Poem History

[mjandrews96]

has anybody heard of a poem called MY CROSS by a poet called SHERMAN (all the info I have) My cross is not a relic
Of two thousand years ago
Its a symbol and a comfort
That's with me wherever I go

hope somebody somebody can help me

[Buenchico]

Full wording here, if it helps:
https://tinyurl.com/y9x2felq

[mjandrews96]

thank you I have the poem its the author am trying find about to see if he has written other poems

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

There is an excellent website called allpoetry.com which would be a perfect forum to ask your question- if anyone knows it will be the thousands of poets and people who love poetry that use the site. Best wishes with your search.

[bainbrig]

Actually, it’s not a poem, just a piece of writing about the religious significance of a symbol, so that website (which deals in poetry) might not be much use.

[naomi24]

bainbrig, Read it. It's a poem.

[bainbrig]

I’ve read it.

It is not a poem, by any stretch of the term.

[bainbrig]

Alright, as doggerel it might just creep in to the definition.

[naomi24]

Haaaa! How very lofty of you. :o)

[bainbrig]

It's not a question of being 'lofty', just one of accuracy.

I wouldn't call a hole in the ground architecture, just because someone dug it and someone lived in it.

Similarly, I wouldn't call the contents of Hallmark greetings cards poetry just because they have a vague resemblance in rhyme and scansion to poems.

[Peter Pedant]

Hi Nigh here's another poem

the tay the tay - the silvery tay
it flows thro Dundee - every day
( mcGonagall - for it was he )

I mean it is OK to underline - the cross was a fing and now it is a symbol ....
Roland Barthes ( sorry Nigh - he's French) built on that in Myths et Realite - see here in English for non-francophiles
http://visual-memory.co.uk/daniel/Documents/S4B/sem06.html

OK - if it IS poetry
then it is surely the stuff that George II had mind when he said - - - " I dont like boetry and I dont like bainting"
( german see?)

[Peter Pedant]

O god
Pam Ayres - someone is gonna say
' now that is what I call poetry!'

[bainbrig]

Somebody might, PP, but it ain't going to be me, pal...

BB

[bainbrig]

mjandrews: the closest I can get is an American called Eleazer Sherman, an evangelical preacher and writer in the early 1800s. There is a Google book of his ‘narrative’ which would help if you could get a copy.

Abebooks has a copy for about six quid:

https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=14065843827&searchurl=kn%3Deleazer%2Bsherman%26sortby%3D17&cm_sp=snippet-_-srp1-_-title1

Good luck.

BillB

[DTCwordfan]

OUR AB camps shone bright on the internet mountains
That frowned on the river Cross below,
While we stood by our GMEB in the morning
And eagerly watched for the Spammish foe,
When an Ozzy came out of the UK darkness
That hung over the Welshy mountain and Rowab tree,
And shouted, “Boys and Minty, up and be ready!
For Sherman the Boaty will march to the sea.”

Then cheer upon cheer for bold Boaty
Went up from each valley and Douglas glen,
And the Paddy bugles re-echoed the wendi music
That came from the lips of her parrot men;
For we knew that the stars in our AB banner
More bright in their splendour would be,
And that blessings from Alba-land would greet us
When Boaty, aka Sherman, marched down to the sea.

Then forward, boys and gals and minty, forward to the spam battle,
We marched on our wearisome way,
We stormed the wild hills of Pixie and Naomi;
God bless those who gave Queenie advice on that day!
Then maisie, dark in her glory,
Frowned down on the flag of the free,
But tony and emmie bore our standards,
And Boaty marched on to the Baldric sea.

Still onward we pressed, till our AB spammers
Swept out from the trollish walls,
And the wrath of the Minty intensified
There's spam in News and it should fall;
Yet we paused not to weep for the fallen,
Who slept by each Alinic river and rowan tree;
We twined them a wreath of lead and Clover laurel
As Boaty marched down to the sea.

Oh! proud was our AB army that morning,
That stood where the tambo pine darkly towers,
When Boaty said: “Boys and Gals, you are weary;
This day fair AB Kettering is ours!”
Then sang we a song for our c(anal) chieftain,
That echoed o’er his river and ducksie sea,
And the stars in our oldgeezer banner shone brighter
At 4.30 am when Boaty marched down to the sea.

[nailit]

Every time that I see this in latest posts I keep seeing 'PORN HISTORY'.
Says more about me I suppose....

[murraymints]

lol ! ^^ can hear them pipes skirling !!!

[jno]

So it’s true, Nailit, it does make you go blind.

[nailit]

//So it’s true, Nailit, it does make you go blind//
Ill risk it until contact lenses call....

[naomi24]

I feel sorry for the OP here who has asked a genuine question and has received responses from a couple of people whose heads are located far from light of day. I’m embarrassed for them. Not AB’s finest.

[gness]

Indeed, Naomi....rarely do we agree...but we do on that.