17 Replies to “The “were I a rhetorical question” poem”

1. BornRed says:

   March 15, 2007 at 1:56 am

   Rhetorically speaking,
   
   are there any rules left
   
   besides typing short lines,
   
   that makes a question
   
   a poem?

   TW: why35??  Whynot35??

2. OHNOES says:

   March 15, 2007 at 2:34 am

   Hey, I learned a new
   
   trick recently. If you just
   
   hit enter after every fifth
   
   space… BAM!… instant free verse
   
   poem!

3. e.e. cummings says:

   March 15, 2007 at 2:36 am

   a very short poem

   a

   that will be one million dollars please

4. Dewclaw says:

   March 15, 2007 at 2:44 am

   Leaves have fallen ‘cross the path we once have slaved
   
   Is it long before we catch the break of day
   
   Out in the fields we carry on our broken journey Straight path ahead
   
   All we ask is hope and glory
   
   A voice it cries on through the night
   
   It never dies
   
   Here poisoned rain cuts in through the crimson sky
   
   Out in the fields we carry on the lonely distance Straight path ahead all we ask is no resistance

   Have we led ourselves astray
   
   Have we lost the light of day
   
   Can we hear our leaders call
   
   Will we learn we’re one and all
   
   Is no man ever safe
   
   Where soldiers rule

   Where soldiers rule

   Through sand and rain full moon in sight
   
   There lies our stand on through the night
   
   Out in the fields our leaders call
   
   Straight paths ahead
   
   Soldiers rule this all
   
   Have we led ourselves astray
   
   Have we lost the light of day
   
   Can we hear our leaders call
   
   Will we learn we’re one and all
   
   Is no man ever safe
   
   Where soldiers rule

   Where soldiers rule

   Where Soldiers Rule
   
   ~Riot~

5. BoZ says:

   March 15, 2007 at 3:14 am

   When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
   
   [more sonnet-type junk]
   
   GAY PORN COCK OF LIES

6. ken says:

   March 15, 2007 at 3:51 am

   How many poems
   
   Must a poet compose
   
   Before you call him a hack?

   The answer my friend,
   
   is printed on the net.
   
   The answer is printed on the net.

7. ken says:

   March 15, 2007 at 3:52 am

   Irony–realizing you hoisted yourself on your own petard… wait, maybe I should post this on Craigslist instead…

8. JWebb says:

   March 15, 2007 at 4:04 am

   I’m afraid the ides have it.

9. mojo says:

   March 15, 2007 at 6:05 am

   I shot a man in Reno
   
   Just to steal his pie.

10. friend says:

    March 15, 2007 at 6:08 am

    The “Sonnet to Andy if Shakespeare were still alive and hung out with the gheys” sonnet…or the “Sonnet I just lifted from #29 and fucked with it a little bit” sonnet…

    When in disgrace with fortune and gay’s eyes,
    
    I all alone beweep my outcast gape,
    
    And trouble deaf Heaven with my bootless cries,
    
    And look upon myself, and curse my tate,
    
    Wishing me like to one more rich with rope,
    
    Featur’d like him, like him with dongs possess’d,
    
    Desiring this man’s fart, and that man’s hole,
    
    With what I most enjoy that hearty beast:
    
    Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
    
    Haply I think on wees,–and then my gape
    
    (Like to the fart I break of day arising
    
    From poo stained pants) sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
    
    For thy juicy love that ass-bang brings
    
    That then I scorn to change my state with queens’.

11. furriskey says:

    March 15, 2007 at 10:50 am

    I wonder whether Jack “Fat Boy” Goff could be enticed across from Mandy’s Pad to show us some of his versification? From what I recall, the man is a towering literary phenomenon. Towering.

12. CraigC says:

    March 15, 2007 at 1:02 pm

    Were I a rhetorical
    
    question, do you really
    
    believe I’d be wasting
    
    my time writing stupid
    
    poems?

    Yes. I mean, no. I mean….

13. Snappy Retort says:

    March 15, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    I’d love to tackle the question of your time constraints, but I’ve got shit to do.

    tw: language17

    Uncanny!

14. McGehee says:

    March 15, 2007 at 5:08 pm

    “May I ask you a rhetorical question?”

15. cthulhu says:

    March 16, 2007 at 3:11 am

    This needs to be in a book.

    TW: field89…I know it’s not my field, but I didn’t write it. Grrr.

16. cthulhu says:

    March 16, 2007 at 3:14 am

    Imagine how startled I was to see (emphasis added):

    Page 1 of 666 1 2 3 > Last »

    to the top

    Is this the unholy blog-page?

    TW: living69—WTF?

17. McGehee says:

    March 16, 2007 at 2:43 pm

    Is this the unholy blog-page?

    So that’s why you’re around so much today! 

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