[Gregory Dowling]

Just to mention that there is another exception to the octosyllabics among the Cautionary Tales, "Aunt Jane" which is in anapaestic stanzas (alternating tetrameter and trimeter) rhyming ABAB.

[Terese Coe]

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[Janet Kenny]

Some marvellous stuff here. My problem isn't that I can't write cautionary poems but that I have never twittered nor texted nor been texted or twittered at in my life. So alas I leave it to Roger who is brilliant.

[Roger Slater]

Thanks, Janet.

I've redone the last two lines of my "Johnny" poem. Here's the last stanza as edited:

In fact it was a Man named Jim
Who took a knife and Limb by Limb
And bloody Slice by bloody Slice
Showed Johnny that his Folks' Advice
Was wiser than he'd known before.
Now Johnny chats online no more.

[Terese Coe]

I'd like it more, Rajah, if it weren't so utterly disgusting.

[Orwn Acra]

I like it how it is, sheets of blood and all.

[John Whitworth]

Terese I like your poem. Janet, I have the same problem.

[Marion Shore]

Virtual Pillow Talk

My darling, how I yearn to hear
sweet nothings while we're having sex.
So if you'd be my lover, dear,
then you had better learn to text.

[Orwn Acra]

Marion, are you teaching kids safe text?

[Marion Shore]

Originally Posted by Orwn Acra

Marion, are you teaching kids safe text?

Yeeks! My 13-year old son texts almost constantly! What should I tell him?