Well, Ande all you have to do is download Jafo's picture from DA and make it YOUR desktop....

And that is a song from Donal Fagen's solo album called 'Nightfly'
wouldn't expect you to know it though, great song.

Lady Of The Dancing Water

"Grass in your hair stretched like a lion in the sun
Restlessly turned moistened your mouth with your tongue.
Pouring my wine your eyes caged mine glowing
Touching your face my fingers strayed knowing.
I called you lady of the dancing water.

Blown autumn leaves shed to the fire where you laid me
Burn slow to ash just as my days now seem to be.
I feel you still always your eyes glowing
Remembered hours salt, earth and flowers flowing.
Farewell my lady of the dancing water."

--- Peter Sinfield

Maybe you see poetry in JM's desktop. Bravo! Ande

"Marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle, and not a bed of roses"(RLS). Its a bed of roses at the moment, if I used that desktop? - well enough said.

Doctor Seuss...for that backwards poem, perhaps?...

Another e.e. cummings poem....for that backwards feel .....

anyone lived in a pretty how town
(with up so floating many bells down)
spring summer autumn winter
he sang his didn't he danced his did

Women and men(both little and small)
cared for anyone not at all
they sowed their isn't they reaped their same
sun moon stars rain

children guessed(but only a few
and down they forgot as up they grew
autumn winter spring summer)
that noone loved him more by more

when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone's any was all to her

someones married their everyones
laughed their cryings and did their dance
(sleep wake hope and then)they
said their nevers they slept their dream

stars rain sun moon
(and only the snow can begin to explain
how children are apt to forget to remember
with up so floating many bells down)

one day anyone died i guess
(and noone stooped to kiss his face)
busy folk buried them side by side
little by little and was by was

all by all and deep by deep
and more by more they dream their sleep
noone and anyone earth by april
wish by spirit and if by yes.

Women and men(both dong and ding)
summer autumn winter spring
reaped their sowing and went their came
sun moon stars rain

What is a backwards poem?

And more importantly, how did you all manage to get poetry and cricket in the same topic?

Dear Ryan,
Cricket is poetry, its poetry when Jonty dives to save a run, it is poetry when Murali bowls a flipper or McGrath hits the stump. And Ryan, its sheer poetry when a ball hits the middle of Sachin's bat.

To paraphrase a famous quotation..."Poetry is in the eye of the beholder..."

Or as my Momma used to say..."Poetry is like a box of chocolates..."

JM, you have been hanging too long on the site. Get a life man

Life...Hmmmmm...what a strange notion, Ashu........

what notion JM? Having a life??? tch tch..

Ashu, my "off the cuff poem"

Today I see a bright light
It shines inside my mind
But the light is not so bright
As to make me blind

I’m not sightless to the meanness
And the cruelty or the pain
That is cast upon the weak
By the pompous and the vain

Awakened are my senses
To the hurt some wish to cause
And to those that feel so haughty
As to point out other’s flaws.

On deaf listeners cries go unheard
By pompous ears cynically plugged
The knife that wields within a word
When someone just needs to be hugged.

Life isn’t perfect indeed
And maybe it’s not in fashion
But I hope that people take heed
And show just a bit more compassion.

Took me 20 minutes to write and nope, I ain't no Emily Dickinson

And time stood still with the thrill of knowing
The depth of such love that set my eyes glowing
Moonbeams formed a path to my true love's heart’s door
And I walk that glad path forevermore.

Sleepless poet.

"She walked on by as though she didn't care..
I could feel the static in the air.
We buzzed about each other like fireflies;
and hastened towards nowhere.

She said, "I can't stand the lies,"
I said, "Don't believe someone else's eyes..."
Look into mine and see the truth,
See what cannot be denied."

---anonymous

Let it be known
that no man is alone
each heart has another
Fit closer than one's brother

Perfection is seen
As true life too serene
but tragedy and strife
is just a part of true life...

Maybe one day is good
And the next may be bad
And how it's dealt with
makes us happy or sad...

For now I will wonder
And love came and went
But if love comes to say
Then it's heaven sent.

Correction... >
But if love comes to STAY

very nice....

I'm afraid to be a doofus and assume you meant that towards me but on the remote chance you did, thank you, JM.

You asked me to not speak to you so I have respected your wishes...

I've tried to be more 'anonymous' in my replies to you...

I understand. I apologize if I hurt your feelings.

I'm used to being treated shabbily by women...
It didn't bother me as much as thinking that you took me so wrong.

A lot of people have a hard time understanding my warped sense of humor..
Heck, my own parent's have never been able to understand it.
They give me blank looks whenever I try to kid around with them...

Some of your "words in fun" I guess came off (to me) cruel and hurtful...silly now to me of course in looking back... It's too easy to misinterpret "words" in print.

Growing up being "bullied" in life has made me all too weary and I guess I felt wounded by the one whom I thought had championed my cause.

I mean you no ill will and it's saddened me so much that our new friendship ended on such a sour note.