Inspired Poetry

[LLapp]

"This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubles joys, and cuts griefs in half." — Aristotle

darkyr
July 13, 2016, 3:29 am
When in need, talk to yourself. It will get you halfway there.

kb83
July 6, 2017, 4:10 am
It's called degriefing.

pickleball
March 24, 2019, 9:17 pm
i ve been talking to myself for years with no end in sight

LLapp
November 28, 2019, 9:44 pm
I think we are all self-talkers on this site. I post this comment knowing full well that nobody might read it for years, and that's fine.

gracefulghost
December 19, 2021, 9:52 am
LLapp, I've only been posting for like 4 months, and apparently, you're right, I've only gotten one response, and that was from someone who didn't like what I said about a third party.

Trima
November 26, 2022, 9:02 pm
So nice to meet you, Gracefulghost, It's remiss of us to leave you troubled, By careful reading of what you post, May griefs be halved, and our joys doubled.

[Deanna48]

"Success is a tale of obstacles overcome, and for every obstacle overcome, an excuse not used."
— Robert Brault

kb83
February 9, 2018, 3:07 am
A babbling blogger named Brault, Was precious and trite to a fault. What he said was unneeded, And readers all pleaded, Won't you please bring this stuff to a hault?

I love this one, LOL!!

[Deanna48]

"Accent is the soul of language - it gives to it both feeling and truth."
— Jean Jacques Rousseau

kb83
April 1, 2022, 9:38 am
A philosopher named Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Never just guessed, he just knew so, That with his accent They knew what he meant, And so he urged others to do so.

[LLapp]

Thanks, kb83, it did feel like channeling!

[kb83]

"Hollywood is not suited for me, and I am not suited for it." — Dr. Seuss


LLapp
September 18, 2019, 5:48 pm
I will not write for Hollywood, I would not live there if I could. I do not care for movie backlots, dog-eat-dog, or mega-jackpots.

Nice, LLapp, you channeled him-- that's what he should have said.

[hrossa]

It's now in the midden. Joking aside, he's lucky he didn't wind up inside.

[Deanna48]

"Perhaps the strangest thing of all is the marvel that mathematics should be possible to a race akin to the apes."
— Eric T. Bell

kb83
April 9, 2018, 10:29 am
A brilliant chimpanzee named Walaji Knew well algebraic topology He made a fine model Of a plant-based Klein bottle Then ate it without an apology.

[kb83]

"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves." — Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

kb83
January 2, 2019, 8:19 am
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr Went for a drive in a shiny white car, ...

letfreedomring
September 16, 2019, 3:03 pm
to get to the neighborhood deli. She didn't go in, and continued her spin, going home with her still empty belly.

Okay, how about (with letfreedomring's permission):

Amelia drove to the deli
But outside she found it too smelly,
She didn't go in,
But continued her spin,
Going home with her still empty belly.

[LLapp]

"You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements." — B. F. Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990), an American psychologist, author, inventor, social philosopher, and poet.

kb83
January 7, 2022, 1:41 pm
A rat owned by one B. F. Skinner, Had to type poems for his dinner. But he had a hard time, Finding rat words that rhyme, And so he got thinner and thinner.

[LLapp]

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." — Martin Tupper
Martin Farquhar Tupper (July 17, 1810 in London - November 1889 in Albury, Surrey) was an English writer, and poet, and the author of Proverbial Philosophy.

dovid1946
January 29, 2015, 10:24 am
He also was a peddler, going door to door selling his wares.

kb83
March 31, 2023, 12:07 pm
An itinerant salesman named Tupper, Oft asked if he could stay for supper, And then before partin', He'd fill up his carton, And snap shut its lower and upper.

[LLapp]

(My comment is a quote from a book of children's poems. Skeeter's response is her own.)

"If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends." — Elbert Hubbard

LLapp
July 14, 2016, 9:07 pm
"I'm partial to the manatee, which emanates no vanity. It swims amidst anemones, and hasn't any enemies." - Jack Prelutsky

skeeter
October 22, 2017, 1:15 pm
"I'm partial to the cryptoquotes, which offer little anecdotes. They get some yes and some no votes. Their addicts find no antidotes." -- Me.

badbob
November 5, 2018, 4:10 am
nice skeeter. have you ever been to Nantucket?

[Eureka]

(The winner of the challenge to change a quote into a rhyming couplet is.... kb83! )

"When you deplore the conditions in the world, ask yourself, am I part of the problem or part of the solution? " — Unattributed

kb83
May 30, 2023, 2:26 pm
Conditions in the world which you deplore, Ask if you help or are the reason for.

[Eureka]

"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's." — Henry Ward Beecher

DrCryptell
November 25, 2021, 9:34 pm
God can take tomorrow; I'll cede God yesterday. I want to keep the present, And frolic in today.

hrossa
December 27, 2022, 11:49 pm
It the poem yours, DrCryptell? If so, nice going!

[LLapp]

"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we are leaving behind is part of ourselves." — Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

kb83
January 2, 2019, 8:19 am
Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr Went for a drive in a shiny white car, ...

letfreedomring
September 16, 2019, 3:03 pm
to get to the neighborhood deli. She didn't go in, and continued her spin, going home with her still empty belly.

[Eureka]

(A two-author poem is particularly charming when one player finishes a poem that another player inadvertently starts.)

"Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it " — Unattributed

wobray2
January 18, 2016, 12:57 am
The first time I saw this quote, it was "violets" (though there have been several variations per (link)

LLapp
April 8, 2017, 10:20 am
wobray2, the main difference is that roses are red and violets are blue.

darkyr
July 17, 2017, 8:02 am
Your heel smells of flowers, what did you do?