Happy! – Dec 6 (Joyce Kilmer)

Subject: Happy! – Dec 6 (Joyce Kilmer)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 09:30 AM


Happy Birthday!

Joyce Kilmer

was born 12/6/1886
(died in action 7/30/1918 & received the Croix de Guerre)

Nothing to do with folk song as far as we know, but considering all the Parody threads lately, Kilmer certainly gave the world one of the greatest of all parody opportunities.

          I think that I shall never see,
          A billboard lovely as a tree
          Perhaps, unless the billboards fall,
          I'll never see a tree at all.
  
                    O. Nash
  
  Or:
          I think that I shall never see,
          A bodhran (your choice here) 

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Subject: RE: Happy! – Dec 6 (Joyce Kilmer)
From: Dead Horse
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 11:07 AM

....in a symphony?

Subject: RE: Happy! – Dec 6 (Joyce Kilmer)
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 06 Dec 05 - 10:16 PM

I won an on-line poetry contest with my poem about this poem. It went:

I think that I shall never see,
A poem as bad as Kilmer's Trees.
So here I leave the rhyme scheme of that horrid verse,
In hopes that never e'er shall I be known to write
A poem that's any worse.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Happy! – Dec 6 (Joyce Kilmer)
From: Abby Sale
Date: 07 Dec 05 - 09:54 AM

Thank you Mr McGonagall.