Is That Your Grammar? (or why I flunked high school english) revised

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Is That Your Grammar? (or why I flunked high school english) revised

Mike
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since 1999-06-19

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0 posted 2000-02-24 02:50 PM

Is that your participle dangling
...there upon the floor?
You look just like my grammar,
...have we ever metaphor?
Once you were an adjective,
...now you are a pronoun,
I ran in a pentameter,
...iambic not a noun,
It's time for my sestina,
...oxymoron I've been called,
Parsing gerunds on my forehead,
...kerfuffle, going bald,
I had a preposition,
...conjugation was my aim,
Redundantly intransitive,
...possessive she became,
My car is discombobulated,
...did puncuate my tire,
Alliteration with a match,
...to meter my desire.

Christmastime at homonym,
Some eggnog with some synonym,
Parsely, sage, rosemary and rhyme,
I pay my syntax April time.

If odist seems nonsensical,
...sonnets will agree,
My object is adverbial,
...Praise be my Simile!

suthern

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since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

1 posted 2000-02-24 02:58 PM

I love this, Mike!! Well done!

Martie

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

2 posted 2000-02-24 04:42 PM

Tim, I think you just passed english 1A, with a splash of graduate honor's humor, you are a pro.

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

3 posted 2000-02-24 05:16 PM

this is EXCELLENT...witty creative and well written...I enjoyed this. great work!!
take care, janet marie

...there are places inside all our souls...
that have never been touched...
there are places inside our hearts...
that need to be loved this much...
Janet Marie

*I miss you baby...
I love you, always.*

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

4 posted 2000-02-24 05:39 PM

All I can say is , next to this , my whimsy is flimsy
Doc

Corinne
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since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

5 posted 2000-02-24 05:45 PM

How very clever this poem is!

Enjoyed it much!

Corinne

Denise

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since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

6 posted 2000-02-24 10:59 PM

Mike, this is great!! How creative!!

Denise

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

7 posted 2000-02-24 11:51 PM

CLEVER, and wickedly funny to an x-english
'major'! (No pop quizzes, please!) I usually write stuff better suited to the
DARK PASSIONS forum, but I prefer to post
here for the levity...Thanx.

Meadowmuse
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since 1999-12-27

Posts 3263

8 posted 2000-02-25 01:50 AM

Mike, this poem is Capital! Superlative! Not only that, it makes a lot of tense! I know, I know, it's past my bedtime...time to split infinitives...goodnight!

Claire

Mike
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since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

9 posted 2000-02-25 08:26 AM

Glad you all enjoyed. Claire, would split infinitives with you anytime. Dr. Moose... er... better not respond to your flimsy whimsy. Martie, why didn't I have any teachers respond like that while I was still in school? Denise, suthern, Janet Marie,
Corinne and serenity... thank you muchly for the gracious replies.

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