On Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 10:51:25 AM UTC-5, NancyGene wrote:
> On Saturday, November 25, 2023 at 6:25:33 AM UTC+4, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > On Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 7:45:42 AM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:
> > > On Thursday, October 26, 2023 at 8:10:40 PM UTC, Ash Wurthing wrote:
> > > > Metal music! Historical quotes! and verse in scattered, tattered parts...
> > > > https://groups.google.com/g/alt.arts.poetry.comments/c/zrVuNw_iCcM/m/ZEEdeuhRAQAJ
> > > >
> > > > Stars in azure encircled, stars in blue arranged in battle lines
> > > >
> > > > "I wish to speak to you today about the tragedy of Europe...
> > > > over wide areas are a vast, quivering mass of tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered human beings, who wait in the ruins of their cities and homes and scan the dark horizons for the approach of some new form of tyranny or terror. Among the victors there is a Babel of voices, among the vanquished the sullen silence of despair.
> > > > Indeed, but for the fact that the great republic across the Atlantic realised that the ruin or enslavement of Europe would involve her own fate as well, and stretched out hands of succour and guidance, the Dark Ages would have returned in all their cruelty and squalor. They may still return."
> > > > ~~ Winston Churchill, Zurich Sept 19, 1946
> > > >
> > > > "And I saw brothers fighting, not for honour but for gold
> > > > Enthralled by foreign agents like cattle we are sold
> > > > Oh goddess grant me an answer! Pray, make me understand!
> > > > Will the brothers fight forever? Can they be as one again?
> > > > The goddess speaks:
> > > > 'My son. War is forever. He's the father of all men
> > > > But brothers once united will stand as one again' "
> > > > ~~ Atlantean Kodex - Twelve Stars and an Azure Gown (An Anthem for Europa)
> > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA5X91UUv1o
> > > >
> > > > "If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance, there would be no limit to the happiness, to the prosperity and glory which its three or four hundred million people would enjoy."
> > > > ~~ Winston Churchill, speech delivered at the University of Zurich, 19 September 1946
> > > > https://www.cvce.eu/en/obj/address_given_by_winston_churchill_zurich_19_september_1946-en-7dc5a4cc-4453-4c2a-b130-b534b7d76ebd.html
> > > >
> > > > The "great republic across the Atlantic", the American states have forgotten this and their own history of recovery from their own Civil War....
> > > >
> > > > "We are situated differently in this respect from any other country.. All the other great powers have a comparatively homogeneous population, close kindred in race and blood and speech, and commonly little divided in religious beliefs. Our great Nation is made up of the strong and virile pioneering stock of nearly all the countries of the world. We have a variety of race and language and religious belief."
> > > > ~~ Calvin Coolidge, "Ways to Peace", speech at Arlington (31 May 1926)
> > > >
> > > > Many different groups, all enthralled, enslaved to the pursuit of their American dream, too often at the detriment of the lives and liberties of the Commonwealth, just interested in their own.
> > > >
> > > > There's parallels to be seen...
> > > > The Red and the Blue
> > > > inveighing what is false or what is true.
> > > > of The Left or The Right
> > > > simplistic scales of black and white-
> > > > to weigh who are wrong and who are right.
> > > > While this will be considered 'preachy'
> > > > by those in favor of their own reverie,
> > > > misfortune's memory makes it not so easy
> > > > to ignore those lost to the treachery
> > > >
> > > > That we were created by our Gods
> > > > and favored as Their chosen
> > > > awarded the Earth as ours
> > > > and despite Their Commandments
> > > > They seem unable to protect us
> > > > from Their very own creations
> > > >
> > > > Our nations so pusillanimous
> > > > declared to be the greatest,
> > > > with blind freedoms so magnanimous
> > > > None saved us from the madness
> > > > of lives needlessly cut short
> > > > being slaughtered like simple animals
> > > >
> > > > It takes many to build, to mend
> > > > But only a few and a bit of hate
> > > > To unravel the unity that they must condemn
> > > > Their very own prophets foretold this fate
> > > > Even when hatred may appear united
> > > > They stand divisive, derisive and not immune
> > > > For what they sow is judgement blindly incited
> > > > Dragon's teeth that may as well be their own doom
> > > > The short sighted tyranny they impose
> > > > a vicious cycle reciprocated by their foes
> > > > What they build through repression
> > > > surely will crumble under the oppression
> > > > Those vainglory monuments to their victory
> > > > will fall into ruin to be mocked by history
> > > > ~~AshWurthing
> > > Dragon's teeth will be pissbums' doom, if the law doesn't get them first. They will be "mocked," not by history but by people ignoring them.
> > True. Or ignorance of being a "superior" human/ freedom blessed American will make them unwitting victims for such a lowly thing like a Covid virus, or a mass shooter with a grievance and an assault rifle to take it out on everyone else.
> >
> > But I focus on much better things than Losenet vets, I have an audience waiting-- a new remix of the online kerfuffle I in store for them.
> > Before I fly, something I found while looking for the last poets for the 50 poets in metal:
> >
> > A band from Oregon named POET. A fvneral doom/death metal band with just two members listed. A male who does guitars, bass and "dirty" (nothin' to do with bums but it's the term for growling vocals) and a female who does violin, voila and vocals.
> > Their album is called Emily (songs simply named I, II, III, IV, V, VI)
> > That's right, the whole albums' lyrics are taken from Emily Dickinson's nature collection of poetry. Fitting since I do believe they're from Cascadia and bands from their have an unique outlook in their work.
> > The album can be heard here: https://poetdoom.bandcamp.com/album/emily
> Very good, Ash! This must be a post-garage band?

In my constant searching, with Christopher Lee working with Power Metal bands, I found:

Christopher Lee sings Elenore by Edgar Allan Poe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8bsnZEC2jk

Annabel Lee · sung by Stevie Nicks writers credited: Edgar Allan Poe & Stevie Nicks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doJSRSWQkV8

interesting fact:
With the song "Jingle Hell," Lee entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart at No. 22, thus becoming the second oldest living performer to ever enter the music charts, at 91 years and 6 months. After media attention, the song rose to No. 18. as Lee became the oldest person to have a top 20 hit."