A round the island Pome - I never knew

[harry potter]

There I was
Sitting on a buoy - outside Yarmouth

 

[FullCircle]

Don't give up the day job.

 

[Twister_Ken]

S'not a pome
Don't rhyme (pronounced "rome")

 

[jhr]

'Tis a pome
Albeit home-
ly. Could be worse:
It's blank verse

 

[Twister_Ken]

Arghh, from bad to verse.

 

[FullCircle]

I went for a job
as a poet
they said you're a knob,
just stow it.

 

[DaveS]

Pomes

ISTR a rather good post from a year or so back that started

"A bunch or rough Jocks on a site
Wrote poems that were really quite sh!te..."

Can't remember any more...

 

[tmh900]

Dear Harry Potter,

ah... the oil companies which are there to satify our insatiable need (or greed?)
for the black liquid, which to mine is not without risks
to form our placcy hulls and power our iron sails
and transport us to our steed in warmer climes
who will tell our decendents we could'nt cure our depenedence?
don't celebrate him, but don't hate him

 

[fastjedi]

I wonder how long it will be before someone blames him for the spill in Southampton Water. Its a clear case, he has form for oil spills and was there on or around the time it happened

 

[chewi]

To "Harry Potter"

Get your facts right "Harry"
At 5 am he was at best on the start line, or waiting according to his class flag.
Can you spit there from Yarmouth?
Maybe YOU can, but it does you no credit to claim so. nor does it to noit know how to spell "poem"

Are you better positioned than he is to resolve the problem he probably didn't personally create? (It was American kit on lease to BP that failed to cut off the line)

If so apply for the job and reveal your ignorance, if not, button it and leave the guy alone to find the answers. I'm sure he has lost enough sleep over it already.


For a first post that really was actually pretty offensive.

Goodbye Harry.

 

[BlueSkyNick]

The boy stood on the burning deck,
Looking for his rollocks,
Just like the poem that started this thread
This is just a load of bollox.

 

[dk]

Maybe YOU can, but it does you no credit to claim so. nor does it to noit know how to spell "poem"

Whoops - it appears the spelling bug can get us all!

 

[Bosun Higgs]

I always though Charlie was something stronger.

 

[Mulge]

I wonder how long it will be before someone blames him for the spill in Southampton Water. Its a clear case, he has form for oil spills and was there on or around the time it happened

Reading the artcile I assumed that we'd being seeing the boy Cameron on television demanding to know who's ass to kick and calling for Rex Tillerson (Exxon CEO) to be hung drawn and quartered.

As for the reporting of Tony Hayward's participation in the RTIR whilst one would expect no better from the White House I did think that the Sunday Times was showing a bit too much of its stablemate's tendancies in making so much of it. I hope he enjoyed the time on the water as a respite from the relentless pressure he is under and a chance to replenish the batteries for the difficult weeks and months ahead.

 

[harry potter]

Apologies

You are quite absolutely right.

Round the island race was beyond belief from Yarmouth - saw Wave and Ecover chasing across the Solent at dawn, ICAP (Leopard) in the marginal lead - it was stupendous. So 5:37 was nearer the mark. And the sunrise!!

That was a truly unbelievable experience. So why was I so nasty?

Aren't we so lucky?

Cheers

 

[Boreades]

Dear Harry Potter,

ah... the oil companies which are there to satify our insatiable need (or greed?)
for the black liquid, which to mine is not without risks
to form our placcy hulls and power our iron sails
and transport us to our steed in warmer climes
who will tell our decendents we could'nt cure our depenedence?
don't celebrate him, but don't hate him

My God, that's worthy of the great and unlamented William Topaz McGonagall

 

[tmh900]

My God, that's worthy of the great and unlamented William Topaz McGonagall

TBH, I'm so ignorant of the literary world, I am not even sure if that is a compliment or otherwise I think I'll tell folks I'm an 'internationally recognised poet' anyway (well its an international forum innit).

 

[Kilter]

TBH, I'm so ignorant of the literary world, I am not even sure if that is a compliment or otherwise I think I'll tell folks I'm an 'internationally recognised poet' anyway (well its an international forum innit).

William Topaz McGonagall, poet and tragedian of Dundee, has been widely hailed as the writer of the worst poetry in the English language..

http://www.mcgonagall-online.org.uk/

Of course the Vogons are considered to be worse!

"Oh freddled gruntbuggly/thy micturations are to me/As plurdled gabbleblotchits on a lurgid bee.

Groop I implore thee, my foonting turlingdromes. And hooptiously drangle me with crinkly bindlewurdles,

Or I will rend thee in the gobberwarts with my blurglecruncheon, see if I don't!"

 

[AntarcticPilot]

TBH, I'm so ignorant of the literary world, I am not even sure if that is a compliment or otherwise I think I'll tell folks I'm an 'internationally recognised poet' anyway (well its an international forum innit).

Here

McGonagall is renowned as the worst poet to be published in English. "The Tay Bridge Disaster" is an object lesson in "How not to do it".

 

[tmh900]

Thanks gents, I'm truly flattered

By way of an encore, can I offer this one to be completed collobaratively:

There was a young lady from Cowes,
Who concealed Tony Hayward in her Blouse,

....