Dodgy poetry

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  • Nathan Natas
    Nathan Natas

    Old poem

    Frog sits still

    No sound

  • TimeBandit
    TimeBandit

    I like Wallace McCrae's poetry:

    Reincarnation By Wallace McCrae

    "What is reincarnation, a cowboy asked his friend. Why its something that happens when your life has reached its end. They comb your hair and wash your neck and clean your fingernails, And lay you in a padded box away from life's travails.

    Now this box and you goes in a hole that's been dug into the ground. And this here reincarnation starts once your planted 'neath the mound.' Now pretty soon the clods melt down along with the box and you who are inside, and then your just beginning on your transformation ride.

    And then one day some grass will grow upon rendered mound. Until one day, on your moldered grave a little flower is found. Then say by chance a horse should wander by and graze upon that flower, That once was you and now has become your vegetative bower.

    Now the posy that that horse done ate along with all the rest of his feed, becomes fat and bone and muscle, essential to the steed.

    But some is consumed that he can't use and so it finally passes on through, And just lays there on the ground. This thing that once was you. And then I see's this on the ground, and I wonder and I ponder at this object that I found.

    And I begin to think about reincarnation and life and death and such. And I come away concluding old pal, You ain't changed that much!"

    TB-

  • punkofnice
  • Gargamel
    Gargamel

    Spare ... Child

    'Spare the rod, spoil the child,'
    smiled the suited man
    behind his Bible,
    leering,
    peering
    through bottle-bottom glasses.
    Congregation nodded, staring,
    preparing for the after-meeting beating.

  • punkofnice
    punkofnice

    I wrote this when I was at school back in 1972:

    Teapots are poor

    When they pour

    The leafs they strain

    So out the train

    They are thrown

    And through my granny's door.

    Chorus: Rule Britania. Paul Jackson age 14

  • nancy drew
    nancy drew

    I heard a chuckle

    the god of haiku must laugh

    or is that the wind

  • Gargamel
    Gargamel

    The man in the dock

    was picking his nose like fury,

    rolled it into little balls

    and flicked it at the jury.

  • nancy drew
    nancy drew

    the jury fled

    the chairs tipped over

    the judge turned red

    the trials over

  • Gargamel
    Gargamel

    This is an example of a poetry form called etheree. The syllable count on each line ranges from 1-10, or 10-1 if preferred. I can't centre text on here so imagine it centred:


    Suffer Little Children

    Predictions of apocalypse abound.
    Terrify your toddlers lest they leave.
    Immerse them in the name of men,
    drunk with dreams, blood-sodden thugs,
    self-delusion oozing
    from misleading mouths.
    You prey on babes
    to obtain
    holy
    love.

  • stillin
    stillin

    Nice. Keep 'em coming

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