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09-04-2010, 10:07 AM
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Steve, best left to the reader's lurid imagination! Yes, you've noticed I'm plotless with this one. I will substitute
And thereby met his noisome Waterloo
When, wits awash with whisky, roaring drunk,
He sank his needle in a friend's pet skunk.
Not much better clincher-wise, though. Maybe a bettter competition would be trying to supply the wording or design that Bazza would now be baring on the beach if his tattooist had been less scrupulous.
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09-06-2010, 08:26 PM
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They came to me with little sense
believing in love's permanence
and trusting my ungainly art
to brand them with a name or heart.
How many thousands later rued
the images that I tattooed?
My guess is far more than a few.
Love fades. Unlike a good tattoo.
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Last edited by Roger Slater; 09-07-2010 at 09:55 AM.
Reason: spelling correction -- thanks, John & Chris
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09-06-2010, 11:11 PM
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Roger, may I salute a beautiful little poem. Oh, and suggest you spell tattoo right, you Keats, you!
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09-07-2010, 12:43 AM
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Roger, I would kill to have written that.
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09-07-2010, 08:49 AM
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Thanks, guys. I never enjoyed writing a poem more, since I wrote it in my head while splashing in the ocean on a beautiful sunny day, and neither my wife nor my son seemed to notice my distraction.
I've enjoyed all the poems posted here so far, and I suspect we'll see several take prizes.
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09-12-2010, 04:42 PM
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Igualmente, Roger. Nice one. Revised version of mine coming up. My friend W. tells me Lady G. actually has up to 6 tattoos, including a quote from Rainer Maria Rilke. You couldn' t make it up . . . perhaps I should change her to Paris Hilton.
Last edited by Jerome Betts; 06-18-2018 at 03:19 AM.
Reason: Withdrawn
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