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Read MorePoetry wasn’t a choice.It showed up at my doorlike a small, rabid animalI needed to nurture. Like a scar,like my eye color. Before book sales,before applause,before anyone gave a damn. I was jaded by color.Sunsets weren’t cute.They were edible —pink and orange,soul...
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Thank you.
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Brilliantly penned, Thomas. Preach my brother, preach! You nailed this out of the park. Excellent write my friend. Appreciate you.
Damian
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Thank you, my friend.
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Awesome.
Indeed, it’s that little angel/demon upon our shoulder, compelling us to write something, anything, to relieve the pressure of wanting to say something to the void. Life?Love?Pain?Loss? All of it.
Your write is terrific. I think we all write “for ourselves”. yet to have someone acknowledge our words does mean a lot. It makes us feel like it does matter, after all.-
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Thank you. I agree…it is nice when someone acknowleges us.
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Excellent ink & Not a single drop wasted .. Neville 😎👍
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Thank you, my friend.
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Yep. That’s just the way it is. We create because that’s how we deal with the world.
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so true.
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That last stanza…is everything. It’s never about accolades. It’s because we must. Damn…
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So true.
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RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS and
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Read More"Trump's Bloody Stump"Higgledy piggledy …our orange man, Donald Trump,sticks his foot in his mouthwith weird posings.Chews off his ankle whileincomprehensiblyspouting out foolishlymad disclosings.Rascal©2018
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Cleverly penned, Rascal. Excellent write my friend. He’s a walking punchline. lol. Appreciate you.
Damian
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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🖌
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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 uitII
Wordt geen misdaad geschuwd
Naar de afgrond geduwd
Wanneer is het genoeg
B’donder de kluitWhat 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!
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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!
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Donald Trump, what is that?
Haven’t had enough yet?
Time for some free time
That works out wellII
No crime is spared
Pushed to the brink of the abyss
When is enough enough?
Damn the whole lotYeah! 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🖌
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Love the comically playfulness of the write.
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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🍷
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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.
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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🖌
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FUCK OFF!
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FUCK OFF!
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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
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… 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.
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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🖌
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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.
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Read MoreFroward.I found the word highlighted in my Bible.I remember liking how it rolled off my tongue. And thinking about tongues,all the women I loved over the years came to mind.Red dresses dancingbetween shots of rock gutand sloppy bar bands. Wayward.Full of...
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Powerfully penned, Thomas. Excellent storytelling my friend. Nicely done as always. Appreciate you.
Damian
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Thank you, my friend. I appreciate it.
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Brilliant .. sums it up perfectly .. Neville
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Thank you Neville. I appreciate you.
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This is fantastic poetry writing my friend! Gritty, strong, like a shot of whiskey. Colorful, great story telling, and imagery. Great work.
John
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Thank you. Much appreciated.
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Waw raw and I can see the imagery in this.
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Thank you so much.
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Goldenmyst said it accurately. I concur wholeheartedly.
But, thunderbird? My god, man. At the least Seagrams 7 !!! LOL
This is very good writing. A bullseye on a dartboard of a swanky bar life.
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lol. Thank you, my friend.
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Outstanding and real. Nice work.
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Thank you.
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I love how you wove it all together into a cohesive story. There’s an underlying homage to the women and their fire and marks left on you that ties this all together so beautifully. I can’t help but think you made a difference in their existence as well. Fire water or no, this one is brilliant
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Thank you. I appreciate you.
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RICHARD "Rascal" JENKINS posted in the group ”BACK TO POETRY BASICS”
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“POETRY, A FEW IMPORTANT BASICS”
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“WHAT EVERY POETESS OR POET SHOULD KNOW”
by RW Jenkins, MFA ©2004If one’s goal or wish is to ever master the true art of poetry (as in any art form), whether it’s in oils, watercolor, or acrylic…Read More
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Thank you most gratefully, SeaCat, Dru, and Fia!
Appreciation is such a wonderful gift to receive. 🙏
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The last stanza is brilliant. Love it and the poem. Great work!