Retropoet Central Station
Poetry__Songs__Dreams
Something to read while the
background loads
Slow loading tonight?
Try reading one of
my poems here, instead. Also, you could try delphi for a quick poetry fix.
I originally wrote
these pages in HTML 3.2, after having downloaded the ‘rules’ off a helpful
website. Now they are using HTML
version 4.0 or higher, which involves style sheets and other complicated
folderol. So I am opening the old pages
with Microsoft Word, then editing them.
Progress is slow, so bear with me, please.
I hope my page looks interesting to you. If it does, then Praise Parmethius ! Read one poem, I suggest, then come back in a week and try a different category. If you do this, you will not run out of things to read for a long, long, time. After you have read one poem, use the links to visit something completely different. There are at least 50 pages (there is not very much on each one, so it is not so impressive as it may sound) and less than half as many backgrounds, for which I give credit whenever possible. HOWEVER, almost all of my pages are designed so that you may read them without the background loading, so if you want to turn off your browser's auto-load feature for visual stuff, go right ahead. If you find a page hard to read because of color choices, e-mail me. (Praise Parmethius at the bottom of the page.) One Final note: If you want music, If you want animations, If you want more backgrounds, please visit my friends, you will find them on my links pages. I also have links to some fine poetry.
POETRY AND DREAMS
Below
are some summaries of the kinds of poetry you might find inside:
Here
is your occasional song, iambic pentameter, or whatever it takes to rhyme.
Write your own music.
Example: "Unkind
Thoughts"
You
can control your dreams. If you want to fly, you can. But first, you have to
remember your dreams. Here is what can come of that.
Example:
Anything
that won't fit into a category goes in here. Think of it as nuclear poetry. The
bomb shelter page. The world in bellbottoms. Basic stumblebummery.
Example:
I
have collected my favorite poems and published them here. Send me your favorite poem, I would love to
add to my collection.
Example:
"Birth Trauma"
Just
for fun, I started adapting one of my poems to a screenplay. Then I lost
interest.
Bridge, the Card Game.
This stuff is totally in disarry. I did not have an outline before I
started. I put in links before the pages
were typed in. You can easily get lost
and frustrated. I do intend to fix it,
soon, though. Enter
Bridge Here.
LETTERS
and LINKS
Links to other Poets (17NOV98)
On
the same page with links to poetry by others on my website, is links to other
poets on the web.
You know how it is,
people tend to e-mail jokes to their friends. Since I am from the gopher state
(?!?), I save the jokes and put them here for awhile. Dig it.
September Letters to the Retropoet
October letters to the Retropoet
December letters to the Retropoet
I
am going to put all the links on one huge file. Coming Soon: Megalink-2
If
you are a frequent visitor, this is a redundant page. Those who are new may
want to read old letters that were sent to me (hint; if they are funny or if
they used to be funny, or if they in any other way do not qualify as a RANT,
then they go here, when their time on the LETTERS page is up. A frequent
visitor will have already seen this stuff on the letters page(s).
A
special page, listing all web pages found that say "Just the FAQS,
ma'am", and with links to lots of useful and useless FAQS pages. Small
now, but this page is gonna grow (If I ever get the time, that is)! Coming Soon: Megalink-2
A
semi-permanent addition to my pages, formerly an e-mail to the Retropoet. It is
long, but funny.
The Obligatory Awards
Page Updated: Mar. 03, '97 (that
was the last award, OK, the only award, I got)
I
GOT ONE? It was as much a surprise to me as anything.
FOOTNOTES, Where
Thoughts Get Kicked Around
I
have seen pages that people put their favorite quotes on. They are too long,
one gets overloaded reading all the quotes. Despite these objections, I am
going to start one anyway. At least then, I can go back and remember ones I may
have forgotten. The trouble is, I forget a quote before I get to the computer
to type it in. Real memorable quotes, EH?
This
could be a book, a CD, or (shudder) a TV show, or even a movie. Things a
perfect consumer (me) might like. Mainly, this is where I would place a short
review, or maybe a sample, to convince you.
Movies
that others want me to watch. Sometimes a review, sometimes a
"yagaddawatchdis". Now includes movies I rented, which I rate from
one to four stars.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind tops the list. My favorite movies of all time, rated
by how often I have watched them. Only movies I have seen more than once get on
this list.
Critics
Pick the Best Movies of 1998.
Then
I play with some numbers to get my own "consensus" of the best.
Don't
Go There-dot-Rant-dot-Rave.
If
you are PC then, perhaps, you will not like this page. Closely related to the
letters page and the jokes page (above). Now, there is a spinoff, mostly
humorous, of bumper stickers!
All
The Print That's Fit to Type .
A
woefully short list of books that I have read in 1998. The list was so short after that, I stopped
posting it.
The
original rant page grew too big, so it has been split in two. This is the
original. How mad can a guy get?
I
support the constitution of the United States of America. Some people would put
limits on the Bill of Rights, and perhaps rightly so. Here is what one member
of the Congress of the United States of America said about the Bill of Rights.
Another
list! The favorite bumper stickers of the Retropoet!
Some
books were so good, or so packed with information, that I read them twice (or
more). See here.
What
did I read in the past? See here. Included are 1988, 1989, then jumps to 1997.
Talk
about TV .
This
is a hopelessly oudated page. If I am
watching TV, then the web page does not get updated. If I am updating the web page, then I have no favorite TV
programs, get it?
Books
I thought I would like to read based on reviews or recommendations of others.
Do you recommend a book? Did I spell recommend correctly?
ADD
SOME "MUSIC" TO YOUR DAY
In the tradition of
keeping a fast loading site, there are no sound-bite files to download.
You
won't be able to hear anything. I just tell you what music I have loaded and
ready to play on my 5 cd changer on my stereo system. This is an archive, because I stopped updating it.
A
review of Pat Boone's "In a Metal Mood" on the Now Playing page (I
bought it because of the cover of Stairway to Heaven)! Also a few good reviews
can be found on this page, which lists cd's that I listen to while I am using
the computer. An archive. I stopped updating this.
Sometimes
one of my recent purchases thrills me so much that I have to share it with you.
There are no bad reviews, because I hide those here and there
all over the place. You cannot download it here, I just TALK about the music.
I
kept track of every tune I could remember that entered my consciousness for
four months in 1997. Just out of curiosity I did this. But it serves to
illustrate to you how important music is to me. On the enrtry for April 24th, I
added a link so that you can read the lyrics to "Fishheads". You
won't be able to hear anything. I just tell you what I can hear at home and at
work and in the car and on and on and....a list of tunes that pop into my head
and go on automatic repeat, or sometimes, cause me to burst into song. Trust
me, this was a labor of love.
CD's
that I listened to in 1998.
This
is an archive of the "My Jukebox" page, above, before I stopped
archiving on November 13, 1998.
CD's
that I listened to in 1997.
This
is an archive of the "My Jukebox" page, above.
CREDITS
and Cretins
Just
a personal page, things going on for visitors to Minneapolis. Last entry was
where to get a good chocolate cake.
The
Background on this page and others like it was designed by Stormi. The
Wallpaper Boutique features many Original Background Designs. You probably
won't want to change the colors and mess them up like I did with this one.
This,
the website of the Western Wrestling Association (WWA), closely involves some
people near and dear to my heart.
Thank You For Your
Time
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