Dislike Poetry

Okay, hold onto your hats, ladies, whilst I regale you with a romantic beekeeper's pome, er, I mean "poem":

If you kiss your honey
And her nose is runny,
Don't think it's honey,
'Cause it's not!

(When speechread, the last line also looks like, "'Cause it's snot!")
 
Chase said:
Okay, hold onto your hats, ladies, whilst I regale you with a romantic beekeeper's pome, er, I mean "poem":

If you kiss your honey
And her nose is runny,
Don't think it's honey,
'Cause it's not!

(When speechread, the last line also looks like, "'Cause it's snot!")
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:giggle: that's funny.............it sounds like something the kids would chant in the school yard.
 
I kinda remember ee. cummings from my youth. All lower case. I have a vaque recollection of a work he did that had to do with protesting a war or all wars in general....
 
eeewww! Chase!

Ok Chase, You will probably appreciate this poem
I wrote to Rush Limbaugh, (which he read over the air)
many years ago. He laughed so hard! I wrote it because
I read an article that said he was dating a liberal.
(Bush Bunny was my pen name btw and nothing to do with Pres)


The Bush Bunny cries,
And sobs in despair.
Her conservative hero,
Is treading thin air!
He's dating a liberal,
but that's not enough!
She's making him doubt
that Anita Hill stuff!
Oh woe is me,
and cry for his people.
Liberal infection has found
our conservative steeple.

tbb 1992
 
I also like haiku, but the 3-5-3 or 5-7-5 are the hardest part for me because I can't speak out loud and try to count syllables.


Would it help if you tapped out the syllables as you said the words in your
head? I tried and it comes out the same.
 
Thanks, Cathe, it's great. You're a published author! I'm impressed to the max.

I like your poem for several reason, not the least of which is I prefer poetry that rhymes. It seems to improve the crafting of the lines while improving the beat. I realize that's old fashioned, but so am I.
 
Here's another poem I love!! This one I am living.

One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

-- Elizabeth Bishop
 
fredfam1 said:
I also like haiku, but the 3-5-3 or 5-7-5 are the hardest part for me because I can't speak out loud and try to count syllables.


Would it help if you tapped out the syllables as you said the words in your
head? I tried and it comes out the same.
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No. I can't speak nor do I try to pronounce it out, so I'm never good at it.
 
J'explique said:
No. I can't speak nor do I try to pronounce it out, so I'm never good at it.
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Wow this would be really hard! You would have to look each word up
in the dictionary and count the syllables visually. Teeeeedious!
 
Chase said:
Thanks, Cathe, it's great. You're a published author! I'm impressed to the max.

I like your poem for several reason, not the least of which is I prefer poetry that rhymes. It seems to improve the crafting of the lines while improving the beat. I realize that's old fashioned, but so am I.
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Thanks, I wrote another poem/song that was published
on air. But ummm.. it was an anti Clinton song, and though
conservatives loved it and it lit up the switch boards, it
was not well recieved in the liberal community. heeeheee
It was titled the Hillary Man. Sung to the tune of "The Candy Man"

Don't know if I want to stir things up that much around here.
 
Schermy said:
Here's another poem I love!! This one I am living.

One Art

The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.

I lost my mother's watch. And look! my last, or
next-to-last, of three loved houses went.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster,
some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.
I miss them, but it wasn't a disaster.

---Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture
I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident
the art of losing's not too hard to master
though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

-- Elizabeth Bishop
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Oh I can sooooo relate!
 
You're a published author!


I still can't figure out how to quote just a section of a post. Any help would
be appreciated?


Anyway Chase, I've been toying with the idea of publishing a cartoon I've
created. I have some doctor friends encouraging me to do so.

The name of the toon is "Life In the Vas Lane" or "Viva La Deferens".
Its all abouts these sperms and their life in the round. hahahah
I tried to upload one but I was told it was exceeding something. ohwell
 
So for J'explitque, "free verse" (no regular meter, rhyme, or stanza format) seems like the perfect poetry.

Blank verse, like plays of Shakespeare's time, is mostly unrhymed but has a regular beat for each line.

There is a form of visual poetry called "carmina figurata" that might be fun. The words are hand-printed, written in cursive, or typed to form a shape or outline. Two that come to mind are a Christmas poem in the shape of an evergreen tree or a poem about the ocean in the shape of a whale.
 
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