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It seems that from time to time people will post a poem but it is awkward to find somewhere to post it. Life or General seem to be the two forums people favour so I think it would be a good idea to have a thread just for submitting poems to so that people who are interested in reading poetry or submitting there own have a thread in which to do so instead of trawling through the backlogs of posts.


Feel free to submit anything of a poetical nature to this thread as well as comments on people's writing.

A friend came round for dinner,
Round about quarter to three.
When she saw the spread laid before her,
She exclaimed "Well Bugg*r me!"

Well now it's two years later,
And we both live far away.
Though the dinner was rather special,
I've not heard from her since that day.

And the moral of the story,
is, as far as I can see.
never take it literally,
When someone exclaims "Bugg*r me!".

PB

Really written by a hermit?

My favourite poem by some hermit called Kenneth White:

INTERPRETATIONS OF A TWISTED PINE

I started off
by growing up
like everybody else

Then I took
a bend to the south
an inclination east
a prolongation north
and a sharp turn west

Now, approaching me
be prepared for grotesquerie
there are more than pines in my philosophy

Yes I'm something more than a pine
I'm a cosmological sign

I'm idiomatic
I'm idiosyncratic
I'm pre-socratic

I'm maybe Chinese too
like Li Po, Tu Fu
and Mr Chuang-tzu

I live quietly
but storms visit me
I do a metaphysical dance
at the heart of existence

The branches of my brain
are alive to sun and rain
my forest mind
is in time with the wind
there is reason in my resin

Behold the mad pine
stark on the sky-line

Mi/\\/dfrig wrote:
> There was a girl called Ineedsleep
> All the Chick Flicks made her weep
> One day she got sick
> And grew a big dick
> Now she runs over kids with her jeep

True story.

Ships that pass in the night and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence

Longfellow

Goatboy wrote:
> Actually I'm rather accomodating

Right.

There was a girl called Ineedsleep
All the Chick Flicks made her weep
One day she got sick
And grew a big dick
Now she runs over kids with her jeep

Actually I'm rather accomodating

There was a poster named Goatboy
Who owned a brand new sex toy
He sat down too fast
And it went up his ass
Now he's moaning with pain not with joy

Those last two were good Grix, lol.