'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night'

Alan Turing would have liked that.

Alan Turing would have liked that.

Would-be Expats ..Let your bright deeds dance in green bays .. wild men, catch and sing your suns in flightlet your eyes blaze like meteors, and be gay. - @PalawOne

Top class wordsmith.

Compare that genius to the rubbish of water water everywhere, but not a crap word I want to read.

Don't even think about getting me started on Christabel - long and boring - perhaps worse than his water tripe.

My favourite of all time remains Wobbling Willy's lovely

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?

Thou art more lovely and more temperate:

Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,

And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;

Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:

   So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,

   So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Pure beauty

Been thinking 'bout our fortunes, and I decided that we're really not to blame

For the love that's deep inside us now is still the same

And the sound we make together is the music to The Story in Your Eyes

Its been shining down upon us now I realize

Listen to the tide slowly turning, wash all our heartache away

We're part of the fire that is burning, from the ashes we can build another day

But I'm frightened for our children that the life we are living is in vain

And the sunshine we've been waiting for will turn to rain

But when the final line is over and its certain that the curtains gonna fall

I can hide inside your sweet sweet love for evermore.

Moody Blues

There once was a man from Kintucket...

There once was a man from Kintucket... - @Aidan in HCMC

An expat from Pawtucket?

There once was a man from Kintucket... - @Aidan in HCMC

Ah, The proletariat have joined in 🤣

Yeah, sorry about that. I'd mentioned in another thread that I very much like slumming. There's little doubt the constant exposure has lead to contamination.

This might be more appropriate poetry for the forum, from a recognized wordsmith.

"It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good,

When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved, They were icy -- willing to wait Till every count should be proved,

Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low. Their eyes were level and straight. There was neither sign nor show

When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd. It was not taught by the state. No man spoke it aloud

When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddenly bred. It will not swiftly abate. Through the chilled years ahead,

When Time shall count from the date

That the Saxon began to hate."

-  Rudyard Kipling

- Rudyard Kipling - @Aidan in HCMC

If you haven't read 'Kim', go for it.

It's a tossup between that and The Mayor of Casterbridge for the best book ever written.

Yeah, sorry about that. I'd mentioned in another thread that I very much like slumming. There's little doubt the constant exposure has lead to contamination.
This might be more appropriate poetry for the forum, from a recognized wordsmith.
"It was not part of their blood, It came to them very late, With long arrears to make good,
When the Saxon began to hate.

They were not easily moved, They were icy -- willing to wait Till every count should be proved,
Ere the Saxon began to hate.

Their voices were even and low. Their eyes were level and straight. There was neither sign nor show
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not preached to the crowd. It was not taught by the state. No man spoke it aloud
When the Saxon began to hate.

It was not suddenly bred. It will not swiftly abate. Through the chilled years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the Saxon began to hate."

- Rudyard Kipling - @Aidan in HCMC

           .Since this is a Philippines forum, perhaps the most relevant Kipling is The White Man's Burden in which he presented the USA in 1899 with the idea to rule the Philippines for the good of the Filipinos.

If you haven't read 'Kim', go for it.
It's a tossup between that and The Mayor of Casterbridge for the best book ever written. - @Fred

I haven't, but on your recommendation, I will.

The synopsis already has me hooked.

I read Hardy's Casterbridge decades ago. Some of the images it invoked are with me to this day.

Strike a match

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And here's easily one of the best?