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Pogo69SILVER Member
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia


Posted:
Hi all... I am a complete newbie to poi, fire twirling and anything/everything related. In fact, I'll only even see it in real life for the 1st time next Friday (making it down to the Moon Fest on north side of Brissie).



Anyway, this is me...





Name: Pat... but Pogo to those that know me well.



Location: Logan City, south of Brisbane, QLD, Oz.



Hometown: As above.



DOB: 17/09/1969



Age: 36 and counting...



Sex: Wouldn't that be nice?



Occupation(s): Computer Programmer. Worked for myself from home for 2 1/2 years, but have recently had to get a "real" job.



Favorite Food(s): Hmmm... pretty much anything, really.



Favorite Color(s): Green



Toys: Acoustic guitar, Classical guitar, 3 electric guitars, 2 djembes.



Hobbies other than the obvious: Music, Reading, Keeping fit (hmmm, not so much of the keeping fit, actually)



Education: Did Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science and Pure Maths. Then Grad Dip Appl Computing... then started a research masters, but gave it away when life got in the way.



Favorite Book(s): Have to get back to you on that one... The Anarchist was the last book I read, quite liked it.



Favorite Movie(s): Lots... Fight Club, Snatch, Lock Stock..., Finding Nemo, Pulp Fiction, Pay It Forward...



Favorite TV show(s): Don't watch tv.



Plans for life in general: (i.e. what you want to do when you grow up) I really... wish... I knew.



Favorite Music Artists/Composers: Lately... Xavier Rudd, Jack Johnson, JBT, Blue King Brown, Donavon Frankeneiter, Rob Sawyer, The Waifs... blues/roots stuff.



Favorie ice cream flavor(s): Vanilla.



Marmite, Vegemite, or Nutella? (please choose one...this is important as it is essentially this site's equivalent of stating your religion...we have religious wars, crusades, cathedrals to Nutella, all that.)



Definitely... vegemite.

--pogo (pat) [forever and always]


Bek66Future Mrs Pogo
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Location: The wrong place


Posted:
JT...it's not polite to whisper!

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin


JTSpinnerSILVER Member
Learnin About Burnin
385 posts
Location: Michigan, USA


Posted:
What would you have me do Yell eek

I may be crazy but I ain't stupid

Life is to short to waste it on stupidity


Bek66Future Mrs Pogo
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place


Posted:
ubblol ubblol ubblol

Not this early in the morn.
Please!!! help biggrin

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin


JTSpinnerSILVER Member
Learnin About Burnin
385 posts
Location: Michigan, USA


Posted:
What do you mean early?? It's almost 9:30pm isn't Pat??

I may be crazy but I ain't stupid

Life is to short to waste it on stupidity


Bek66Future Mrs Pogo
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place


Posted:
Hope Pat made it home through the storms okay!
They looked a bit rough to have to drive through!

I'm a mother hen when it comes to such things!
*wrings hands and looks out window.....at gorgeous sunrise!*

Quite a contrast!

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin


Pogo69SILVER Member
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia


Posted:
there, there rougie... *shnuggles the rougie till she stops shivering* the nasty men are probably just grunting a scratching themselves... best not to come between them

you gotta feed jt chocolate...

evening all... came home and got straight back into work mode, but have hit a stumbling block, so it's HoPpage time... biggrin

--pogo (pat) [forever and always]


Bek66Future Mrs Pogo
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place


Posted:
Okay...no more mother hen!

Morning/evening to you, Love!
wave hug ubblove

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin


Pogo69SILVER Member
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3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia


Posted:
morning/evening, bek... biggrin

hughug2hug

--pogo (pat) [forever and always]


Bek66Future Mrs Pogo
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place


Posted:
Get some sleep tonight, Mr. Pogo.!

Poem for you...



65. The Day is Done

THE DAY is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Night,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight.

I see the lights of the village 5
Gleam through the rain and the mist,
And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me
That my soul cannot resist:

A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain, 10
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.

Come, read to me some poem,
Some simple and heartfelt lay,
That shall soothe this restless feeling, 15
And banish the thoughts of day.

Not from the grand old masters,
Not from the bards sublime,
Whose distant footsteps echo
Through the corridors of Time. 20

For, like strains of martial music,
Their mighty thoughts suggest
Life's endless toil and endeavor;
And to-night I long for rest.

Read from some humbler poet, 25
Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start;

Who, through long days of labor,
And nights devoid of ease, 30
Still heard in his soul the music
Of wonderful melodies.

Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction 35
That follows after prayer.

Then read from the treasured volume
The poem of thy choice,
And lend to the rhyme of the poet
The beauty of thy voice. 40

And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.




Really nice one for nightime!
hug hug2 hug

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
Bek, you have such wonderful poems at your disposal!!! theyre beautiful!!

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


Pogo69SILVER Member
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia


Posted:
ooohh, lovely... hug I'm going to re-read that before I tuck in for the night...

I'm also going to find *my* copy of poe's writings... all my books are packed in boxes, so it'll be a task and a half... I haven't read it since... actually I couldn't say, but it's been at least a decade... likely a while longer

--pogo (pat) [forever and always]


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
does anyone like Keats?

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


JTSpinnerSILVER Member
Learnin About Burnin
385 posts
Location: Michigan, USA


Posted:
Just to prove that I am not as bad as they say I am RD:

WHEN I HAVE FEARS THAT I MAY CEASE TO BE

by: John Keats (1795-1821)

HEN I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain,
Before high-pilèd books, in charact'ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripened grain;
When I behold, upon the night's starred face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace,
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think,
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.


ubblove hug

I may be crazy but I ain't stupid

Life is to short to waste it on stupidity


ezzBRONZE Member
moo..
1,899 posts
Location: melbourne, australia


Posted:
hmm....*folds out a twister mat* Right hand red..

hug me!


Bek66Future Mrs Pogo
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place


Posted:
Fine literature has been a passion for me ever since I learned to read!!!

I'm a very passionate, emotional spirit and just love the rhythms of fine poetry, the excitement of a good story line...

I could go on and on...

That one *is* lovely JT.
Many thanks!!!


Rougie...I've been collecting for a looooong time!

biggrin

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
im related to John Keats smile

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


Bek66Future Mrs Pogo
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place


Posted:
Too cool!!!
A famous ancestor!!!
A *worthy* famous ancestor!!!
clap clap clap

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin


Pogo69SILVER Member
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia


Posted:
 Written by: ezz


hmm....*folds out a twister mat* Right hand red..



YAY!!! strip twister!! left foot yellow...

--pogo (pat) [forever and always]


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
well im not desended from him, cos he had no children. but he's my great x5ish uncle, according to the research my aunt did.

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


Pogo69SILVER Member
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3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia


Posted:
lovely poem, jt... smile

wow, beth... that's so cool!! the most famous people I know of that I'm related to are my parents... and their only claim to fame is spawning my sisters and I... rolleyes

--pogo (pat) [forever and always]


Bek66Future Mrs Pogo
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place


Posted:
Quite an accomplishment, I'd say! wink kiss

I have a couple like that, too, Rougie!

Col. John Crawford who led the most famous raid in history on Dunbarton Castle in Scotland, I am directly descended from.

Andrew Jackson...One of the early US presidents is an indirect relative.
All that good rot-rot!


Right foot, Blue!

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin


JTSpinnerSILVER Member
Learnin About Burnin
385 posts
Location: Michigan, USA


Posted:
I thought it was also. The I-Net is a wonderful place to find things and see, you guys are having a positive influence on me, even making me show some class eek eek

Right foot green cool

I may be crazy but I ain't stupid

Life is to short to waste it on stupidity


ezzBRONZE Member
moo..
1,899 posts
Location: melbourne, australia


Posted:
where did I say my twister game was a naked one ??? hmmmm??....... ubblol

I haven't read anything much posted in here right now therewas way too many posts and I'm a lil tired..but I read something about poems and ....stuff...So anyway I'm going to post this..its a bit long...my friend showed me it a while ago and I liked it...so read it...

"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,and if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments."

by
Oriah Mountain Dreamer


Anyway I can smell lollies and I don't know why...
*puts left foot on yellow. spins spinny doodaa* Right foot green!

hug me!


ezzBRONZE Member
moo..
1,899 posts
Location: melbourne, australia


Posted:
 Written by: JTSpinner


Right foot green cool



*giggles*...tehe..great minds think alike ... rolleyes

hug me!


Bek66Future Mrs Pogo
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place


Posted:
Mountain Dreamer is always awesome...

Gives me chills!!!
Thanks...Haven't read that one, in particular...
clap clap clap


Left foot, Red!

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin


Pogo69SILVER Member
there's no charge for awesomeness... or attractiveness
3,764 posts
Location: limbo, Australia


Posted:
ooohhh, I like that ezz...very cool indeed... ubblove

and... if you're going to start a game in my thread... expect that somewhere along the way, people are going to get their gear off... tongue

--pogo (pat) [forever and always]


Rouge DragonBRONZE Member
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13,215 posts
Location: without class distinction, Australia


Posted:
and you wonder where my bad influences came from tongue

i would have changed ***** to phallus, and claire to petey Petey

Rougie: but that's what I'm doing here
Arnwyn: what letting me adjust myself in your room?..don't you dare quote that on HoP...


Bek66Future Mrs Pogo
4,728 posts
Location: The wrong place


Posted:
Seems you're doomed, girl! biggrin


Right hand on Pat...oops....I mean...

Right hand, green!
bounce rolleyes

"Absence is to love what wind is to fire...it extinguishes the small, enkindles the great."
--Comte Debussy-Rebutin


ezzBRONZE Member
moo..
1,899 posts
Location: melbourne, australia


Posted:
hehe yay glad you liked hehe



Left foot Rouge...I mean red!...hehe it works on so many levels hehehe...well 2 *giggles to herself*

hug me!


JTSpinnerSILVER Member
Learnin About Burnin
385 posts
Location: Michigan, USA


Posted:
No RD, you hang out with these guys; there is no wondering at all. But U R ubblove ubblove anyway.

Very cool indeed ezz, thanks.

I may be crazy but I ain't stupid

Life is to short to waste it on stupidity


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