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  • Re: "Home, Home ... of the Strange"

    Contempo: Bravo! One of your best -- yet. As to the original poem, it is far too long (imho, along with others, it seems) and it is far too repetitive. LG could have used such length to develop the poem & the unfortunate character farther & more deeply; instead she just went on & on, saying the same two things about five times, ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009

  • "In the Cafe": Home of the Strange

    This one's just too easy a mark. It's not that this poem is too long. It's not that this poem is too silly. It's not even that it's bad poetry (actually, I rather like it qua poetry: it's accessible without being pablum, and very enjoyable in its style and euphony). It's that it makes considerable light of, and really relates in impossible terms, ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on June 11, 2009

  • Re: This parody ...

    Contempo: ''Moan, moan on the Fray...'' So glad to see you have returned ... and with the Tuesday Parody, ''yet.'' Excellent news, this. ''signed,'' ton amie fidele And I should return some other way, amie? :) Sardonically yours, ;)wr ()()
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on May 21, 2009

  • ()() This parody almost makes itself...

    For much of the past year, I've been studying the psychology of personality type (temperament, interactive style and cognitive processes) pretty intensively, and accordingly I think I may have some insight as to what ''rubs me a bit the wrong way'' about this poem. It's clever, yet it sounds like an INTJ (or maybe an INFP) trying to be as ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on May 18, 2009

  • "Hermit" parody: Better late than never?

    (Parodist sets his Yamaha keyboard to harmonica voicing and his stereo to playing a recording of surf on the seashore, then begins...) Crab:You've written some lines(In a po'm without rhymes)How I'm living my prosaic life.I'm not ancient Greek,Nor an arthopod geek --Just seeking some freedom from strife. (Fraysters in unison, sounding rather ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on August 22, 2008

  • "Write, write it again..."

    Foobs: Two weeks in a rowI've been holding my nosewhile you sang the week's poems praise;Are you going softor is my palate offshould I worship or tremble for grace? Oh, oh I'm perplexedand left by this state feeling vexedhas left turned to rightare we calling day nightor is it my taste that's suspect? (Parodist replies in song:) Don't ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2008

  • Home, home on the ranch (er, range)...

    (Parodist begins, chording his Celtic harp in E major:) Oh, give me a homeThat is far from the groanOf the asphalt that bakes in the sun,Where cattle-grazed hills(Not the piles of my bills)Give awe to my ham of a son. (Parodist and Fraysters sing:)Home, home on the range,Where the irritant prairie dogs play,Where seldom is heardE'en a trivial ...
    Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2008