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I don't go through Christmas without reading "A Child's Christmas in Wales." Here is a link to the entire thing, which, at 3016 words won't take long to read.
And here is a link to Dylan Thomas reading it, recorded in 1952:
The Current Assignment
I have seen several poems for this assignment and they are terrific.
The Next Assignment
Write a humorous poem, one to help mitigate SAD (seasonal affective disorder)
The Difference Between Humorous [able to appreciate humor] and Humorless [not able to appreciate humor or serious]“Write a humorous poem,” said, my Teacher.”
ReplyDeleteI dropped the front post of my John Deere
Down a gopher hole, shearing off the post!
When does a bull get to inseminate a cow?
Artificial insemination is involved. No bull!
Wood shavings is the best chicken bedding
Old Chicken bedding is the foulest smelling.
On the farm, Balmer and I worked together.
Balmer wore thick glasses, hefted hundred
Pound bags of potato pulp over his head
All day long, and got heifers running at a scramble
By yodeling, as he chased after them at a trot.
Canucks collect pigs’ blood to make sausage.
In French blood sausage is called, “boudin.”
Don’t strike a match to light up a bonfire
Before you’ve removed the red gallon can.
If you don’t know where a tractor’s clutch is,
Don’t start out without knowing where it’s hid.
If you ever decide to use a farm rake, learn
The length of your rig and the pivot point
Of your tractor before you decide to make a turn.
On hot days, don’t ever leave your sweaters
On a cowlick for a cow to unthread in a chew.
A farmer might go belly up if the well dries up.
Some farmers go broke without ever knowing why.
If you think of this as humor, please tell me so!
For, you might well be chewing, a crust of hay.
The Difference Between Humorous [able to appreciate humor] and Humorless [not able to appreciate humor or serious]“Write a humorous poem,” said, my Teacher.”
ReplyDeleteI dropped the front post of my John Deere
Down a gopher hole, shearing off the post!
When does a bull get to inseminate a cow?
Artificial insemination is involved. No bull!
Wood shavings is the best chicken bedding
Old Chicken bedding is the foulest smelling.
On the farm, Balmer and I worked together.
Balmer wore thick glasses, hefted hundred
Pound bags of potato pulp over his head
All day long, and got heifers running at a scramble
By yodeling, as he chased after them at a trot.
Canucks collect pigs’ blood to make sausage.
In French blood sausage is called, “boudin.”
Don’t strike a match to light up a bonfire
Before you’ve removed the red gallon can.
If you don’t know where a tractor’s clutch is,
Don’t start out without knowing where it’s hid.
If you ever decide to use a farm rake, learn
The length of your rig and the pivot point
Of your tractor before you decide to make a turn.
On hot days, don’t ever leave your sweaters
On a cowlick for a cow to unthread in a chew.
A farmer might go belly up if the well dries up.
Some farmers go broke without ever knowing why.
If you think of this as humor, please tell me so!
For, you might well be chewing, a crust of hay.
Who among us reads the Bigelow Poets Blog after it is first published?
ReplyDeleteAny post on the blog today--about poetry? About what you might have read?
ReplyDeleteAbout your writing? Any new interests? Maybe, we ought to hear from those who are publishing about what opportunities there are out there. I just put out the trash...a lot of it because of Christmas wrapping and empty boxes, etc....
Any post on the blog today--about poetry? About what you might have read?
ReplyDeleteAbout your writing? Any new interests? Maybe, we ought to hear from those who are publishing about what opportunities there are out there. I just put out the trash...a lot of it because of Christmas wrapping and empty boxes, etc....
Checking before I have my feet checked for the coming month and toenails clipped. Nothing.
ReplyDeleteChecking before I have my feet checked for the coming month and toenails clipped. Nothing.
ReplyDeleteHappy new year. And to all, a good night. 2018. G
ReplyDeleteHappy new days ahead, watch out for speeding snowflakes, avoid possibility of collisions if you'e out walking in the snow. If anyone should walk by a house with an Edsel in the driveway walk up to the front door, ring the doorbell, and if the right guy answers, give him a hug just for having such a great car in the driveway, just for being the proud owner of such a fine, old car.
ReplyDeleteHappy new days ahead, watch out for speeding snowflakes, avoid possibility of collisions if you'e out walking in the snow. If anyone should walk by a house with an Edsel in the driveway walk up to the front door, ring the doorbell, and if the right guy answers, give him a hug just for having such a great car in the driveway, just for being the proud owner of such a fine, old car.
ReplyDeletePoets are seldom read and aspiring poets or those who dabble in poetry and seek to publish are still valued. It is not an encouraging market. But as a member of the class which has sought to learn the craft, there are more markets to submit to than in my days when I was submitting my work for a read and possible acceptance. Submission was all by mail, and it took months and then some for a reply. If you think you have something worthy of consideration, you ought to submit on-line to the periodical of your choice. My reading of the current market, on line, is that poetry has changed or is changing to the point where the very idea of what constitutes poetry might very be in such a transition, that my idea of poetry and some modernistic ideas of poetry are incompatible and leave me out of any recognizable poetic setting. Still, I enjoy your company and the poems that I hear read, and wish you all good luck in the
ReplyDeleteenterprise. As one of our members who frequently returns in her wheelchair to share with us her work, often written long ago, her words mattered and often touched many, such is the aspirant's wish, only, that on occasion some individual will take note, and say, "Oh, my! That's what it was all about. " A small, short reflective thought might follow, but for the one who was listening and responding, the hearing or reading was all worthwhile. G