Dropped some verse here for you to peruse.
And please! Don't let me hear any boos.
I worked my poor brain down to the bone
to create these poems for you alone.
So just pretend ~ if they don't amuse.
When I find myself beginning to write
on a topic that is just too erudite,
I quickly throw in the towel,
with an unfeigned avowal
that frankly, I'm just not that bright.
Poetry Soup says I'm an American Poet.
But, we all know that that is rot.
I may be a rhymist, a card, or a funster,
an antic, a clown, or a punster,
a trickster, a wag, or a bombaster,
a prankster, a hack, or a poetaster.
But an American poet? ~ Certainly not!
I remember my old English teacher once saying to me:
"In the mind of every unstudious, would-be poet,
real poetry might be swirling around, but they wouldn't know it,
cuz instead of learning, they're always just grasping at straws,
and thereby repeating the very same flaws
that makes every other unstudious, would-be poet ~ blow it."
Don't I know it.
Why did I stop writing?
My brain finally ran out of verse.
And, no, I don't see that as a curse.
It just means that from now on
the conclusion is forgone ~
I won't ever write anything worse.
New Testament Textual Gospel Study Quiz
I'm interested in how the text of gospels of the New Testament differ. Are you? If yes, I've created a textual gospel study quiz where you can either test your knowledge of the text of the different gospels or where, through repeatedly working through the quiz, you can learn. You can find the quiz at https://gospelstudyquiz.com/ This is a college-level New Testament gospel study quiz, so don't expect to pass it just like that. If you take it, let me know what you think. And if you see errors, as there most likely are, please contact me also.