Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Ruth Archer Date: 16 Jan 07 - 10:46 AM A question was raised recently about self-promotion. Surely this thread is the worst example of arrogant, self-indulgent, completely up-its-own-arse spamming on this board. Just thought I'd say. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 16 Jan 07 - 10:43 AM (I hate imperialism - whether it's Nazi, Victorian, or any other.) A spouse with me I'd not resist - In retirement, we'd just subsit. THE END |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Walksaboutverse Date: 12 Jan 07 - 07:00 AM Mein Kampf, thats my favourite book If you ask nicely I'll give you a look... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 12 Jan 07 - 06:13 AM (Not those kind of "beds", guest) Up at dawn to use all sunlight - Fish and farm by day, read at night... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse Date: 11 Jan 07 - 05:04 PM Goodnight, farewell and adieu. Thank you all for keeping this thread going. Now it is time to call it a day |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 11 Jan 07 - 09:05 AM (Bye the way, it was mentioned above that my site is still not compatible with all computers - I think that has been fixed be left-aligning the "book"/table, which was previously centre-aligned and out-of-whak on some screens.) A vine for grapes plus summer shade, And, in thin beds, vegetables laid... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 10 Jan 07 - 05:34 PM Sick am I of rhyme I will no longer waste your time Goodbye |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 09 Jan 07 - 09:25 AM Inside large coops would run the legs Of chooks and quails - for fresh eggs... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 06 Jan 07 - 07:18 AM (To get around that unholy mess...) And round this abode ther'd be built - Solar panels, kept at best tilt... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 06 Jan 07 - 06:04 AM (Amen, Amos!) The plot's house would be made of brick - Well insulated, in good nick... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Amos Date: 04 Jan 07 - 11:20 AM The Guest, unkind, With comments terse, Should keep in mind It could be verse! If words were stone, A cop, a nurse! For batter or (Perhaps) for verse. A |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 04 Jan 07 - 09:13 AM (Neither rhyme nor reason just above, I feel.) The plot would be of fertile ground; The lake would have some trout around... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,guest Date: 02 Jan 07 - 04:08 PM Thank heavens for that, now the forum can be used for that which it was started. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walksaboutverse Date: 02 Jan 07 - 03:15 PM But theres nothing worse; than this terrible verse So why don't I give you a break. THE END. Limericks are my particular forte. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 02 Jan 07 - 10:58 AM (Some more verse for all, Amos...) E.g.4, the lay/poem-come-song, NO. 101, JUST SUBSIST: At times when I've had time to take, I've thought of a plot by a lake... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Amos Date: 22 Dec 06 - 09:56 AM Though following this thread Has not always been fun And it's easy to mock All the writing he's done, Whether Madman or Joker Whether winter or fall, Even rhymes mediocre Beat no verse at all. A |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 22 Dec 06 - 05:54 AM (Thanks, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.) Our God-loving stance. A season for new hope - There then and here now; The Yuletide of goodwill - There then and here now. THE END |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Cruiser Date: 19 Dec 06 - 09:27 PM Good Luck walkaboutverse. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walksaboutverse Date: 19 Dec 06 - 12:01 PM And newsreaders like Sue Lawley And Nicholas Witchell... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 19 Dec 06 - 08:36 AM (Cruiser: some have said my versification is okay but not my conclusions, others have criticised my versification...if someone who got distinctions for humanities-essays at uni. has put even more into his verses, they must be okay, I would have to say.) And trying to enhance, With singing and ritual... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Cruiser Date: 15 Dec 06 - 10:05 AM Walkaboutverse GUEST curse Are you Shambles ahiddin' in the GUEST brambles? 'cause you both post to your own posts...to your own posts..... And if I were the Mudcat owner and host Or a moderator, he that edits what we all post You both would be toast! Not a poet and know it How about you? |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 15 Dec 06 - 05:25 AM (And for the next line you may warble, sing or "boom"..) Attending Christ's churches... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walksaboutverse Date: 14 Dec 06 - 12:06 PM I came here tonight to hear the crowd say "Boom, shake shake shake the room"... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,guest Date: 14 Dec 06 - 10:34 AM Or singer either |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 14 Dec 06 - 10:26 AM (I'm no dancer, frankly, Manitas - at home or anywhere - although I do like listening to and watching Clog, Morris, etc., and can play English Country Gardens, e.g. And, as for mince pies, I would'nt say no.) Faith's the star that we glance... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Manitas_at_home Date: 12 Dec 06 - 03:24 PM We had a quick dance Then ate some mince pies |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsvers Date: 12 Dec 06 - 10:54 AM (Charming...and, to think, it's almost Christmas!) (2nd verse) In respect of this chance, Beneath bright or dark skies... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Cruiser Date: 09 Dec 06 - 05:04 PM I thought you said THE END! I ain't no poet but.. I suggest you get your purse And walk out, not about, the Mudcat door Walkaboutverse No hard feelings, this thread just should not have poisoned the fine music section. It was BS material, at best. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walksaboutverse Date: 09 Dec 06 - 09:14 AM Chain me to the wall I wanna be a slave To you all Oh bondage up yours Oh bondage no more Oh bondage up yours Oh bondage no more... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 09 Dec 06 - 06:00 AM E.g. 3 - from the very end of walkaboutsverse.741.com - 230 AS GOSPELLERS HAVE SAID/CHRISTMAS SUNG SIMPLY As gospellers have said, Beneath signalling skies, On land dusty to tread, A trough in a stable Was the strawy first-bed Of a divine baby - The forgiving Godhead. A season for new hope - There then and here now; The yuletide of goodwill - There then and here now... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 07 Dec 06 - 08:55 AM Warm folks round John o' Groats, I'd guess. THE END |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST Date: 05 Dec 06 - 05:26 AM Then waves from locals were the go... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 01 Dec 06 - 05:43 AM Onto Edinburgh, Glasgow, St. Andrews, before Inverness... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 30 Nov 06 - 05:23 AM Then on the Lakes my eyes did feast, Before I passed by Solway Firth... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 25 Nov 06 - 06:30 AM (I think he and his, ultimately, headed a stormy south..?) From Colwyn Bay, I headed east To Manchester, my place of birth... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walksaboutverse Date: 24 Nov 06 - 03:37 AM I poked until I found Napoleon's boney part... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 23 Nov 06 - 10:13 AM (No, Manitas: it was actually a nice scenic road, taken with an Italian couple - please see poem 11; and with just two more stanzas left on this poem, by the way, we should be in John o' Groats before Christmas!) The Lakes, plus London's spots, no less... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: manitas_at_work Date: 21 Nov 06 - 07:59 AM Was being dug up... It was in a hell of a mess |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST Date: 21 Nov 06 - 06:12 AM (You're no Saint!) The road Glasgow to Inverness... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Azizi Date: 17 Nov 06 - 12:47 AM [stratch out that last line] I really wish I knew how to curse. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Azizi Date: 17 Nov 06 - 12:39 AM Forget the clowns-send in the hearst for this is no laughing matter. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Azizi Date: 16 Nov 06 - 10:23 PM I see the lyrics have gone from bad to worse. |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST Date: 16 Nov 06 - 10:10 PM this thread is BS so it should move southly and not up herein the music section northly |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: Azizi Date: 16 Nov 06 - 07:39 PM drank too much beer which made him portly |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 16 Nov 06 - 10:54 AM Old Saint Andrews, noted shortly... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 09 Nov 06 - 08:35 AM (That, as you shall see, Guest, sort of rings a bell.) My favourite sites were Torquay... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST Date: 07 Nov 06 - 06:05 AM The bells of twelve themselves did knell... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 07 Nov 06 - 05:54 AM (No - "brothers" would be closer, Brother/Sister; right rhyme, mind.) Where it's the comradeship that tells... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walksaboutverse Date: 02 Nov 06 - 10:09 AM Oft mistaken for brothels... |
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse From: GUEST,walkaboutsverse Date: 02 Nov 06 - 09:58 AM (Still youthfull - vamos!) But also stopped in Youth Hostels... |
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