into you Strange you never knew Fade into you I think it's strange you never knew
Also a big thank to Pip for reciting some of her own lovely poems.
Next meeting I might have some of my own original poems on the program, not Bertel's, but the next best thing, my own, promise I will work on some genuine all Bertel poems soon too.
Next meeting will be Friday the 15th of January at 8Pm (server time) by the well at the back of Mage District in Stormwind