Poems that you love

[rowens]

Harold Bloom liked Falstaff despite Hamlet.

W. C. Fields despite Groucho's lines.



Perhaps this is, for the 1920s crowd, here, Bukowski over Miller. 



 Shem the Peman over me.


Naw.


I'm Falstaff and Hamlet.
Miller and Bukowski.


A poseur, not a poet

[rowens]

“I have dreamed too much to have so little.”
Panurge says this, and it truly reflects his character in Books Two and Three.

[brynmawr1]

Saturday Afternoon Blues
By Wanda Coleman

can kill you
can fade your life away
friends are all out shopping
ain’t nobody home
suicide hotline is busy
and here i am on my own
with a pill and a bottle for company
and heart full of been done wrong
i’m a candidate for the coroner, a lyric for a song

saturday afternoons are killers
when the air is brisk and warm
ol’ sun he steady whispers
soon the life you know will be done
suicide line i can’t get you
best friend out of town
alone with a pill and a bottle
i drink my troubles down

the man i love is a killer
the man i love is  thief
the man i love is a junky
the man i love is grief

some call saturday the sabbath
it’s the bottom of the line some say
whether last or first, my heart’s gonna burst
and there ain’t no help my way
here with a pill and a bottle
and a life full of been done wrong
i’m a candidate for the coroner, a lyric
for a song

[carahmellow]

An Attempt at Unrhymed Verse
by Wendy Cope

People tell you all the time,
Poems do not have to rhyme.
It's often better if they don't
And I'm determined this one won't

                                oh dear.

Never mind I'll start again.
Busy, busy with my pen...cil.
I can do it if I try
Easy, peasy, pudding and gherkins.

Writing verse is so much fun,
Cheering as the summer weather,
Makes you feel alert and bright,
'Specially when you get it more or
    less the way you want it.

[busker]

An Attempt at Unrhymed Verse
by Wendy Cope

People tell you all the time,
Poems do not have to rhyme.
It's often better if they don't
And I'm determined this one won't

                                oh dear.

Never mind I'll start again.
Busy, busy with my pen...cil.
I can do it if I try
Easy, peasy, pudding and gherkins.

Writing verse is so much fun,
Cheering as the summer weather,
Makes you feel alert and bright,
'Specially when you get it more or
    less the way you want it.

Eccelente!!!!

[rowens]

caramellow, are you Wendy Cope?

[busker]

I don’t think carahmellow is WC, but my word - Wendy Cope is simply brilliant!!
Thanks for introducing me to her, carahmellow