Poems

Fine - now where is our Tuesday Limerick

denny — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:21:11 GMT

quit slacking off and trying to live of you new-found fame. Time to earn your keep.

TAP

d;-)

Re: I vote for "Vaderick ..." shorter, less dark & closer to

denny — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 01:00:29 GMT

I thought Vaderette would be nice but it sounded like a Cheer Leader for Darth Vader. So I'll go with Empirelle or Imperialle - sounds sorta COOL.

duncha think ?

Not don't think of YODA ! ! ! Or Java the Hut ! ! !

TAP

d;-)

I vote for "Vaderick ..." shorter, less dark & closer to

Contempo — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:49:05 GMT

"limerick," overall. And please be reminded, as Senior V.P. of Marketing & Communications for the TLG/TAP, I have two votes.

At least. (Now, of course, I can't get the Imperial Theme out of my brain) Fun stuff, brothers.

Keep up the fun 'work.'

VP/TLG/TAP, etc.

Limerick on Parallax

denny — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:02:27 GMT

It will probably be decades before I can ever use this one -

I tried to get a parallax view
That I might discover something new
Like tracks that seem to meet
sea joins skyas they retreat
And tend to merge in the distant blue.

TAP

d;-)

Glimerick revision by NoStar

NoStar — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:51:33 GMT

I sat down as I pondered a limerick
And detected instead a strange gimmerick
The rules they are flouncin'
Starts my head a bouncin'
Mercy me, did I just write a glimmerick?

HAP - sounding better to my "tin ear"

denny — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:29:37 GMT

Glimmerick

Sitting down to read a limerick
Detected instead a gimmerick
Rules they are flouncin’
Starts my head bouncin’
Might this be, mercy me, a glimmerick?

d;-)

Re: HAP, I look forward to seeing you at the OEDILF

HAP — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 14:01:40 GMT

Hi all, I promise that if I visit the omnificent site, I will approach it appropriately (perhaps not masterfully, yet appropriately). Meanwhile… do you think I might get special dispensation for this one? (Nice job on “dang” NS, that was cool).

Glimmerick

When first I sat down to read the learned limerick

And I detect instead they wrote a gimmerick

Oh, those rules they are a flouncin’

It starts my head a bouncin’

Might this be, oh my darling mercy me, a glimmerick?

OBTW Wabbit ()()

denny — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 11:39:10 GMT

In case I forget on Wednesday . . .

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

TAP

d;-)

What to call your new poetic form?

denny — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:49:22 GMT

Lots of options

Rabbit-erick
JohananRakkavish

Or we could go the more traditional route of other poetic forms -

Vaderetta
Empiretta
Rabbitelle
Octolet

TAP

d;-)

The Empire Theme

denny — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:37:50 GMT

It's also known as Darth Vader's Theme or The Imperial March . But then, there is always This.

TAP

d;-)

What to call your new poetic form?

NoStar — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:24:13 GMT

Johneric
JohnWilliamserick

DarthVaderick

The rhythm of the Empire Theme

denny — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:24:13 GMT

OK - now we have to come up with a NAME for your new creation.

A poetry type with eight lines - repeating cadence in L1 and L2 - L3 and L6 - L5 and L8 - L4 and L7.

We could call it - Empire Octet

Right now I am deep in thought - trying to create a new poem - a REAL one - "Painting Rawbows". Mostly written but still days (?) away from completion. Maybe I will post a "draft copy" tomorrow (?).

TAP

d;-)

The joke is good ..

denny — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 09:12:18 GMT

and that, of course, is really the heart of this limerick. Without the Joke it's hardly worth the effort. We'll see what happens.

TAP

d;-)

Re: Gimmericks and other irregularities

White_Rabbit — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:38:44 GMT

The perfect limerick is all anapestic.

da da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
da da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
da da DUM da da DEE
da da DUM da da DEE
da da DUM da da DUM da da DUM

So that means I was right the first time, in all but keeping Denny's rhyme of "Maria" and "urea" with "dysuria".

Well, it was bound to happen: your description of the limerick provoked my screwballitude. You got me to thinking: perhaps someone should define a light verse form based on the rhythm of the Empire Theme from Star Wars...

DUM DUM DUM da da DUM da da DUM
DUM DUM DUM da da DUM da da DUM
DUM DUM da DUM da da deedle-dee
da DUM da da deedle-dee
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM
DUM DUM da DUM da da deedle-dee
da DUM da da deedle-dee
da DUM da da DUM da da DUM

(LOL)

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Re: "Out House Story" the Case for Dysuria

White_Rabbit — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:24:02 GMT

Lines 3 and 4 with 5 syllables each? No problem.

I once knew a girl named Maria
Who suffered a case of dysuria.
She'd sit on the pot
Each chance that she got,
And seek to discharge her urea.

And from a certain point of view, I like this better. No doubt this result helps explain why the exact form exists in the first place.

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