http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: OT: tips for creative poems, haikus etc en Wed, 13 May 2026 04:24:07 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261500 Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:32:10 +0000 gembo 261500@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Here is a poem</p> <p>Pearl Diver</p> <p>the oyster is his world </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261496 Sun, 24 Sep 2017 19:28:10 +0000 unhurt 261496@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think you have to share your writing when it's done!</p> <p>Also, I'm off to make another poetry topic... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261410 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 10:14:20 +0000 SRD 261410@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think gembo gets the jar of jam....</p> <p>Thanks for the inspiration. </p> <p>Academic colleagues will appreicate that it is possible (barely) to get references to the REF, NSS and sabbatical leave into a 17th century hymn, if you don't care too much about scansion and totally ignore rhyme. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261407 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 09:39:14 +0000 gembo 261407@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Try the first stanza of bunyan's original lyric of To Be A Pilgrim</p> <p>Everyone can sing it, communal singing is good but for chrissakes keep it short. These poems and songs at leaving dos go on for fecking ages</p> <p>Say your boss is called MacDonald</p> <p>Replace A Pilgrim with Mac Donald</p> <p>To Be MacDonald</p> <p>This scans but is a bit blunt, however it is the best I can do.</p> <p>The words of the first verse are however most encouraging and not very religious. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261406 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 09:37:01 +0000 wingpig 261406@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Donate a year's worth of hedgehog? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261404 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 09:30:46 +0000 SRD 261404@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>you guys are the best...but i'm not any closer to composing my bloody poem. why can't i just give her a jar of jam? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261318 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 09:06:07 +0000 wingpig 261318@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>If you can't find any apposite rhymes for their three-syllable name, just go for a weird/patchy meter/rhyme scheme and read it out in a pompous, declamatory tone. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261309 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 08:10:40 +0000 I were right about that saddle 261309@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>In addition to the syllable pattern haikus have to have an oblique style, a seasonal reference and a melancholy tone. </p> <p>Would your colleague appreciate such a poem?</p> <p>PS In what way is this off topic? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261300 Fri, 22 Sep 2017 00:33:05 +0000 acsimpson 261300@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>This terrible lim'rick's taboo<br /> Because it ends on line 2</p> <p>When the Beatles wrote the music for Yesterday they struggled to think of A 3 syllabled lyric. So your boss' name would fit into it nicely. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261299 Thu, 21 Sep 2017 23:21:37 +0000 dessert rat 261299@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>what to buy for the person who has everything ?? Not sure this is a clever gift, but it is still making me laugh.</p> <p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAUmgE3WyM" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAUmgE3WyM</a></p> <p>mine arrived this morning and has been assembled this evening.</p> <p>I may never get bored of it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261296 Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:58:47 +0000 Greenroofer 261296@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I had a colleague called Jilly who left recently, so I wrote her a limerick. It was difficult. I only realised later that in my effort to avoid the obvious rhyme (this was work, after all) I'd missed the unobvious equivalent of 'will he?', which would have worked rather well.</p> <p>My point with this is that limericks are particularly good if they are full of double entrendres, and deliver the risque rhymes your audience expect, but in an office-friendly way.</p> <p>The limerick packs laughs anatomical<br /> In a space that is quite economical.<br /> The good ones I've seen<br /> So seldom are clean,<br /> and the clean ones so seldom are comical. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261293 Thu, 21 Sep 2017 21:44:11 +0000 gembo 261293@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>There was a young man from Japan<br /> Whose limericks didn't quite scan<br /> When asked why<br /> He said because I<br /> Try to put as many words into the last line as I possibly can </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=18162#post-261288 Thu, 21 Sep 2017 20:56:31 +0000 SRD 261288@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You guys are good at this sort of thing...</p> <p>My boss is stepping down and we have developed a 'tradition' of celebrating senior people with clever gifts, rather than flowers, money or trinkets. it's lovely really, but being invited to write a limerick about your boss brings out the worst in us all.</p> <p>So, suggestions for songs/hymns/poems that could easily be adapted to mention someone with a 3 syllable name? or tips for non-rude limericks of haikus?</p> <p>All and any help appreciated.... </p>