http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-i-rhyme-therefore-im Just another bbPress community en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 14:10:16 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/search.php http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-i-rhyme-therefore-im#post-290713 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:25:48 +0000 Recoveringchristian 290713@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>A bit angrier...maybe more than a bit</p> <p>TWICE LOST</p> <p>You came crying to the kitchen alone<br /> In your anguish<br /> I could not help you I wanted to remove<br /> The thing that would take you from me<br /> Even though it left you behind it took you<br /> Into your yesteryears<br /> Worried for your father anxious to care for him<br /> Dead for thirty years<br /> Surrounded by those who love you most<br /> You don&#39;t know us<br /> &quot;Did you bring the pawn, Rosie?&quot; A question<br /> Asked in concern betraying the childhood<br /> Relived </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-i-rhyme-therefore-im#post-290707 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:47:58 +0000 Rebelwolf 290707@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>What a mouthwatering challenge, mikelangelno...a poetic &#39;Cook Book&#39;; hungry pages yearning for an infusion of sweet, sour, savoury and purely indulgent recipes! Permit me to season your charming dribbling with just a soupçon of drooling...</p> <p><strong>Oppression</strong></p> <p>The eyes of the world peer through my window<br /> invading my soul for a glimpse of me<br /> Whilst everything I am lies slowly dying<br /> beneath their disapproving scrutiny </p> http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/topic/poetry-i-rhyme-therefore-im#post-290649 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 11:35:45 +0000 mikelangelno 290649@http://www.stephenfry.com/forum/ <p>Fryphile mentions this place being, perhaps, a suitable conduit for posting favourite poems, referring to the point that<br /> Stephen is a lover of poetry.<br /> I have written quite a bit myself, most of which is secreted in a dark corner (my equivalent of Dorian Grey&#39;s portrait), but some of which has been published (by the BBC, no less - though these, merely, amusing limericks).I recently was holed below the water-line by a pithy observation that &quot;More people write poetry than read it&quot; and haven&#39;t dipped the quill for quite some time now. However having coined the epigram in parentheses accompanying the title of this post, which I hope tweaks a few smiles, I hope to set the ball rolling. Here is one of mine :</p> <p>Emergency</p> <p>I need on my forehead<br /> A glass-fronted pencil-case<br /> With instructions<br /> “In case of poetry, break glass”<br /> This, because of lost lines<br /> And even whole trains of thought<br /> And it’s silly but it feels<br /> Like losing a child<br /> When I’m really only<br /> Losing my mind</p> <p>So come on then, somebody take it off me and keep it in play, I&#39;ve done enough dribbling.<br /> ps liked this quote it fits most of my poetic scribblings so well :</p> <p>&quot;The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.&quot;<br /> - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray </p>