Poetry Corner

[KS55]

Wordsworth.
I wandered lonely as a cloud,
That floats on high o’er vales and hills.
When all at once I heard a shout.
Get off me fncking daffodils.

I’m working from memory here.
It was something like that.

Wordsworth's original first line was:
"I wandered lonely as a cow".
True.

 

[KS55]

Historical usage
Robert Browning famously misused the term 'twat' in his 1841 poem "Pippa Passes", believing it was an item of nun's clothing:[4]

Then owls and bats
Cowls and twats
Monks and nuns in a cloister's moods
Adjourn to the oak-stump pantry

 

[KS55]

'Necrophilia' by John Cooper Clarke.
If you're fed up with foreplay
And all that palaver
'Ave a cadaver.

 

[KS55]

Wendy Cope

“Bloody men are like bloody buses —
You wait for about a year
And as soon as one approaches your stop
Two or three others appear.

You look at them flashing their indicators,
Offering you a ride.
You’re trying to read the destinations,
You haven’t much time to decide.

If you make a mistake, there is no turning back.
Jump off, and you’ll stand there and gaze
While the cars and the taxis and lorries go by
And the minutes, the hours, the days.”

 

[Blue Tooth]

"The Way It Is" by William Stafford

There’s a thread you follow. It goes among
things that change. But it doesn’t change.
People wonder about what you are pursuing.
You have to explain about the thread.
But it is hard for others to see.
While you hold it you can’t get lost.
Tragedies happen; people get hurt
or die; and you suffer and get old.
Nothing you do can stop time’s unfolding.
You don’t ever let go of the thread.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

If you must write prose and poems
The words you use should be your own
Don't plagiarize or take "on loan"
Cause there's always- someone,somewhere
With a big nose, who knows
And who trips you up and laughs
When you fall

My words.

Very good.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

'Necrophilia' by John Cooper Clarke.
If you're fed up with foreplay
And all that palaver
'Ave a cadaver.

V.G.
The earliest known poem, also the shortest, called "Fleas" ;
Adam, Had'em.

 

[Fred_Quimby]

Silly Old Baboon by Spike Milligan

There was once was a baboon
Who one afternoon
Said I think I will fly to the sun
So with two great palms
strapped to his arms
he started his takeoff run

Mile after mile
He galloped in style
But never once left the ground
You’re going too slow said a passing crow
Try reaching the speed of sound

SO
he put on a spurt
My God how it hurt
both the soles of his feet caught on fire
As he went through a stream
There were great clouds of steam
But he still never got any higher

On and on through the night
both his knees caught alight
clouds of smoke billowed out of his rear!!!
Quick to his aid
Came the fire brigade
who chased him for over a year

Many moons passed by
Did Baboon ever fly
Did he ever get to the sun?
I’ve just heard today,
he’s well on his way
He’ll be passing through Acton at one.

PS – well, what do you expect from a baboon

 

[KS55]

Words are my hobby and consolation ;)

A line that could be sung by the Righteous Brothers.
Thanks George for starting this thread and for your utube refs. Really enjoyable.

 

[bluebrickroad]

This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.

the last verse of The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot