CLERIHEW

[Slava]

The scrivener Slava,
Filled with palava',
Who posts to the Agora board,
Hopes you aren't too bored.

[LukeJavan8]

You hit the nail on he head, and did it with a poem
from this thread's theme. Congrats.

And remember I was criticized highly for digging
up dead posts to get the site moving.

[Slava]

You hit the nail on he head, and did it with a poem
from this thread's theme. Congrats.

And remember I was criticized highly for digging
up dead posts to get the site moving.

Actually, that was not what you were criticized for:

...a stream of self-indulgent incoherency that serves only to dilute real discussions on the topics we originally came for.
...a cacophony of vapid personal whimsy, with or without a contribution

For the whole discussion, see Chaos II.

[LukeJavan8]

I am totally aware of the "vapid" discussion you are
likewise famous for.
But sluggo wrote me and criticized me for digging up
old threads and posting them and monopolizing the
site. People who live in glass houses.....

[saparris]

Can't we all just get along?

Love,

Rodney King

[Perry]

By the way, maybe I am a bore. (Although I hope not.) But I noticed that we had gotten away from the challenge, and wanted to start the ball rolling. Looks like it worked.

[saparris]

How's this?

saparris
Did not write Solaris
The movie or book
He did not undertook

[LukeJavan8]

By the way, maybe I am a bore. (Although I hope not.) But I noticed that we had gotten away from the challenge, and wanted to start the ball rolling. Looks like it worked.

If some of us stray from the topic we get criticized,
not so others however.

[saparris]

By the way, maybe I am a bore. (Although I hope not.) But I noticed that we had gotten away from the challenge, and wanted to start the ball rolling. Looks like it worked

Well, there really was no challenge made. Audiendus apparently "divined" that a challenge was intended (Audiendi are like that) and others followed suit.

[Audiendus]

This might be a good one for some of the Agora's newer members to play with. They did get a couple of group poem exercises together, so perhaps...?

Audiendus
Thinks that Slava did intend us
(Since the group poems were the work of very few)
To write a clerihew.

If I can engage my brain
I may rise to the challenge again;
The badinage about an ilk
Is perhaps something I can milk.

[Slava]

Slava thought,
As perhaps he ought,
That the few
Would write their own Clerihew.



Moo. Milk it for all it's worth.

[saparris]

This might be a good one for some of the Agora's newer members to play with. They did get a couple of group poem exercises together, so perhaps...?

Slava, Slava, au contrary [that's Frenglish]
Started the one called "Blues for Mary"
Perry and Stargzer joined Calliope's cartel
Them poems wusn't just for new farts, but for old farts as well

[Stargzer]

...
If I can engage my brain
I may rise to the challenge again;
The badinage about an ilk
Is perhaps something I can milk.

Ooh, badinage! That's a good one; I had to look it up! It's not in the Goodword Dictionary, but it was listed Ferrus' New Year's Resoluation (sic), "Words to add to my active vocabulary."

Or should I have said:

Ooh, Badinage! Now, that's a real good'n'!
It's not in the Doctor's Goodword Diction'.
Nary another post except this one:
Ferrus' New Year's "Resoluation (sic)."


Audiendus igitur ...

[saparris]

FYI, I've started Group Poem Exercise V, for the old, the young, and the in-between. It's under Res Diversae.

[MTC]

Doctor Beard is his name.

Words are his game.

With a Language Blog

He clears the fog