Eratosphere Forums - Metrical Poetry, Free Verse, Fiction, Art, Critique, Discussions Able Muse - a review of poetry, prose and art

Forum Left Top

Notices

Reply
Thread Tools Display Modes
  #31  
Unread 04-27-2012, 02:11 PM
Christopher ONeill Christopher ONeill is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK
Posts: 333
Default

I'm really only using the excuse of this competition to vent a poem I've wanted to write for years, but worried was too spiteful and petty to spend time on now that I am a grown up.

This is probably only because I am a very trivial person:

F.Q.

Being ye Fyrst
VI Bookes of Edmvnd Spenser hys Faerie Queene
faythfuly redused into foure verses.

Assorted thugges kitte up in suitts of tinne;
wayge lothesome Warre on Terrour through ye wood;
Raype, murther, waterborde foule Sarrasins.
(They're 'oure sonnes ...' so I gesse it's al goode).
Reply With Quote
  #32  
Unread 04-27-2012, 03:00 PM
Marion Shore's Avatar
Marion Shore Marion Shore is offline
Distinguished Guest
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Belmont, Massachusetts USA
Posts: 2,976
Default

Once upon a midnight dreary
I had a visitor, dark and eerie,
a bird who, to my every query,
only croaked out: "Nevermore."

Last edited by Marion Shore; 04-27-2012 at 03:02 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #33  
Unread 04-27-2012, 05:24 PM
Roger Slater Roger Slater is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: New York
Posts: 16,475
Default

Resume
(Parker)

Razors and poisons
and gas are unpleasant.
You might as well live,
at least for the present.
Reply With Quote
  #34  
Unread 04-27-2012, 05:28 PM
John Whitworth's Avatar
John Whitworth John Whitworth is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 12,945
Default

I was trying that one, Marion. I'm still cogitating.
Reply With Quote
  #35  
Unread 04-27-2012, 06:16 PM
Lance Levens Lance Levens is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Savannah, GA 31405
Posts: 4,055
Default

The antique traveller's fit to be tied.
"Don't ever, ever, trust a guide.
Stuck in the desert, seering air,
And he starts mewing: '" Despair! Despair!"'
Reply With Quote
  #36  
Unread 04-27-2012, 09:55 PM
Marion Shore's Avatar
Marion Shore Marion Shore is offline
Distinguished Guest
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Belmont, Massachusetts USA
Posts: 2,976
Default

When I was one-and-twenty,
A wise man's words seemed trite;
But now I'm two-and-twenty,
And damn it! He was right!
Reply With Quote
  #37  
Unread 04-27-2012, 10:21 PM
Susan McLean Susan McLean is online now
Member
 
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Iowa City, IA, USA
Posts: 10,090
Default

A loaf of wine,
a jug of bread—
that’s all you need,
as Omar said.

Susan
Reply With Quote
  #38  
Unread 04-27-2012, 10:24 PM
Marion Shore's Avatar
Marion Shore Marion Shore is offline
Distinguished Guest
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Belmont, Massachusetts USA
Posts: 2,976
Default

Abandon all hope
and yada yada...
from Hell up to Heaven,
the whole enchilada.


ooooh. sorry
Reply With Quote
  #39  
Unread 04-28-2012, 03:58 AM
John Whitworth's Avatar
John Whitworth John Whitworth is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 12,945
Default

The Raven

Once I knew a doomy raven, left me red-eyed and unshaven.
On my heart its cries are graven, crying for the lost Lenore,
My poor baby, dead as mutton. How that bird was on the button.
Nevermore, oh nevermore.
Reply With Quote
  #40  
Unread 04-28-2012, 07:12 AM
Martin Parker Martin Parker is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Dorset, UK.
Posts: 615
Default

Surely we must have some winners in all this lot.
Here is, perhaps, the longest item to be covered to date.

Assorted wordy pilgrims on a trip
share many a long and weirdly ill-spelt quip
some of which had been much better kept
less bawdy, or as "Canterbury Smut" yclept.
Reply With Quote
Reply

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Forum Jump



Forum Right Top
Forum Left Bottom Forum Right Bottom
 
Right Left
Member Login
Forgot password?
Forum LeftForum Right


Forum Statistics:
Forum Members: 8,399
Total Threads: 21,839
Total Posts: 270,794
There are 1453 users
currently browsing forums.
Forum LeftForum Right


Forum Sponsor:
Donate & Support Able Muse / Eratosphere
Forum LeftForum Right
Right Right
Right Bottom Left Right Bottom Right

Hosted by ApplauZ Online