For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I will never understand you,
Mister Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
You may have had the greatest
ever porn star name
And you let it go to waste.
Elämää on runous
kaikilla kielillä.
Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation.
Robert Frost
Effects reflect interests
Pleasure suits time best
I grew up on a road
with two dead ends
A potholed journey
lived in the bends
Scars are the jewellery
of life lived free
Only fighting
the small battles
Makes you small
I look forward
to being an old man
I look behind
To mock youth’s plan
There is no other choice
Once it is made
Love is just a word
Until it is said by the right person
Gnomic
Gnomic poetry consists of sayings that expressed natural, moral, and social truths in a brief, solemn, authoritative manner. They were known by the Greeks as gnomes, from the Greek word for “an opinion”
Weekly Theme:
Forms I’ve Never Attempted
National Poetry Writing Month
(also known as NaPoWriMo)
I loved the Longfellow poem. it made me laugh.
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I mean every word I wrote 😉
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Me too. A funny collection altogether.
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Thank you. A bit of everything as always.
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🤦♀️😂 I though “gnomes” were those cheeky lawn ornaments. I guess that first poem was the long and short of it. 😁😉💙
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So did I before this.
I got lucky with the quote and form combination. Very happy with the wedth and breadth of these fellows 😉💚
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Longfellow i right up there with Woody the Wood Pecker… 😂
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Woody may have grown up to become Longfellow 😂
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‘I grew up on a road
with two dead ends
A potholed journey
lived in the bends’
– I mean this is gravestone material right here!! 🤪
These are glorious Mr Mouse – shows off your versatility to a tee!! 😁👍🖤
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You’re right! Maybe it will be on mine.
Maybe I could find a career writing epitaphs. I actually write one for Nixon coming in a few weeks.
Thank you. Just the jottings if a wandering mind 😉💚
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Sorted.
You do the epitaphs and I’ll do the hallmark cards.
We’ll make a fortune!! 🤣🤣🖤
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And send many to early graves 🤣💚
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Best part!! 🤪🖤
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Truly brilliant ❤
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Thank you, Kate 💚
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I have to agree with all the commenters! The Longfellow poem made me chuckle and the gnomic poetry made me sit up and take notice!!
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Thank you. I think this was my favorite post of the week too.
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I love the Robert Frost quote and the “road with two dead ends” piece. 😁😁👏👏
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Thanks. A few people mentioned that as a stand out 😊👍
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