Café de Nuit

http://www.deadlounge.com/poetry/poems.html

I was searching for a version a poem of Sheridan Le Fanu for my little column here, and look what I stumbled over! I tried this one time and, below, you can read what I got out of it... Errh, better not, the hole thing felt pretty sick to me... However, feel free to post your results here.

Until next week.

R

Hi Desdichado,

I made this, aren't you proud?

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what have you done?
a miasma of misery as perceptions darken.
once we tasted bliss,
open and glad-hearted,
but your thirst soured.
a horrific morass of darkness -
tears follow rain, follow bone,
love torn apart.
in a burst of righteousness,
i reject you.

I always suspected that many bands, especially the very poppy or very gothic ones used machines such as this to generate random lyrics. After a while they all sound the same. perhaps they do. (Hey let's generate another bad love song, set the parameters to teenage, abandonment and cheating!)


Jennifer

It's like World of Darkness Mad-Libs!

Jennifer wrote:Hi Desdichado,

I made this, aren't you proud?

I, the great Des, allow you, to bear the title KNIGHT OF THE FRATERNITY and to put a in your signature.

Be known from now as Sir (Mistress? -What would be the appropriate title?) Jennifer!

Hi Desdichado,

I, the great Des, allow you, to bear the title KNIGHT OF THE FRATERNITY and to put a in your signature.

Be known from now as Sir (Mistress? -What would be the appropriate title?) Jennifer!

mistress of course! Jennifer is a girls name. Oh well, I suppose that someone nicknamed Daisy would get a little confused about such things.
Mistress Jennifer, it sounds nice.

By the way, this one is really very bad.

the night falls with a silent sigh, entwined are we.
the emotion for which you lust
flares once, then dies,
swallowed by your obsession.
all hope must fail.

your passion throbs no more.
how could you abandon me?
our dark emotions surround us, crying,
we are fallen.

it gives me the willies and I made it all myself.

Mistress Jennifer

Jennifer wrote:Hi Desdichado,

I, the great Des, allow you, to bear the title KNIGHT OF THE FRATERNITY and to put a in your signature.

Be known from now as Sir (Mistress? -What would be the appropriate title?) Jennifer!

mistress of course! Jennifer is a girls name.

Mylady,

This was indeed a serious question - is Mistress the appropriate English equivalent to the male form of Sir?

Jennifer wrote: Oh well, I suppose that someone nicknamed Daisy would get a little confused about such things.
Mistress Jennifer, it sounds nice.

*Wears skirts under the armour*

Hi Desdichado,

Hmm, I think that Lady would be the proper equivalent of Sir, Mistress suggests either the more prim sort of schoolteacher of someone not so prim at all. But I like the sound.

and I wear no armor at all of course, with my stunning smile, quick wit and unending charm i can wrap anyone around my little finger and encourage them to do my bidding.

Mistress Jennifer

Jennifer wrote:Hi Desdichado,

Hmm, I think that Lady would be the proper equivalent of Sir, Mistress suggests either the more prim sort of schoolteacher of someone not so prim at all. But I like the sound.

and I wear no armor at all of course, with my stunning smile, quick wit and unending charm i can wrap anyone around my little finger and encourage them to do my bidding.

Mistress Jennifer

So, then be ascended again to the title of Lady Jennifer of the Shinning Smile, be awarded with the title Knight of the Mists, and be allowed to use this as your heraldry:

I've, ah, composed these lines in your honour:

Around, all around, the sinister creatures gather.
My dread grows as an avenging sword falls against my eyes.
It mutilates me, and darkly my
essence drips
to the thirsty earth.
In pain I try to run
while oblivion takes my hand.
Now alone, my vitae falls upon wailing eyes.

This is my salvation

<insert 14 year old girlie voice here>
ooh, Desdichado,

you wrote that wonderful poem especially for me? how wonderful! <exited squeak>

I am currently in a pendragon RPG, so i am one of the noble knights, not yet the round table, but hey who knows. The knight of the shining smile, that sounds nice.

Mistress Jennifer of the Shining Smile

I got:

A God that is Yours


Slender beams of sunlight enter
this darkened room as I kneel,
always cold, always forlorn,
frozen here,
waiting.

Angelic forms wrought in panes of glass loom as
dust dances in the air,
forming an image in my mind,
infiltrating my darkened soul.

Terror on a clock's face.

I raise my head, now kneeling before
this aloof Heaven.

consumed


what have you ruined?
a smothering indistinctness of blood as sentiments seep.
once we drank of innocence,
untainted and childlike,
but your thirst died.
a vengeful morass of bitterness -
thoughts follow bone, follow memory,
love condemned.
in a torrent of righteousness,
i reject you.

Jennifer wrote:<insert 14 year old girlie voice here>
ooh, Desdichado,

you wrote that wonderful poem especially for me? how wonderful! <exited squeak>

I am currently in a pendragon RPG, so i am one of the noble knights, not yet the round table, but hey who knows. The knight of the shining smile, that sounds nice.

Mistress Jennifer of the Shining Smile

*Bows*

*Memorable movie quote*

- BALIAN! Do you really think a man fights better when you call him knight?

- Yes!





Think that counts for women as well...

Desdichado...

As a self-described movie buff, I pride myself on knowing where most quotes I hear originate. But on this one, I'm drawing a blank. Care to share the movie name?

Kingdom of Heaven.

Exactly, although maybe not correctly translated (from the German version of the movie; haven't seen the English original).

I really liked that movie, as I tned zo like chivalry movies in general.

That line almost made me cry!