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"donnybrook" tiny poem
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"donnybrook" tiny poem |
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netsky Member
since 2005-03-29
Posts 148Miami 
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Object: employ the subject word, "donnybrook", in an epigramatic poem about, for and -only to illustrate- the subject word Fluff with a purpose: fun "Zindu" supplies the definition from which I work in her "word of today" thread at another board: Today's word is DONNYBROOK donnybrook means 1 : free-for-all, brawl 2 : a usually public quarrel or dispute The reason why I picked this word, is because I think the story behind the word is interesting to know "The Donnybrook Fair was an annual event held in Donnybrook—then a suburb of Dublin, Ireland—from the 13th to the 19th centuries. The fair was legendary for the vast quantities of liquor consumed there, for the number of hasty marriages performed during the week following it, and, most of all, for the frequent brawls that erupted throughout it. Eventually, the fair's reputation for tumult was its undoing. From the 1790s on there were campaigns against the drunken brawl the fair had become. The event was abolished in 1855, but not before its name had become a generic term for a free-for-all.". ======================= -donnybrook- "Hey nonny nonny! you damn fool ninny!" shouted Glenn at brother Donny at Donnybrook Fair Donny stood and took it but he really could not brook it so he knifed and sliced Glenn thin. A donnybrook unfair . |
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longte Member
since 2005-04-06
Posts 199Australia |
This is still one of my favourites of yours Cannot understand no other comments Live It |
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merlynh Member
since 1999-09-26
Posts 411deer park, wa |
The information you give was interesting. But I felt you should also incorporate it into your poem. Poems with a story are quite popular and well known. Alas I give up poetry years ago to presume other writing endeavors. Below is an example of what I’m suggesting with some of the information you supplied. A free-for-all and brawls A few drunken marriages Was Donnybrook Fair When Bagpipes were blowing For our brother Glenn “Hey nonny noony!” you damn fool ninny!” Glenn had shouted To borther Donny Who could not brook it So he knifed and sliced Glenn thin. In Dublin. |
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