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The guy who put this book together (and I believe translated some of the poems from Chinese to English) is LDS. I'm not a big poetry fan myself, but I have this one at home, and I've actually read it through a couple times...
http://www.amazon.com/Enduring-Ties-.../dp/158642064X
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Originally posted by Surfah View Postso much depends
upon
the elders
quorum
glistening with
sweat
beside the white
uhaul
Brother William Carlos Surfah"Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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The mullah version:
One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.
But then some strange prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord, "What have we here?"
Those prints are large and round and neat,
"But Lord, they are too big for feet."
"My child," He said in somber tones,
"For miles I carried you along.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait."
"You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up,
And there I dropped you on your butt."
"Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave their butt prints in the sand.""It's true that everything happens for a reason. Just remember that sometimes that reason is that you did something really, really, stupid."
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Originally posted by Surfah View Postso much depends
upon
the elders
quorum
glistening with
sweat
beside the white
uhaul"Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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Originally posted by wuapinmon View PostI still think this is pretty damned good."You interns are like swallows. You shit all over my patients for six weeks and then fly off."
"Don't be sorry, it's not your fault. It's my fault for overestimating your competence."
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For those curious about, or really interested in Mormon Poetry, Harvest: Contemporary Mormon Poems is pretty good. It has "two hundred poems and fourteen hymns (most written between 1970 and 1989)" by sixty-nine Mormon poets. Not everything in it will not provide much material for sacrament meeting talks, however. Just lots of good poetry, some faith-promoting, much thought-provoking.“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
― W.H. Auden
"God made the angels to show His splendour - as He made animals for innocence and plants for their simplicity. But men and women He made to serve Him wittily, in the tangle of their minds."
-- Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Originally posted by SuperGabers View PostIf I hear that damn poem "Footprints" recited one more time in Sacramental Meeting, I am leaving the church...Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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Originally posted by TripletDaddy View PostI figured this one would be a shoe-in for the LDS Poetry section of the Ensign:
Parley Parker Pratt...so many P's!
Multiple wives....so many V's!
Mission to Chile, you didn't feel silly
When the Millenial Star was burned to a char
Or was it Times and Seasons? I forget the reasons
The G known as PPP
Had a beef with Hector
Now Parley is a specter
But his spirit lives on today
Mitt Romney has his DNA
And there's a little PPP in you and in me
And on the building at the back of the MTCGet confident, stupid
-landpoke
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Originally posted by HuskyFreeNorthwest View PostNearly 9 years later and every single time I hear or read Parley P Pratt at church I say to myself "so many P's! Multiple wives...so many V's!"
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Originally posted by TripletDaddy View PostI figured this one would be a shoe-in for the LDS Poetry section of the Ensign:
Parley Parker Pratt...so many P's!
Multiple wives....so many V's!
Mission to Chile, you didn't feel silly
When the Millenial Star was burned to a char
Or was it Times and Seasons? I forget the reasons
The G known as PPP
Had a beef with Hector
Now Parley is a specter
But his spirit lives on today
Mitt Romney has his DNA
And there's a little PPP in you and in me
And on the building at the back of the MTCGet confident, stupid
-landpoke
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Love it (again). One of the best things I've read on this board."...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
"You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
- SeattleUte
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