a short poem

mat james · Post by **mat james** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:39 am

Is it "be" for Bernard as in es for Steve ?

or is your spelling faulty?
what a "buzz" !

or perhaps zed for zen !

Bernard, you have lost the plot........How wonderful!

Bernard · Post by **Bernard** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:54 pm

G'day Mat,

The computer age compromised my initial attempt for this poem. I tried '2b' but the computer wouldn't recognize it as a coherent message. Just as well Mat because it was too verbose. So then I tried just 'b' which you would have to agree is a far superior edited version. But once again incoherent message came up. How appalling the computer doesn't recognize my being. I think there's something in that for all of us. When I tried 'be' the computer accepted it, but by then the poem was so far compromised I thought I wouldn't post it. Tonight I ordered a hamburger with the plot. It was wonderful. "Zen what" you say.

Speak to you soon

Bernard

Diane · Post by **Diane** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:55 pm

Mat said:

Bernard, you have lost the plot........How wonderful!

Here's another, although it is rather lengthy compared to yours, Bernard:

let go
let god

Diane

Bernard · Post by **Bernard** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 2:05 pm

Dear Diane,

Hope you are fit and well. 'Let go let god' is a powerful mantra. I've used it to good effect in times of great stress throughout my life. Another mantra I like is 'let go hang on'. Finally to end - an oldie but a goodie - 'if it's meant to be it's up to me'.

Nice hearing from you again

Bernard

Diane · Post by **Diane** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:28 pm

Hi Bernard

,

I am very good, thanks.

I thought "let go and let god" had a very similar meaning to your original work in this thread

.

I like "let go hang on". It is funny.

It is nice to not let go of hanging on to this place, this forum.

Very good wishes to ya,

Diane

lizzytysh · Post by **lizzytysh** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:41 am

Hi Bernard ~

I thought you would appreciate this snippet from Ernest Hilbert/E-Verse Radio, an online magazine/circular/piece that comes in some of our mailboxes. In fact, you might enjoy subscribing to it. As long as I've given you this, I'll add in something on F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Top five movies that have a one letter name:

1. O
2. G
3. M
4. π (Pi)
5. Z

Bonus: V, the TV miniseries

Okay, now for F. Scott:

"In 1939, the story goes, F Scott Fitzgerald earned $33 from royalties on all his books. Those included This Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, and The Great Gatsby. The great writer of recent times was only 43 but he was 'washed up,' very ill, horribly reliant on booze, trying to keep a daughter in good schools and a wife, Zelda, in expensive sanatoriums. In that desperate plight, he tried again to get assignments from Hollywood. He had been hired before and there were still easy assumptions that with his dialogue, his construction ability, his sense of character, he must be a natural for talking pictures. There had been people in power, like Irving Thalberg and David Selznick, who liked him and tried to hire him. But Fitzgerald was a dunce at movie-writing. He might make $1,500 a week for a couple of weeks (on Gone With the Wind ), but then Selznick had to fire him. ‘Poor Scott,’ they said, and wondered how much longer the ex-genius had to go. I’m sure he wondered himself. He had few illusions about his own stamina. And in the last year of his life, he tried to write a novel about Hollywood. He died of a heart attack on December 21 1940, with about 150 pages of what he called The Last Tycoon done. Those pages, along with the notes he had left on how the book might end, are among the most touching things ever written. There was no bitterness in Fitzgerald. Indeed, The Last Tycoon is alive with his fond insight, his admiration for people like Thalberg (trying to run the very complicated show), and his intuition that Hollywood was reshaping America.”

- David Thompson

The Subject line is always a great quote. This issue's was:

"In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." - W.B. Prescott

Do you know anyone who might like E-Verse Radio? They may subscribe to E-Verse by sending an email to listsrv@list.everseradio.com with SUBSCRIBE EVERSE in the body.

The great thing about E-Verse is that it's an 'audience participation' one, where you can submit things that actually get published in it, such as the lists, etc. Twice, that I know of, they've done things on Leonard, originally suggested to them by Bobbie from here.

~ Lizzy