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Part 2 Favorite Verses
January 02, 2003, 09:40
KallehPart 2 Favorite Verses
Sarah told me to link to the
locked thread when I want to post something in that thread. So--I am starting Part 2 of Favorite Verses:
A new favorite poet of mine is Gelett Burgess because he is similar to Ogden Nash. Here is a famous poem of his:
The Purple Cow
I never saw a purple cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
An anonymous parody:
I've never seen a purple cow.
My eyes with tears are full.
I've never seen a purple cow,
And I'm a purple bull.
[This message was edited by Kalleh on Thu Jan 2nd, 2003 at 9:48.]
January 03, 2003, 19:18
Hic et ubiqueSome years later, Burgess wrote a rueful sequel.
quote:
Ah yes, I wrote The Purple Cow.
I'm sorry now I wrote it.
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'll kill you if you quote it.
PS: Kalleh, your parody reminds me of the ram who was driven to suicide when he heard the band playing "I Know I'll Never Find Another Ewe".
January 04, 2003, 02:54
BobHaleIs it cheating to put something you wrote yourself here ?
Years ago (I was about twelve or thirteen I think so it is years ago) I decided to write something with a rhyme for Axolotl. This was it.
An axolotl's
A pet what'll
Live content inside a bottle.
Don't confuse it with an ocelot
What'll not.
Well
I like it.
Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum
Read all about my travels around the world here.January 04, 2003, 09:20
Hic et ubiqueAs do I, Bob. In the same vein, here's some Ogden Nash.
Oh, once there lived in Kankakee
A handy dandy Yankakee,
A lone and lean and lankakee
Cantankakerous Yankakee.
He slept without a blankaket,
This rough and ready Yankakee,
The bachelor of Kankakee.
He never used a hankakee,
He jeered at hanky-pankakee;
Indeed, to give a frank account,
He didn't have a bank account.
And yet at times he hankakered
In marriage to be anchachored.
When celibacy rankakles,
One dreams of pretty ankakles.
He took a trip to Waikiki
And wooed a girl named Psycheche,
And now this rugged Yankakee
'S a married man in Kankakee.
Good night, dear friends, and thankakee.
January 04, 2003, 13:41
C J StrolinEnjoyed the verse, B.H. Its structure brings to mind one of my all time favorite verses, by Richard Armour:
Shake and shake the ketchup bottle.
None will come and then a lot'll.
January 14, 2003, 07:54
KallehFrom Stephen Crane who is from New Jersey but spent most of his life in Surrey, England:
'A Man to the Universe'
A man said to the universe,
"Sir, I exist!"
"However,"replied the universe,
"The fact has not created in me
A sense of obligation."
January 14, 2003, 08:17
C J StrolinWhile I know that free verse is very much in vogue and old-fashioned rhyming verse with meter is considered old hat (Though how did this happen?!) I still prefer the latter. If you will allow me, Kalleh, to "improve" Crane's verse:
"A Man to the Universe, Part 2, The Sequel!"
A man said to the Universe,
"You know I'm truly real!"
"So what?" the Universe replied,
"Get lost! Go 'way! Big deal!!"
Ah, yes... That's
much better!
January 18, 2003, 03:46
BobHaleJust came across this poem which I quite like. It's by Roger Stevens
Poem For SalePoem For Sale
(One careful owner)
With simile
(as lucky as a dime)
Two exquisite
And erudite adjectives
And one rhyme.
Going
For a song.
Roger Stevens.
Purgamentum init, exit purgamentum
Read all about my travels around the world here.July 27, 2003, 21:10
KallehIf nobody smiles and nobody cheers
And nobody helps us at all,
If each person only looks after himself,
Who then helps when we fall?
If nobody cares just a little for you,
And nobody cares about me,
We then have to face life alone everyday,
Never knowing what good friends can be.