Fifty Shades O'Grady

[MystyrMystyry]

Fifty Shades O'Grady
Has sunglasses to spare
To keep his eyes shady
Out of the sunny glare

He has a purple set
Some orange ones
But some have met
Sitting Doom Buns

These are his cheeks
Which beneath them
His sunglass breaks
Made useless by bum

It's happened often
Always makes him mad
Pillows tried to soften
But too late, now sad

He tries to put them
In his shirt instead
Even sewed a hem
For when not on head

If he remembers this
But habits die hard
Usually he is remiss
They snap into shards

As a last ditch he chose
To knit a woollen vest
Placed them into rows
Can't get them off his chest

He wore them all at once
Did Fifty Shades O'Grady
Many think he's a dunce
But with Fifty Grades of Shady





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[The Truth]

Got to admit, I saw the title and can admire the wordplay in that alone, but this whole poem retains the atmosphere the title gives off and it's a great one.

[MystyrMystyry]

Thankyou The Truth :)

Yes, I believe it is always a wise - if unscrupuolous - move to attempt capitalising on others' commercial success ;)

[bIGwIRE]

I couldn't have read this at a better time because my wife just sat on her D+G glasses. "Sitting doom buns " made me lol. I hope you don't mind if I borrow that line for real life?

[AuntShecky]

Another cute one from you, this time about a guy who keeps breaking his sunglasses, mainly because he doesn't know which "end" is up.

The pun in the title is clever as well, but I hope that your little verse lasts longer in (ahem) "posterity" rather than the lurid novels that inspired your title.

I used to visit a certain poetry workshop site that had many rules, one of which was prohibiting the word "shard." This of course referred to the emotionally overwrought laments amateur poets tend to post, not to the actual meaning of the word -- broken glass!

One crit: the rhymes fall flat in a couple of places. Your rhythm as well
could benefit from the Archie Bell and the Drells (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wro3bqi4Eb8) treatment.

[Delta40]

Ha Ha. Good one MM and I liked the line sitting doom buns too!

[MystyrMystyry]

Thanks Bigwire :)

[MystyrMystyry]

Thankyou Aunty :)

I agree it should outlive its inspiration because in comparison it's, well, let's face it - brilliant! ;)

Now there has been a lot of fingerwagging about this aspect, and I am well aware of my rhythmic gymnastics - but I can't help it: I'm Jazz! I feel the spaces between the beats ;)

(And I can't be asked to notate with ridiculous stress marks like in my edition of G.M. Hopkins, especially on here where indents and spacin' go missin' - so there! :p )

Shard is one of those words that in itself sounds incomplete - like it's a broken off piece of 'brokenshard' (to me). My complaint with it is that when I hear or see it I get to thinking about how incomplete it sounds*



*I have the same problem with Cuba Gooding Junior for some reason. I'm certain his name should be Cuba Shoulding Woulding Coulding Gooding Junior. It just never sounds right otherwise.

[MystyrMystyry]

Thankyou Delta :)


Thankyou Delta :)


Thankyou Delta :)

[AuntShecky]

*I have the same problem with Cuba Gooding Junior for some reason. I'm certain his name should be Cuba Shoulding Woulding Coulding Gooding Junior. It just never sounds right otherwise.

I'm pretty sure it is Archie Bell and the Drells. Not the other way around. The operative word was the title of their song.

I'm not a big fan of a comic we have over here stateside whose stage name is Larry, the Cable Guy, but I do like one of his jokes in which he said that he missed a gig because he was confused about the venue: he could figure out if it was Hank Williams, Jr. High School or Hank Williams Junior High School.

[MystyrMystyry]

I got that it was in the title Aunty (interesting if it was the first recorded funk track ever: I'll be looking into that further - I'm always sceptical of first and biggest and fastest claims, though there's no reason to doubt this one

Today I had a Baader-Meinhof cross deja vu moment, multiple actually, all linked, and I started to write a poem about the experience, but it's going to take some time to get right - just warning you ;)

[aliengirl]

Nice pun in the title and you didn't let down the expectation I had from the poem. "Sitting Doom Buns" is great. Ha,ha,ha!

[MystyrMystyry]

Thankyou Alien Girl! :)

[MystyrMystyry]

Timely to bump this?

(Curiously in searching google for it I just discovered someone had borrowed the title for a book, available on Amazon, which I haven't read)