Christof
on The Journal by 1Sapphire1
4 Oct 2002, 7:38 AM
I like the situation and the heart-break
I think you're right, this is by far not the worst thing on poemranker.
Mysterious. Not bad.
I think this has been judged unfairly. If you're strict on your plagiarism thing, the Waste Land is all stolen, and that's the greatest poem ever.
Just be very glad my wife isn't around to hear you say that
Papa Lazarou was very scary. Perhaps I would like the office more if I'd ever worked in an office.
You're my wife now, Dave.
I'm always a sucker for poems where the form is linked to the meaning. Dylan Thomas wrote a poem called 'Vision and Prayer' where the stanzas are in diamond and hourglass shapes.
Yes, it probably should be quiver, but that doesn't rhyme.
I love The Office. It is so much like, well, my office. I never really watch League of Gentleman because my wife is so mortally afraid of Papa Lazarou. She didn't sleep for a whole night after that episode.
in your bow? or in your quiver? otherwise very nice. but that bit threw me.
Stockport has the largest parish church in England. And William Cobbett, who repealed the Corn Laws or something, was MP. Oh, and Fred Perry was born there. What a place.
By the way, I never really got the office. It's very clever, but just not funny. The League of Gentlemen is much better.
I feel the same way about Slough - the largest light industrial estate in Europe, no less. And the Mars Bar factory. And Willima Herschel discovered uranus while living there. And, and, and The Office is based there. And that's it.
I've fixed that now.
Oh, a typo - 'ecomic'
Very good - the dilemma of the socialist faced with New Labour. What a middle-class and furtive party it is now. Which is why I always vote Liberal Democrat - as if that's any great alternative.
Maybe I will. It has a viaduct that is the largest structure in Europe made of brick. As you can see, I am fiercely protective of my home town. Personally, I fancy the Tony Hancock one.
The proverbial embarrassment of riches. I'd start with Stockport.
Yes that does tend to put you off. They all merge into one after a while. Oh the years of trauma....
I'm glad you agree. I'm getting quite obsessed with the sonnet form. I think I've finally got over reading all 129 or whatever of Shakespeare's in one week in first year.
Yes that is better - tighter.