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    Light Verse: "Hype"



    The Hype

    Here’s a bright colt, itching to run;
    His winning ways are ripe.
    But betting’s no fun
    With odds one-to-one – -
    So don’t believe the hype.

    Here’s a slugger, swatting with spark;
    The slate of stats he might wipe.
    It’s getting late and dark,
    The ball’s still in the park – -
    So don’t believe the hype.

    A pol’s charisma cuts through the din;
    His smile shakes off every gripe.
    But the charm wears thin
    Once we vote him in – -
    So don’t believe the hype.

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    wow, i love the feeling of action and excitement in this poem. way to write!

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    Now that one made me laugh! Turning limericks into a three stanza poem! Encore! Encore!

    Pen

    Some of us laugh
    Some of us cry
    Some of us smoke
    Some of us lie
    But it's all just the way
    that we cope with our lives...

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    I second Uncle Pen on that. Encore!
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    More light verse -- "Boiling Water"

    Serious topics-- life, love, death, etc., the "Big" subjects" -- perhaps call for a loftier, more formal kind of verse. But (for me at least) "light" verse is fun because the writer can use trivial, ordinary objects for subjects. Hence the following ditty about a most mundane household activity. We used to live in a charming, bucolic
    setting, but during the Great Real Estate Bubble of a couple of years ago, the landlord got greedy and sold the house "out from under us." I loved the joint, but the water (groundwater from a well) literally "stunk." Hence, the necessity of. . .



    Boiling Water

    "Boil, boil, toil and trouble. . ."
    --Macbeth


    Something must've died in the well
    To produce such a ghastly, sulfuric smell
    Or maybe it's methane. Whatever the rap,
    Here is the swamp, right here in my tap.

    Despite the stink
    We all have to drink
    This unpotable liquid from the sink --
    Which into a flotilla of pots I pour
    Like a guerrilla in the Pollution War.
    Such imprisonment of domestic resources seems strange
    As does giving tap water a new home on the range.

    Yet before the mephitic gas can burn my eyes
    I watch the steam -- and the electric bill -- rise.
    Then I pour it all into bottles, like Doctor Frankenstein
    (Who never, I assure you, transformed water into wine.)

    With the elements of the stove still red and a-glow
    The component molecules remain two "h"s and one "o."
    And with all due respect to what science can deduce
    This is one element which a layman can't reduce.

    Like some loony alchemist getting his medieval butt out of bed
    To try once again to coax gold to come from lead
    Or -- endlessly rolling a rock up the hill
    Just to have it rerun down in an ironic spill --
    I'm just like Sisyphus or the optimist's daughter
    To spend an entire morning changing water into water.


    Aunt Shecky
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    Now it's YOUR turn. Please share with us some of your light verses on ordinary household objects or activity. Your
    poetry, of course, will elevate them all above the commonplace!

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    Auntie, I appreciate the first part of your post. It's like getting a little Lit lesson and I really do appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us.

    I love the poem! My daughter's well went sulfur or whatever you call it a few years ago and it does stink. Thanks for sharing!
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    Love it Aunti, love it!

    The water in the first house we lived in in Alaska had so much iron in it you could clank it with a spoon as it came out of the spigot.
    I'm in love with The Vinegar Man and Mr. Tanner, but be careful, it could just as easily be you.

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