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Re: First Terning of the Winding Stare
When Shakespeare ended Sonnet 65 by writing: ''O none, unless this miracle have might / That in black ink my love may still shine bright,'' was he writing pap? Did the Klingons' greatest bard (that's a Star Trek in-joke) ever write pap (in the bad sense)? Someone once wrote that apparently the Bard needed only to open his mouth for poetry to drip ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 13, 2008
Also, consider the context...
...Ile de France (in French) doesn't rhyme with ''pants'' and ''glance'', unless one really goes Nash-y and spells the last two words ''pahnts'' and ''glahnce''. Yes, I thought of the obvious possibility. I avoided it precisely because it's so obvious...and so often done before. Waiting for Eduoard,wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 4, 2008
Re: A "cheesy" attempt
Paul_Breslin: How can you rhyme ''pants'' and ''glance''And yet pass up the rhyme on ''France''? The reason's very simple, man.Some things I do...because I can. :) wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 4, 2008