I've never seen you, Will, within a bar
Or leather-jacketed, astride a bike,
But I have worshipped often from afar
Your verses, spoken free, without a mike:
As Elvis, you have left us long ago
To tread the highway to the clouds above
But in your heart, I think that thou dost know
The one eternal summer of our love.
So many words you left, to make us weep
Or sonnets which both oscillate and thrill,
Bold images that haunt us in our sleep
Although your mighty heart is long since still.
But gyrate in that jacket and those jeans
And feel the screaming power of raving teens!
A contest entry
- Make fun with the Shakespeare tetrameter sonnet by michael thomas.
500 points, ended August 10, 2008, 3 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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Those tights! Will didn't need jeans. But, seriously, you made me wonder if he was ever bullied being effeminate. I think some men are seen that way for wanting to write poetry though there are others who write love poetry in their teens but never again.
Enjoyed this write.
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Bronze: "Shakespeare has left the building" by Keith
although the meter is off, so what? The writer is expressing personal emotion in the first person voice within the poem. The writer is telling us of his comical and serious feelings toward one of the greatest writers of all time. And I read this poem over three times or more to feel the chuckles. Thank you Keith for gracing this small contest with a fine writing.
But gyrate in jacket and jeans
Feel screams of raving teens
sorry Keith, I changed the last two lines to iambic tetrameter. Forgive me. -
Easy, easy writer,
Scrawling on your sunshine brighter,
Easy, easy writer........
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Now Bill as Easy Rider is a bill I'd like to fill -
the billets and the billboards of Times Square await it still!
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Wonderful creation and nice last two lines. All the things that Shakespeare left us could fill the ocean. Thank you so much.
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Lovely poem. I once slept with a lady whose husband was called William. Not Shakespeare of course. But it is still an incredible coincidence, don't you think? Oh yes, get clapped, Keithy.
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