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 Post subject: Lazarus you beauty!
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2022 10:06 am 
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So we Bluebaggers have all been dead these past two decades and more of woes, oh maybe some small glimmers of dreams, perhaps a fluttering of hair as if we stirred, but all just wind, hot dry wind blowing across the sands of despair, and really didn't we begin to think "alas poor Blues, we knew them well."

And as we stared week after week into that skull of all that was and all that we had become, didn't we weep watching teams crawl across our carcass week after week? Their vile laughter, their joy at our demise...oh the pain, the agony, the zombie twitching of remembered glory!

It seemed there was no end, just a zombie predilection to stagger right into the hammer to the forehead, a twitch or two and then dead...again.

Then came the Voss, like the old cowboy dressed in white, gathering his deputies and riding into the ghost town of Princes Park, determined to clear away the deadwood and rebuild the place into what it was...

Oh and what it was all those years ago, the shimmering palace, the Taj Mahal of football grounds, the Everest of football ambition all laid low by folly, cruelty and a bad habit of finding new ways to kill off any hope...how many children have been born into this darkness? Into this absence?

And yet...and yet... perchance to dream...and we did, we corpses of yesterday's glory...we mad, mad hopefuls that everything is a cycle and the good times will come back to us...we dared to dream..season after season after season...We dared to think the good times might one day come back to us...and they have, and they have...

Oh I know (and this is the bit about Lazarus) we have not done anything yet, no silverware, heck not even any finals, and apparently our percentage is shit and that's an indication of being dead, or something like that...

but back to Laz cos that's where we are at. Imagine him, then, dead those hours when the mind is gone, the body is still and the heart no longer beats... Imagine him sitting up and taking that first...that first new breath!

That's were we are at! Might not have won anything but I tell you what, this club is alive and well! Its breathing again! Its in the game!

So now, Like Lazarus, we must stand again, walk again, remember all those things we once did automatically again...We must remember to be again.

And last night I heard it, I heard that roar and it brought back those glorious days when we stood and thumped the signage at Princes Park as we piled the goals on... The heart is back, back pumping Bluebagger blood again, the eyes are open full of the glory of this team, the power of Curnow, the joy of Durdin, the smarts of Hewitt, the courage of Kennedy, the skill of Walshy and... and Crippa, the colossus, standing tall and screaming, "come on everyone, jump on these shoulders, lets see where this ride takes us!"

So we have risen, there's still a lot to do, but like Laz we have stepped away from the coffin, we have begun to remember ourselves again and so this day, this day we shout, we give voice to the rising of the body, we stand still, arms spread wide, a smile and we shout 'Look out!" Look out one and all, the Dreamer has awoken, the giant has remembered, the club has returned!

Bring on Collingwood! Bring on Essendon*! Bring 'em all on! And shout it out into the streets and playgrounds, the ovals and alleyways...the paths and roads, "we are alive, we are alive and well and we are coming!"

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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2022 10:41 am 
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Great post Danny great encapsulation of how many of us have been feeling and what we now are feeling


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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2022 10:42 am 
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Jeez Danny , i aint highbrow and poetry aint my thing , but shit mate i get what you are saying . Perfectly sums up what i am thinking . This time it aint a false dawn , its the real deal ....................fantastic stuff Danny .

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 Post subject: Lazarus you beauty!
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2022 10:43 am 
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Love ya work Danny



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 Post subject: Lazarus you beauty!
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2022 12:32 pm 
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I awoke last night in the dark and dreamy deep
From my head to my feet, my body'd gone stone cold
There were worms crawling all around me
My fingers scratching at an earth black and six foot low
And alone in the blackness of my grave
Alone I'd been left to die
Then I heard voices calling all around me
The earth rose above me, my eyes filled with sky
We are alive
And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark
Our souls and spirits rise
To carry the fire and light the spark
To fight shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart
To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart
We are alive

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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2022 1:27 pm 
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Poet plus


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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
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exactly kingkerna!

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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
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kingkerna wrote:
I awoke last night in the dark and dreamy deep
From my head to my feet, my body'd gone stone cold
There were worms crawling all around me
My fingers scratching at an earth black and six foot low
And alone in the blackness of my grave
Alone I'd been left to die
Then I heard voices calling all around me
The earth rose above me, my eyes filled with sky
We are alive
And though our bodies lie alone here in the dark
Our souls and spirits rise
To carry the fire and light the spark
To fight shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart




To stand shoulder to shoulder and heart to heart
We are alive

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Holy shit , another poet . Never seen that side of you KK.............very good .

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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2022 1:33 pm 
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Dannyboy. :clap:


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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2022 2:47 pm 
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Great stuff Dee Boy….

i read the whole lot…!


kindest regards tommi

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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2022 2:49 pm 
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It was an amazing feeling being there last night.
You are right, it was just like the good old days when we were a power club.
Walking over to the station the crowd began singing the club song.
The arrogance is coming back.


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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2022 3:07 pm 
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20 years of lamentable footy and offfield misery or finally seeing our resurrection, coupled with Danny's poetry re-appearing.
I'm horrendously torn. :razz:

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 Post subject: Lazarus you beauty!
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tommi wrote:
Great stuff Dee Boy….

i read the whole lot…!


kindest regards tommi


I got through most of it.

Thanks danny


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 Post subject: Lazarus you beauty!
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I can't take credit for mine, from 3 35

https://youtu.be/C-dhZR5uTgY

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 Post subject: Lazarus you beauty!
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Great post DB...

Thumping the signage.... Wow did that line alone invoke some memories and feelings!




Can you thump the LCD screens? :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
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Yeah, yeah. I'll begrudgingly admit it. It's not too bad Danny.

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 Post subject: Lazarus you beauty!
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But what does the brick with eyes have to do with anything?

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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
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That’s Yorick…

Isn’t it…?

just a tougher version…that’s what i thought…!

then i thought about when i was young…I’d order
20c of chips from the Eff’n’Cee shop…and they
used to wrap them in the white paper…add
a dash of vinegar…and they would steam up…!

then you’d rip a little hole in the top corner
and stick your fingers in…always burning them
a bit…but who cared…that soft soggy chip was
the best…or as we said in the early 80’s…the BAAAST…!

good times…!


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 Post subject: Re: Lazarus you beauty!
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not chips for me, potato cakes, so vingeared the cakes wrikle, turn white and flop ready for the tongue and mouth, and yes, that tear and the fingers poking around, getting burned but who the hell cared.

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For me, it was stamping our feet with my sisters in the Gardiner Stand after a goal. The whole place seemed to rumble :thumbsup:

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