BS: The poem that never starts..........

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Jeanie
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 02:29 PM

In the same vein as your *Orange*, duellingbouzoukis, here is something written by John Maguire:

I'm writing a poem without any rhymes
But I've had to redo it just dozens of goes
Imagine my anger, my terrible rage
As the rhymes just keep jumping right onto the sheet
No sooner is one line put into its place
Than the next comes along, stares me right in the eye
Saying "Now that you've finished that bit of the text
You've got to have me; can't you see that I'm here ?"
I try for impossible words like cucumber
But they overhear and awake from their snoozing
I reach out for artichoke, porridge and sago
But I find the gyrations just give me arthritis.

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- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 22 Feb 05 - 02:08 PM

Whaaaat?

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From: Chris Green
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 06:29 PM

Orange.

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From: GUEST,Chongo chimp
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 04:05 PM

R...send....R...send...R....send....R....send

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 02:41 PM

I mean Ah! But which end?........ DEJA VU.

DT

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 02:40 PM

Ah! But whuch end?

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: GUEST,Chongo chimp
Date: 21 Feb 05 - 12:12 PM

"So it never did start at all"...THE END

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Feb 05 - 02:11 PM

"Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita?" wondered Dante. "Sounds corny, ropey, old hat, thrashy, Bogomil. Won't do. Must think of something else. But what? Ah, how about: "Il poèma che jamas commence!" Wonderful!

Mudrats, thank you.

Slick Willy

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Susu's Hubby
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 04:21 PM

99 bottles of beer on the wall.......

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: SharonA
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 04:10 PM

I'm guessing that this is free verse, and no one has caught it yet. (Free-range verse?)

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Blissfully Ignorant
Date: 19 Feb 05 - 12:59 PM

Deja vu, but in a French accent.

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 18 Feb 05 - 08:42 PM

What's the French for deja vu?


DT

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Cluin
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 09:34 PM

Oh bugger! What's the next line?

I hate blanking at the mic.

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 06:26 PM

A clever young poet from Lameter...

...kept getting distracted before he could write a verse..

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 17 Feb 05 - 05:09 PM

Now then Cluin, don't start.

Don T.

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Cluin
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 05:24 PM

Well, just to kill time till the real thing starts...


There was an old man from Nantucket...

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: GUEST,Jeanie
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 07:34 AM

Mine's a Caesura, thanks. Cheers !

Sorry I can't manage to limp to the Recitation Podium to give you a rendition of my poem - I'm having trouble with my anapaestic foot again.

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: JennyO
Date: 16 Feb 05 - 05:19 AM

No, but a Guinness would be nice (_)

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From: Mr Red
Date: 15 Feb 05 - 01:17 PM

Sestina anyone?

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 02:58 PM

"You're probably wondering why I have invited you all here today......"

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 02:51 PM

Don't be silly, these Vauxhall Stanzas never start on cold mornings.

It's blank verse you know,
And when verse comes to worst, you need a good scraper to clear the rhyme from your windscreen.

DT

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 11:28 AM

Jumper cables might not be enough, Martin! I was going to suggest WD40 round the distributor cap and HT leads. If that doesn't work it could be dirt in the carburetor...

:D

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Mr Red
Date: 14 Feb 05 - 09:34 AM

<PEDANT>Teresa - Manx cats can have up to 3 vertabrae beyond the pelvis and still qualify</PEDANT>

Hey! This is weired - I wandered in to the Poem that Never Ends thinking I was here and was completely <PEDANT>disoriented</PEDANT>

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Teresa
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 08:34 PM

And his tail is even sho ....

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Once Famous
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 08:34 PM

This poem will start if the jumper cables are hooked up right.

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Mr Red
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 08:31 PM

The tale of the Manx cat is.........
about as long as this.

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 07:05 PM

O.K. Jeanie, you qualify. Your room is second on the right, with the supersoft rubber walls.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Jeanie
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 05:10 PM

"This fellow's wise enough to play the fool;
And to do it well craves a kind of wit."

And, to quote the same Great Poet, "We leak in your chimney".

Have you changed your mind about me now, Don ?

Meanwhile, back at the poetry recital....

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 01:28 PM

Trust someone to ruin everything with a genuine example of poetic perpetual motion. You are sane Jeanie......kindly leave the thread.

Don T.
(Inmate extraordinaire of this laughing academy).

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Jeanie
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 04:45 AM

It was a dark and stormy night,
And the Captain said to the Mate:
"Antonio, tell us a yarn !"
And the yarn went like this:
It was a dark and stormy night,
And the Captain said to the Mate:
"Antonio, tell us a yarn !"
And the yarn went like this:
It was a dark and stormy night,
And the Captain said to the Mate:
"Antonio, tell us a yarn !"
And the yarn went like this:
It was a dark and ...........................................................................................................................................................................................................

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 04:36 AM

I could never

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Teresa
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 02:39 AM

But not the only one wot lies. ;)

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 02:25 AM

I was right! I AM the only sane one here!

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Teresa
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 01:38 AM

eert a sa ylevol meop a
ees reven llahs I taht kniht ... ... ...

...

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Feb 05 - 01:18 AM

pssst... I think I saw the curtain move...

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 08:16 PM

Oh no! Your poem won't start?

Well, you need an Acme/Allword Emergency Poem Starter!

That's right! The Acme/Allword Emergency Poem Starter fits conveniently under your computer keyboard until you need it. Then, when that nasty old writer's block hits, just lift your keyboard up, pull out the Acme/Allword Emergency Poem Starter, remove it from its protective case, place either end in your mouth and set fire to the other end while inhaling deeply. Your poem will usually start spontaneously in a couple of minutes.


Acme/Allword Emergency Poem Starter is a registered trademark of The Gooey Green Ganja Corporation.

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 08:01 PM

You're all too crazy for me...

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: JennyO
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 07:54 PM

er....um.....

oh bugger......

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 07:50 PM

Time gentlemen PLEASE!

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Cluin
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 07:47 PM

*checking watch*

*sigh*







anyminutenow

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Don(Wyziwyg)T
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 07:45 PM

Is this blank verse?

Derrrr!

DT

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Cluin
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 07:39 PM

*cough*

*shuffle*

*cough*

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 06:57 PM

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Little Hawk
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 06:47 PM

To have a poem
One
And then
As if the way was not clouded enough to arrange eggshells
No?
Why?

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 06:35 PM

The poem that never starts
Breathes life into old thoughts
As midlife greets spring akimbo

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Peace
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 06:29 PM

The End.

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 06:09 PM

This poem is going to take a long time to write.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: *Laura*
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 06:04 PM

Subject: BS: The poem that never starts..........
From: skipy
Date: 12 Feb 05 - 06:01 PM