Inspired Poetry

[hrossa]

Ooh, a poet liked mine. kb83 I'm honored!

[kb83]

...Monty'd be Omar Khayyam?

Nice, hrossa!

[kb83]

"My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants."

— J. Brotherton

WRQ9
February 1, 2014, 4:49 pm
"Fewness" as a word, will never loose it's newness, cause every time you use this word the folks will put you through this.

[hrossa]

...Monty'd be Omar Khayyam?

[Eureka]

"Poet: A person born with an instinct for poverty. " — Elbert Hubbard

montyb
December 2, 2012, 3:49 pm
Sounds like what I am, if only I could rhy-am.

[kb83]

Bierce is fierce! Good one, Andy, thanks, Llapp! But I would have spelled the last word "ierce".

[LLapp]

"Present: That part of eternity dividing the domain of disappointment from the realm of hope." — Ambrose Bierce

Andy451
June 17, 2023, 7:31 pm
"The domain of disappointment" is good. He uses a little poetry to extend both the boundaries of heaven and hell.

Bitter Bierce,
so terse and fierce.
He's singing now
in both my earse!

[kb83]

"Who is this Pope I hear so much about? I cannot discover what is his merit. Why will my subjects not write in prose?"
— George II


kb83
June 2, 2024, 9:40 pm
I cannot resist "Pope"-ifying it. Who is this Pope I hear so much about? I find no merit in what others tout. His works repeat what everybody knows, And suffer from a dreadful lack of prose.

And this is yet another example of a King quarreling with a pope.

[LLapp]

"To believe is to know you believe, and to know you believe is not to believe." — Jean-Paul Sartre

kb83
August 18, 2023, 8:57 am
Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre
Confusion he honed to an art.
If you know you believe,
Then you do not believe,
You're confused but you know that you're smart.

[kb83]

"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
— Alexander Pope

I added line breaks

kb83
February 21, 2022, 10:35 pm
I will try to pope-ify it:
A man should never be ashamed to own
He has been wrong, for thereby he has shown
Himself a learner who can say today,
That he is wiser now than yesterday.

[318WOZ]

Kb83, I appreciate your unabashed self-promotion. I think it's no problem here.

[kb83]

More unabashed self-promotion. I added line breaks.

"What is a Professor of Poetry? How can poetry be professed?"
— Wystan Hugh Auden

kb83
July 15, 2022, 2:06 pm

A tenured professor of poetry
Sat under a spreading balboa tree
Said she to her class,
As they sat on the grass,
"How lovely it can be to know a tree."

[Eureka]

"Heaven is blessed with perfect rest but the blessing of earth is toil." — Henry Van Dyke

Marboy
March 16, 2017, 12:01 pm
... A kitchen is blessed as home's perfect nest and having an onion to boil.

[kb83]

Nietszche is smiling. Thanks, LLapp!

I don't know if this is permitted, but I think it would be better to reverse lines 3 and 4, i.e.

"...She loved to quote Pascal
And danced like a rascal,
... Now she's tenured and done with that phase."

[Eureka]

"In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't." — Blaise Pascal

dovid1946
June 2, 2015, 9:03 am
There was once a stripper who called herself 'BLAZE PASCAL'. She was probably some philosophy major who couldn't get a job philosophizing.

kb83
March 14, 2016, 7:29 am
There once was a stripper named Blaze, Her philosophy did all amaze, She danced like a rascal, And loved to quote Pascal,

LLapp
February 6, 2019, 7:32 pm
. . . Now she's tenured and done with that phase.