From: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org (eda-thoughts-digest) To: eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Subject: eda-thoughts-digest V3 #191 Reply-To: eda-thoughts@smoe.org Sender: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk eda-thoughts-digest Tuesday, May 9 2000 Volume 03 : Number 191 * If you ever wish to unsubscribe, send an email to * eda-thoughts-digest-request@smoe.org with ONLY * the word unsubscribe in the body of the email * . * PLEASE :) when you reply to this digest to send a post TO the list, * change the subject to reflect what your post is about. A subject * of Re: eda-thoughts-digest V3 #xxx or the like gives readers no clue * as to what your message is about. Today's Subjects: ----------------- ET: Re: me me me me me me me me me [RedWoodenBeads@aol.com] Re: ET: Re: me me me me me me me me me ["Kevin Pease" ] ET: poems ["Claudia" ] Re: ET: Re: me me me me me me me me me [courtney gordon ] ET: ~vixen kitten~ [shivergirl ] ET: criticism and attacking ["Seth D. Fulmer" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 09:30:42 EDT From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com Subject: ET: Re: me me me me me me me me me In a message dated 5/7/00 9:02:14 PM Pacific Daylight Time, owner-eda-thoughts-digest@smoe.org writes: << I am beautiful. I am a good person. I have saved a life, I am intellectual >> that's a poem? no longer cradled in gravity's memory still in and spinning in spiral drifts of endlessness spinning in torment into the garden of light - -Pale Saints "A Thousand Stars Burst Open" http://www.chickpages.com/musicmania/joepages ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 10:22:48 EDT From: "Kevin Pease" Subject: Re: ET: Re: me me me me me me me me me >From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com >that's a poem? You know, I feel sorry for you. Get a new gimmick, Joe, you're boring us. Kevin ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 10:22:48 EDT From: "Kevin Pease" Subject: Re: ET: Re: me me me me me me me me me >From: RedWoodenBeads@aol.com >that's a poem? You know, I feel sorry for you. Get a new gimmick, Joe, you're boring us. Kevin ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 22:40:25 +0200 From: "Claudia" Subject: ET: another poem You and the night Like a nocturnal butterfly i escape daylight wandering in the dark, trying to find a place to rest my wings and enjoy the sweet peace of silence. The air is soft on my skin, the stillness of the night surrounds me like an old friend's hug and all the madness of the day is just so far away. I close my eyes and there you are: my bright angel. Everything is still. Everything is peaceful. This is my time, this is my reward, this is all i've been waiting for. No time, no space. Just you and the night.- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 22:36:53 +0200 From: "Claudia" Subject: ET: poems Any comment is more than welcome. Your soul is an extension of my freedom Your dreams are the simple things i've always cherished in my heart Your hopes are the pearls people have tried so hard to steal from my faith Your eyes are windows on life's purest essence Your nighmares are the shadows that keep haunting your thoughtlessness Your hands are oceans of music Your lips are suns of delight. _________________________________________________________ The sun shines haughty in the sky and the proud light seems pleased to show the world all those bitter-sweet feelings i tried so hard to hide in that dark angle of my heart. Like a sweet-eyed devil the sun is asking me to smile as i sit down staring at the sky and wondering how my tears can be so warm when my heart is freezing in a secret private hell. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 May 2000 17:21:24 -0400 (EDT) From: courtney gordon Subject: Re: ET: Re: me me me me me me me me me >that's a poem? No, it's not. Any angel here will tell you that what I typed up was so very *obviously* a $2,000 Fender Stratocaster. What else did it look like? Certainly not a poem. A poem is words. That was not. That was a 6 string electric guitar, as anyone else here could tell. I guess I could see if you had mistaken it for a Fernandez or maybe an Ibanez, but come on people, a *poem*? love and lollipops to all Court ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 20:21:19 -0400 From: shivergirl Subject: ET: ~thai highs and lows~ + paint me in warm tones of yellow, maybe then i'll finally get to know a colour other than blue; beautiful and becoming as it is, there are more indigo emotions, like the shades that cling to him; that exist outside of words, only waiting to drape about my shoulders, and my newly-drawn heart. + the ever-longed for physical touch, for lovers separated by water and family, such bliss can only be conjured up, holding tight, diving and resurfacing, inside nocturnal dreams. + waiting at the arrival's gate, he sits and prays, while i smile and crumble, writing i'll be late, because baggage claim is taking a while. + ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 20:22:31 -0400 From: shivergirl Subject: ET: ~vixen kitten~ + your hair had turned out pink; it was staining slightly, clinging and curling around your appealing white neck; as i walked willingly with you to the bank, and you confided to me, as your mind started shooting out creative vocab sparks; i have to admit i imagined, for a wee bit longer than a nanosecond, what it would feel like to press up against your breasts; wondering if the similar softness is something i've missed; pondering whether a smart-ass girl wearing half a sweater choppy bangs&no make-up is someone i should've kissed. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 21:39:42 -0400 From: "Seth D. Fulmer" Subject: ET: criticism and attacking People, Yes you all are people, despite the image at least one(more actually perhaps) of you has/have spread. There is a difference between Criticism and attacking. If you think someone's poems suck, tell them privately(that means if the "To" field has "eda-thoughts" anywhere in it, throw out the email immediately) unless it is about a lot of people's stuff. One word criticisms to a single person sent to the group are NOT cool! It's about as uncool as snipers were in the American Revolution. Also, if that's the case that you dislike their poems or have a piece of criticism, don't attack them. If you don't like them but have nothing to say about their poems, don't email them! It's that simple. I am a brother in a national coed service fraternity, as well as president of my chapter. There are times that I'll be in a meeting and want to say "Mark(and if there are any Mark's here on this list..it's a coincidence), you're a pompous ass" just because he gave me something to use as an excuse to attack his character. Plus, it's also not cool to point out someone's flaws in public. If someone says something that is wrong with the bylaws of the chapter, I won't stop the meeting, I'll discuss it with him offline. That parallels with this. I don't think anyone has said anything to me in public(on the list) about my poems, and to be perfectly honest, I'm glad about that. Note, I'm not centering any person on this list out, but rather making a blanket factual statement about what has been really pissing me(and I can imagine quite a few other people) off lately. Finally, acting obnoxious in public is non-becoming of character. Every once in a while is fine as everyone's prone to yelling out at the top of their lungs in the street some wierd statement that God Him/Herself is probably saying "(S)he needs help!"...as long as that obnoxiousness is not attacking. A few years ago Craig Shoemaker came to Drexel and did one of his comedy things(whatever you call those things standup comedians do). There were some social fraternity brothers in the front row harassing people as they came by and even harassing Craig on stage. He really showed them and he got the crowd applauding too, although they lacked the intellectual capacity to realize what it was and thought it made them look good. (Note that this statement only applies to that group...not to social fraternities in general). Anyhow, that's about it. If someone thinks I've gone out of line, state it in private(email or otherwise). If that's the case then I apologize and won't open my mouth anymore. However, I personally think people need to be told it as it's been shown. Take care and Have a Great Day!! :o) Seth D. Fulmer mailto:kaosking@voicenet.com ------------------------------ End of eda-thoughts-digest V3 #191 **********************************