My profile login | | Directory | Search | FAQs | Board home   Printer-friendly view   » Ship of Fools   »   » Oblivion   » Tag Poem Redux Email this page to a friend or enemy.     Source: (consider it) Thread: Tag Poem Redux Doublethink. Ship's Foolwise Unperson # 1984 Posted                          One 4 line stanza per post, rhyming abab, 10 syllables a line the first line of which is the same as the last line of the previous stanza. Subject: Autumn. First stanza goes to whoever posts first ... (People not staying on topic will be pelted with iambs.) [ETA title typo.] [ 01. September 2014, 18:29: Message edited by: Doublethink ] -------------------- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell Posts: 19219 | From: Erehwon | Registered: Aug 2005  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       Season of haars and yellow frightfulness Close bosom friend of the enduring rain In league with him to make a mulchy mess Of sodden pavement and o'erflowing drain. Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Penny S Shipmate # 14768 Posted                       Of sodden pavement and o'erflowing drain Where linger burger wrappers and a single chip And messages from bramble bingeing birds Be careful where your foot goes, lest you trip. Posts: 5833 | Registered: May 2009  |  IP: Logged mark_in_manchester not waving, but... # 15978 Posted                        Be careful where your foot goes lest you trip Conkers banned, in case some risk arises Seasonal danger abounds - here's a tip: Dead leaves in deep piles conceal surprises. -------------------- "We are punished by our sins, not for them" - Elbert Hubbard (so good, I wanted to see it after my posts and not only after those of shipmate JBohn from whom I stole it) Posts: 1596 | Registered: Oct 2010  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       Dead leaves in deep piles conceal surprises and yet the children never can resist and jump right in; each one soon devises another game, in evening's chilly mist. -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Doublethink. Ship's Foolwise Unperson # 1984 Posted                          Heavenly sentiments chaps ! DT Circstyx -------------------- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell Posts: 19219 | From: Erehwon | Registered: Aug 2005  |  IP: Logged Ariel Shipmate # 58 Posted                          No thanks. You can have it back. Cheers Ariel, Heaven Host Posts: 25445 | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged Doublethink. Ship's Foolwise Unperson # 1984 Posted                          Ingrate. -------------------- All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome. George Orwell Posts: 19219 | From: Erehwon | Registered: Aug 2005  |  IP: Logged Banner Lady Ship's Ensign # 10505 Posted                        Another game in chilly evenings mist Is shuffle board upon the Ship of Fools, When hosts apply a none too gentle fist Making a mockery of all the rules. -------------------- Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed. Posts: 7080 | From: Canberra Australia | Registered: Oct 2005  |  IP: Logged pimple Ship's Irruption # 10635 Posted                        Making a mockery of all the rules, I shovel Cotswold gravel round my heathers. I never clean or sharpen any tools, Weed not, not prune, nor feed, in any weathers. -------------------- In other words, just because I made it all up, doesn't mean it isn't true (Reginald Hill) Posts: 8018 | From: Wonderland | Registered: Nov 2005  |  IP: Logged Cara Shipmate # 16966 Posted                       Weed not, nor prune, nor feed, in any weathers --that's not the way to make the garden grow! No blooms in spring or summer; no feathers in your cap for your autumn garden's glow. -------------------- Pondering. Posts: 898 | Registered: Feb 2012  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       In your cap, for your autumn garden's glow Place fairy lights. Now, as you kill each slug, A fetching sparkle plays upon the hoe - Though only within three feet of the plug. Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Banner Lady Ship's Ensign # 10505 Posted                        Though only within three feet of the plug The electric mower has had a stroke... Without so much as a clunk, whirr or chug, Autumnal leaves have caused the fatal choke. -------------------- Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed. Posts: 7080 | From: Canberra Australia | Registered: Oct 2005  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       'Autumnal leaves have caused the fatal choke' The Inspector said. 'So obviously We're looking for this rather angry bloke Possibly in possession of a tree.' Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Banner Lady Ship's Ensign # 10505 Posted                        ...possibly in possession of a tree... as Christopher Robin, for Halloween... then add a cloud, a balloon, and a bee. Would that be the finest costume you've seen? [ 28. September 2014, 20:25: Message edited by: Banner Lady ] -------------------- Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed. Posts: 7080 | From: Canberra Australia | Registered: Oct 2005  |  IP: Logged Firenze Ordinary decent pagan # 619 Posted                       Be the finest costume you have seen? That calls for lots of lace on top or a Hat with feathers. Britches of velveteen - Like something from the Paris Opera. Posts: 17302 | From: Edinburgh | Registered: Jun 2001  |  IP: Logged Banner Lady Ship's Ensign # 10505 Posted                        Like something from the Paris opera the autumn light glows gold, then dims to dark; Soft rustling... clatter ceasing... before a silence descends upon the city park. -------------------- Women in the church are not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be enjoyed. Posts: 7080 | From: Canberra Australia | Registered: Oct 2005  |  IP: Logged mark_in_manchester not waving, but... # 15978 Posted                        <Tangent: My enjoyment of the Verseworks board has belatedly taken me to Stephen Fry's 'Ode Less Travelled', which I'm having great fun getting into. The first exercise has a lot to do with this thread, and drove me to the following doggerel: In looking for a score or more of lines to scope the limits of the great Iamb one starts to find one stretching thin designs into a pentametric form of spam. As you were > -------------------- "We are punished by our sins, not for them" - Elbert Hubbard (so good, I wanted to see it after my posts and not only after those of shipmate JBohn from whom I stole it) Posts: 1596 | Registered: Oct 2010  |  IP: Logged Printer-friendly view Go to: Select a board: Category: Ship's business -------------------- The Styx Category: Community discussion -------------------- Heaven Purgatory Hell All Saints Category: Special interest discussion -------------------- Ecclesiantics Kerygmania The Circus Dead Horses The Eighth Day Category: Ship's Locker -------------------- Glory Limbo Category: Things we did -------------------- Nativity Play Auctions The Laugh Judgment The Da Vinci Code Chapter & Worse Contact us | Ship of Fools | Privacy statement © Ship of Fools 2016 UBB.classicTM 6.5.0