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09 Oct 09 - 06:00 AM (#2741828) Subject: BS: The best words in the best order From: GUEST,Jack Sprocket That's what poetry is, according to Coleridge. The difficulties of getting anywords in any order (as evidenced in another thread) led me to wonder what folk song would have been like if it had been left to me to write it. The water is wet, and I can't get across, And Ryanair routes don't run that way. Won't somebody fetch me a two-seater boat? (And maybe I'll learn to write poems one day) |
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09 Oct 09 - 11:38 AM (#2742068) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: GUEST,leeneia Yes, Jack. We don't give the originators of a work enough credit. Getting the thing started - establishing the form, the rhythm and the chronology - is a lot of work. I've never had any talent as a poet myself. |
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09 Oct 09 - 11:51 AM (#2742080) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Rapparee My family has been writing folksongs for years and years, but they've never made the big time and we don't know why: As I was a-fondling Miss Mary's pretty mountains Up rode her father And caught me in my mountin' Gotta get the hell outa here He's got a shotgun-o He's got a shotgun-o And birdshot hurts like hell. |
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10 Oct 09 - 12:19 AM (#2742602) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Dave the Gnome I was mooching round a bit on me own like Tramping up bloody big 'ills and traipsing through smelly bogs When I sees what I thought were a load of plonkers in yellow jumpers but they weren't It were them bloody flowers that bring me hayfever on Wordsworth? Pah! DeG |
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10 Oct 09 - 03:07 AM (#2742631) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Dave Hanson Paul Dirac once said physics is about making very difficult things easy to understand, poetry is making simple things difficult to understand. Dave H |
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10 Oct 09 - 10:57 AM (#2742798) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Rapparee Look, if I should croak Remember that where ever they plant me That'll be England. See, as I rot away I'll fertilise that dirt And because I'm English It'll be even more fertile. Like adding a load of manure or something. (This is the unknown original of Rupert Brooke's poem.) |
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10 Oct 09 - 11:22 AM (#2742809) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Ed T I always wondered what the song writer meant by the song "She'll be coming round the mountain, when she comes" |
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10 Oct 09 - 02:53 PM (#2742939) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Peace It's to do with sex I think. |
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10 Oct 09 - 08:40 PM (#2743188) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: SharonA I know where I'm going, And I know who's going with me. Got my GPS, And I pick up no hitchhikers... |
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10 Oct 09 - 11:11 PM (#2743255) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Rapparee Over the river and through the woods To Grandmother's house we're going Although she is actually my Grandfather's fifth wife And is is about forty years younger than he is I heard my previous Grandmother call her a "trophy wife" And a "dumb-ass blond bimbo on the make". |
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11 Oct 09 - 11:24 AM (#2743481) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Rapparee Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Man, this worthless shit never seems to end! |
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11 Oct 09 - 01:18 PM (#2743549) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Alice All around the mulberry bush darn animals keep chasin' through my yard I'm putting their crap back over the fence and pop the neighbor in his schnozzle. |
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12 Oct 09 - 12:58 AM (#2743922) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Peace Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffett Eating her curds and whey Along came a spider And sat down beside her And she beat it to death With a spoon |
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12 Oct 09 - 06:54 AM (#2744003) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Eric the Viking The best words in the right order.......... You have won In life's great gamble You are a winner The lottery doesn't give a shit If you are saint or sinner.
That would do me, Haha |
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12 Oct 09 - 07:04 AM (#2744010) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Eric the Viking Oh! young Lochinvar is come out of the west, The weather's cold, he wears just a vest; And under his good kiltie, he boxers has none. He rides all commando and freezes his bone. |
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12 Oct 09 - 08:33 AM (#2744045) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: quokka Peace you Murderer!! have you never read Charlotte's Web??? you poor deprived creature. Also recommended is Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes ;) |
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12 Oct 09 - 08:45 AM (#2744056) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Dave Hanson Jack and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water, Jill came down with half a crown, But not for carrying water. Simple Simon met a pieman, Going to the Fair, Said Simple Simon to the pieman, What have you got there ? PIES you simple pillock. Dave H |
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12 Oct 09 - 09:12 AM (#2744075) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Scorpio We hold this truth to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. After that, they are on their own. |
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12 Oct 09 - 08:11 PM (#2744549) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Rapparee Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down, and thing which way, To have a roll in the sweet hay. Thus, though we cannot make our sum Stand still, you've got one cute bum. |
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13 Oct 09 - 02:42 AM (#2744685) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Dave Hanson Candy is dandy, But liquor is quicker. [ Ogden Nash ] Dave H |
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13 Oct 09 - 06:05 PM (#2745324) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Rapparee I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me And what the use of this poem is, only God can see. *************** Now o'er one half the world nature seems dead And o'er the other half doesn't seem to be. ************* What a piece of work is Man! And women are even finer pieces! |
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13 Oct 09 - 06:10 PM (#2745334) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Genie How about Phil Och's song "CHANGES." Those flowery words have always seemed to me to boil down to something like this: "C'mere, chick. Sit down and we'll think about the good times and why I'm no longer the guy you fell for. Leaves die in the fall. So does romance. It was fun while we were young but I don't feel the same any more. The world seems to be spinning and my mind's kind of hazy. (Could be the pot or the LSD. Or maybe the new chick I met last night.) Lust can burn hot and heavy and then, hey, next morning - Poof! - it's gone. What're ya gonna do? You'll cry because I'm outta here, but have a shot of Mad Dog and I'll kiss you goodbye. |
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13 Oct 09 - 06:56 PM (#2745364) Subject: RE: BS: The best words in the best order From: Paul Burke Let's count the number of different ways I can love you- Long and thick at both ends when you're not looking, Ordinarily when the light's on, and quietly outside. I don't pay you, 'cos you can't stop me, And I don't do it dirty if you don't like it. When I'm hot I like snuff and kiddystuff I think. I like old dead vicars and blowjobs, And I laugh and cry about it. And God, I like necrophilia too. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) |