Originally Posted by Niamh.

You should get one of the kids to read it out at the wedding Lee

She'd be doing that wave at your eyes thing that x-factor contestants do, as it would be too emotional.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Jesus.

She'd be doing that wave at your eyes thing that x-factor contestants do, as it would be too emotional.

[AnnieK]

It should definitely be in the Best Man's speech

[Lee.]

Very mildly...

[Glenn.]

Omg that was amazing

[King Gizzard]

Youtube video

[Ammi]

..that's actually very good...


who would have thought Nathan
would be the defender of dough bakin'
and become so upset
about le poor baguette...



..maybe I'm being dumb because I don't know anything about computer recording devices/noises they make... but were you clipping your nails through that..that just seems so random....

[GypsyGoth]

This is my latest creation and I call it Coffee!!!

Coffee here coffee there
Coffee ****ing everywhere!!!!

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

This is my latest creation and I call it Coffee!!!

Coffee here coffee there
Coffee ****ing everywhere!!!!

......incredible....I love you GG...

[Ammi]

..can I have a decaf please..?..

[Sticks]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

This is my latest creation and I call it Coffee!!!

Coffee here coffee there
Coffee ****ing everywhere!!!!

This was my award winning coffee related poem, in the form of a Haiku

Instant one flavour
Real has many flavours
I prefer real

[King Gizzard]

I like how you channelled the side effects of coffee in that poem what a great poem there well done

[GypsyGoth]

Thank you both


I was making coffee at the time I thought of it.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by GypsyGoth

Thank you both


I was making coffee at the time I thought of it.

..it's the simple/little things that are most inspirational...that coffee brought the poet out from inside you...

[Stu]

'Scream Of Consciousness'


Now is all you have
Cosmogyral, starlight through vanity
A Selection For Societal Sanity
Find what you love and let it kill you
The fundamental craving of the human spirit
A desire to transcend the survival biased filter of perception
The bars of a cognitive prision
And I'll burn my house down to make a loaf of bread
Again and again
Until it's time

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Stu

'Scream Of Consciousness'


Now is all you have
Cosmogyral, starlight through vanity
A Selection For Societal Sanity
Find what you love and let it kill you
The fundamental craving of the human spirit
A desire to transcend the survival biased filter of perception
The bars of a cognitive prision
And I'll burn my house down to make a loaf of bread
Again and again
Until it's time

..WOW...

'Find what you love and let it kill you'

[Stu]

Stolen from Charles Bukowski, whom I have a mental obsession with.

I had the phrase in my head all weekend. I was reminded of it when I thought of how weird it is where you overcome all short term hurdles and find that you are in such a positive light that it can seem forbiddingly overwhelming in a "surely it can't be this good" slightly jagged, arrogant way. What you love could kill you etc. Not sure how to express it.

And I really, really want to do ideas around a freelove proto expressionism society gone horribly wrong. The idea of freedom pushed so far that if you are not deemed free enough you're out. Some tragically ironic, totalitarian "you must make art or you're useless" society. I'm sure the idea has been put into books and stuff before but I've never heard it. That's where Selection For Societal Sanity comes from. I'd love to do something with that title.

[Ammi]

..that poem/those words are kind of very cynical but also very insightful as well, so I don't really want them to be cynical...I want them to be uplifting/hopeful..?...yet somehow they leave you with a feeling of hope/belief as well just because you know that someone else kind of 'gets it'...has experienced all of the rubbish but still sees some hope and good..and yet doesn't..is realistic....hmmm, it's too early for thoughts but I know what I mean lol....

[Ammi]

..'the bars of the cognitive prison'....is just so true for most people..it's just realising it and that's the part that 'frees' you....

[GypsyGoth]

I like haikus

[Ammi]

When the sun is at its brightest but outside the skies are grey
When the words have choked inside you and there’s nothing left to say
When fear is armed and at the front line preparing to advance
When your chosen song is playing but your feet refuse to dance

When the orchestra is playing but comes crushing through your ears
When the world around is waltzing but you’re crippled in your fear
When life’s beggar stretches out his hand, there’s nothing left to give
When death grows more intriguing than the prison where you live

When you’re looking for tomorrow but it’s nowhere to be found
When you’re stuck within this moment and your arms and legs are bound
When you bathe in pools of tears and they incinerate your skin
When this game of life you’re playing is the one you’ll never win

When you’re seeking words of promise in the solace of the song
but the symphony won’t reach you on the tower you sit upon
When the prisoner inside you pleads for mercy to be shown
but the pleadings are unheeded as his flesh falls from the bone

When the wilderness consumes you and you lay your head to rest
And you sink into the wasteland as you terminate your quest
When the hostess of depression hands an invite to her lair
And your helpless desolation makes her certain to ensnare

[Ammi]

Fluttering on the ledge of solitude
Tormented abyss of desolation
Dejection has spread warm enclosing wings
Plummeting hope into desperation

Within a tiptoe of self-awareness
Blink of an eye from eradication
Anguished depths embrace all hopelessness
Intertwining with resignation

Poised on the brink of mental misery
Amid a faltering hesitation
Suspended upon celestial charges
In a tantalising levitation

Floating on the verge of obscurity
On fine clouds of nullification
Hovering on the edge of wretchedness
Abrupt plunge into eradication

[Ammi]

I don't want to boast
but I had a ghost
through the post
from the Ivory Coast
and it was eating toast
instead of a pot roast
silly ghost

[Stu]

Dustbunnies

I awoke today with blue vacant eyes
Staring into heaven
And a swirl inside told me
That time was somehow different

I knew my doldrums had come to a halt
My conscious no longer a pillar of salt
I want my spirit out of it's vault
My soul control without a bitter fault

I want someone to share life with me
No coma soulmate for a poster child reality
We'll find beauty outside of the screen
Then write the adverts in the middle of your dreams

No more background periphary
Just god watching our ballet of beauty
Seeing out hearts bleed in to each other
Tinkering with the machinery of our new life

Sex, money and free will
Dreaming of worlds larger than our own
With a smile for everyone
Anesthetized in the joy of the setting sun

A conscious attempt on my part to write something a little less gloomy. I recently finished reading Girlfriend In A Coma for like the millionth time - it's practically my Bible - so it's partly in the flavor of that.

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Stu

Dustbunnies

I awoke today with blue vacant eyes
Staring into heaven
And a swirl inside told me
That time was somehow different

I knew my doldrums had come to a halt
My conscious no longer a pillar of salt
I want my spirit out of it's vault
My soul control without a bitter fault

I want someone to share life with me
No coma soulmate for a poster child reality
We'll find beauty outside of the screen
Then write the adverts in the middle of your dreams

No more background periphary
Just god watching our ballet of beauty
Seeing out hearts bleed in to each other
Tinkering with the machinery of our new life

Sex, money and free will
Dreaming of worlds larger than our own
With a smile for everyone
Anesthetized in the joy of the setting sun

A conscious attempt on my part to write something a little less gloomy. I recently finished reading Girlfriend In A Coma for like the millionth time - it's practically my Bible - so it's partly in the flavor of that.

..I'm not familiar with Girlfriend In A Coma but there are some great lines there, Stu...these are my favourites...

No more background periphary
Just god watching our ballet of beauty
Seeing out hearts bleed in to each other
Tinkering with the machinery of our new life


Anesthetized in the joy of the setting sun


..it's really good writing/poetry, Stu...