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TITLE (EDIT)
The Great Procrastination |
DESCRIPTION
Self explanatory, really.
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TITLE KEYWORD
Mind |
AUTHOR
T J Rintoull |
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
PLEASE READ AND REVIEW MY WORKS!
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T J Rintoull, born 1983, currently residing on the Gold Coast in Australia, grew up in a combination of city housing, winnebago travelling and bush shacks, before entering the worlds of music, art and literature. Told often that he should have attended university to better himself, instead he devotes his time to working dead end jobs in order to pay the bills, and his spare time to creating music and literature. He confesses that although he loves to paint he has no ability with a brush whatsoever.
Currently T J Rintoull resides with his fiance in a small flat, as he continues to attempt a measure of success with his band and his writing.
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PLEASE READ AND REVIEW MY WORKS!
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AUTHOR'S E-MAIL ADDRESS
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AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (43)
A Better Friend (Poetry) Poem for solitude and loneliness. [94 words] [Motivational]
A Haiku (Poetry) A Haiku [8 words] [Mind]
A Name Will Come (Songs) The first of many song lyrics to be included here - this written for the world today, for things we've lost, faith in ourselves and many other things - this is the title song of my band. [218 words] [Spiritual]
A Simple Hope (Poetry) A short poem I wrote while at work. [57 words] [Motivational]
A Sudden Burst Of Sunshine (Short Stories) Arty awakens on a farm with amnesia and is forced over a single day to come to grips with his former life. [7,122 words] [Popular Fiction]
Bald (Poetry) A complaint against nature and pattern baldness. [132 words] [Nature]
Bathroom Memorial (Short Stories) A rare moment of reverse joy in the life of a depressive semi-suicidal. [744 words] [Mind]
Brothers And Sisters (Songs) I was told, "good people don't like you" This was the result. [128 words] [Relationships]
California Gothic (Poetry) This poem is simultaneously a blighted personal love poem and one big metaphor for an attack on modern society. [155 words] [Motivational]
Cliches Are Still Feelings (Poetry) The entire poem is one big cliche nowadays, or so I'm told. Is it still relevant? Is it thematic plagiarism? You be the judge. [90 words] [Romance]
Downtime (Poetry) Lyrics to a song, written for my band. [164 words] [Motivational]
Epistle To Faeries Past (Short Stories) A letter to a ghost of the past. [814 words] [Drama]
Fire Fright (Poetry) Read the poem please. [172 words] [Mind]
Goin Pro (Songs) Sarcasm, metaphor, this song is all of these things and more. Unless of course you're going pro... [63 words] [Erotic]
In Dreams (Poetry) Poem written at work, for nothing more than disillusioned ambition. [69 words] [Motivational]
Left (Poetry) It's not really a poem about breakups, although initially it would seems so. It's about more than that - interpersonal relationships falling apart, as well as a minor metaphor for the world at large. [152 words] [Relationships]
Moments To Remember (Short Stories) The first and last moments of true love... [683 words] [Romance]
New Year's Day (Poetry) This was written on the morning of the new year. [105 words] [Mind]
One Small Step At A Time (Short Stories) A glass-half empty kind of guy named Allan makes a big triumph in a small tragedy. [494 words] [Psychology]
Out Of Ink, Out Of Time (Short Stories) Tongue-in cheek short story about office work and accidents of quantum physics. [627 words] [Literary Fiction]
Poem For Poet's Sake (Poetry) A poem about the poet - striking out westward in search of something new. [99 words] [Mind]
Poem - Reasons (Poetry) Lyrics for a song. [179 words] [Mind]
Poena Acer (Poetry) Short Lyric Poem. [27 words] [Mind]
Poena Aetas (Poetry) As always, sophomore description of heartache and pain, this time expressed as a tattoo. [83 words] [Mind]
Poena Affectus (Poetry) Small collection of lyrics and poems, (also lyric poems) - many of these are untitled. [1,142 words] [Mind]
Poena Convoco (Poetry) Another metaphoric, or perhaps not so metaphoric attack on the modern world - but as always I seem to constrict its purity with personal memories. [120 words] [Business]
Poena Defendo (Poetry) Poem written while attending a carnival/field day in the heart of country pig hunting territory; these words were inspired by some of the people and imagery at the functions I attended. [77 words] [Animal]
Poena Flumen (Poetry) Of Rivers and Flowers and Life And Love and Pain. [87 words] [Spiritual]
Poena Labo (Poetry) On friends liars and life. [91 words] [Relationships]
Poena Speculum (Poetry) For the wanderer and watcher. [52 words]
Poena Termes (Poetry) A tree falling. A teardrop landing. [21 words] [Nature]
Poena Texo (Poetry) Second Collection Of Short Poems On The General Subject Of Pain - dealing with inner and outer turmoil, conflict and heartache. Deep. [364 words]
Poeta Postulo (Poetry) The poet's question of his feminist muse. [226 words]
Shopping (Short Stories) She went shopping - he was left home alone... [501 words] [Relationships]
Sleep Insane (Poetry) Continuation of California Gothic, but from a different mind, view, philosophy and life. [83 words] [Mind]
The Evening Red (Poetry) Do you drink....wine? [46 words] [Health]
The Golden Man (Poetry) Originally I thought to make this a story - but I thought it better as a short poem. [96 words] [Spiritual]
The Office (Poetry) I couldn't work out if this was a micro-short or a prose poem. The way it's written it's a short story, but I think there's too much rhyme, and it's a bit too short. Anyway, here it is for your pleasu... [474 words] [Mind]
This Marble Reflection (Poetry) Surrealism - in prose. [118 words]
Toad (Poetry) Poem - about a toad. [50 words]
Upon Waking (Poetry) Upon waking, this short lyric poem came to me. [60 words] [Psychology]
Wamphyrri (Poetry) Romantic sense of the vampire. [177 words] [Horror]
You Said.... (Poetry) Short freeform poem descriptive of the deserted wounded lover. [59 words] [Drama]
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The Great Procrastination
T J Rintoull
Has the moonlight
Come to save you
Has the astronaught come down
Has the purpose
Revealed itself
For saving any portrait other than a line
When your forest
Turns into a steeple
Won't you ask yourself the big why
Has the moment
Turned into another faceless opposition to your stride
All these worlds to be
All these lives to see
Soon into eternity
Kisses will always be free
Has the minstrel gone forever
Has the sword replaced the vow
Kings and countries
Fall into the ocean
Severed by the north and south
All these worlds to be
All these lives to see
Soon into eternity
Kisses will always be free
So your camera is working
And your feeling is down
I can still hear them humming
Through the cracks in your health
All these worlds to be
All these lives to see
Soon into eternity
Kisses will always be free
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"So many of you "poets" (I apply that term generously) either try to copy from something you stumbled across, or fall in love with the idea that mystic, metaphoric, disguised vocabulary and phrases are impressive. Apparently, you don't care if anyone but you understands your poem (assuming you understand what you are attempting to say). Even the most symbolic poem with multiple, plausible interpretations, leaves the reader a hint of what the author had in mind. By the way, what has procrastination got to do with this poem?" -- Rcihard.
"Does the term metaphor mean anything to you? Now, I have no problem whatsoever with criticism, so long as it's constructive...but what exactly have I copied here? Or "stumbled across"? This work is original. Thank you. It is the lyric content of a song I wrote. By the way, I'll say it again; constructive criticism is appreciated...but what exactly are YOU trying to say, other than the very basic, "i think this poem sucks?" That doesn't seem very constuctive. Have you ever heard of Jim Morrison? Oh yes, procrastination - read the poem in a global context, think about it for a while, then personalise it - hopefully procrastination will make some sense then. Also, the use of metaphor and non-literal vocabulary here is not meant to be "impressive" it is meant to convey a particular feeling. I hope you don't read all poems with so much closed-mindedness." -- TJ Rintoull.
"Read the poem in a global context??? What the fuck does that mean? I'm so sorry I'm unable to appreciate your self- annointed genius although there might be an entire world of critics out there who appreciate your work. After all, there are critics who could find mysticism and romance on a canvas splattered by a bucket of feces. Actually, I don't think you'd know constructive criticism if it hit you in the head. This is because you are like the poseur who becomes so consummed with his own creation, he lashes out at all those who fail to share his self-admiration of his work. " -- Richard.
"In a global context - the references are both historical and global, as well as personalised - I'm not exactly sure how you come to call me "self-annointed genius" - nor do I admire my own work...actually I think most of it is full of flaws - what I don't understand is what exactly about this poem fills you with so much obvious animosity? Okay, here we go, I hate doing this to poetry, even my own - much like a haiku, the title of the poem is it's real meaning - so the poem is about procrastination, of the mind and of the human spirit - but the last line of the repeated (chorus) part is a positive one, i.e. "kisses will always be free" - no matter how much one lets pass them by - a forest turns into a steeple, i.e. a town built on nature, meanwhile the subject is still in their own moment, and the question is posed that is that so called 'progress' (the forest replaced with civilisation) an answer to the procrastinators' question, (has anything any purpose or reason, really?) - there's so much to see, so much to be, but regardless of how much and how often everything passes by and you do nothing about it, kisses will always be free. There we go, that's some of the poem, deconstructed for you - I am not going to deconstruct the entire thing. I still don't think any criticism that involves callig the work, in so many words, crap, is constructive." -- T J Rintoull.
"I have no right to dispute the meaning or spirit of the poem as partially defined in your "deconstruction" response. However, your use of metaphors and allegorical references, I feel, has not captured the substance or spirit of what you feel you are conveying to your readers. I found the work to be largely abstract and found myself looking for aomething more profound. "kisses will always be free" That is debatable. Each kiss has a different meaning and there is often a price to pay in terms of committment, gratitude, honor, or even betrayal. That's about as constructive as I can get. " -- Richard.
"That I accept. Thanks." -- TJ Rintoull.
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STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
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