Compendium of Humour With Wit

mene tekel peres - calligraphic prescience. global village voice - a dialect of babel the poetry slam - pen viva voce inherent bloodline - curdle into nepotism Atlanta's Oliver Hardy so pretentious and somewhat lardy, had a sidekick,bungling,but thin both silently,still bring a grin The talented Christina Rossetti wrote carols and much poetry. Married love elluded her,I'm afraid, the poor lass dying as a spinster maid Dante Gabriel Rossetti a Victorian pre - raphelite ,you see, with his true love,buried his poetry but later ....could not let them be. Playwright Wiliam Shakespeare held rhyme & cadence ,so dear. Plays in verse were his thing making our English lingo sing. There once was a composer named Cage whose compositions caused 'listener' rage. His music,was too radically new, it gave the orchestra so little to do Edmund Clerihew Bentley wrote poetry everso gently. His greatest claim to fame immortalised his mother's maiden name For the lovely Adelaide Crapsey a long life was not to be. In syllable,two,four,six &eight she created the cinquain anew! Scottish poet Wiliam Soutar is now well known wide and far, for a his diary of a dying man- Do read his whigmaleeries, if you can