Inspired Poetry

[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.

[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.

[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.

[hrossa]

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

[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.

[LLapp]

Thanks, kb83, it did feel like channeling!

[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.

[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!!

[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.

[LLapp]

A string of fun comments, ending in a kb83 limerick:


"What is man's chief enemy? Each man is his own." — Anacharsis Cloots

Allen
May 2, 2013, 11:33 am
Which Anacharsis Cloots was this?

puzzleme
August 6, 2014, 7:02 pm
An 18th century Prussian nobleman, according to Wiki.

tgreen517
January 16, 2015, 4:50 pm
I'd rather be my own chef enemy.

jimdgar
September 1, 2016, 9:35 am
That's why I never win; I'm too evenly matched.

kb83
March 13, 2020, 3:35 pm
Sometimes it is one's name.

puffybob
April 13, 2020, 12:03 am
I thought he was one of the kids from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

kb83
May 23, 2022, 1:21 pm
A young fellow named Anacharsis, Kept injuring his metatarsus, He found some new shoes, With shouts and "Woo- hoo"s (For him it was quite a catharsis.)

[LLapp]

"Men, having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had." — Demetrius Phalereus

kb83
December 18, 2023, 12:02 pm
An ancient Greek author Phalereus, Had wisdom for those who were serious, You should not aband- on a bird in the hand, To go for a vision delirious.

[Eureka]

(You are brilliantly funny, kb83. For easier reading, I have put the comment before the quote.)

kb83
July 25, 2017, 10:04 am
There must be a name for this meter. It sounds like the 3rd, 4th, and 5th line of a limerick. How about: He got a degree from Loyola, But wished he could own a Corolla,

"If wishes and buts were clusters of nuts, we'd all have a bowl of granola." — Strangers with Candy

[kb83]

I love this one, added a carriage return for easier reading.

"Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."
— Alexander Pope


ernests
August 19, 2020, 4:04 am
Through twisted syntax and rhymes forc’d we grope
And thus a poet true is Alex Pope