One of my favorite exercises is to take a joke, old or new (from email for instance) and convert it into a poem, usually an R&R piece (rhythm and rhyme). Here's one from the wayback machine:
A Woman Who Reads
Her husband caught his limit
returned and moored the boat
an opportunity she took
upon the lake to gently float
and quietly read her book.
The ranger came alongside
accosted her across the bow
"Fishing without permit", he wrote
she closed her book and asked him how –
"The equipment’s all there in the boat."
She raised her brows and looked at him
"I’ll charge you, then, with savage rape!"
"A foul!" he cried, "I’ve laid no hand
upon you!", looking for escape.
"You’ve all the tools..." she took her stand.
The moral of the story pleads
"Don’t mess with a woman who reads."
7/28/2004
A Woman Who Reads
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Re: A Woman Who Reads
Very cleverly worked and worded...
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Re: A Woman Who Reads
thats cool
liked it much
/My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
....
......................................
...... And yet
Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,
And blew. ``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.''
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Robert Browning 1812-1889
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
....
......................................
...... And yet
Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,
And blew. ``Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.''
Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
Robert Browning 1812-1889
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Re: A Woman Who Reads
With so much at stake,
This lesson I'll take:
Three men in a boat
Will keep you afloat.
One girl with a book,
And you must swallow hook
Line and sinker in one,
And you will be done!
(Just don't mind me, heinzs )
This lesson I'll take:
Three men in a boat
Will keep you afloat.
One girl with a book,
And you must swallow hook
Line and sinker in one,
And you will be done!
(Just don't mind me, heinzs )
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