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Anyone else a fan of poetry? Have a favorite poem or poet?Wrote some?Always have liked reading it and gaining something meaningful from it.

My personal favorite poem of all time is 'Do not go Gentle into that good night' by Dylan Thomas,just so poignant and brilliant.Favorite poet overall is Robert Frost.

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12 minutes ago, AmericanRam said:

Anyone else a fan of poetry? Have a favorite poem or poet?Wrote some?Always have liked reading it and gaining something meaningful from it.

My personal favorite poem of all time is 'Do not go Gentle into that good night' by Dylan Thomas,just so poignant and brilliant.Favorite poet overall is Robert Frost.

Have you done one for your mrs that you'd like to share?

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e e cummings for me. I can get lost in his works. Love the way he writes even to refusing to use capital letters

 

And here's a challenge for anyone who thinks they have some poetical bent. Pen the next line to this:- ( as far as I know there is only one possibility)

"There was a young girl from Aberystwyth...

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5 minutes ago, bigbadbob said:

Have you done one for your mrs that you'd like to share?

As a matter of fact...??

It was 40 years ago that a beauty was born

That the world paused to celebrate

 This fair lady was unique and beloved by all

And even the angels wished to know her fate.

And then when the beauty was grown and so fair

Men would try and show off their might

In the hopes that they could get to hold her tight.

Yet one man was lucky, so fortunate so blessed,

That she chose him as better than all the rest

He still can’t believe that this angel is his girl

That man is me, you are the angel, my world.

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19 minutes ago, Turk Thrust said:

e e cummings for me. I can get lost in his works. Love the way he writes even to refusing to use capital letters

 

And here's a challenge for anyone who thinks they have some poetical bent. Pen the next line to this:- ( as far as I know there is only one possibility)

"There was a young girl from Aberystwyth...

Who’s dad was a very good blacksmith...

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42 minutes ago, Turk Thrust said:

e e cummings for me. I can get lost in his works. Love the way he writes even to refusing to use capital letters

 

And here's a challenge for anyone who thinks they have some poetical bent. Pen the next line to this:- ( as far as I know there is only one possibility)

"There was a young girl from Aberystwyth...

Who was good fun to go out and get pi$$ed with....nah, I’m out. ☹️

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2 hours ago, Turk Thrust said:

e e cummings for me. I can get lost in his works. Love the way he writes even to refusing to use capital letters

 

And here's a challenge for anyone who thinks they have some poetical bent. Pen the next line to this:- ( as far as I know there is only one possibility)

"There was a young girl from Aberystwyth...

Who was particularly known for her wrist, with

no twist and turns 

but plenty of burns

she wasn't fit to go out with

 

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2 hours ago, bigbadbob said:

Have you done one for your mrs that you'd like to share?

Course he bloody has.

I hate poetry. All of it. I've never read a poem that didn't make me want to inflict retribution on the writer via an appropriate agent, like a pen.

Don't get me started on that modern street poetry crap that you see on adverts.

Just don't.

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19 minutes ago, Parsnip said:

Course he bloody has.

I hate poetry. All of it. I've never read a poem that didn't make me want to inflict retribution on the writer via an appropriate agent, like a pen.

Don't get me started on that modern street poetry crap that you see on adverts.

Just don't.

Being a poet is an awful curse

we show our feelings in rhyming verse

just watched Harrys Heroes and laughed at Merse

I guess you'll want me in a hearse?

 

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23 minutes ago, BurtonRam7 said:

‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling is the only poem that I ever thought was half-alright. And I did English Literature at A-Level for some bizarre reason.

I really am not very certain

if its raite to write poetry for young Burton.................

 

Owd Ruddys stuff is not too bad

mostly rhymes but sometimes sad

reminds me of when Lawrence shoots

its enough to make you drink dark fruits.

 

xx

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Worked in an office that was predominantly staffed by women. One of them stuck a framed Purple Ronnie limerick up in the men's loo which read as follows...

Men's Bitz

Men's bits are sometimes like bananas,
And sometimes like shrivelled up grapes,
But no matter how they try,
They just can't deny,
That they come in the silliest shapes.

In 'retaliation' and assuming they'd take it in the same spirit as we took their little ditty, I scrawled a response which I printed out and stuck on the door of the ladies'. It read...

Ronnie's Revenge

A man's appendage,
Be it small or large,
Tis true, is seldom a beauty,
But a woman down there,
To be perfectly fair,
Can hardly be called a cutie.

Two hours later I was fired for gross misconduct and unceremoniously marched out of the office. Shortest 'career' in poetry ever! 

 

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