The Truth Be Known (Repost of Classic Balladeer Poem)

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Toerag
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since 1999-07-29

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Ala bam a

0 posted 2000-01-19 10:38 AM

I've been posting here for quite sometime,
And it's time that I admit;
If it weren't for Toe and LongJohn,
I couldn't have posted s#!t!

LongJohn's taught me so very much,
How to dance and write romance,
But everything else with the hearts I touch,
I didn't learn by chance.

For you see it's not been me,
'bout everything else I know,
I must give due where credit's due,
I learned it all from Toe!

LongJohn's taught me diction,
Adjectives-big words and nouns,
How to put them into rhyme,
Before I write them down.

Toerag on the other hand,
Taught me how to handle failure,
He said I could learn that easily;
"Don't emulate the sailor."

So just a little confession,
To where I learned such class,
It's been LongJohn and Toerag,
That kept me from showing my ass.

(Thanks for sending this to me LongJohn, I'd forgotten all about it)

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

1 posted 2000-01-19 10:42 AM

ROFLMAO... Well, you DID warn him to keep that armor handy! LOL.

Great job... one of Balladeer's most enjoyable ones! *EG*

Local Rebel
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Southern Abstentia

2 posted 2000-01-19 10:58 AM

ROFLMAO!

WhtDove
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Illinois

3 posted 2000-01-19 10:59 AM

LMBO!! I agree with Suthern there.

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Where there is faith,
there is love.
Where there is love,
there is peace.
Where there is peace,
there is GOD.
Where there is GOD,
there is no need.

Hallmark

fc
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4 posted 2000-01-19 11:49 AM

thanks for the smiles, great poem

RainbowGirl
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since 1999-07-31

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5 posted 2000-01-19 12:04 PM

One things for sure, you really know how to make us all smile..

HUSG

Don't ask me where I'm going, just listen when I'm gone and far away you'll hear me singing softly to the dawn.

Toerag
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since 1999-07-29

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Ala bam a

6 posted 2000-01-19 04:05 PM

I'm sorry people, (very few by the way), had the nerve to laugh at such a fine poem 'deer.
I think it was quite honest and kind of you to write it...Yassee what happens when ya get serious about complimenting me and LongJohn?.....It's a damn dirty shame I'll tell ya.......

[This message has been edited by Toerag (edited 01-19-2000).]

Balladeer

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since 1999-06-05

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7 posted 2000-01-19 04:45 PM

Well, Toe, my friend, I must agree
I've learned some things, all right.
I've learned so much of poetry
Since you've been on this site.

I used to think that it was right,
At least some of the time,
That, when one writes a rhyming poem,
The words are supposed to rhyme!!

You blew away that fallacy
And proved it so untrue.
Now I know "door" and "hard" DO rhyme
And it's all thanks to you.

I used to think it added to
A poem and made it sweeter
If one would take the time to try
To use some kind of meter.

How wrong I was!!! There is no need
To make the lines seem fluid.
Just chop them up like Lizzie B.
And write like Toe the Druid!

And, finally, I thought it good
If, even by pretense,
One took the time and effort to
Write something that made sense.

Oh, boy!! Now, how naiive was that?!
Those years I spent so blind!
When all I had to do was write
Like I had lost my mind!

Thank you, Toe. You freed me from
Those silly rules I knew.
I'm getting a lobotomy
So I can write like you!!!!

(after further consideration, I think this needs a post of it's own! hehe)

[This message has been edited by Balladeer (edited 01-19-2000).]

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

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Louisiana

8 posted 2000-01-19 05:31 PM

Yassee there, Toe!!! You inspired him!!! And that door much have hit him very hard when he saw this classic work posted... right in the ole speller! LOL. Or else his lobotomy was a success... and preceded him posting his "rewsponse" as a separate poem? LOL

Denise

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9 posted 2000-01-19 06:25 PM

hehehe......you all are a laugh a minute!!

Andrew Scott
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Redlands,CA,USA

10 posted 2000-01-19 06:30 PM

LOL.... thanks for laughs, both Toe and Balladeer.

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

11 posted 2000-01-19 06:59 PM

Toe,
I enjoyed the poem, but if you don't mind I'll stay on the side lines. Sy

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