tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post4612922765267008491..comments2024-03-29T09:18:51.670-05:00Comments on Every goddamn day: 03/29/24: Complete this phrase: ‘Roses are red, violets are blue...’ Neil Steinberghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11468057838260476480noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-79111305367064386962020-07-20T22:01:26.339-05:002020-07-20T22:01:26.339-05:00Poetry much like statues as much to contribute to ...Poetry much like statues as much to contribute to understanding where we've come from and where we are going. I nominate Chance the rapper as much a poet as Longfellow or Yates. More widely read. FMEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06829632906445535928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-55318465609682470792020-07-20T19:45:07.754-05:002020-07-20T19:45:07.754-05:00Oh, oh
Talk to me some more
You don't have to ...Oh, oh<br />Talk to me some more<br />You don't have to go<br />You're the Poetry Man<br />You make things all rhyme...<br /><br />--Phoebe Snow [1950-2011]<br /><br />(Or maybe it was "all right"...I've seen it both ways...)Grizz 65https://www.blogger.com/profile/02892702223228764894noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-16704567265987334672020-07-20T10:54:46.773-05:002020-07-20T10:54:46.773-05:00I like your hip vision of a poet!
Although I will ...I like your hip vision of a poet!<br />Although I will admit to having some to enjoy and embrace poetry in my later years. Especially the stuff written by old men like me.heydavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15509102502417886790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-77267378794204434162020-07-20T08:43:34.732-05:002020-07-20T08:43:34.732-05:00There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose...wait, ...There once was a man from Nantucket<br />Whose...wait, was what it?<br />I've never been published<br />Nor even discussed much.<br />Oh well, I guess it's go...<br /><br /><br />on then.<br />heydavehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15509102502417886790noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3972382144120426476.post-55473004471494108762020-07-20T01:16:40.134-05:002020-07-20T01:16:40.134-05:00It would be hard to find a government job more use...It would be hard to find a government job more useless than poet laureate! <br />The absolute absurdity of having somebody write rhyming doggerel to celebrate events is something out of the Middle Ages.<br /><br />But I will complete your title with little rhymes that I remember from an Art Linkletter book called Kids Say the Darnedest Things, from the early 1960s.<br /><br />Roses are red<br />Violets are blue<br />You've got a nose like a B-52<br /><br />Roses are red<br />Orchids are black<br />You'd look best with a knife in your back<br /><br />Those 1960s kids, maybe 6-9 years old, were certainly better, although nastier, than whatever pompous fool the government could drag up out of a basement poetry ready that has a dozen people fawning over some overaged guy in a turtle neck, smoking some vile French cigarette & then expecting them to applaud his every utterance, as if it were the equivalence of Homer.Clark St.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09634234069783123180noreply@blogger.com