Monday, August 13, 2007

The best and the verse

In case you missed them I think it's worth reprinting the current entrants (did we realise we were all entering something? Not sure about that) to Milan's verse-off down below.

Milan started with:

Anonymity,
the way forward for me,
that's why I'm glad I found,
For Nine Pound(s).

Followed by:

Mossienolonger said...
There was a young blogger called Milan,

Who said "write a poem if you can",
So I started a verse,
and then I did curse,
"my poem is so bad it'll pan".

Ta daa!

Someone Living said...
Inside my head the weather has its way,

Sometimes storm clouds roll unbidden through the day,
Sometimes bright unbroken sunshine,
Sometimes I am felled by a single bolt of lightning.

aquaasho said...
There once was a girl in Knocklyon

Whose blogging was not very fine
She sat down at home
To try write a poem
Bout anything that simply might rhyme.

I wanted to write a rant-poem about how much I hate word verification but what rhymes with that! LOL

Shanachie said...
for nine pounds

would buy you some fags
for nine pounds
would get 60 plastic bags
for nine pounds
we are not all nags
but this poem
really really drags

Conformist No. 2 said...
Word Verification

I view with Trepidation

Never sure whether Sqwtrfg
Or PzxTrgf are what Google require

I worry,
I squint,
I type with care

At least we are protected
Hacker Robots haven't a prayer...

With apologies for the crapness

C No. 2

jothemama said...
I have to agree about Word Verification.

It causes me nothing but untold frustration.
I vote turn it off, without hestitation.

I'd love to do better, but I'm wasting my time:
If my language was Italian I'd have more multi-syllabic rhyme.

Not to mention big brown eyes and a Figure...

goldenbeers said...
There lived a certain man in russia long ago

He was big and strong, in his eyes a flaming glow
Most people looked at him with terror and with fear
But to moscow chicks he was such a lovely dear
He could preach the Bible like a preacher
Full of ecstacy and fire
But he also was the kind of teacher
Women would desire

Ra ra rasputin
Lover of the russian queen
There was a cat that really was gone
Ra ra rasputin
Russias greatest love machine
It was a shame how he carried on


(ok, how many of you started singing along?)

Milan Adenauer said...
Your many efforts have me melting with happy pride

Who the winner is, I cannot decide
What with satire, limericks and alliteration,
rhyme, repetition & contemplation
metaphor and language,
pacing & word challenge,
The use of so many poetic devices
despite us all being such novices
Makes me feel like boasting
about this successful posting
But I'm most happy that this artform
Can still, in this age, perform

Idiot said...
Poetry in my mind should rhyme

should be fluid and sublime

full of sweet words

about animals and birds

but these days the poets

who think they all know know it

dont rhyme at all

from beginning to fall

they just end them with some shitty deep meaning

sentiment that only they understand themselves.

Anyone else fancy a crack at it? :)

3 comments:

  1. SL - I knew you were going to do that and I'm glad you did.

    I love 49£s.

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  2. By the way, I didn't really mean for the double spacing in my last poem, it's a bit emphatic. SL - if you could take it out i'd be very happy.

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  3. Poetry in my mind should rhyme
    should be fluid and sublime
    full of sweet words
    about animals and birds
    but these days the poets
    who think they all know know it
    dont rhyme at all
    from beginning to fall
    they just end them with some shitty deep meaning sentiment that only they understand themselves.

    ReplyDelete

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