Joy...Oh, Boy

You lay in the surf waiting for me
Although Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr we could not be.
Trying at love with the incoming tide
Kelp and seaweed stuck to my side.

"Great gods", thought I, as I wrote the rhyme
Use "Adonis" and "Poseidon" from another time.
I'll let love be the center of the poem I write
And show all who read it, my emotional insight.

The pounding of the waters blue
Will be my metaphor of a love so true.
And I'll have to sex it up a bit
For passion plays a big part in it.

I will use "penetration" and words like "breech"
To add to that image of us on the beach.
With the romantic beginning I have said
And to the altar of love that I've been led.

Because I  finish with our pledge on the shore
The reader will always want to have more.
So, the green eyed girls will be my poetic night
And close the verse, so crisp and tight.


Note:  It took sum lookin' fer me to find,
          Which of yer verses to redo in kind.
          I be such a nut on rime y'see...
          This'n be the one fer me.

          Not only be the words of it I do,
          But "Glad Tidings" title caught me good eye, too!
          'Cause it be 'ard fer me to act on yer quirk,
          Me spleen to trash one o' yer better werks.

          As I be not 'fraid of a few typed words,
          Trashin' me stuff as if'n they be turds.
          So, 'ere y'ar matey, me own attempt whilst I be sprawl,
          To change them words that ye did scrawl.

          Me words 're somwhat boggin'
          'Cause me be thinkin' what was in 'er noggin'.
          And if'n ye take offense at me 'ritin' a bit,
          "RRRRRRRRRRR emember that ye asked fer it!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010



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Date: 7/30/2010 12:47:00 PM
Congrats in Deb's contest, Daniel with this awesome poem. LUv, Andrea
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Date: 7/30/2010 5:27:00 AM
Congratulations Daniel on your win in Deborah Guzzi's contest "Critcise Me". Love, Carol
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Date: 7/29/2010 10:31:00 PM
Congratulations, Daniel. on your success in Deborah's contest, Agape, Moses
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Date: 7/27/2010 10:00:00 AM
arrrrgh back to you!
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Date: 7/26/2010 7:58:00 PM
hahahahaha. She will LOVE this. Way to go. I am sure you already well into the winner's circle. Luv, Andrea
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Date: 7/25/2010 7:44:00 PM
Wow ~ you did an excellent job with making Debs poem your own ~ well done
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Date: 7/25/2010 11:59:00 AM
This is excellent Dan .. if for the contest it must be a Triolette form.. so some readjusting needed to enter it.. but who can forget that scene ..not me.. its one of the greatest in moviedom... enjoyed and good luck...with luv..
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