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A vignette in motion in the form of a poem.
What a lovely and moving thought.
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Whenas in silk my Julia goes she goes so sweet
Yo' Bro' dats my ho' makes her bread in dis street
Back fifteen I follow dis slut
B.I.G. don't watch her big round butt
A gangster banger gotta disclaimer when in discreet
HANDSPRING - HANGMAN
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Pistorius, with blades but no feet
Put four shots in his girlfriend – dead meat
So he thought he’d just blame her
- A burglar disclaimer
Which was hardly discrete or discreet!
Wrote this in my head on the way to work this morning. Jenny's put up new words so I won't.
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Good one, Capfka - and sooooo topical!
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And I'll piggyback on that. So current.
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HANDSPRING – HANGMAN
As a hangman, old Pierrepoint was best.
He sent over 400 to rest:
Once he’d done each one in
He’d go back to is Inn*,
And do handsprings to expand his chest.
* Albert Pierrepoint, Britain's last public executioner, when he wasn't administering "justice" to those deemed best dead by the court, ran a pubblic house, the Rose and Crown, just outside Preston, Lancashire - about 24 miles from where I live.
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Love it. The only executioner more famous was Jack Ketch ...
And, oy! Where are the next two words?
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Very nice, Rhuby, in a long=necked sort of way.
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 O' how Albert could regale his customers at the Rose and Crown with food and drink. And I bet his gallows humor jokes were the funniest jokes going before knock-knock. Like... Knock, knock RC: Who's there? Tunny RC: Tunny who? Give us tunny words or we'll go get Albert.
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Very nice, Rhuby, in a long=necked sort of way. The story could be true but it's a stretch.
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Many thanks, comrades
and the next two words are:-
SIXAIN - SKETCH
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A sixain’s a bit of a stretch
A limerick’s five lines just a sketch
But to turn a six line
Into a limerick is fine –
Just get one line lopped off by Jack Ketch!
Nothing like carrying a theme through, is there ...
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As Buff S says: "heh,heh"
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Getting a bit hung up n this theme, aren't we?
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I sit here on a riverbank to compose a ribald rhyme
The lush greenery distracts the riparian scene sublime
Stupid nature just grows
Mindlessly grows and grows
Then I remember that I am as well a part of the slime
UNDULATION - UNFOLD
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THE VOYEUR
Her bright blue eyes and golden tress,
Soft undulations ’neath her dress,
He looks upon, with gaze so bold -
And waits to see her drapes unfold
FOLIATE - FOOD
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... er, where's the limerick then, matey? You pulling some Scouser trick on us then?
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:)))) Sometimes a man gets poetical and it might not even as well be spring....
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Limerick is not a strict rule - and never has bin, culley. I have broken out into sixtrains and iambic pentameteters in the past, if the sentimeent of the topic demands it. This is the first time I've used a Khayyamic quatrain, but.
So there! :)-
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Not to change the subject but... is that form a Kayyamic quatrain or rather a Fitzgerald-translationic quatrain? I know most of Homer in English is iambic pentameter but the original Greek, IIRC, was dactylic hexameter. What did Omar write in?
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Perfect form and message.
With the read I became the voyeur.
Thank you, Commando.
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It is Fitgeraldian - almost. Strictly speaking, the rhymes whould be A, A, B, A.
It could more properly have read:-
Her bright blue eyes and tresses gold,
He looks upon, with gaze so bold;
Soft undulations ’neath her dress:
He waits to see her drapes unfold
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Yeah but I wonder; is there a ear here that can't hear with the eye the clear superiority of the first? Fixed structures restrict Art. 
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True Art is to transcend the restrictions of the fixed structures. (discuss!
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True Art is to transcend the restrictions of the fixed structures. (discuss! Uh, didn't I just say that? 
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Well, jj, my hearin' ain't that a-cute, I guess, but what I heerd wus that you-all said,
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Well, jj, my hearin' ain't that a-cute, I guess, but what I heerd wus that you-all said, wus -
"Fixed structures restrict Art."
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Fixed structures restrict Art. All generalizations are wrong! 
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Yeahbut your generalizations, Trombonator; are the most wrongest in transliteration. Tighten up.
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Well, jj, my hearin' ain't that a-cute, I guess, but what I heerd wus that you-all said, wus -
"Fixed structures restrict Art." See how it goes when you turn it around. Art restricts fixed structures. The "truth" lies somewhere in between.
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Yeah bigmouth, now what? Hunting Season ended yesterday and you're still up this damn tree trying to bag a deer. Where's Jessie? He's in the lodge, eating cracking cornbread and drinking Sweet Lucy whiskey while I ain't et since Thursday.
"I'll eat when I climb down from the damn treestand to get the nine point food that I shot", my bigmouth had said.
This is my third day in the tree. I'm hungry, I'm thirsty, I'm hallucinating. Last night I dreamed that fat and well antlered deer were everywhere, behind each bush, up in the tree, even flying about in the sky. Then I woke up to a gray sky and empty woods. But wait! Not fifty yards away in the foliage I heard a russle. The evergreen leaves moved slightly as the deer came closer. I raised my Remmington and fired and heard a scream. Hmm, I thought, deer don't scream.
"Oh Sweet Jesus" I cried. "I've shot Jessie!"
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A great short story, jj, I loved it - close to the objective but, I fear, no cigar! the second word was FOLIATE, not FOLIAGE
So, this one is still open, I believe?
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Wait! wait! Jessie was just wounded not dead. Oh well, go ahead, make my day; maybe you'll mess up too.
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Sweet jj - remeber the words of Baden-Powell: " The [person] who never made a mistake, never made anything!" So far as I'm concerned, well; mistakes [shrug] I've made a few; but then, again, too few to mention. 
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Sweet jj...So far as I'm concerned, well; mistakes [shrug] I've made a few; but then, again, too few to mention. Listen loverboy, I've been to picture shows and indoor dances. You can't fool me. You stole that pick-up line from Frank Sinatra... Regrets, I've had a few
But then again, too few to mention
I did what I had to do and saw it through without exemption
I planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this, I did it my wayI have the record. 
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Obviously , you stole this one from Lauren Bacall in the 1942 movie 'Casablanca'.
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Obviously , you stole this one from Lauren Bacall in the 1942 movie 'Casablanca'. Yes dear BranShea; good lines, I've stole a few [shrugs] but then, again, to few to mention. So I won't. Unless I'm caught, and put in detention. 
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