liberty bell gave us the 'ode to a concrete pour'....

ando

naw it was Louis Kahn

kahn did the ode to the "brick and arch" i thought?

i only ode myself

You only get one ode?

puddles only gives one ode

building odes

I wrote one, in the form of a haiku:

Concrete wall so grey.
Liquid stone held forever
will never change shape.

liberty's haiku.
as graceful as her advice.
give me liberty....


(combined haiku / ode to liberty)

nice freq (freak) using the apostrophe for the extra syllabol

ODIE!!!!!!!!!!!

freq, your haiku is much better than mine!

You poured the wall wrong.
Did you look at the drawings?
Get the jackhammer.



(Yes, I tend to hyperventilate when I see jackhammers being used on 'new' construction. It happens quite often on my project.)

So who *did* write an ode to a concrete wall?

I lived next to Keats' house. It wasn't him - he didn't have an internet connection. Perhaps another consumption afflicted and opium addled archinecteur(se)?

not concrete, but certainly with architectural elements:


Ode to Sadness

Sadness, scarab
with seven crippled feet,
spiderweb egg,
scramble-brained rat,
bitch's skeleton:
No entry here.
Don't come in.
Go away.
Go back
south with your umbrella,
go back
north with your serpent's teeth.
A poet lives here.
No sadness may
cross this threshold.
Through these windows
comes the breath of the world,
fresh red roses,
flags embroidered with
the victories of the people.
No.
No entry.
Flap
your bat's wings,
I will trample the feathers
that fall from your mantle,
I will sweep the bits and pieces
of your carcass to
the four corners of the wind,
I will wring your neck,
I will stitch your eyelids shut,
I will sew your shroud,
sadness, and bury your rodent bones
beneath the springtime of an apple tree.

Pablo Neruda

ooh...i love sadness

my gf did a generative design studio where she used a Neruda poem to gnerate a code that scripted form..

this to me is much sexier than an ode to a wall alone.

ff33, can you explain why you find scripting from a poem sexy? I'm asking seriously; I'm trying to figure out what the appeal of scripting beyond technological is - would love to hear why/how you have a physical/emotional response to it.

Neruda poems can make me weep; well-poured concrete can make me weep; so far, scripting hasn't. But I would like it to.

Concrete only makes me weep when it doesn't come up to the specified strength. It is a sad sight watching jack hammers at
work.

there is a movement known as CoNcReTePoEtRy. Haiku and Neruda are not members.