14 lines of poetry about tongues &; fingers ... colors &; moods ... absinthe &; ecstasy ... be it in Shakespearian, Spencer or Petrachan form.
Music
The theme to Rawhide? No? How about Beethoven's Symphony No.4 in A major Op.90? Yuck? Then how about You Suck by the Yeastie Girls? Who are the Yeastie Girls? OK, we'll just listen to the corporate rock/rap you like. You see, I'll listen to anything ... except at work or on religious holidays, it's spring time after all ... let's try Lavay Smith & her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Tan Dun, Laura Love, Hang on the Box, Pansy Division and Aimee Mann or anything you listen to I'll like since I go from 80s New Wave to Rossini, Irish folk to Armenian daduk, R&B to the beginnings of Old School, The Monolators' Rejection Set Me Free to Freddie Redd's The Connection -- unless it's Lou Reed's Metal Music -- I can't stand the sound of a circular band saw screaming for 124 minutes.
Movies
If anyone recalls Russ Meyer's films, they're always good for a laugh and everyone keeps saying that Secretary is hot -- and it is good -- but for reasons of perversity alone, I'd say the scene in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover where they're naked in the van full of decaying ... what? dinner? ... and flies buzz hideously about them ...
Television
I stopped watching TV when I developed a social life ...
Books
I went to the Dodge Poetry Festival in New Jersey two years ago and saw Coleman Barks reading Rumi while the Paul Winter Consort played in the background. Later Philip Levine read Federico Garcia Lorca while Dave Douglas and Uri Caine backed him up on trumpet and piano. I thought: "ah ... that is how poetry should flow!" Music! Noise! Love! Chaos! Imagine composing music for the poetry of Qiu jin; Manfred by Lord Byron; The Gypsy Ballads by Federico Garcia Lorca; Lunch Poems by Frank O'Hara; Cow Worship by Gerald Stern! The next book I want to read should explain how to do just that.
Heroes
Any lovers of rhyme schemes. Anyone who can take "a,b,a,b, ... c,d,c,d, ... e,f,g, ... e,f,g" and make it sing ... like Eli ... and Shelby ... and Mary ... and Baby Ivan ...uh, er ... yeah ...
Zachary Jean's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking, Friends
Hometown:
Grand Rapids
Body type:
5' 11" / Athletic
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Other
Zodiac Sign:
Pisces
Smoke / Drink:
No / No
Occupation:
nurse, poet, translator
Zachary Jean is playing with a wicked deck of cards Posted at 12:41 PM Nov 7, 2008 view more
About me:
I am in love with these 14-line poems, these little songs full of iambic pentameter and rhyme. As a poet, I have been hoarding sonnets for the last two years. I have the eyes of the mystic poet Sappho, the lips of Lord Byron, the laugh of Sylvia Plath (pre-oven days) and the ass the great god Eros. Oh yes, I've been working a night job as a certified nurse aide in a retirement home in my city for about two years too. Listen, life is too short not to have you as a friend. It is as the great Sufi mystic Rumi put it: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing/ there is a field. I'll meet your there. Yes!
Who I'd like to meet: I know there are others out there who write their own sonnets. There are sonnets in every language of the world and poets who create whole worlds in what Wordsworth called this scanty plot of ground. Where are you? Write to me, I am curious about you. Let us be amazing friends!
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Bored of reading the same old books? Finished the Stieg Larsson trilogy and not sure where to get your next fix? Take part in our competition Words in Sand before the 15th August and you could win a copy of both The Queen of the South by Arturo Pérez-Reverte and Ghosts of Spain by Giles Tremlett. We are giving away five copies of each!
UGH! It's just that he picks the damnedest (I know it's not a word) times to take a nap. I am STARVING and I didn't plan on cooking because my dad gave us a gift certificate to go to Ruby Tuesday and we had plans to go. I tried to wake him up over an hour ago and he's still laying there. I'm moving on from annoyed to pissed off! anywayz, it went good. We got stuff for our wii. How was yours? know what sucks? that IM supposed to be the one that knows about "web-stuff" and your profile is better than mine? Maybe I should just let you take care of mine like mom does Dan's...ohh, that reminds me, speaking of mom; i finally got her to start taking those surveys online like i'm doing, cuz i know the extra money sure comes in handy. you should really try em. i mean, if i got mom to try it, psh, i can get anybody to, heh..i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
www.surveyblingbling.com
... anyhow, I know we are both kinda like "wo ah" right now. But I just wanted to take a second to remind you that you are Amazing!
YES! I do too, but I can't breathe, I can't sleep and my head is throbbing....I went to the Pharmacy last night and she hooked me up, so I hope with these meds I can get to feeling better. I am not coming in this afternoon to work. We might actually do that. Send a text my way and remind me, if you don't mind. I'd love to do that! We are SOOO loving our vacation time and love being around people too. the extra money we made from taking those paid surveys online helped out so much!! you should really do them too; i mean, hey, the extra money comes in handy, right? i guess you'll have to type the link into internet explorer or whatever, but here it is:
www.work4surveys.com
anyways, so, I will see you next Tuesday. Have a great day!
How are you? We haven't talk in soooo long. I'm watching The Bonnie Hunt Show and it's all about nurces and they're all in the audience and I thought of the only nurse I know. lol. So how's that going?
