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Lord Barham
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My First Internet Experiments
My first internet experience was kinda lame ––
Nothing worked! ––
With a 40 meg hard drive and one meg 'o RAM …
Email barely existed and was inaccessible.
I tried chat rooms ––
The forerunner of social media ––
To no avail:
No one ever got back to me!
What was I doing wrong?
I never did figure it out.
An old friend from high school
Sent me a link of some kind
To a chat room;
She was living in Texas at the time,
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But the link never worked
And we lost touch.
I heard she got married
Found some peace and happiness briefly
After having lived a hard life
With too many abusive men
Including
Her father ––
A life of pain
With a brief moment of happiness
Before cancer took her
So young! ––
I still miss her!
She was one of the most beautiful girls I have ever known …
The Internet.
We called it the "I-Net" back then
And the Web was waiting
For Armand Hammer
(As well as Cow Brand)
To bring it to life.
Peace
And
Environmentalism
Gave us the Web
Courtesy of the Baking Soda King
Who used to do business with Russia
Before
The collapse
Of the Soviet Union
And the Cold War
We grew up with
And
Were
Always
Afraid of.
The Bomb
Nuclear Annihilation.
I used to dream of it
At night
Seeing the missiles flying by overhead
And that sick feeling
"They finally did it!"
Of knowing
It was all over ––
The end
Of Everything
Forever.
Waking up
Was such a relief!
Armand Hammer
The International Peace Network
Gave us
The World Wide Web
As the nightmare
Finally faded away …
Coquitlam, BC 08-06-2024
Lord Barham’s timeline
- June 2024
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12 WedReceived a critique
on My First Internet Experiments from @Rula
"I still believe though that the narrative side of the poem needs some refinement. But that's only me. Let's see what others might say." -
11 TueReceived a critique
on My First Internet Experiments from @Rula
"Thank you for sharing your poem(s) Seems like these are two not one. I read the first poem which I believe read more like prose. Maybe adding some internal rhymes will take the piece to a more poetic realm. However the…" -
10 Mon
- February 2023
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19 SunAnniversary
5 years of membership
- September 2022
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13 TueReceived a critique
on Life Acrostic Sonnet Series from @Lavender
"I could never promise to read all of them, but I am curious to read one or two, if that's possible, from a poet's perspective of the sonnet form and style. It sounds like there is a lot to consider with your unique appr…" - August 2022
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27 SatPosted a poem
Life Acrostic Sonnet Series
"This is not the collection of sonnets I wrote between 31st of July and 25th of August. Nor is it the Free Verse connecting thread I wrote some time last year. Instead, I am going to post the acrostic phrases for each one. I wrote them all (except one: the one on eukaryotic cell division) in the Shakespearian mode with the rhyme scheme abab cdcd efef gg. The one on cell division's acrostic phrase is the two types of cell division, each of which is 7 letters long, which thus divided the sonnet neatly into two equal halves. I debated whether to rhyme it aabbbaa/ccdddcc or aabbbaaaabbbaa, and decided on the former because it would be slightly easier (It was still a bugger to write that first 7 letter bit) and because Mitosis and Meiosis are distinct and have very different purposes and results, so thought it would help distinguish these differences. At least I got to mention sex in this one! Below is the set of acrostic phrases along with the title of each sonnet. The naming scheme is as follows: L.A.S.S. is an abbreviation of "Life Acrostic Sonnet Series". (Innit nice when acronyms spell out something sweet?) This is followed by the date on which the sonnet was written, which is in turn followed by a number in brackets which gives the order number it was written in. Thus, L.A.S.S. 31-07-2022 (1) was the first sonnet to be written and it was written on the 31st of July. On the 1st of August, I broke my old record of 5 Acrostic Petrarchan Sonnets in one day. On this day, I banged off 10 while doing the laundry. I was kind of disabled for parts of August and couldn't do much of anything except lie down on my back to ease the pain. Since I also buggered up both wrists during this period, I couldn't hold a pen to write with either." - July 2022
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28 Thu
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15 FriHighest posting month
July 2022 — 5 poems
- February 2019
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19 TueAnniversary
One year of membership
- April 2018
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17 TueFirst critique offered
on "emotionally yours" by @lovedly
- February 2018
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21 Wed
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20 TueFirst publication
Chapbook Submission I: Love and Death
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19 MonJoined Neopoet
Membership begins
First poem published 1 days later.
About Me
About me
I am an Englishman and a Canadian and I consider myself to be a citizen of the world. I might be human, but can't make up my mind one way or the other. For most of my life, I thought I was a wolf, or, at least, I wanted to be one. Then, some weird experiences while cleaning oil off the beaches of Vancouver Island made me wonder if my spirit animal might be a black cougar. I think Raven is in charge of human affairs, else, why would they be so f***ed up? I sure hope Mad Vlad doesn't start a nuclear war. (According to the Doomsday Clock, we are closer than we have ever been – 100 seconds from Midnight.) Greta Thunberg is my current hero.
Location: British Columbia, Canada, CAN
Favorite Poets
I like the first world war poets. Robert Service. Poe had some fab poems. Shakespeare's sonnets (Including the ones embedded in his romantic plays). Blake. I am more inclined to like particular poems (such as Poe's "The Raven" and "The Bells" or Ginsberg's "Howl". Not a big fan of Bobbie Dylan and don't think he should have won a Nobel Prize. (Len Cohen was a better poet if you ask me.) I quite like Hope Sandoval's "lyrics". I love Sappho and Tekahionwake (aka E Pauline Johnson). First discovered Sappho about ten years ago. First got turned onto E Pauline Johnson in 1981 when I found a book of her poems in a used bookshop. I now have first editions (1913) of Flint and Feathers (collected poems)
Legends of Vancouver and her collection of short stories for boys. Her poem
"The Cattle Thief" says it all about how Canada has treated the Aboriginal inhabitants of this country. The Lost Generation Poets and Edgar Allen Poe were probably my biggest influences
. I do quite like e e cummings though. Can't imagine anyone being able to write like him without looking like a copycat.
Recent Work
My First Internet Experiments
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Life Acrostic Sonnet Series
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Mountain Climbing In Switzerland
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Fallen Angels
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Fallen Angels
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Back & Forth – Second Look
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Back & Forth
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