VP Pappy
you think your words snappy,
but from where I'm from
they're considered dumb.
They lack grace and style
like a wind-strewn lumber pile
and themes they doth repeat,
like a stutterer's bleat.
Worst yet they are a lugubrious stew,
clearly lacking in weighty thought or bountiful clue.
So when you next feel the urge to submit,
kindly do so somewhere where they give a ...
gj
gj bart wrote:
VP Pappy
you think your words snappy,
but from where I'm from
they're considered dumb ...
WTF!???
VP Pappy
you think your words snappy,
but from where I'm from
they're considered dumb.
They lack grace and style
like a wind-strewn lumber pile
and themes they doth repeat,
like a stutterer's bleat.
Worst yet they are a lugubrious stew,
clearly lacking in weighty thought or bountiful clue.
So when you next feel the urge to submit,
kindly do so somewhere where they give a ...
gj
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DWK
The Ode was Crappy
But Pappy is Snappy!
Rhyming poems are considered amateurish, unless you are using one of the
more advanced forms. Not everyone can rhyme like Dr. Seuss.
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Two humble suggestions: Learn to use a filter and stick to prose.
At 08:14 PM 12/27/2003, you wrote:
So when you next feel the urge to submit,
kindly do so somewhere where they give a ...
VP Pappy
you think your words snappy,
but from where I'm from
they're considered dumb.
They lack grace and style
like a wind-strewn lumber pile
and themes they doth repeat,
like a stutterer's bleat.
Worst yet they are a lugubrious stew,
clearly lacking in weighty thought or bountiful clue.
So when you next feel the urge to submit,
kindly do so somewhere where they give a ...
gj
gj,
Old VP Pappy was deeply and profoundly moved by your soliloquy of
sanctimonious slander. Clearly you have talent (probably more than VP)
Work on it, I think you have a future in the art of clever and
witty (hopefully) prose concerning gambling and all it's many
offshoots. I look forward to your next post.
VP Pappy's close friend, Terry Murphy
"If at first you don't succeed, there's always the ATM machines."
--VP Pappy
What, pray tell, are the 'more advanced forms' of rhyming?
Of course, I've seen more than my share of non-rhyming poems which I have troubled considering to be a poem at all -- maybe a very short story, or a somewhat clever 'saying'. What makes a poem a poem, when both rhyme and meter are missing?
Bill velek
Nancy Liedel wrote:
Rhyming poems are considered amateurish, unless you are using one of the
more advanced forms. Not everyone can rhyme like Dr. Seuss.
snip
There once was an 'Ode to ... Pappy',
which challenged: Is he snappy or sappy,
Let's get on with VP.
It's better; you'll see!
And the rest of us all will be happy.
Bill
vp_louie wrote:
The Ode was Crappy
But Pappy is Snappy!
Bill asks:
" W hat, pray tell, are the 'more advanced forms' of rhyming? "
Sonnets for example.. Haiku.. umm.. I am having trouble coming up with the
varieties right this second since I am making my packing list for Las
Vegas... Couplets...
Poetry is a lot more than rhyming.. Take Elisabeth Barret Browning poem from
"Sonnets from Portuguese"
How do I love thee, let me count the ways. I love thee to the depths and
breadths and Heights my soul can reach"
No rhyming there at all but sheer poetry.
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How about terza rima for one example? For another, we might
find some fun in visual (eye) rhymes such as through/tough.
Pete
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Bill Velek <billvelek@a...> wrote:
What, pray tell, are the 'more advanced forms' of rhyming?
<<gj,
Old VP Pappy was deeply and profoundly moved by your soliloquy of
sanctimonious slander. Clearly you have talent (probably more than VP)
Work on it, I think you have a future in the art of clever and
witty (hopefully) prose concerning gambling and all it's many
offshoots. I look forward to your next post.
VP Pappy's close friend, Terry Murphy>>
A very class response!!!
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Jean $¢ott - The Frugal Gambler
Pre-pub sale on for January release of
"Tax Help for the Frugal Gambler"
at http://www.FrugalGambler.biz
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<<gj,
Old VP Pappy was deeply and profoundly moved by your soliloquy
of
sanctimonious slander. Clearly you have talent (probably more than
VP)
--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, "Jean Scott" <QueenofComps@f...> wrote:
Work on it, I think you have a future in the art of clever and
witty (hopefully) prose concerning gambling and all it's many
offshoots. I look forward to your next post.VP Pappy's close friend, Terry Murphy>>
A very class response!!!
____________________
Jean $¢ott - The Frugal Gambler
Pre-pub sale on for January release of
"Tax Help for the Frugal Gambler"
at http://www.FrugalGambler.biz
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Thanks Jean. Please tell your daughter, Angela, that I added a
quote by her into my collection and also sent it along to Mark
Pilarski, my Gambling Guru friend, who might use it in a future
column. The funny, but probably true, quote from "More Frugal
Gambling" was:
"The first time I looked at a video poker chart, I thought I'd
accidentally been given the one written in Greek."
--Angela Sparks
After reading her portions in the book, she appears to be every bit
as nice as her Mother.
"Correct play at video poker is very much like an open-book math
test. Every hand is a problem with 32 possible answers... and (almost
always) one unique best answer."
--Bob Dancer