4 hours ago, hyku1147 said:

Consider the following definition of fallacious writing:

 

We appreciate the effort you are making to get on-topic, but, encourage you not to worry if you cannot.

 

This may be helpful:

 

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when revenge uses reason

to hone its edge,

it's name is: malice

 

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We appreciate the effort you are making to get on-topic, but, encourage you not to worry if you cannot.
 
This may be helpful:
 
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when revenge uses reason
to hone its edge,
it's name is: malice
 
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I like that !!!

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8 hours ago, hyku1147 said:

^{It must be quite egregious ...}

 

we are a chatterbox mind,

but, you make meaning:

don't inhale the dust

 

~

 

Inferno, I, 1-3. Tuscan dialect, Dante Alighieri, Divinia Commedia :

 

Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita

mi ritrovai per una selva oscura

ché la diritta via era smarrita.

 

Orang's haiku translation: :)

 

halfway down Life's road,

lost in wilderness shadows:

way off the straight path

 

khreung bai thanon Cheewit nee,

tung tee himaphan:

khwam khid dhamma hain

 

of course this is terrible Thai

 

Dorothy Sayers translation :

 

Midway this way of Life we're bound upon,

I woke to find myself in a dark wood,

Where the right road was wholly lost and gone

 

Mandelbaum translation :

 

When I had journeyed half of our life's way,  

I found myself within a shadowed forest,  

for I had lost the path that does not stray. 

 

Longfellow translation :

 

Midway upon the journey of our life  

I found myself within a forest dark,  

For the straightforward pathway had been lost

What's wrong with you guys?

Plenty of forums,

But not so many Chiang Mais.

Bitter Falang

 

Barstool shaking, keyboard clicking

 

Spewing Vitriol

This poetry is ragged

My prose are not good

Next time limericks

Oh wonderful rain

Please don't go away

Finish cleaning Chiang Mai air

Rain rain rain some more

Douse the <deleted> fires

Let us live and breathe freely

22 hours ago, ramrod711 said:

This poetry is ragged

My prose are not good

Next time limericks

 

ragged jags snag me;

prose ? hey, who knows:

fiddlesticks to limericks

 

:)

~

 

i dreamed i was Thai:

a sure sign the wall between

sanook and ba's cracked !

 

~

 

สนุก sanook: fun, pleasure, enjoyment

บ้า ba: insane, crazy

~

 

what say you good folk:

is this thread comatose now ?

turn off life support ?

 

~

Kindness, Laughter

My Land of Smiles

Home Reborn

At times I waver

At others full speed ahead

Mostly ambivalent

F*** Fight

Hold the Light

Choices Choices

15 hours ago, orang37 said:

~

 

what say you good folk:

is this thread comatose now ?

turn off life support ?

 

~

Maybe it is comatose

Certainly abused

Bill Cosby posting?

~

 

i became a Thai expat,

took a bloody while:

but, no regrets, now

 

one more mid-life road-kill grasped

ersatz paradise

by thorns and blossoms

 

yes, food, women, all

the shiny wonders:

amazing the taste's still phed !

 

~

 

:)

 

เผ็ด phed: spicy

 

I am impressed

by one so blessed

now please get dressed

 

เบื่อแล้ว     

 

Why only four syllables

Did topic rule change

Or ignored Thai style

 

23 hours ago, amexpat said:

 

Why only four syllables

Did topic rule change

Or ignored Thai style

 

 

I was composing a reply to this yesterday, when the rain came to Nong Hoi, and the power went out ... I assume the net connection went out also  ...  let's see how memory does:

 

~

 

four lines worth as much

as five, or seven,

tomorrow: who will judge that ?

 

rain's here: at Nong Hoi !

how sweetly i'll sleep,

with, or without, a haiku

 

there were three haiku,

one's lost in the rain:

perhaps phayanaak ate it

 

~

 

พญานาค phayanaak : Nagas, the primordial water demi-urges responsible for making rain incorporated into Buddhist cosmology. If you want to read the "farthest out" cultural history of S.E. Asia: "Naga : Cultural Origins in Siam and the West Pacific" by Sumet Jumsai, with contributions by Buckminster Fuller. Chalermnit Press (1997), Oxford University Press; First edition (September 15, 1988)

 

Whatever Khuns Sumet, and Bucky, were on while they wrote that book: I wish I had some !

 

 

~

 

his latest tee rak,

sob story like all the rest:

just the wound he needs

 

~

 

tee rak: love, sweetheart

~

 

meenakhom, Chiang Mai:

I dream of breathing

sweet air cleaned by Songkran rains

 

taste of nampheung in my mouth,

top-note of ma phrao:

nam tauhou's blessing !

 

precious tribhumi

balanced between air and fire:

we're breathing both, now

~

 

 

น้ำผึ้ง nampheung: honey

มะพร้าว ma phrao: coconut

มีนาคม meenakhom: March

น้ำ เต้าหู้ nam tauwho: soy-milk

tribhumi  : the classic Thai Theravadan cosmological construct ... for a visual and auditory treat: http://www.himmapanavatar.com/whats-himmapan

Wonderful woman

Beautiful spirit

You are the reason I breathe

Balls lost

Useless orbs

Taken by his worshipped mate

57 minutes ago, HLover said:

Balls lost

Useless orbs

Taken by his worshipped mate

Oh for goodness sake

Too literal you are

When fishing use the right bait

~ 

 

his farang mind went missing,

turned into a frog

with big golden ball$

 

~

Acrid to the taste
Two point five particulate
Poisoning my lungs

On 3/10/2018 at 3:40 AM, orang37 said:

what say you good folk:

is this thread comatose now ?

turn off life support ?

No need close the thread.
Chiang Mai came in number six, 
Won Polutzer prize!

~

 

young lovers on the iron bridge,

snapping their selfies:

what never changes ?

 

~

Quality Tourists
Chinese, Japanese, Arabs
Farangs are Garbage