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Sorry, Denny.
Plagiarism will not ''relight the wick of the candle of appreciation for poetry.'' And so the comments of a plagiarist carry no weight whatsoever.
Posted to Poems by catnapping on July 20, 2009
I can certainly see why you plagiarize everybody else.
going round and round in endless circles? say again, said again. round and round sorta already means 'endless circles.' droning over and over in endless repetition? over and over sorta means...endless repetition ...see not above. each NEW place being somewhere he's ALREADY been? huh? romantic dreams that never existed? say what? Not that I ...
Posted to Poems by catnapping on July 19, 2009
Re: before deodorants came along?
Wow. At least the Forbidden City in Beijing had waste pots as part of the bedroom furnishings. (I saw the setup in an exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, some years ago.) But then, the Chinese had a better idea of what human bodies were designed to do with regard to their own excrement. In Europe for a long time, only the Jews had an ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
RE: brillance and chaos
And I'm not sure I agree with your opening quote either. It's something than an ENTP, even more than an ENFP, might be apt to say; but whatever else might be said, not every brilliant person is motivated by a drive for ''xenic uniquity'' as you are. Some really brilliant people loathe chaos and do everything in their power to tame it (or even ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
Liked it, yes...
...thought it was accurate, not so sure. :) How did people stand to reproduce before deodorants came along? :P I remember how the famous book by Desmond Morris, The Naked Ape, pointed out that the armpits are scent traps for musk and are designed that way for a reason. He also felt he had to point out how strange our modern Western behavior is, ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
Re: If I can't be profound . .
The epigram suggests itself irresistibly, Denster: ''If you can't dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them with your...'' (?) (LOL) wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
Re: (not) The Thursday OPP . . .
I'm delighted by them all, but by ''Psychic Fur Balls'' the most. It strikes me as having the most creativity in the least space. ''Not bad for a little furball...''-- Han Solo wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
Re: Congratulations - Mary Ann
Hey, very cool, Denny and NoStar. I'd like to see that awarded limerick, if you don't mind tipping me off when it's presented. Congratulations from my end also, MaryAnn. I just looked up NoStar's limericks on the OEDILF...at least the ones deemed worthy of a general audience! Hmm... wr ()()
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 16, 2009
The value of light verse
It took you this long to figure it out? (LOL) As long as you're thinking of Ogden Nash or Shel Silverstein, how about the underrated A.A. Milne? He was a light verse writer for adults (and one of the best of his time) long before he wrote the four Pooh Books (light verse and stories) for children. It's worth looking up his adult verse if you can ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 15, 2009
Re: "No Running in the Halls" - more to Wabbit and NoStar
You KNOW wabbit that ''if it has been said before'' I am forbidden to say it again - ;-) It's a good thing then that a lot of traditional poets and poet-composers (King David comes to mind) didn't have to face that criterion. @:-) The trick, of course, is to recombine familiar patterns in unfamiliar ways and not familiar ones. King David comes ...
Posted to Poems by White_Rabbit on July 14, 2009

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