Inspired Poetry

[kb83]

I love the comments on this one, which inspired my new limerick. kb83

"Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged."
— James Ramsey

wvwoman
June 22, 2012, 5:31 pm
ok, i had to look up that word!!
fishbum
August 26, 2012, 6:48 pm
Well, tell us what it means.
Carrot
October 24, 2012, 3:19 pm
Had to look up that word too .... Apothegms (plural of ap-o-thegm) Noun: A concise saying or maxim; an aphorism. ap·o·thegm also ap·o·phthegm ( p -th m ). n. A terse, witty, instructive saying; a maxim. [Greek apophthegma, from apophthengesthai,] to speak plainly.
skoogie2
January 3, 2014, 4:00 am
Good! Saved me looking it up! Thanks, Carrot!
wvwoman
February 12, 2014, 11:25 pm
oh, come on--you're online--google it!
Allen
July 22, 2014, 1:19 pm
Yes, look it up yourself. And you solved it, so what's the prob?
LLapp
January 2, 2016, 2:18 pm
Funny how this quote really fails the apothegm test.
saipanwriter
January 16, 2016, 1:26 am
Llapp--love your comments.
Roxanne
April 6, 2018, 1:08 am
On quotes.net James Ramsey is "a provincial politician and business man from Alberta" born in 1864 who looks exactly like the minor-league centerfielder James Ramsey.
lertsek
June 14, 2018, 3:37 pm
My new favorite word. Apothegm, apothegm.
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Wordigo
May 16, 2023, 6:37 pm
An alternative spelling is apophthegm. You will have to excrete a lot of phlegm to say it.
Wordigo
May 20, 2025, 5:08 pm
Cough, cough cough… darn it Wordigo,.. you should have kept it to yourself.

Young Louie, when judging an apothegm,
Said this (after clearing his yap of phlegm,)
"Whether wordy or terse,
Whether prose or in verse,
I never have use for a scrap o' them."

[Eureka]

(A very cute poetic response to the quote!)

"It's double the giggles and double the grins, and double the trouble if you're blessed with twins." — Unattributed

Glyndia
June 14, 2019, 10:53 pm
Double the diapers and double the noise, Double the mischief, my grand-twins are boys.

[kb83]

Another crypto-inspired limerick of mine.

"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

kb83
May 18, 2017, 2:50 am
I gazed into an abyss. I knew there was something amyss. Its gaze tried to reach me, as said Friedrich Nietzsche, but a mile is as good as amyss.

Since it is mine, I would now edit it as follows:

I gazed into an abyss.
I knew there was something amiss.
Its gaze tried to reach me,
(As said Friedrich Nietzsche,)
But a mile is as good as a miss.

[LLapp]

Another crypto-inspired limerick of mine.

"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Nietzsche

kb83
May 18, 2017, 2:50 am
I gazed into an abyss. I knew there was something amyss. Its gaze tried to reach me, as said Friedrich Nietzsche, but a mile is as good as amyss.

Since it is mine, I would now edit it as follows:

I gazed into an abyss.
I knew there was something amiss.
Its gaze tried to reach me,
(As said Friedrich Nietzsche,)
But a mile is as good as a miss.

I liked your original better! It's more playful and more fun.
That said, in the original, I want to change "a mile is" to "a mile's" for the rhythm.
Oh, and while I've got my pen out, I want to spell it as "a myle's as good as amyss."

Sorry, it's after 3 a.m.

[kb83]

Thanks, Llapp, I think you're right. I take all your suggestions, and I might only change the final word to "a myss."