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Open Poetry #39

A Darkling Poet

Grinch
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since 2005-12-31

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Whoville

0 posted 2006-10-11 05:37 PM

(The Thrush Replies to Thomas Hardy)

I perched above a coppice gate
One bloody freezing day,
I felt a bit disconsolate
My wife had flown away
And great black clouds all gathered round
Like someone burning tyres
I wish that mankind had not found
That knack for starting fires

A poet stood beneath my tree
Tom Hardy was his name
So I chirped a soliloquy
To ask of him his game:
“ Oi Thomas find another gate
To lean your arse upon
I’m trying to attract a mate
I lost me other one.”

The duffer then starts smiling up;
Some Cheshire cat gone mad,
Like he’d just found a golden cup
He never knew he had
I wished the stupid git would go
And sling his bleeding hook
But as I sang a song or two
He scribbled in his book

Why didn’t he just go away?
The chicks were running scared
That plonker poet was in the way
Of me and my new bird!
Just then a fear began to grow;
His smile began to haunt
Could Thomas Hardy somehow know
Some secret that I don’t?

Pilgrimage
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since 2001-12-04

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Texas, USA

1 posted 2006-10-13 04:05 PM

I love this one! I love the way the bird talks and it's so funny and real too.

Nan (Pilgrim variety)

Grinch
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since 2005-12-31

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Whoville

2 posted 2006-10-13 07:07 PM

thanks for the reply.

I really should have included the poem that this was an answer to.
http://www.englishverse.com/poems/the_darkling_thrush

The Lady
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since 2005-12-26

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The Southwest

3 posted 2006-10-14 12:45 PM

it's truly delightful!

Marge Tindal

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Florida's Foreverly Shores

4 posted 2006-10-14 08:17 AM

Grinch~
A wonderful read ... the Thomas Hardy link was very helpful too~

*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

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TomMark
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since 2007-07-27

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LA,CA

5 posted 2008-01-06 07:02 PM

Love this one.

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