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ivordavies
Senior Member

since 2007-01-10

Posts 739
Chester, England

0 posted 2007-04-22 03:20 AM

Quantity

In the background programs lurk
ensuring that no members shirk,
to give some a boost to folks like me
for taking time to post quite free.

I'm not so sure that it's quite right
to gain promotion on this site
just by posting quantity,
for that reserved a place for me.

No matter if it's good or bad,
this I find is really sad,
as long as you give quantity
your status then will change
....like me!

But what the hell, the choice is yours,
(though this of course may cause discourse).
A senior member you will be
as long as you give quantity!

But still my thanks to one and all
who helped my quantity to fall
on ‘tentive ears with open hearts
without tearing my work to parts!

I know that I am out of place
and some would say it's a disgrace
to post pure rhyme onto this site
for nowadays rhyme's considered shite.

With no appreciation learned
for freeverse you may think your spurned
when I don't comment on your work,
who is this man 'a total jerk?'

'Tis true that I can seldom see
in freeverse any poetry
but when I do, I state my case,
as beauty stares me in the face.

So rhyming poets of the world
as you see your work unfurled
remember we are dinosaurs
not quite extinct, but in fate's jaws.

Forgive my rambling, in this way
but as conclusion I will say
Thank you all for what you see
...in a rhyming poet's quantity!

Ivor G Davies

p.s. an angel tipped the balance...

The moment created this second, is a moment that's going to last.
It lives the full spectrum of time, the future, the present and past.

Laura Kate
New Member

since 2007-04-21

Posts 2
Illinois

1 posted 2007-04-22 12:11 PM

You had a lot of fun with this one, didn't you! I love it, and it's so true, everything from people just writing anything to look like they're involved to sometimes people just throwing words together.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

2 posted 2007-04-22 01:50 PM

I've always liked rhyming poetry myself but there is some good free verse around too

and yes, you did have fun with this one, for sure. I can tell.

Drauntz
Member Elite

since 2007-03-16

Posts 2905
Los Angeles California

3 posted 2007-04-22 09:18 PM

dear sir, not matter what, you have a place in my heart. i read each of yours because they are from your heart...happy, sad, whine.

enjoyed the poem of great whining.
make me smile.

Fairplay
Member

since 2007-01-15

Posts 222
England

4 posted 2007-04-24 03:16 PM

Hey Ivor

This works in general life all the time....

Remember the useless folk promoted just because they had been in the job so long...

I think it's called senileority

I always remember the adage “Promoted to his highest level of incompetence”

Eric

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