Good Morning!

[leapyrtwins]

Debbi -

your secret's safe with us 

Jan

[Debbi]

Jan - thanks!  Now, if I can only manage to get an intested look on BOTH sides of my face...   

[Sue]

Hi Guys ,

The other morning I awoke early and for some reason a poem formed and I thought about it for a minute and decided it was pretty good, fell back asleep and now 3/4 of it is gone, gone, gone!  Actually, more like 9/10ths of it is gone, because all I really remember is "doorbell", "radio" and "there" . I knew I should have gotten up to write it down, but was too asleep to rouse myself out of bed.  It had to do with phantom noises in our heads. So, help me out folks:

Doorbells ring and no ones there,
Radios play, I know not where,   (or something like that)
something, something, something,
blah, blah, blah, rhymes with something   

This idea came, because a couple of times I have been awakened by what I think is the doorbell, but it isn't the doorbell.  It isn't anything.   I was telling somebody about that, and I think that's where this poem came from.  I just had four lines in my head that morning, and in my sleep induced dream like state, I thought it was good.  Now, if I'd actually written it down, it probably wasn't that great! HA  Of course, great by my standards is that it had a rhythm and it rhymed!

So ---any ideas any one?  While we wait for Laz to do something with the PBW, we might as well have a creative writing class.    Feel free to change the whole thing.

Sue in Vancouver

PS,
And does anyone actually call a radio a radio anymore?  Shows my age I guess.

[HeadCase2]

Sue,
 
Doorbells ring and no ones there,
Radios play, I know not where,
Telephones ring, with phantom glee,
But I'd rather be sailing out at Sea

Children’s laughter, are you there?,
Tinitus ringing, I can hardly bear,
Crickets chirping, or a buzzing bee,
But I’d rather be sailing out at Sea


Regards,
  Rob

[leapyrtwins]

And does anyone actually call a radio a radio anymore? 

I do.  What else would you call it 

Jan

[Sue]

Rob, BRILLIANT!   

Thank you!

Anyone else?

Sue in Vancouver

[Sue]

Jan....
 The radio thing....I don't know, they used to say Boom Box, and then so many people use other things for their music - iPods and CD players and all of that, I guess I wasn't sure if "radio" wasn't some archaic term now!      But I googled it and and see that radio is alive and well.  Well, thank goodness for that.

Sue

[Larry]

Great poem Rob, and Sue - at least you didn't say "crystal set". We used to have one, in fact my brother built one and we listened to it through and 'ear plug". Too much nostalga, showing my age. Mind you, i do remember listening to my mothers "record player" and the old 78's - Hopalong Cassidy is still vivid in my brain together with Cisco and Poncho and Mario Lanza. back then,,   oh no, I'm not going there, may as well talk about the boar war as well!!!!

Laz
p.s priming myself up for a journey.

[lori67]

Sue, I guess you could call it a "hi-fi", but I think that term is definitely archaic.  Radio sounds good to me - I guess that makes us all old, huh?

Laz, I remember (and still have) the old record player and records to play on it. Now if I could find someone who wanted to listen to my entire record collection of the Bay City Rollers (2 albums) and other quality music..... I can't even get my kids to listen to one note before they go running out of the room laughing.  Good way to get rid of them though.

Lori

[Sue]

"Hey, Ceeesco, wait for me!"     I always liked Cisco's horse - that pretty black and white pinto.  I just looked up the series....one of the first filmed in color. But, we didn't have a color set for a long time, so I probably didn't know that when I was watching it!  His horse's name was Diablo. I'd forgotten that.  Ahhh, good times.

Adios,

Sue in Vancouver

[HeadCase2]

Laz,
 I know you're a trekky, and wanted to let you know that Picard is also into this pirate thing.
Rob

[MaryBKAriz]

Hey Mateys!

You have been a raucous group while I have been attempting to begin the slaughter of a wickedly naughty brainbooger. I have me pirate socks and me landlocked mateys here are most alarmed. However be it, I am preparing for the mighty battle at the first part of the 6th month in the year two thousand and eight. The lilting music is prepared, also.

Land ho for me!

Mary

[Sue]

Hi Guys Again,

A few posts back I mentioned the poem that I thought of and then went away into the night, only leaving fragments.  Well, some of the "poem" surfaced.  Hooray!  So, what went through my mind was actually a song, so I went surfing and found that you can find the original words and the music at this website:


http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/hearsinging.htm   It is by Irving Berlin and it's called:

(I Wonder Why) You're Just In Love
[sometimes called "I Hear Singing"]

So here is my version...I changed radios to music because I thought it sounded better.


I hear doorbells and there's no one there                               
I hear music but I know not where,
All day long there's buzzing in the air
I wonder why? I wonder why?
I hear noises in my head all day,
And what's more, it doesn't go away
Sounds that used to never bother me
They sound so loud to me, I wonder why?

You don't need analyzin'
It is not so surprisin'
That you hear everything you hear
Your brain hears pitter-patter
I know just what's the matter
Because I've been there, too, my dear
In your head you've got a tumor
Yes it's real, it's not a rumor,
Those AN's bring on a symphony
There is nothing you can take
You might as well commiserate,
And then, by gosh, we'll sail out to sea!



Thanks Rob, for the last line! 

Sue in Vancouver USA

[lori67]

I love it!  Do you think "Phyl and the Moderators" will perform it for us at the Symposium?

Is that why Phyl is on hiatus?  She's in rehearsal for the big show?

[Sue]

Oh Lori, what a great idea!  I should have thought of that, but my sole purpose today was to get this "poem-song" out of my head before I burst a blood vessel or something, and I didn't think of Phyl and the Moderators performing this.  Wouldn't that be hilarious.  Gosh, I really wish they could sing!  It would make for a great duet, since that's what it is, the two verses sung together.  Anyone want to volunteer to sing it!   

Okay, now that this is out of me brain, I need to do some ironing.

Sue in Vancouver USA