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    Re: Today's poet

    A couple of nonsense verses:

    Alas, Alack! - Walter de la Mare

    Ann, Ann!
    Come! quick as you can!
    There's a fish that talks
    In the frying pan.
    Out of the fat,
    As clear as glass,
    He put up his mouth
    And moaned 'Alas!'
    Oh, most mournful,
    'Alas, alack!'
    Then turned to his sizzling,
    And sank him back.

    There was an old man with a beard - Edward Lear

    There was an old man with a beard,
    Who said, "It is just as I feared! -
    Two Owls and a Hen,
    Four Larks and a Wren,
    Have all buit their nests in my beard."

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    Re: Today's poet

    The Cow

    the cow is of the bovine ilk
    one end is moo; the other, milk

    The Abominable Snowman

    I’ve never seen an abominable snowman,
    I’m hoping not to see one,
    I’m also hoping, if I do,
    That it will be a wee one.


    Ogden Nash

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    Re: Today's poet

    On a slightly different note:

    The sun and stars that float in the open air... the
    appleshaped earth and we upon it... surely the drift
    of them is something grand;
    I do not know what it is except that it is grand, and that it
    is happiness,
    And that the enclosing purport of us here is not a speculation,
    or bon-mot or reconnoissance,
    And that it is not something which by luck may turn out
    well for us, and without luck must be a failure for us,
    And not something which may yet be retracted in a certain
    contingency.

    Walt Whitman

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    Re: Today's poet

    But back on the fun theme:

    Wind on the Hill

    No one can tell me,
    Nobody knows,
    Where the wind comes from,
    Where the wind goes.

    It's flying from somewhere
    As fast as it can,
    I couldn't keep up with it,
    Not if I ran.

    But if I stopped holding
    The string of my kite,
    It would blow with the wind
    For a day and a night.

    And then when I found it,
    Wherever it blew,
    I should know that the wind
    Had been going there too.

    So then I could tell them
    Where the wind goes...
    But where the wind comes from
    Nobody knows.

    A.A.Milne

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    Re: Today's poet

    Today's effort inspired by my bikeride

    There was a young cyclist from masham (not that young but nevermind)
    Who was chatting and fell in a chasm
    She got covered in mud
    and a dribble of blood
    that'll teach her for gossiping...

    I like to think it is one of my best! (only works if you know Masham is pronounced Massum)

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    Re: Today's poet

    I like it Hes!
    Limericks is somewhere we haven't been much on this thread. How about:

    A not-so-young runner from Tring
    Thought dieting a wonderful thing
    Now his running is fast
    Though his prime is well past
    And his trousers are held up by string

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Hes View Post
    Today's effort inspired by my bikeride

    There was a young cyclist from masham (not that young but nevermind)
    Who was chatting and fell in a chasm
    She got covered in mud
    and a dribble of blood
    that'll teach her for gossiping...

    I like to think it is one of my best! (only works if you know Masham is pronounced Massum)
    Hes was a poetic maverick,
    Who cared not for the rules of the limerick.
    She cast them aside
    To tell tales of her ride,
    Which ended rather abruptly I gather.

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    Re: Today's poet

    bikeride part 2

    cycling man with lycra-clad rear
    you made me pedddle so fast
    just to get near
    and when I overtook
    to get a better look
    I ended up slipping a gear

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by Stevie View Post
    I like it Hes!
    Limericks is somewhere we haven't been much on this thread. How about:

    A not-so-young runner from Tring
    Thought dieting a wonderful thing
    Now his running is fast
    Though his prime is well past
    And his trousers are held up by string
    I like it...
    Nice one.

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    Re: Today's poet

    Quote Originally Posted by southernsoftie View Post
    Hes was a poetic maverick,
    Who cared not for the rules of the limerick.
    She cast them aside
    To tell tales of her ride,
    Which ended rather abruptly I gather.
    and we're on a roll....yeah! limericks and mavericks, the title of my next book (if I actually could write one). Cheers Southernsoftie.

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