Ode To Serena Williams

[Bollo]

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Point of order but an ode should have the rhyming scheme ABABCDECDE
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Tyred knows his ode
But not his comment code

 

[ayceejay]

Did you know Fred
Fabled Polo shirts tennis. table and lawn ed?
Impossible to mention tennis Wimbledon or strawberry
without a nod to our own Fred Perry

 

[rich p]

Lovely thread...
Resurrec-ted
So not dead
And Fed
Didn't win
But Muzza did
And he now has a kid
And Serena won too
Without any issue...

 

[rich p]

At times like this - a Philip Larkin poem about CC's old men comes to mind

What do they think has happened, the old fools,
To make them like this? Do they somehow suppose
It's more grown-up when your mouth hangs open and drools,
And you keep on pissing yourself, and can't remember
Who called this morning? Or that, if they only chose,
They could alter things back to when they danced all night,
Or went to their wedding, or sloped arms some September?
Or do they fancy there's really been no change,
And they've always behaved as if they were crippled or tight,
Or sat through days of thin continuous dreaming
Watching the light move? If they don't (and they can't), it's strange;
Why aren't they screaming?

I won't mention any names.......but YOU know who you are

Here's one Betjeman wrote about you...

On A Portrait Of A Deaf Finchley Man
The kind old face, the egg-shaped head,
The tie, discretely loud,

 

[rich p]

I can't deny any of that

It's a great poem too, IMHO
https://allpoetry.com/On-A-Portrait-Of-A-Deaf-Man

 

[Crackle]

It's a great poem too, IMHO
https://allpoetry.com/On-A-Portrait-Of-A-Deaf-Man

It's right cheerful, true enough. I prefer Miss Joan Hunter Dunn if I'm truthful.

 

[rich p]

Really? I think it's terrible! "He knew the names of ev'ry bird But not the song it sung."? Talk about forcing a rhyme!

Yes really.
As I said, in my opinion

 

[Fnaar]

[QUOTE 3269544, member: 259"]Maybe it was in honour of Bobby?

Womack's not easy to rhyme though - Kojak?[/QUOTE]
Potomac

 

[SteCenturion]

More a limerick ...

There was a young man named McMurray
Who arrived upon Queens in a lurry *dialect*

His Mother was there
big fat trap gulping air

while spewing "cwwwwwwmmmm - uuwwwoan" just like slurry.