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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:52 pm
by Louis P. Burns aka Lugh
Argie wrote: Now Lugh, you don't mean I'll have to copy the same text that I quoted above, do you?
Just post the text in dude. Then a short message saying you wish the piece to be included in the Healing Herbs project.

When everything is compiled your poem will be on a webpage of the Healing Herbs project alongside your name. Your name will also appear in the end credits of the Healing Herbs film. Please note, the film is going through a few more treatments for the purposes of high resolution streaming. We may even include your poem in the film.

Thanks Sal :D ...

Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2006 11:02 pm
by Louis P. Burns aka Lugh
spacecadet wrote:I think Lugh can verify that Britain rules the waves in the compact cultivation of our mother herb. That's the problem over here, you can only get smoke of mass destruction.
So bloody true mate. Disabled people should have the civil, human and legal right to grow their own medicinal marijuana. It is inhumane to impose prescription chemical toxins that have little to no pain relieving quality in many cases.

Medicinal marijuana is the homeopathic choice and as stated earlier in this thread, has been used for centuries by other cultures. By denying disabled people the right to grow their own medicinal marijuana, they are being forced to buy lower grade street hashish which is often mixed with several impurities and which can be considered a crime by the Police.

Why expose sick people to all that anxiety and stress? As I said earlier: It is inhumane.

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:45 pm
by Catherine Edmunds
This one took five minutes to write... and it shows. But what the heck. Here ya go.


sweet mary jane

woke up this mornin’
feelin’ like shit
head’s full of sawdust
man, I ain’t fit

legs, they ain’t workin’
back’s in a vice
eyesight is blurry
but that’s the price

of livin’ with em ess
of livin in pain
the drugs they ain’t working
except …. mary jane

but mary ain’t legal
sweet jane ain’t allowed
can’t grow her, can’t smoke her
hey doc – ain’t you proud?

you give me your drugs
your philtres and potions
but sweet mary jane
would calm my emotions

mary jane, mary jane
come home to me
mary jane, mary jane
set my limbs free

wake up tomorrow
feelin’ just fine
if sweet mary jane
was legally mine…

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 4:53 pm
by Louis P. Burns aka Lugh
That could become a song very easily Delph 8) ...

Brilliant mate. Brilliant :D ...

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 5:51 pm
by Catherine Edmunds
Cheers, Lugh. Yep -- it's definitely lyrics, not a poem.

Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:46 pm
by Louis P. Burns aka Lugh
delph_ambi wrote:Cheers, Lugh. Yep -- it's definitely lyrics, not a poem.
Up tempo too Delph.

da da dada da da da
da dada da da da
dada dada da da
dada da da dada da

Jangly guitar
Loose jazz percussion
Double bass
Deep male voice (could work)
Lead guitar solo mid way

Gospel / R&B crossover style

Johnny Cash - Folsom Prison would be a close contender to what I'm thinking...

Weed's TCP (unfinished, unpolished first draft 2Nov06)

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 7:01 pm
by Salvador Oria
If you don't mind, I'll squeeze this one in whilst delph, the scissors witch, is not around.... forgive me

The headache was killing me,
this migraine as docs call it
has been a sombre shadow
cast upon me through genetics
since I was very young.
Oh, yes my grandma had it
and before her, her own.
I was told by the physicians
that migraines jump generations
shite, I thought, shite
and it had to land in mine?

Then I walked to the doc's house
the so-called National Health.
Have you, by chance, ever felt
that you are a laboratory mouse?
When the man in white apron comes
and says 'now we'll try TCP, it seems
it works. Come here, raise your sleeve'
to pull a trigger in you mind
shooting in it a clearcut response:
it is not we, nor him, its me!

© 2006 Salvador Oria aka Argie

Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:47 pm
by Louis P. Burns aka Lugh
Hi Argie,

Thanks for posting, although I'm a bit confused. How is this poem related to marijuana?

Cheers...

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 5:50 pm
by Catherine Edmunds
Good question. I suspect because doctors will offer you all sorts of inappropriate medication for a migraine (eg, TCP) when actually all you need is an appropriate smoke...

Here's one I've just penned. It's rough and ready, so critique appreciated to help me knock it into shape.

No title as yet.

'just building a spliff' he said
and he turned away briefly
deft fingers knowing their way

he was back in seconds
to chat breathe relax
be himself once again
without the pain of his spine leg hip shoulders mind
free to be with me just for a while
to smile, have a laugh, tell me tales
about cats neighbours gangsters glasgow
carstairs carruthers and knitting
a scarf
for a sheep

'just building a spliff'
he said one last time
when the pain
returned

now it's gone
so sleep
rest in peace
dearest friend

(for JDS)

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 6:12 pm
by Louis P. Burns aka Lugh
Well, you've asked for honest critique, so here goes.

It's fabulous Delph. No changes are necessary. I had ease reading this first time off and found no stumbling blocks or rythyms that needed tapped out. It flows magnificently and would lend itself well to performance by an actor / actress with access to a good microphone and preferably a minidisc recorder with USB and conversion to mp3 software.

True to a lot of your work, it also captures imagery like a high-end digital photo or short film. There are ambiences and shifts of light a-plenty at work in this poem.

Again, although at a technical level a tad difficult, this could be scripted to screenplay. I for one am/was there, a silent or off-screen witness. I felt his pain relieved with the spliffs. I know this feeling. I felt time lapsing between smokes and as a result felt the atmosphere and the friendship between you both...

Suggesting a name for this work might be quite a novel way of popularising it as well. May I suggest something like; 'Just A Spliff' or Healing Herbs? Obvious ones I know, but for me, they fit...

Nice one Delph. This would definitely work well with the Healing Herbs film. I would be honoured if you let us include it mate.

As for Argie's poem. I think perhaps he meant THC instead of TCP... Easy error to make considering English isn't his native tongue.

Cheers :) ...

Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 11:51 pm
by Catherine Edmunds
Thanks, Lugh :)

And thanks for the title suggestions. I'd like to take up your suggestion of 'healing herbs' for the title if I may. Works perfectly.

I think this one came over so visually because I was seeing it as I wrote it and it was a true account with nothing fictionalised at all. That's one reason why I would never want it filmed. Too personal. However, I am very happy for you to use the words in your 'Healing Herbs' project. That would be eminently appropriate.

Cheers,

Cathy

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 1:29 am
by Louis P. Burns aka Lugh
Message for delph_ambi

Hi delph.

As you may know the Healing Herbs production end of the e-zine is complete and I would be grateful to you if you could confirm that it is ok for me to carry the above piece over to those pages please?

Thanks :) ...

Posted: Mon May 19, 2008 1:39 am
by Louis P. Burns aka Lugh
Message for Iccy and other writers working on Sensitize ©

Hi Iccy...

Do you have any poems, thoughts or writing on the theme of cannabis as a pain relieving and naturally occuring healing herb? Or even anarchic rants confronting the classification of cannabis as a (drug?). If you do, I would really appreciate it if you submitted your poetry (on this theme) to this thread. Any rants, thoughts or words to general messages?

Please clearly mark them as submissions for the Sensitize © Healing Herbs pages of our e-zine.

Thanks in advance :) ...

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 8:20 am
by Catherine Edmunds
Re: your request two posts up for confirmation of the availability of my poem five posts (or however many it is) up. Yes, confirmed. I've been meticulous in making sure that anything I've offered to you for the ezine has been kept away from any other publications, so it's all available, and will remain so, as previously agreed.

delph

Response to Catherine Edmunds about her cannabis poem...

Posted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:17 pm
by Louis P. Burns aka Lugh
delph_ambi wrote:Re: your request two posts up for confirmation of the availability of my poem five posts (or however many it is) up. Yes, confirmed. I've been meticulous in making sure that anything I've offered to you for the ezine has been kept away from any other publications, so it's all available, and will remain so, as previously agreed.

delph
Thanks Delph :) ...

Your poem for the Healing Herbs production will of course have an embedded link to your space here on Sensitize. At the moment you have nothing uploaded to there but I know you have been off doing other work.

Please feel free to notify your readers of any upcoming publications, competitions, or poems you wish to share through that space Cathy and I wish you continued best wishes with it all.

I'll also link to your wonderful interview for the e-zine which in turn should generate visitors to your space. The link to your space isn't public (yet), but just notify me when you wish the settings switched to public and I'll sort it out...

Here is that link to your space once again:

viewforum.php?f=51

Thanks again my friend :) ...