Oh boo! Boo! Boo!
And boo to those others too!
Boo to them and boo to you,
Boo to him, and another boo,
A boo to I don't know who!
Boo to the false and boo to the true
Boo to the masses, and boo to the few;
Boo to the old, and boo to the new!
Boo to the Sitka Spruce, and boo to the church-yard yew
Boo to the dog that barks, and boo to the cats that mew
Boo to the women who dream, and boo to the men who 'do'.
A boo for the hawks that squawk, and a boo for the doves that coo
A bigger boo for basil, and much bigger boo for rue
We'll boo every kind of food, and boo even more at poo.
We'll boo the world, and boo to Irish stew!
And then there'll be time, to woo and woo and woo!
Author notes
a b u n u w a s
Ve-ry deep. On many levels. Latent semiotics.
A contest entry
- The Writers' Circle: Read, Review, Respond, Revise by MusicBoxMetaphor.
2300 points, ended November 10, 24 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Tell me what you REALLY think!
Comments
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Well, I was expecting a Halloween poem but instead got a nice chuckle not only from the poem but also from the comments! Who knew such "boo-ing" could get people contemplating the universe?
I read it as if about those people who have nothing better to say than complain, complain, complain until, of course, it comes time to attract the opposite gender. So, boo boo boo...then woo woo woo! I've seen people like that.
"This sucks!" and "that sucks!" then... "Hey, baby, what's up!" 
Perhaps I'm off base but that's what came to my mind. Cheers!
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You are dead right about the comments -- but in fairness, many were made as part of a competition designed reward comments, and amendments, not the poem. It was just pure silliness, not even inspired by your idea --- although, one of the ancient Greeks held that poets must be divinely inspired, for they themselves had no idea of the sublime meaning contained in their poems. Your exegesis would certainly fit.
Thanks for looking.
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I'm considering the Epic contest but if I start an Epic I'd surely want to finish it ...and that sounds like a lot of work.
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Entertaining with Potential
You take this one poem with an illustrator and create a whole children's book Howard
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What a great idea! Hope you glanced at the comments -- they are the real master-piece!
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The title made me jump out of my skin a little there! lol. I like the repetition you've put into this. Very worthy of the clap I gave you
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Ha!
Thank you -- I am not sure whether you intended a double entendre -- clap is a venereal disease!
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I love this! Just what I want to say sometimes to the world - well, most of the time actually....I liked it for the way it danced along its way so joyfully. After looking at the other comments here it's all got toooo deep for me!
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Thank you so much
I must not agree with you too heartily, but yes, my reward was in the extraordinary variety of comments, if I may put it like that. I am just pleased when it gives someone a smile.
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I found this poem totally delightful and the wide range of comments, commentaries and critiques, as much if not even more entertaining. It does make a poet's ego inflate when other more sophisticated (perhaps) poets , ascribe symbolism and great depth to something that is simply off the cuff, rudimentary venting. I've even had this happen a time or two to my poetry and on those occasions avidly re-read in awe of my great genius. Of course, I'm also, sure great works are created this way. No one ever really sat down, knowing they were writing a masterpiece. All that said, once again I enjoyed it the way, I think, it was intended, therefore I offer no suggestions nor criticisms. But a quiet applause for the way it was done and the cheer it brought, and an escape from more esoteric drivel.
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And I think you're bang on. There is of course an argument which says it doesn't matter what the writer intended, only what came out as perceived by the reader.
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Very interesting piece of work.It rhymes so well!
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Well I can offer no criticism of the work, since it just made me laugh and if the role of poetry is to make one feel something, then you have certainly accomplished that in spades. I did find it very Dr. Seuss like, like The Cat In The Hat, but more than anything it reminded me of days when I am grumpy and I feel like saying Boo to you and Boo to the world and everyone in it.
Great work, wouldn't change anything. Oh and I do so hope there is a lot of time still left to Woo, Ya Hoo...Hugs, Bunny -
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Thank you
I do like it when people have had a smile. I should rather write something cheerful every time, but occasionally, I seem to be dragged into sad stuff, good, bad or indifferent. As for the woo bit, complicated or what! And should be so simple!
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Alrighty, as you already know, I love this. Perhaps it did not pop out to you, but it did strike me that "Oh boo" and "A boo" resemble your username
Almost feels like you're "giving" yourself to the world! Inspiration? Or perhaps Halloween was the muse here
But this is not the point! I am here (supposedly) to offer critique... here goes...
Hmm... not a big fan of the word "poo" perhaps "for loo."
The line after (second to last) lacks the expected rhythm, therefore sounding a bit awkward. How about "We'll boo *away at* the world, ..."
Same for the final line. Perhaps just say "there will" instead of "there'll" ?
I wish this comment was lengthier. My ego is being killed for this is by far the shortest yet
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To change, or not to change, that is the question.....
whether 'tis better in the mind ----to change to butter up the boss, or not. Or is one deliberately reluctant to change, merely because it has been suggested? At risk of slings and arrows, let us see:
Overall, the intention of the poem was to be no more than light-hearted, to amuse for a moment or two. Some early commenters mentioned that their children, or children they were teaching had taken to it. Knowing children, I also know that as much fun as tapping out the rhyme and rhythm might be, the inclusion of the word 'poo' would be a huge bonus in the childish mind, and so, other considerations notwithstanding, it must stay in. Perhaps these same children will later on read old favourites like 'Ozymandias' 'The Ancient Mariner' 'The War Poets' and acquire a genuine love of poetry. Nothing can trump that.
As for the last and penultimate lines,yes, one could re-jig them, but it was not intended to be 100% de Da, and the lines do not jar -- to me. Then again, little that I write does jar - to me.
I wish I were able to say that there were a connection between 'abu' and 'a boo'. That would have been a stroke of genius. As it is, I shall probably resort to an embittered 'abu this and abu that' type poem.
There was one other thing which I had thought about: someone thought the last line should lose its comma. My intention was that there should be a caesura, or what some play-wrights now term 'beat', to enable the reader/speaker to get their breath. Perhaps it is a question of accent, or dialect.
In brief, I feel I have to commit poetical suicide by leaving it unchanged. To do otherwise, would be churlish. Having said that, it has been quite fun, and many thanks for having me in it. It certainly throws an interesting light on what people can do, when the quality of the criticism is what counts. Thank you.
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Nice defense for "poo!" I will have to read this to my four year old sister and ask for her critical opinion
That being said, I'm going to dare to be frank and rebut! But only in defense of "There will" over "There'll." As the eldest sister of four girls (19, 17, 4, and 1), I know that "there'll" is a difficult sound to make for some of the youngins. "We'll" is slightly easier as it resembles "will" but "there'll"... hard stuff!
says the 22 year old sitting next to me: "That's even hard for me to say!"
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Stay away from Wales!
Times change. I believe we as children knew 'there'll' before the longer version; but then some outsiders -the odd park-keeper, I recall- could not uunderstand us, because we spoke a family developed sociolect, at such speed, that they thought we were Swedish!
'There'll be a welcome in the hillsides/There'll be a welcome in the vales
This land of song will still be singing/When you came home again to Wales'
I suggest your 22 year old confederate stay away from the Principality!
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The poem lightly derides certain binary structures for the humorous effects of opposed juxtaposition (false/true, masses/few, old/new, hawk (predator)/dove (prey) ). I'm unfamiliar with "rue." I'm also unsure how Irish stew is possibly opposed to "the world": I do like the end, though.
On some level this is a piece focused on deconstruction, though you've created your own binary opposition in the attempt: "boo"ing binary structure implies its judged negativity. But in the absence of binaries "there'll be time, to woo and woo and woo!" (The comma is unnecessary.) Hence, you have created the binary of: binary structure, or "boo" (-)/absence of binary structure, or "woo" (+).
I'm unsure how much of this meaning was intended. Not that intent matters.
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Are you pulling my pisser?
Rue is a bitter herb.
Irish stew is not a proper juxta is the hob-goblin of the small mind.
i think you are right-ish about the comma, and thanks for that, and for detailed response
Glad it gave you a little pleasure.
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I wrote with the intent of providing a completely - even melodramatically - serious straightfaced response to this so-called superficial poem, if that's what you mean.
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I see my comment was a bit mad. The word 'consistency' should have preceded the hob-goblin bit
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Boo-hoo!
This is a tad beyond my poetic sensibility, however, you have certainly put effort and feeling into this: the feeling of frustration and rejection seems to leap out of the core here, and that is a worthy point. Nevertheless, there should probably be some more precise homework merged into the piece, in the sense of humor and fiction, as booing the mundane is a still-born effort to my notion. Keep rewriting to achieve mastery, and all the best in the contest... DW -
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It is silly, silly,silly.
I had not thought of frustration or rejection: perhaps it demonstrates the difficulty we humans have in communicating, that you should see it that way.
On reflection, (and the Lord knows I have had plenty of opportunity for it!) it does occur to me that it could be a skit on the attitudes of people of my age, when they take the 'parental' view, that nothing is quite good enough, it was all better years ago, and young people to-day...de Da de Da de Da. Alas, though, I did not even have that in mind. One slightly defensive point: to mock the booing of the mundane, is to put things on a proper basis. Food, for example, should not be under-rated, as the food-riots around the world last year showed
Thank you for your thoughtful remarks. Were I to alter anything, I should leave it to the bitter end, so that I might have the benefits of the comments of all.
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Abu Nuwas: you are right, right, right!
Parental view? HA! Now you are no doubt funny here, and I do truly like the piece: remember, I'm a Dinosaur (60 plus wd 5 Grandkids); the matter is the poetry: it is just fine. As for the psycho-analysis of human communication: there are three ways people and their works are viewed; as we see ourselves; as others see us; and as God sees us! I am not God, so it is just myopic views you get from me... DW -
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OK, OK, OK!
Excellent! I can just trump you on the grandkid front, and as for Dinosaurs, well, I used at one time to spend time at work pointing out that 'either we change or we die -like the Dinosaurs' a phrase which must have been taken out of 'The Two Minute Manager' or 'How to Manage Change', was really so much cock on two counts a) we are in a state of constant change, which leads to death; and
the dinosaurs had had far great run than we so far have.
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While admittedly, this is not my favorite type of writing, I have to give credit where due. On a website where so much is written about anguish, both real and imagined, a little humor is always welcome. This has a touch of Dr. Suess and a sprinkle of Shel Silverstein and they made millions upon millions smile regularly. I would agree that the overabundance of rhyme made this work silly but that, I think, was your overall point. True also, I am not certain of the exact point of the piece but again, it may simply to have made someone smile. And as I am quite certain that my work does NOT usually have that effect, kudos to you.
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I do not think you can, or need, say more. It was intended to make people laugh a little, amidst all the gloom you so accurately portray, and--if they are being truthful -- it has amused some people. That is quite sufficient justification for having written it. Naturally, since so much here has, or is supposed to have, some more or less deep meaning, you have sensibly given that a thought: but light-heartedness is like existentialism, the only meaning you need seek.
Or is it?
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"Boo to the women who dream, and boo to the men who 'do'."
Love that line!
I'm not really one for Halloween themed poetry, but you're one of the few this year to win me over. Maybe next year I'll have more.....fun with it.
woo woo indeed!
ya All~Ways,
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Honest Joe that I am, I must confess that when I wrote it, I had no thought of Hallowe'en. I am glad it amused you.
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lol - I saw more too, but am still a bit worried about witch-hunts. I probably shouldn't be, but there you have it.
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im sorry but i have to agreewith katie its different but keep it up
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And you should say as much, without fear of people being upset, or rancour. This competition -and your brief remark - seems to demonstrate that we can be much more candid than is usual, without the need for anyone to be offended. Both Katie and you have shown that -- so perhaps my poem did have a deeper purpose?
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I'm sorry in advance for what I'm about to say, it's not intended as malicious just personal opinion. To be completely honest there isn't anything about this that I like, I can't critique it as I can't find anything about it I can consider keeping. It may be because I would never think of writing something of this nature, but if you are pleased with it than that is all that matters.
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How well I understand your position! It exactly parallels the occasions at work when I had to give someone their annual appraisal. One was supposed to sugar the pill, before pointing out one or two little flaws. Every so often, someone would sit before you who seemed to have no good qualities, none. Boy, did I become creative!
You could ( on the same basis) have said that plainly the intention was to amuse, which has to be a good thing, even though, you might have added, it did not succeed.
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Thank you for being so understanding of my position and I do understand the intention was to amuse. I will from now on work on perhaps phrasing better if I cannot find anything to critique, for one reason or another.
Have a wonderful day,
Katie
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I like this for the most part. It is light-hearted and whimsical. However, (and you knew that was coming) I found my head spinning. There are way too many boos. One for each sentence would have been enough. If you were looking for a rhyming scheme, you found it albeit a little forced at times and the meter is way off. I'm not really sure where the semiotics come into play, yes, I do know what it means. I am Irish. All that being said, it was a bit of silliness pierced into our normally more intense "clubhouse".
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Thank you. I confess to Almighty God, and to you, Father ...sister? ..daughter..?
a) yep, just a nonsense poem
Deliberately misleading notes
c)More such obscurantist comments in response to some comments
d) agree with everything you say, but cannot reneg on Irish stew question. Have not had since childhood. Now vegetarian, so no chance of changing mind.
e) I am not sure about the metre business. Of course it is not a reegular iambic or troche, and it does jump about, but read at speed, I think you would agree that it is strongly guided by metre.
f) Hope I do not get expelled from the club.
Now, penance: five 'Hail Holy Queens, a dozen Ave Marias a half dozen Pater Nosters'? Sounds a bit like ordering oysters.
Thank you again
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It is a relief to read a poem that just flows with lots of rhyme that really says very little, some light hearted banter that you would use to amuse children or cheer up someone feeling low. I wouldn't change a thing.
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It is a relied to me too, believe me. I am afraid I have been tempted to lure people into thinking it has some great significance. And who knows? It may....
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i think you were trying to be very light-hearted in this poem, and you succeeded in that. it is quite silly and somewhat meaningless.
putting aside the fact that this clearly isn't a serious or insightful poem, you have a decently good beat and rhyming scheme. it could be funny to a small child or as a way to introduce poetry to preschoolers. i'm not trying to say that you have no talent because it seems that you intentionally decided to give the whole insightful poetry crowd a kick in the butt or something. really though, it doesn't make much sense at all.
in response to the possibility that you were actually serious about this poem, and thought it was successful: it needs a whole lot of work. the "boos" are repetitive and it's almost emotionally draining to read through. if you seriously wanted to produce an insighfully misanthropic (i'm assuming that's kind of the theme here) poem, then you need to work on expressing yourself in a way that's less literal and more abstract with lots of imagery and metaphors to portray how you feel. if you wanted to make a sort of "fuck you" poem, there are many other ways you could have accomplished that. the tone of the poem, the style of your words, and the impact of your lines would need to be worked on so that the reader could be persuaded to see your point of view.
i dont really know what else to say because you may just be satisfied with this silly light-heartedness and not want to change a thing. unless you want to reconstruct the entire poem, then you should stick with this one and maybe just improve the wording and cleverness of it a bit.
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Thank you, G
I think you have found yourself with a nigh-impossible task: to criticise something which on the face of it, is just plain silly, whilst all the time, as with so much, having a nagging suspicion that there may somewhere be a deeper significance. Perhaps the rhythm has some significance to it? Perhaps it is a Post=Modern poem? Were there not French existentialists who wrote this sort of thing? Well, I can only say that I am sorry it did not amuse you, it was not intended to be abusive to people, or to mock them.
Your final paragraph is a little hurtful: I should much prefer 'light-hearted silliness' to 'silly light-heartedness'. And I would not for the world, entertain the idea of composing what you term a 'fuck you' poem - indeed, even reading and writing the word shocks my tender sensitivities.
Many great poems, incidentally, have been written with little or no imagery; I think the demand for that as a bench-mark comes from English teachers.
Thank you once again. In return, I would point out that sentences begin with a capital letter.
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i know that sentences begin with a capital letter. it's my personal choice to not capitalize informal writing because i simply don't like the way it looks, and it was your personal choice to enter a contest that requires honest critical reviews and possible revision without the intention of accepting the way a reader feels or critiques your work. i think you misinterpreted what i was trying to say.
i clearly stated that i wasn't sure about the tone of your poem, and i wanted to know - did you intend for it to be serious/mocking/misanthropic, or did you want to keep it the way it is? so i tried to give you two critiques - one considering the fact that you may have seriously wanted a misanthropic sort of poem, and the the other critique simply stating that if you love your poem the way it is, then leave it that way, but make some minor adjustments with the wording. i was sincerely trying to be helpful, and i'm sorry if i hurt your feelings or seemed to bold and insensitive.
when i pointed out that you may want to use imagery, that was dependent on whether or not you wanted to make the choice to change the tone of the poem to a more serious one, which i now understand that you don't.
i was simply trying to figure out whether you wanted this to be light-hearted or if you were asking us to guide you to a "deeper" way of getting your point across.
you're right about many great poems have used little or no imagery, and i think that your poem in its particular style is intentionaly devoid of imagery, and if you like it that way, then that's fine. i just assumed you wanted critiques because that's the whole point of this contest. do you plan on making any changes to your poem? just curious.
again, i'm sorry you took things the wrong way and i wish you the best.
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It was plain to me that you would be aware of the capital letter business, as the remainder of what you had written was perfectly grammatical, and spelt. It was my dry little joke.
It is only intended to be light-hearted, and to cheer people up; there is so much gloom. Never apologise for a comment honestly made; but in amy event, I am anything but upset!
I am not sure that there is any way to be sillier, and, like many, it takes a lot to make me change, for the simple, if vain, reason, that I wrote it in the first place. Thank you for your good wishes. Now -- I wonder if others will believe what I have told you....
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This reminds me of when my nephews discovered a new word or sound and just had to try it out in as many ways as possible! Good for you! I think the deep-ness is just in the joy of the repetition...letting the sounds float over one... I look forward to reading more.
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Thank you. It was just silly. It makes some people smile, and that's good enough. I grant you special permission to peruse all of my poems, and to comment, and applaud.
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I guess what I don't see is the meaning of this.. it's not really that funny. It's just.. there. You could say it's really deep, but you can say anything is deep if you twist and build up enough junk to support it. It can be ridiculous really. I guess that's my main issue with this is not knowing whether it's just to be silly and maybe toss in a little snidbit, or if it's supposed to be more ambitious because that would be annoying to me if it was. There's just too many extra lines that don't need to be there, and I think that's another issue; why the length it has, why the third stanza.. and not to be mean, but this is no Dr. Seuss.. either way though, I don't know what to really make of this. I don't want to say boo to it, but this most certainly will not do.
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Thank you for visiting......
It is just silly. No depth, no Post-Modernism, no Zen, no layers of meaning. Life can be heavy enough. In my heart I think poetry should increase the sum of human happiness, not make people more miserable, so if this did not cause you to smile, it failed, as far as you are concerned.
I like what is called the Theatre of the Absurd -- Eugene Ionesco, Samuel Beckett and such. My guess is that you do not; we differ.
But thanks for the comment.
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It takes all kinds of poetry to make this site as successful as it is, and it is a fun poem filled with cute verses you have written here. Good rhythm and rhyme throughout. Kind of silly, yet easy to read. BOO to all.... I like basil and tomato sauce as well!
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Thank you...
It was intended to be silly, silly, silly, and part of that was saying it was deep etc.
It was a bit sacriligious on the subject of basil: one of my favourites. Slap over wrist!
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i guess this is for halloween? boo.. hmm interesting title. i thought it was going to be some stupid childrens poem, not. wow good write.
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That rhyme is finally through, not that the poem blew, No need to feel blue, for if you only knew, the thoughts you made me spew, but alas you have gotten a clue, as most often do, I liked this poem from you, keep doing what you do!
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I liked the awkwardness of the words put together and how they sound, and I think the flow is great. A funny poem in the tradition of the great Dr. Suess.
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Thanks for having a peek and commenting. Gertrude Stein wrote 'A rose is a rose is a rose is a rose', and probably thought no more of it. But it caused quite a sensation. I feel a bit like that. I don't know why I wrote it it, except that I could; I posted it because I thought some people might smile. Now I keep writing ones about WW1 Poppies, Afghanistan, even though I don't reallly like the idea of making people sad at best, and even though I just don't seem to be able to edit them. Look at me! You make a polite comment ( for which thanks) and I go rambling on, about something entirely whimsical.
Hope the Spanish property crash is working in your favour.....
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Even a little silly poem needs to keep some reason. The 'poo' and 'Irish stew' are obviously just there for the rhyme. 'Boo to the Sitka Spruce' was awkward on my tongue, though that may just be me. The thing is, I really liked the silly little first stanza, it was well on its way to be a rollicking jolly verse. But it bogged down for me. Sorry.
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Boo to you! And you never had post-War Irish stew. Absolutely fair comment, thanks for looking.
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Not a great fan of this poem - sorry.
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Fair go. Nothing wrong with a bit of honesty.
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Very wise to revise.
You "spent" "hard-earned" points to get me (and how many others?) to see this poem! Could you just possibly be pulling our collective leg? I haven't looked to see whether anyone else has commented. I'll go now.
I had, of course, already commented, myself, and forgotten, but it was interesting to find how many others had commented (and favourably, and found meanings and literary links, etc),
But it may be that I can score points by going on commenting, and that I only have to repeat my comments in a separate post to score them again (and again and again! BOO!) - No, I can't! Serves me right! -
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The underlying theme, old bean, is intended to act as a kind of counterpoint to what is, after all, my narrative, or, you might say, anti-narrative.
On the other hand, if it has really made some people smile, surely that must be good, and definitely better than the rather inferior and miserable-making things I have been doing of late.
I think you had a small internal smile "Even the ranks of Tuscany could scarce forbear to cheer"
Edward
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I'm chuckling away here but not at your poem amusing though it is. No the source of my merriment is your response to hediadys comment. As you know he likes to critique my poems but seldom restricts himself to one liners. Thanks for the laugh
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Roy has given me a more normal critique, and I have sought to supply an intelligent answer, breaking the habit of a life-time. It is always interesting when the comments vastly outweigh the poem.
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The gentleman below is quite right. It does sound rather Dr. Seussy. In fact, it reminded me a little of 'Green ham and eggs' in how it read. I loved it but I don't know what semiotics are so I will have to look that up. lol!!!!!!! It was really kind of cute and quite humorous. You boo'd basil.....hmmmm, I love basil. This was excellent and gave me a chance to be a little light and find some fun. Thank oyu, I loved it a lot.
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No! Don't look up semiotics, or before you know where you are, you will be trying to work out what some Frenchman or Swiss means by Post-Modernism, and you'll be sucked into a black-hole.
I am glad you liked it, and yes, it did go against the grain to include basil, which I too love, especially with tomatoes.
I shall try harder next time to earn some clappies!!!!!
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Sorry, my friend. I will make sure they are there next time. Silly me.
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This actually reminds me of a Dr. Seuss book, not that there's one out there like this, but it could have been one. In its own that is a compliment as some of the simplest forms of writing, have passed good points. So woo!
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Definitely a dramatic step down from the poem I read off your feature list the other day which I said was one of your best. I know it's probably your intention to use the word boo so many times, but it does get tiresome and very shortly, we get the point.
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Fair go. It was a piece of fun. So if it did not amuse you, well, it's a failure as far as you are concerned. End of. But thanks for at least saying something!
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If this illustrates semiotics, what must wholotics be like?
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Good afternoon, old fruit
No, I have only a hazy idea what semiotics are; though you bring it up, there seems to be tantalising rhyme with 'idiotic'. As you did not gush and give me buckets of clappies, I have restrainedly given your remark three stars --- now that will ruin your week!
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You my behind the big pond friend, are so creative and clever. Whilst giving an amusing tone to your poem, you do talk about people who are never satisfied with anything, people who boo everything and everyone.
Yes, the woo time can't stay away forever even for the boo's fans
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When first I read this I just had to laugh...reminded me of Bah Humbug! But then I went back and read it again...and it still brought a smile to my face...especially the end line... "And then there'll be time, to woo and woo and woo!" ...put things into prospective...Nice rhyme and meter...Good job, Fun Poem... Darlene
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This has a nice feel and flow. I enjoyed the ambiguities and also some of the internal rhyming.
It is, to my mind, similar in style to some of Spike Milligan's work and that is no bad thing.
Well done!
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What fun Abu! Thoroughly enjoyed this. I don't do rhythm stuff much...
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Belated....
thanks for commenting, and glad you enjoyed. If you want a REAL laugh, have another look, but just at the comments.
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very very good....my son jj loves this he is here now jiggin along to it...bravo my friend
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Thank you so much
It is quite unnerving to think that one's offerings, if good enough or odd enough, may seep out of AP, and then go who knows where?
Edward
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This is great for teaching children double vowel sounds
This had great rhythm and I found myself tapping my foot and attempting to set a record time on how fast I can read through it!
The things I do when I get a minute to myself!
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Yay!
Thank you, Zahra. A teaching-aid eh? Hmmm..... yes, I can see royalties flowing in...I suppose any reference to poo would be sufficient to attract their attention!
I don't accept responsibility for tapping while driving.
How are you doing? Drama still big? Flying still out? After all my suggestions!
Edward
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