___Given the popularity of the Quatrain Corner & that I intended it for short poems, I thought I'd try a thread for you all without the length restriction. Feel free to post either poetry or comment here.
___To kick things off, I offer the only long poem I have at the ready.
Morgan's Poem
by Turtle George
Not long ago and just nearby,
I chanced upon a tiny fly,
Who sat upon a tiny mat,
Upon his head a tiny hat.
How very curious then thought I,
To find a hat upon a fly,
And that fly upon a mat,
I'd seen no stranger thing than that
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I bent right down and spoke to it,
And found it minded not one bit,
It spoke right back and greeted me,
And asked that I should grant its plea.
"You see", it said, "I've lost my book,
It's not in any place I look."
And so it was I searched around,
Up in the leaves and on the ground.
The book I found hung on a twig,
As you might guess it was not big,
I picked it up quite carefully,
And looked up close the best to see.
I wished to know what flys might read,
So with my eye I drew a bead,
And there upon the tiny page,
A list of poems for any age.
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semantics is not always just pedantic quibbling. ~ douglas r. hofstadter
