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- Tue Sep 10, 2013 2:45 pm
- Forum: Form in Poetry, Classical and New
- Topic: An Experimental Sonnet Sequence
- Replies: 2
- Views: 5437
An Experimental Sonnet Sequence
NOTES The two sonnets in this sequence are basically in Shakesperean form but are actually written in iambic heptameter rather than iambic pentameter. Additionally, rather than the 'standard' division of three quatrains and a couplet this is written as quatrain + octave (composed of two quatrains) +...
- Sun Sep 08, 2013 11:48 pm
- Forum: Funny Business
- Topic: There's a Sonnet in my Bonnet!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6135
There's a Sonnet in my Bonnet!
Hi all. I've been unable to post for some time but at the moment a little time to spare... There's a Sonnet in my Bonnet There's a sonnet in my bonnet and it will not go away. I thought I'd write this morning, just a simple bardic lay. I've tried until I'm weary and my eyes are getting bleary So cle...
- Thu Apr 28, 2011 9:23 pm
- Forum: Poet Laureate October 2007 - March 2008: Nekot
- Topic: Spice of Life: Meet bags123
- Replies: 25
- Views: 32720
Re: Spice of Life: Meet bags123
May I also add my congratulations? I'm a relative newcomer to PP but Bags you have been a source of encouragement for which I thank you. It's always a little traumatic to burst into verse but you made the initiation (almost) painless. Unfortunately occupational commitments keep me away from PP more ...
- Thu Apr 28, 2011 4:31 pm
- Forum: General Poetry
- Topic: Reflections
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1396
Reflections
Reflections. My day is ended, work is done And wearied I return to rest And passing her studio door, I glance within She sits, engrossed, humming an ancient tune of Gods and mortals And calls into being life from her canvas with deft touches of her brushes. Those hands - I remember another time and ...
- Thu Jan 20, 2011 10:08 pm
- Forum: General Poetry
- Topic: The Iceni Legend
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4102
Re: The Iceni Legend
Very true mate, they always do. Some last a longer time than others, but in the end.....
- Thu Jan 20, 2011 9:18 pm
- Forum: General Poetry
- Topic: The Iceni Legend
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4102
Re: The Iceni Legend
Truly, and as most such valiant efforts were, yet in the end Rome fell. A termite cannot fell a tree but a nest of the hungry little bu**ers can certainly do a good job. The 'Bringer of Victory?' - from the old word Boudeg, with the same meaning, a title rather than a name. 'Breaca' probably didn't ...
- Thu Jan 20, 2011 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Poetry
- Topic: The Iceni Legend
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4102
Re: The Iceni Legend
Indeed so, but it becomes to poet to laud heroic failure as much as to scatter petals before the victor's feet.
Being something of a career failure I'm quite happy about this.
An attempt not made cannot be successful.
As we say here 'Gotta be in it ter win it mate!'
Being something of a career failure I'm quite happy about this.
An attempt not made cannot be successful.
As we say here 'Gotta be in it ter win it mate!'
- Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:52 pm
- Forum: The New Members' Café
- Topic: the denim emotive - (modern me)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 3725
Re: the denim emotive - (modern me)
Interesting imagery. Very well done!
- Thu Jan 20, 2011 3:48 pm
- Forum: General Poetry
- Topic: The Iceni Legend
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4102
Re: The Iceni Legend
Fascinating. You write with the soul of a Historian. You have not yielded to the temptation to allude to Tacitus' precis of Scapula's disarming of the eastern tribes. This shows an understanding of the questionable reliability of the sources. Your profile shows little (as does mine) but I shall foll...
- Wed Jan 19, 2011 3:48 pm
- Forum: Funny Business
- Topic: He said he Missed me...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3657
Re: He said he Missed me...
Ta mate. Have to do something about raisin' yer kulcheral valews tho mate!
For a start yer gotta lern ter talk proper, like wot I do!
For a start yer gotta lern ter talk proper, like wot I do!
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:56 pm
- Forum: Funny Business
- Topic: He said he Missed me...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3657
He said he Missed me...
I saw a bloke in town today He don't like me one little tad. He said he missed me yesterday And now he's very very sad. I don't like him and he hates me I stood and wondered for a bit Whatever could the problem be I stopped and pondered, then it hit! I see him here, I see him there But I'm not worri...
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:31 pm
- Forum: Love and Romance
- Topic: All Of You
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2665
Re: All Of You
Entirely my pleasure. Best wishes from Australia.
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:21 am
- Forum: Love and Romance
- Topic: There'll Always Be We Two
- Replies: 22
- Views: 9610
Re: There'll Always Be We Two
Bags, that's really good mate. I like to see a job well done - which this is!
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:16 am
- Forum: Love and Romance
- Topic: All Of You
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2665
Re: All Of You
Beautiful.
- Tue Jan 18, 2011 1:12 am
- Forum: General Poetry
- Topic: I may not be as you think I am.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2413
Re: I may not be as you think I am.
Liked it mate. Particularly the last two lines.