It's National Poetry day!

[threebikesmcginty]

Fab Foodie Fab Foodie
He's a back room boffin
Fab Foodie Fab Foodie
They don't call him that for nothin'

Fab Foodie Fab Foodie
He works in a lab
He eats complimentary airline food
And they also call him Flab... Foodie

 

[Fab Foodie]

Blimey .... muse for a day!

 

[Pale Rider]

One of my favourites is The Groom's Story by Conan Doyle.

It's longish, but an easy read - as all the best poetry and prose should be.

http://monologues.co.uk/Sport/Grooms_Story.htm

 

[Dave 123]

A young man named Luke Wright came on Radio 5 this morning and recited a poem he's written about the A12 road. I was impressed, found him on the internet and sent him a thankyou note, and asked if the poem was published. He replied straight away!

It;s called The Toll, by Luke Wright, and it will be coming out in a collection called From the Margins in January. Now, since it's not in print yet, you'll have to go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07xf34d#play and go to 56 minutes and 30 seconds.

I watched what @Alan H posted. Really good!

 

[wonderloaf]

Eh? Tomorrow's Friday? .... sorry thought you said it's POETS day.

 

[ufkacbln]

Eh? Tomorrow's Friday? .... sorry thought you said it's POETS day.

Only for Dyslexics

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Blimey .... muse for a day!

Well you don't just want a load of pretentious twaddle do you...

One of my favourite serious poems -

Fame was a claim of Uncle Ed's
Simply because he had three heads
Which if he'd only had a third of
He would never have been heard of

 

[ufkacbln]

Mary had a little lamb,
She also had a duck,
She put them on the mantle piece,
To see if they would fall off.

Mary had a little lamb
Her father shot it dead
So now she takes it to her School
Betwixt two lumps of bread





Mary had a little bike
She rode it on the grass
Every time the wheel went round
A spoke went up her....... jumper

 

[ufkacbln]

Today is a day for a poet
... and I didn't know it

 

[Salad Dodger]

It wasnt a crime of passion
She wasnt a victim of fashion
She was one of those fools
Wearing too many jewels
I refer to Kim Kardashian.........

 

[MarquisMatsugae]

There was a young poet from Ayr
Often a ribbon in his hair
He wrote poems all day
Had a roll in the hay
Rabbie Burns was a twat.

 

[pawl]

Come on CC do your worst
Lay on me you're bestest verse....

Roses are red violets are blue.I can row a boat canoe.

 

[EnPassant]

Mary had a little lamb
Her father shot it dead
So now she takes it to her School
Betwixt two lumps of bread





Mary had a little bike
She rode it on the grass
Every time the wheel went round
A spoke went up her....... jumper

Oh if we're allowed marys.

Mary had a little drink
She would not drink no more
For what she thought was H20
Was H2S04.

CBA trying to find out how to do superscript here

 

[wheresthetorch]

CBA trying to find out how to do superscript here

[Pedant alert] 'subscript'.

 

[Dayvo]

My brother Bill's a fireman bold.
Went to a fire last night, I'm told.
Fire caught alight to some dynamite.
Where brother Bill's gone I don't know quite.
If he's gone to hell he'll be alright,
cos my brother Bill puts out fires.