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Unread 09-04-2010, 10:07 AM
Jerome Betts Jerome Betts is offline
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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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Unread 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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Unread 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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Roger, I would kill to have written that.
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Unread 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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Unread 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.

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