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Damian DeadLove
9 months, 1 week ago

Cleverly penned, Rascal. Excellent write my friend. He’s a walking punchline. lol. Appreciate you.

Damian
- RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Thank you, Damian, most gratefully for the encouraging kudos,
  
  I hope your holidays have been filled with joy and laughter.
  Yes, Trump is quite the iniquitous bump.
  
  You’re appreciated, too, M’Friend! ⁓ Richard🖌
Duhsjaak
9 months, 1 week ago

Hoi @Rascal
Light verse has a very very special place in the hearts of the Dutch.
There was a time, Some 40 years ago, that I met THE promotor of Dutch higgeldy piggeldies/olleke bollekes every first Tuesday of the month.

So i must have written hundreds of them. Most of them as part of lyrics for songs, almost all of them in Dutch.
And a few in English. One I remember where ‘sustainabiliy’ was the key word. But looking for this one is impossible.

The very long and very impressive artistic life of Carole king, began with ‘O Neil’. An answersong to O Carol by Neil Sedaka.
With that in mind I decided to write an olleke bolleke to you. An answer song or thereabouts.

I
Donald Trump wat is dat
Nog niet genoeg gehad
Tijd voor wat vrije tijd
Dat komt goed uit

II
Wordt geen misdaad geschuwd
Naar de afgrond geduwd
Wanneer is het genoeg
B’donder de kluit

What I like about it, is that it’s full of letters/pronounciations the English language doesn’t have.
I love your poem to pieces. Thank you for posting!
Kind regards, Gus
- RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Greetings, Gus 🌿
  
  I’ve written a few Higgledy Piggledy pieces, finding them enormously entertaining to compose, if a bit fairly challenging … which I always enjoy, too!
  
  I
  Donald Trump, what is that?
  Haven’t had enough yet?
  Time for some free time
  That works out well
  
  II
  No crime is spared
  Pushed to the brink of the abyss
  When is enough enough?
  Damn the whole lot
  
  Yeah! When pronounced, comparing my English version with your Dutch version, I see what you mean by the fuller experience, and I completely agree.
  
  “Trump’s Bloody Stump” (in Dutch)
  
  Rommelig en chaotisch…
  onze oranje man, Donald Trump,
  trapt in zijn eigen valkuil
  met bizarre poses.
  
  Hij bijt zich vast in zijn eigen enkel
  terwijl hij onbegrijpelijk
  en dwaas
  gekke uitspraken doet.
  
  Ha-HAH! Poetry is such an endless smorgasbord of creative delight!
  Thanks, Gus, for sharing some of it with me! ⁓ Rascal🖌
Fia Naturie
9 months, 1 week ago

Love the comically playfulness of the write.
- RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Many thanks, Dear Fia, for dropping by for a read 🤓
  
  I’m so glad I’ve tickled your funny bone, and am truly grateful that you love anything about my poetry!
  
  “Happy Holidays, Dear Poetess!” ⁓ Rascal🍷
Backdeckbenny (Peter)
9 months, 1 week ago

Delightful piece in every way.Quite the opposite of the orange buffoon.
His ascent to POTUS surely must put to bed the notion of an all caring,all loving,all knowing God.
🙏
- RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
  8 months, 2 weeks ago
  
  Salutations, Peter ✨
  
  The most basic sensibilities would struggle to disagree with your well founded sentiments of our orange tinted Potus, Syr Poet … he’s emphatically that depraved!
  
  Thanks bushels for reading and your much appreciated compliment! ⁓ Rascal🖌
RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
3 months, 2 weeks ago

FUCK OFF!
RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
3 months, 2 weeks ago

FUCK OFF!
FlatDaddy
1 month ago

Well, I shudder to think I may be rewarded for my comments by a triple play on words if I include the two previous pos(t)ers, but I do like your HIGGLEDY PIGGLEDY
- FlatDaddy
  1 month ago
  
  … especially the two lines,’ sticks his foot in his mouth with weird posings.” (Please forgive my combining them here for greater clarity). I noticed some differences in structure, i.e., your piece uses a 4,6,6,4 verse structure, while my double dactyl uses a 6,6,6,4 structure. Why is this? Some Dutch “foregotten lore” perhaps? Speaking of the Orange One, I have a senryu posted here you might like: “Doughy Goliath,” just a short bit of fun while I’m learning other poetic structures like Senryu and Haiku. https://starsrite.com/articles-essays/doughy-goliath/
  
  I looked at the Dutch bits above and wish I could read them — they look like a lot of fun.
  
  This looks very odd because my page crashed as I was typing this, so I encluded the lost part in this 2nd post.
  - RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS
    1 week, 5 days ago
    
    Thank you most happily, Syr 😃
    
    For “liking” those two lines and sharing my humble effort here … albeit, somewhat shamelessly out-of-sorts from the norm; seems I may have been attempting to somewhat correlate with our Dutch friend, Gus’, style. But, I’ve slept a lot since; so, who knows … LOL! Still, as my Higgledy Piggledy (not a true Double Dactyl) is ©2018, I probably selected something to share with his version I’d written off-the-cuff back when(?).
    In learning Haiku & Senryu, did you, perhaps, refer to my “Back To Poetry Basics https://starsrite.com/groups/back-to-basics/” lessons site on these two forms?
    
    Thanks again, M’Friend! 🙏
    Ain’t poetry an endlessly entertaining and challenging art? ⁓ Rascal🖌
FlatDaddy
1 week, 5 days ago

Frankly, I don’t recall what or who or where or when or how long I studied, but it wasn’t from anything on this site.
By the way, I was experimenting with different rhyme schemes and came up with one of my own you might try and see if you like it. I haven’t given it a name, but maybe, “Maddening” might fit. The piece is up here, Terpsickore: an Experiment in Rhyme” https://starsrite.com/uncategorized/terpsickore-an-experiment-in-rhyme/ . I misspelled Terpsickore on purpose because of all the fits it gave me, and it did seem like a dance, so …. If you like it, maybe you can come up with a better name for the rhyme scheme, something more technical. I’m not much of a technician, nor am I that well “formally” educated. I’ve learned mostly from just looking at what other folks have done and trying stuff that I find interesting or just to see what works. My degree is from Hard Knocks U, Richard. I did attend the U. of Texas, for a bit, as a Drama major.

Neville
9 months, 1 week ago

This is seriously lovely and not only took my breath away but replaced some of the cold of a very cold day with some much needed warmth .. Neville
- Backdeckbenny (Peter)
  9 months, 1 week ago
  
  Thank you Neville.
  
  Words that make others warm are the best words.🙏
Amethyste
9 months, 1 week ago

This is very nice.
Damian DeadLove
9 months, 1 week ago

Beautifully penned, Peter. Excellent write my friend. Nicely done. Appreciate you.

Damian
Thomas W. Case
9 months ago

Powerful work. You bring this to life.
- Backdeckbenny (Peter)
  9 months ago
  
  Thanks for reading and your kind comment.🙏

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