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10-01-2010, 07:10 PM
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Way to go, John and Jayne. Yahoo!
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10-01-2010, 08:42 PM
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Drusilla was, and I hope, still is, a real person. She opened the batting for Oxford (Ladies of course). I played squash with her regularly but that, ALAS, was as far as it got.
'Gate' and 'gait' are OK rhymes if you are Chaucer but not now I think. I can't think how you would mend it. This month's challenge looks quite good. I look at my face in the hairdresser's mirror and rapidly take off my glasses so that it blurs. It looks better blurry.
'My mountain belly and my craggy face' says Ben Jonson. Well, he was fatter than me, but his verses were better. Here's something. It's an old thing reworked, but then, so was Drusilla.
Self Portrait
I like old things, and now I’m old I should
Be one of the old things I like to like.
I’ll take up archery. I’ll buy a bike.
Like hell. Since when was wishing any good?
Nothing can turn me into Robin Hood,
Hard pedalling brings my muscles out on strike,
I file good resolutions on the spike,
My promises collapse like rotten wood.
I could reread the whole of Kingsley Amis,
But Sky is showing cricket wall to wall.
I could write winning verses and be famous
Like Shakespeare or like Philip or like Seamus.
When I was young I wanted to be tall.
It isn’t any bloody good at all.
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10-01-2010, 10:44 PM
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Last month, John said:
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It has to be admtted that the same few names seem to win here - you were a welcome exception, Jayne. Who IS this Nick Syrett? Anyone know? Never turns up anywhere ELSE. Ditto Ian Colley. Any info?
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Hmmm, I think Iain Colley is starting to look Spherical!
http://www.ablemuse.com/erato/showthread.php?t=11508
Congrats to him and John this month!
Last edited by Julie Steiner; 10-01-2010 at 10:46 PM.
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10-01-2010, 11:25 PM
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Ah, no wonder I thought I'd seen that poem before! I didn't imagine it, after all. Congrats Basil. And you, too, John. And Jayne, too, of course!
Martin
Last edited by Martin Elster; 10-01-2010 at 11:27 PM.
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10-02-2010, 03:43 AM
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Aha! And Nick Syrett is Bill Greenwell, then. Congrats, Bazza. Yours is - just - better than mine.
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10-02-2010, 06:28 AM
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yippee!
Well done, John, & thanks for the magnanimous compliment. Self-portrait, eh? A nice one for us narcissists.
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10-02-2010, 07:29 AM
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Well...Bazza - you little devil, you!
Which one is the real you - Basil Ransome-Davies, Iain Colley or even A N Other...?
Congratulations to all of you, anyway!!! You're a legend, mate.
And well spotted, eagle-eyed Julie.
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