Poetry and Potpourri ..... September 26, 2003

9-26-2003 | JustAmy; Mama_Bear; St.Louie1

[JustAmy]

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The Poetry Branch has been in limbo since the prior hostess left FreeRepublic April 15th 2003. We've since learned that said hostess has lost her posting privilege. That being the case, and Jim Robinson having given his ok, I wanted to renew the thread.

FreeRepublic is blessed with many fine poets, and we look forward to seeing their poems posted on FR once again. There were many non-poet FReepers who visited the Poetry Branch for the camaraderie; we hope they will return.

I would like to invite everyone to visit and relax at Poetry and Potpourri. Hopefully you will renew old acquaintances for chatting, sharing jokes, telling stories, posting cartoons, etc. Everyone needs a place to escape from the everyday news, make Poetry and Potpourri that place.

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The Belvedere's Guardian Wolf ~
the always charming, lovable, huggable,
LouieWolf.

[deadhead]

"I am not a poet ..... I'm a shopper! LOL"

LOL

I am not a poet and I know it...learned this one when I was a young one :-)

I am a shopper too

Hi Louie, glad you liked the butterfly graphic.

[SpookBrat]

I loooooooooooove Pooh and Christopher Robin. I have all the old books and secretly read them when no one is looking. Shhhhhh....don't tell anyone.

[SpookBrat]

I'm not a poet. I tried in High School once. It went something like this.

There once was a boy named Melvin, who had a dog named Spot.
His mother did not like the spots. Remove them she could not.
She put him in a pot one day.....can't remember the rest. LOL

I got an "A" but a big read "sick!!!" at the top of my paper because she accidently boiled the dog. ROFL Oh well...

[JustAmy]

Hi Spookie .......

Welcome to Poetry and Potpourri!!

Hope you have time to sit awhile, enjoy a poem or a joke. How about some of that Bolton Hot Pot in post #139? I have plenty left!

Thanks for coming by.

[MistyCA]

They are all so cute, Billie!

[MistyCA]

Most of my cars were "fast cars". My brother got me into the racing thing many years ago, and it's just in the blood. :)

[MistyCA]

Whew! Billie is right....he is one scary looking dude! :)

[MistyCA]

HI Colleen! Good to see you today. :)

[MistyCA]

Spooky! There you are~! IT's really great seeing you!!!

[Darksheare]

I'd love honestly tool around on an oval track.
I'm, unfortunately, one of those guys who'd smart off in a fast car and pay for it.
Probably the final time I push my luck and it'd push back.
The one fast car I had any experience with was a 1964 Pontiac LeMans convertible.
Wish we still had it.

[JustAmy]

The Lake Isle Of Innisfree

I WILL arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the mourning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

By William B. Yeats

[Darksheare]

Yeats!
Thanks!

[MistyCA]

My first one was a 66 Chevelle Super Sport that was suped up by one of the motor shops where we lived. My brother and his friends had me doing the quarter mile in no time! They got a kick out of me popping wheelies I guess. LOL. The guy who bought it from me put it over the top of a bridge railing. The next one was a 70 super sport but it was all stock. Then a Mustang Mach1. Those were fun cars. The 66 was the only one that was really decked out for racing. Couldn't do those things once I started having my kids. :)

[JustAmy]

How about another?

He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven

HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams

By William B. Yeats

[ST.LOUIE1]

This I.M.Looney poet is one scary dude! Those are the wildest eyes I've ever seen.
Your 'poems' are hilarious! And so very 'wolfie-ish'! LOL!LOL! Glad you like him! : )

Too much fun being BillieBlue; thank you again, wolfie, for the nic and the birdies!

Thank you, darlin'. : )

((((((( BillieBlue )))))))

[Victoria Delsoul]

I'm doing great, Amy. So good to see you all.

Evening friends.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Their brains are all musty with decay and mold
They're jealous, they envy, they fear being old!

LOL!!!

[Darksheare]

Got Robert Frost anywhere?

[Darksheare]

The missus HAD a 69 Chevelle.
She got rid of it, and has kicked herself for it ever since.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Awww, that's a lovely graphic, Billie.