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04-29-2012, 12:53 PM
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Catullus #5
Let's kiss a hundred zillion times
But not be overzealous
Adding up the final count
Lest lonesome men grow jealous.
Last edited by Roger Slater; 05-02-2012 at 12:16 PM.
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04-29-2012, 12:53 PM
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Posts #58 and 59 are very good, Marion and Roger.
You two must surely win prizes in this comp! As I said earlier, though, how are you going to pick just three to submit, when you've got so many good 'uns?
Use a friend's name and address, perhaps? (I bet that's often done.)
Jayne
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04-29-2012, 01:06 PM
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I have eaten the plums
you were probably saving.
I know I'm a bum
but I had such a craving.
Last edited by Marion Shore; 04-29-2012 at 01:18 PM.
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04-29-2012, 01:09 PM
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A friend's name and address works, although an anagrammatic pseudonym is perhaps more elegant. I've only managed it once, but I seem to remember that, years ago, "Will Bellenger" cropped up from time to time. (I leave you to work out who that was; it's quite easy once you realize that it can't have been Basil Ransome-Davies.)
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04-29-2012, 02:54 PM
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Adam and Eve
had it made in the shade
and but for that apple
the two could have stayed.
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04-29-2012, 03:04 PM
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Let us go then, you and I.
Let’s both of us get down
with mermaid song till human voices
wake us and we drown.
Last edited by Roger Slater; 05-02-2012 at 12:16 PM.
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04-29-2012, 03:29 PM
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I seem to remember that, years ago, "Will Bellenger" cropped up from time to time.
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It did indeed, Brian, and 'our Bill'... Oops, silly me, I've gone and spilled the beans...
Now that I've ruined the mystery (but saved people having to work out the anagram), I can add that Bill (Greenwell) had no part in the 'Will Bellenger' thing. Here's a quote from his foreword in the truly marvellous 'An Owl in a Sack Troubles No Man' book of New Statesman winning entries (from way back):
Pseudonymity is admittedly rife. Some achieve soubriquets, others have them thrust upon them (one Friday I awoke to find that my name had been scrambled into Will Bellenger; on another occasion, I'd been redesignated Lew Bellringle.)
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04-29-2012, 03:50 PM
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I'm not just a taker.
I'm also a giver.
I've eaten the plums
but I've left you the liver.
Last edited by Roger Slater; 04-30-2012 at 07:42 AM.
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04-29-2012, 07:14 PM
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Oldys:
Each life's too short, each life's too bleak --
Some sixty years, some just a week.
Eat, drink, be merry; please don't wail,
"Oh bugger -- a bug got in my ale!"
Frost:
Two roads diverged.
I had no map.
There was no sign.
I'm lost. Well, crap.
Shakespeare, #130:
Her eyes, her hair, her skin, her body
Are rather plain; she's sure no hottie.
I love her, though, with all my life.
(She is my mistress, not my wife.)
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04-29-2012, 07:28 PM
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SNOW MAN (Wallace Stevens)
A mind made of winter can stare
at the blankness of snow everywhere
and not only view the nothing that's true
but the nothing that's not even there.
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