On Jun 21, 4:28 pm, ~Terran <wm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 13:41:44 -0700 (PDT), Will Dockery
>
>
>
> <will.dock...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >Alex wrote:
>
> >> Science Fiction Woman
>
> >> She was my science fiction woman,
> >> I was her science fiction man,
> >> Yet our love was no fiction
> >> In our science fiction land.
>
> >> I wore my science fiction spacesuit,
> >> She wore a spacesuit just like mine,
> >> While we were floating together
> >> In our science fiction minds.
>
> >> She said her name was Taylor Trippy--
> >> A flower child light years beyond--
> >> She was a science fiction hippy--
> >> A spacey and vivacious blonde.
>
> >> She told me of our global warming,
> >> Greenhouse gases, acid rain,
> >> She told me everything I know
> >> About the structure of the brain.
>
> >> So we cruised through constellations
> >> In our science fiction ****p,
> >> Transcending time and generations--
> >> Forever free, forever hip.
>
> >> She came from some unknown planet
> >> In some uncharted galaxy,
> >> And we were both kindred souls
> >> In our cosmic fantasy.
>
> >> And I don't know how I knew her
> >> Or how we came to meet that night--
> >> She was my science fiction woman,
> >> Who traveled at the speed of light.
>
> >> At night I look upon the ocean,
> >> The distant stars where she might be--
> >> She was my science fiction woman,
> >> Who set my heart forever free.
>
> >> June 17, 2008
> >> --Alexander Shaumyan
>
> >> http://www.shaumyan.com
>
> >Great stuff, Alex... by far one of the better poems posted here
> >recently... puts me in mind of a Donovan song from his Sun****ne
> >Superman heyday.
>
> Will,
>
> Don't know about the "great" part - was reading this as a poem - if
> these are lyrics that changes things - strangely scanned lyrics can
> work with the right music behind them - they can go places poetry
> alone cannot (just a thought...)
>
> Still see room for improvement, even so...
>
> T.
Who was it, said, "Anything too stupid to be said, can be sung?"
"...set to music?"
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