The poem thread. Show your education.

[Younggun]

A little bird with a little bill

Was sitting on my window sill.

I lured him in with a piece of bread

And then I crushed his little head

(PG version)


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[Army 1911]

I don't remember the name of the poem but it is by Stephen Crane. This is my all time favorite stanza.

I said to the Universe, Sir, I exist.
That, the Universe replied, creates no sense of obligation in me.

I can't tell you how many liberals Millennials , reparations seekers, panhandlers and climatologists I've said that poem to. It generally pisses them off

 

[CyberWolf]

Roses are red...
Violets are blue...
I should build a new gun, or possibly two!

 

[Army 1911]

Double post

 

[avvidclif]

I'm a poet
And don't know it,
But my feet show it,
They're Longfellows

Unk

 

[pronstar]

There once was a man from Nantucket...


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[jrbfishn]

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
D. H. Lawrence

I first became aware of this one from the movie.
I never could understand self pity.
I have found that no matter how bad my life was, there are others that have it much worse.
And that is a close as you get to me being intelligent and sophisticated.
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[Moonpie]

There once was a man from Nantucket...


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[Vaquero]

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See post #4.

 

[Wildcat Diva]

I need to hear the rest of that one.

You can google what I wrote and get versions of it.

I heard it this year at the Ren Faire during the very bawdy “Pub Crawl” which was FUN!

also, instead of “named Alice” some use “from Dallas” instead.

The version I like has the end words of the third line to be “North Carolina” (which sounds great as it rhymes with a female body part mentioned earlier in the line) and the last words of the last line are “Buckingham Palace.”

I can PM you the whole thing.

 

[TxStetson]

You can google what I wrote and get versions of it.

I heard it this year at the Ren Faire during the very bawdy “Pub Crawl” which was FUN!

also, instead of “named Alice” some use “from Dallas” instead.

The version I like has the end words of the third line to be “North Carolina” (which sounds great as it rhymes with a female body part mentioned earlier in the line) and the last words of the last line are “Buckingham Palace.”

I can PM you the whole thing.

I’m still laughing at that one.

 

[vmax]

 

[Coiled]

I've never cared for poetry and reciting some hardly means you're educated.

Hickory dickory dock
you're a cock

 

[BigTexasOne]

The Road Not Taken
BY ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

 

[BigTexasOne]

Away!
by Robert Frost

Now I out walking
The world desert,
And my shoe and my stocking
Do me no hurt.

I leave behind
Good friends in town.
Let them get well-wined
And go lie down.

Don't think I leave
For the outer dark
Like Adam and Eve
Put out of the Park.

Forget the myth.
There is no one I
Am put out with
Or put out by.

Unless I'm wrong
I but obey
The urge of a song:
I'm—bound—away!

And I may return
If dissatisfied
With what I learn
From having died.

"Away!" by Robert Frost, from Collected Poems, Prose, & Plays. © The Library of America, 1995

 

[Vaquero]

There's a site on the web, where each day,
I meet up with friends and we play.
A few on a list, their words are not missed.
The rest, on my screen, do display.

Vaq.

 

[pronstar]

See post #4.

Geez I didn’t see that

Sorry Tx...


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[TxStetson]

Geez I didn’t see that

Sorry Tx...


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It’s ok man, I know you have me on ignore.

 

[Vaquero]

It’s ok man, I know you have me on ignore.

Aw hell

 

[pronstar]

Did someone say something?


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