Inspired Poetry

[LLapp]

"Poets were intended to live to the full the life of the senses." — Gore Vidal

rasbury
July 7, 2024, 8:58 pm
Your written words should flow, it
Should rhyme, and mind your tenses;
Then you are a poet:
Live a full life of the senses.

That doesn't mean ignore
The heart, the soul, or the spirit.
Just act like good old Gore:
Taste it, smell it, touch it, see it, and hear it.

[Eureka]

"Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union." — Joseph Stalin

kb83
August 12, 2022, 12:29 pm
In the Soviet Union no deity
Graced homes of the clergy or laity
But thanks to Joe Stalin And KGB callin',
The people were rockin' with gaiety.

[hrossa]

kb83, this one is awesome!

[Eureka]

"You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. " — Camille Paglia

kb83
September 25, 2025, 6:37 pm
Ms. Paglia went out with Howard,
And wanted to be overpowered,
She thought that he sizzled,
But in romance he fizzled,
Leaving her evening soured.

[kb83]

I had written this limerick for this specific quote (I thought) of Herodotus, but didn't see it there when I got the quote again, so I added it, and here it is. KB83

"This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power."
— Herodotus

An historian known as Herodotus
Knew quite well what circumstance gnawed at us,
Great knowledge is ours,
But we have no powers,
The cosmos seems to have defrauded us.

[kb83]

Found this one today from a few years ago. I think I must get a cheap thrill from turning something that Pope wrote into iambic pentameter. I added line breaks

"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

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.

[kb83]

This is one I was inspired to write today. (But I would change the last line-- Kb83)

"To eat is to appropriate by destruction. "
— Jean-Paul Sartre

A philosopher named Jean-Paul Sartre,
Took the act of ingestion apart,
"All alimentation is
Appropriation,
So choose whether or not to take part."

(Better last line-- So choose whether you will take part.")

[kb83]

Just encountered this one of mine again. The thread was fun, so I included it. I added line breaks on my limerick. Kb83

"Releasing the pressure, it's good for the teapot and the water. Try it sometime."
— Jeb Dickerson
bansaisequoia
March 31, 2012, 6:04 pm
GO SUCK AN EGG, YOU DUMB MOTIVATIONAL BLOGGER!!! (Sorry, just releasing the pressure.)
montyb
May 20, 2012, 12:27 am
Was that good for you, bansai?
fishbum
June 10, 2012, 6:24 pm
What's a blog?
bvwRedux
July 14, 2012, 11:10 am
Stupid without careful instruction on HOW.
geeko321
February 10, 2014, 8:14 am
What about a pressure cooker? Releasing the pressure is bad, because it lowers the boiling temperature and makes your food take longer to cook! I guess though you gotta release the pressure when it's finished...
echo
June 30, 2014, 11:21 am
The "teapot theory" exists in Traditional Chinese Medicine. It has to do with the relationship between the lungs and large intestine. I know y'all were dying to know that! :-)
darkyr
June 22, 2017, 4:54 am
I think I got scalded by Bansai's comment. That will teach me to stand to close to the monitor when I'm done solving a quote.
susanith
February 4, 2018, 8:14 am
I also have a problem with a lot of motivational speakers, writers, bloggers, etc. But there is truth in this quote.
Earthwalker
May 5, 2018, 3:12 am
Like my buddy used to say about motivational quotes, "That almost means something."
No2son
July 22, 2019, 6:44 pm
The only motivation I get is to ignore motivational bloggers.
TimmyTee
February 7, 2021, 10:56 pm
Isn't motivational speaking a lot like "mansplaining?"
imsoeasy
April 9, 2021, 9:13 pm
I've never had a teapot although I've had tea or pot whatever you call it.
Cys Bacon
January 21, 2023, 12:45 pm
Nonsense. Releasing the pressure, say, by thrashing an offending inanimate object, ultimately raises not only my blood pressure, but that of my wife.
Ian123
June 19, 2023, 5:00 am
I'm a teapot.
hrossa
September 3, 2023, 1:25 am
Here is my handle; here is my spout. I wanted to hear more of what echo was talking about!
kb83
September 4, 2023, 6:37 pm
An unctuous blogger named Dickerson, / Exhibitionist he, with his knickers on. / Though they begged him to cease, / He said, "Let's increase, / My light of hypocrisy flickers on."