Earlier in the week tim issued a challenge to any and all who fancy themselves poetic:
dale i think we need the writers blog for poems haiku bawdy drinking songs and bear laments as well as limericks
there once was a bear from nantucket
whose tounge was so long he could suck it
he said with a grin
as he wiped off his chin
oh look theres some mud in my bucketcooking book club and writers den. up to it?
Well, I say why not? In poetry and food, not every dish pleases all diners.
If we can collect recipes for the purpose of filling that empty spot inside, why not stash away some silly and serious poems for the same purpose?
We’ll call the new addition “Rhyme Wave“.
I have given it a dark, poetic background, and I’ve posted tim and Clyde’s bear verse, along with our espionage limericks. There is no jury to decide about worthiness. If a poem appears in the comments, I’ll include it.
Down the road I’ll comb through previous posts to find other offerings. If you have a favorite and know how to find it, please leave it in today’s comments! This post will stay up through the weekend and we’ll start with something fresh on Monday.
Trail Baboon 
R and S Babooners:
I’m here in Iowa getting ready to go to the DesMoines Farmers market for fresh wedding flowers. Yesterday the bride and I gathered Queen Anne’s lace and pink cone flowers. Today I arrange, tomorrow is the outdoor wedding for which rain is forecast.
I love the poetry blog, although I fear I am stuck forever in limerick mode. Dale, you seem to foster creativity — in reading, cooking, and verse. A month out and you have spawned 4 blogs now. It’s been a rough patch at work. This blog has kept me hopeful! Thanks.
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Morning all! Sorry I missed yesterday – it’s been a bumpy week. Will have to ponder poetry to add to Rhyme Wave. Meantime, I’m amused that Dale seems to be conquering the online world, one blog at a time…
Hope it doesn’t rain on what I’m sure will be a lovely wedding, Jacque!
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It’s a gorgeous July day outside
Overslept but I’m hitting my stride
Gonna get in the car
and travel afar
to the Farmers Market on East Side
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Nice idea set nicely to meter.
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Ok, there’s nothing dark or bawdy about that one, but the best I can do in short time frame. Hopefully more later.
Dale, sometimes your headings are as good as the content…
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Hear, hear to that!!
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No literary endeavors from this quarter today. We are on our way to meet barb and Steve and their perfectly-normal-nothing -to-even-suggest-alien-origins goats.
Perhaps a haiku will result-limericks are not my strong suit.
Happy weekend all-best blessings on the wedding, Jacque!
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we never saw her and had nothing to do with her disappearance. and that is just a propane tank in the back yard, not a space ship.
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Remember, Plato was not going to let the lawyers and poets into Eutopia.
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The Terribly Awful Bike Detour Around the Ridiculous Mankato Bridge to Nowhere
I rode up the trail named Sakatah,
While listening to a lovely sonata.
I hit some lose stones;
didn’t break any bones;
But tore off some skin alotta.
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Ouch.
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If you save this friend, Dale, do this version:
The Terribly Awful Bike Detour Around the Ridiculous Mankato Bridge to Nowhere
I rode up the trail named Sakatah,
While listening to a lovely sonata.
I hit some loose stones;
Didn’t break any bones;
But tore off some skin alotta.
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no poems from me-It was a beautiful day but I’ve just been glued to my kindle.. Thanks to this website, I’ve discovered Thursday Next books and can’t tear myself away.
I have one poem but it’s a bit rude so..
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Thursday Next is, indeed, addicting. I’m still hoping for more. The Nursery Crime books are good, too – but not quite as fun as Thursday Next. Haven’t tried Shades of Grey yet.
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thanks for taking up the challenge dale, looking forward to it.
its baseball im off to today
its july and baseball they play
is 92 in the shade
sweaty parents parade
while the kids smile and play the whole day
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Child drawing with chalk
Dog sleeping, cozy nearby
Lazy, quiet day
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Given that the post is now day old and thus very few people will need to wade thru this in order to get to the white space below, I will indulge myself by posting, in its entirety, my haikuish series…
Reflections upon my lawn, inspired by Emily Dickenson’s poem, “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee” (http://www.bartleby.com/113/2097.html)
A clover, a bee.
Even revery.
But still not a prairie.
Clover, I grant you. Bee, of course.
And revery too.
But a prairie? I think not.
Clover: check. Bee: check.
Revery: check. But
a prairie? Check again, mate.
Clover,bee, revery.
Apparently there’s more to a
prairie after all.
Clover, bee, revery.
But a prairie?
Please.
Clover? Totally.
Bee? Awesome.
Revery? Dude.
Prairie? No way.
The clover and bee are gimmes,
the revery an in-all-probability.
But the prairie is a no-way-in-hell.
(In her poem, Dickenson asserts that a prairie involves “One clover, and a bee, And revery.” Reading the poem, the plant geneticist and agricultural ethicist Martha Crouch, observed, “clover isn’t native to the United States, let alone to the prairie. Neither are bees.”She remained silent on the matter of reverie.)
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I was in the midst of trying to pretty up the format of that when it sent itself.
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no need to pretty it up – very pretty already
thanks, Lisa
all of you talented poets (haiku/limerick/metered/whatever) amaze me.
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Nice, tough reach to extend an haiku like that.
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I hadn’t meant it to be one Haiku; I was in the process of giving each of them a separate poet’s identity (like “biker dude haiku,” etc.) when the computer decided i was done and sent it.
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While white clover isn’t native, purple prairie clover is. Ms. Dickinson doesn’t specify what variety she was thinking of, so it may very well have been Petalostemum purpureum. I think Ms. Crouch should have given her the benefit of the doubt on that one. Don’t know much about bees, but it seems as if there must have been something here to pollinate things before Europeans came.
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Well, a reliable source says there are about 4000 bee species that are native to the United States. Somebody give Ms. Crouch a slap upside the head.
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I was so busy being Crouch-huffy I forgot to say I really love your poem, Lisa.
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Trust me on this one; Marti knows her stuff.
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Went across yesterday North Kato,
Sat on the curb for the parado.
Kids got much candy.
The weather was dandy.
The day was a fat juicy tomato.
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Fixing it up another one:
Went across yesterday to North Kato,
Sat on the curb for the parado.
Kids got much candy.
The weather was dandy.
The day was a fat juicy tomato.
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great stuff all
nice art.
basketball camp and baseball today ahhh july
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