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Not A Poet
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since 1999-11-03

Posts 3885
Oklahoma, USA

0 posted 2000-01-28 11:51 PM

I know this one isn't worthy of CA but I thought we might use a little levity in here from time to time. I hope the words (concept more likely) are acceptable ~anxiously awaits Brad's DELETE button~ This is little verse version of a little story we have all heard.

I hope it is original enough. It's called . . .

Flying My Kite

A windy day in early May
And I was outside trying
To fly a fancy kite I bought
But it just wasn't flying.

I'd get it up but not for long,
In spite of efforts all
'Twould spin around and dive and then
The blasted thing would fall.

Then from the window yelled my wife,
"Now this just won't suffice.
You look So bloody stupid there",
And offered this advice:

"My dear, I think I know just what
Would surely make it sail.
It seems that what you really need
Is just a little tail."

Ironic words to come from her
For it was just last night
I asked her for that very thing;
She said "Go fly a kite."

Pete

What terms shall I find sufficiently simple in their sublimity --
sufficiently sublime in their simplicity --
for the mere enunciation of my theme?
Edgar Allan Poe

Trevor
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since 1999-08-12

Posts 700
Canada

1 posted 2000-01-29 01:44 AM

Funny stuff Pete, great ending.....needed a laugh, thanks.
Trevor

jbouder
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since 1999-09-18

Posts 2534
Whole Sort Of Genl Mish Mash

2 posted 2000-01-29 07:23 AM

Pete, you're a cheeseball!

I read this to my wife a few minutes ago and she is still laughing about it. The meter and rhyme was the icing on the cake for this one. Never choppy, never forced, and so much more fun to write, I bet, than those blasted sonnets!

Thanks for the laugh and my wife thanks you too.

Later.

Jim

"If I rest, I rust." - Martin Luther

caul
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since 2000-01-07

Posts 12

3 posted 2000-01-29 07:34 AM

Thanks for the laugh, everyone needs one every now and again.

Yes, I admit your general rule. That every poet is a fool:
But I myself may serve to show it. That every fool is not a poet.

warmhrt
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since 1999-12-18

Posts 1563

4 posted 2000-01-29 11:06 PM

Pete,
A great big LOL! I'm sure if I heard it in an English accent, delivered in a droll manner, it would be hilarious.

Nice work, Pete,
Kristine

Not A Poet
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since 1999-11-03

Posts 3885
Oklahoma, USA

5 posted 2000-07-11 11:15 AM

Well, since we seem to be writing suggestive sorts of poems these days, I thought I would join in

and be part of the "in crowd." I don't have any new ideas so to make it easy on myself, I'm bringing back this old one. Hope nobody objects too much about that

Pete

[This message has been edited by Not A Poet (edited 07-11-2000).]

Poertree
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since 1999-11-05

Posts 1359
UK

6 posted 2000-07-11 01:38 PM

Gawd Pete ..how did i miss this first time .... and i even read it in an english accent ...lol.... worthy of CA and more i think ... very very funny and extremely clever ..perfect and appropriate meter ... what more can i said except ...

"beat that ladies !!!" heh heh ..one up to the guys i reckon ....

now if that last comment doesn't retrieve jenni from wherever she is i dunno what will !!!

thanks pete

Elyse
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since 2000-04-16

Posts 414
Apex (think raleigh) NC

7 posted 2000-07-11 02:49 PM

yay pete! and i would like to officially invite you to participate in the publication i am putting out - "Naughty Poems: Food for the Gutter Mind" so funny. big smiles

luv Elyse

mysticharm
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since 2000-06-08

Posts 189
Canada

8 posted 2000-07-12 05:18 PM

Hi Pete

Very witty

The count is going up I see, peaches, cake, cream(with a hint of chicken) and now kite LOL

I'm afraid to comment further LOL.

debbie

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YeshuJah Malikk
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since 2000-06-29

Posts 263

9 posted 2000-07-12 10:43 PM

Pete. Very funny. I got a kick out of that. The last line is a riot. Keep 'em coming. I could do with a good laugh every now and then.

captaincargo
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since 1999-11-25

Posts 109
Corning, N.Y. U.S.A.

10 posted 2000-07-12 10:58 PM

Lovin it!! Just lovin it.

Saw where it was going right off the "bat". But I had a great time getting there even still.

Cap.

Cap. Carg.

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