Supergrunch Posted October 10, 2007 Posted October 10, 2007 Within this thread, you can post anything you like that you consider to be beautiful, whatever it may be. I shall start with a Nabokov excerpt: "It was necessary to shut the window: rain was striking the sill and splashing the parquet and armchairs. With a fresh, slippery sound, enormous silver specters sped through the garden, through the foliage, along the orange sand. The drainpipe rattled and choked. You were playing Bach. The piano had raised its lacquered wing, under the wing lay a lyre, and little hammers were rippling across the strings. The brocade rug, crumpling into coarse folds, had slid partway off the piano’s tail, dropping an opened opus onto the floor. Every now and then, through the frenzy of the fugue, your ring would clink on the keys as, incessantly, magnificently, the June shower slashed the windowpanes. And you, without interrupting your playing, and slightly tilting your head, were exclaiming, in time to the beat, “The rain, the rain… I am go-ing to drown it out….†But you could not. Abandoning the albums that lay on the table like velvet coffins, I watched you and listened to the fugue, the rain. A feeling of freshness welled in me like the fragrance of wet carnations that trickled down from everywhere, from the shelves, from the piano’s wing, from the oblong diamonds of the chandelier." Now it's your turn... posts taking the piss will be deleted. And as a general rule, avoid stuff that you have created.
Ant-Shimmin Posted October 10, 2007 Posted October 10, 2007 When you walk through a storm Hold your head up high And don't be afraid of the dark At the end of the storm Is a golden sky And the sweet silver song of a lark Walk on through the wind Walk on through the rain Tho' your dreams be tossed and blown Walk on, walk on With hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone You'll never walk alone
MoogleViper Posted October 10, 2007 Posted October 10, 2007 A babbling brook leading into a small pool of water on a mountain side. Beautiful.
Letty Posted October 10, 2007 Posted October 10, 2007 A tree is a beautiful thing. Especially sitting under one, and there is the smell of tree around
Daft Posted October 10, 2007 Posted October 10, 2007 From Dylan Thomas' Under Milk Wood It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now. Hush, the babies are sleeping, the farmers, the fishers, the tradesmen and pensioners, cobbler, schoolteacher, postman and publican, the undertaker and the fancy woman, drunkard, dressmaker, preacher, policeman, the webfoot cocklewomen and the tidy wives. Young girls lie bedded soft or glide in their dreams, with rings and trousseaux, bridesmaided by glow-worms down the aisles of the organplaying wood. The boys are dreaming wicked or of the bucking ranches of the night and the jollyrodgered sea. And the anthracite statues of the horses sleep in the fields, and the cows in the byres, and the dogs in the wetnosed yards; and the cats nap in the slant corners or lope sly, streaking and needling, on the one cloud of the roofs. You can hear the dew falling, and the hushed town breathing. Only your eyes are unclosed, to see the black and folded town fast, and slow, asleep. And you alone can hear the invisible starfall, the darkest-before-dawn minutely dewgrazed stir of the black, dab-filled sea where the Arethusa, the Curlew and the Skylark, Zanzibar, Rhiannon, the Rover, the Cormorant, and the Star of Wales tilt and ride. Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night. Only you can see, in the blinded bedrooms, the coms and petticoats over the chairs, the jugs and basins, the glasses of teeth, Thou Shalt Not on the wall, and the yellowing dickybird-watching pictures of the dead. Only you can hear and see, behind the eyes of the sleepers, the movements and countries and mazes and colours and dismays and rainbows and tunes and wishes and flight and fall and despairs and big seas of their dreams. From where you are, you can hear their dreams. You can hear Richard Burton read it here http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_umw1.html
Hellfire Posted October 10, 2007 Posted October 10, 2007 "Never seen a blue sky Yeah I can feel it reaching out And moving closer There's something about blue Asked myself what it's all for You know the funny thing about it I couldn't answer No I couldn't answer Things have turned a deeper shade of blue And images that might be real May be illusion Keep flashing off and on Free Wanna be free Gonna be free And move among the stars You know they really aren't so far Feels so free Gotta know free Please Don't wake me from the dream It's really everything it seemed I'm so free No black and white in the blue Everything is clearer now Life is just a dream you know That's never ending I'm ascending "
Paj! Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 Pagan Poetry 3 of the most beautiful music videos ever. All taken from Vespertine by Bjork.
Hem Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 A perfectly crafted, and influential human being.
Zell Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 When you walk through a stormHold your head up high And don't be afraid of the dark At the end of the storm Is a golden sky And the sweet silver song of a lark Walk on through the wind Walk on through the rain Tho' your dreams be tossed and blown Walk on, walk on With hope in your heart And you'll never walk alone You'll never walk alone Oh boy... Look, YNWA is an alright song, but it is in no way spectacular or "beautiful". Just because Liverpool adopted it as their anthem does not make it a better song. Let's face it, you wouldn't be saying it's beautiful if you weren't a biased Liverpool fan.
Bren Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 Oh boy... Look, YNWA is an alright song, but it is in no way spectacular or "beautiful". Just because Liverpool adopted it as their anthem does not make it a better song. Let's face it, you wouldn't be saying it's beautiful if you weren't a biased Liverpool fan. its not the song that matters, its the feeling you get when singing it. I remember when liverpool lost in the euro champ this year, walking through liverpool about 20 mins after the final whistle and some busker was singing it on his own, then like 40 people joined in, was well good. Pretty beautiful feeling lol The smell of pot is pretty beautiful!
Supergrunch Posted October 11, 2007 Author Posted October 11, 2007 Continue, but remember arguing is not beautiful. Debating can be, but I wouldn't advise it here. :wink:
MoogleViper Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 I think a woman's body is a beautiful thing.
Strider Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 "No, the journey doesn't end here.The gray rain curtain of this world rolls back and all turns to silver glass... and then you see it... White shores... And beyond... A far green country under a swift sunrise.” - Gandalf Not really beautiful, but i like it. And to get points with the mods - I find you beautiful Supergrunch
Paj! Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 Oh boy... Look, YNWA is an alright song, but it is in no way spectacular or "beautiful". Just because Liverpool adopted it as their anthem does not make it a better song. Let's face it, you wouldn't be saying it's beautiful if you weren't a biased Liverpool fan. I hate football and most of what it entails, but I do like that song, and it is nice as a song.
Ant-Shimmin Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 Oh boy... Look, YNWA is an alright song, but it is in no way spectacular or "beautiful". Just because Liverpool adopted it as their anthem does not make it a better song. Let's face it, you wouldn't be saying it's beautiful if you weren't a biased Liverpool fan. What you have not experienced, you can never understand
The fish Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 "With a hey, ho, the wind and the rain, for the rain it raineth every day." Act V Scene I Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare I normally don't 'get' the big deal about Shakespeare, but I love that line.
Tellyn Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 Not really beautiful, but i like it. I was actually going to post that, I agree. Tying in: http://www.warnerreprise.com/asx/annielennox_intothewest_uth6g356_128-a.asx
Jim Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 In fear of sounding a little mooshy... but anyways waking up next to the woman you love's naked body, and watching her wake up with gleams of sunlight piercing through the curtains... thats beautiful to me
Supergrunch Posted October 12, 2007 Author Posted October 12, 2007 In fear of sounding a little mooshy... but anyways waking up next to the woman you love's naked body, and watching her wake up with gleams of sunlight piercing through the curtains... thats beautiful to me It's Jim! Legendary forum members coming back is beautiful.
Guest dynastygal Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 Animals in their natural habitat, untouched land, certain males, erm...my companion putty-tats and my dearly departed companion dog.
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