The Two Line Poem Game (no word limit) Showing 2,001-2,050 of 2,504

[Preston, Moderator]

Don't worry about wit it's not germane,
Just hang out here and complain!

[Rick]

Lately, that's all about the gorram snow,
it just makes me up and throw.

[Lori S.]

About the snow we all might be whiney,
Without it though the spring won't be shiney.

[Rick]

It's not the precipitation that's the pain,
I really wouldn't mind the rain.

[Roger]

My gosh, after so many months so many voices,
That's why me and Pres is all rejoices.

[Roger]

(Technical note: the last line's construction is known
As Poetic License, but of its grammar I must disown.)

[Lori S.]

Us discussing issues of grammar
Needs to match the beat of a hammer

[Lori S.]

A variable impact tool that rings
Which in the right hands dances and sings

[Rick]

Count me out
I'm not that devout

[Lori S.]

Aw man, I did not mean the chase you away!
Come back Rick! Please come back and play!

[Rick]

Rhyming just isn't my thing,
But maybe if I get into the swing ...

[Roger]

Swing! Hey, please, no jazz here, Pres likes it Classic,
You know: hip-hop, breakdance and all things plastic.

[[deleted user]]

I wish I could write good music lyrics,
but all I have is tarter and fishsticks.

[Preston, Moderator]

Bethany as writer of such renown,
I thought you'd rhyme from sunup to sundown.

[Preston, Moderator]

With your poems The Moon Is Always Bisexual,
We know you're poetically intellectual.

[[deleted user]]

Well, it's true that I often enjoy the art of rhyme,
But to inflict so much poetry would be a crime.

[Preston, Moderator]

Never 'inflict' poetry into a verse,
Whatever you add only makes it worse.

[Roger]

Whenever I'm alone at home
I love to read a good pome.

[Roger]

I don't know about rhyming but one thing's telling…
I always got into trouble at school for my spelling.

[Roger]

And nothing is clearer (there is no way out, I must tell the truth)
I never studied literature at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

[Preston, Moderator]

Spelling made your grades totter?
Didja go to school with Harry Potter?

[Roger]

Who told? WHO WAS THE SNITCH!
I was top-notch at playing Quidditch.

[Preston, Moderator]

Shoulda asked Harry for a magic spell,
That would ward off an ignoble expel.

[Roger]

Indeed, at school I loved going up and down on the swings
And got expelled for playing with another boy's things.

[[deleted user]]

Oscar Wilde seemed to have a similar story
but he was a poet, and achieved poet's glory.

[Preston, Moderator]

Wilde wanted a HEA that was Male/Male
Unhappily ever after he landed in gaol.

[Max]

Without something so brand new and queer,
He celebrated his dissatisfaction with a beer.

[Roger]

A pale ale was not the thing Wilde was dreading
When he ended up in that gaol in Reading.

[Lori S.]

Such a place to be stuck in one's own thoughts
Long and lonely nights make one over wrought

[Lori S.]

So solace Wilde did seek
on shores distant and bleak

[Lori S.]

Away from old haunts, lovers, friends, and family
He slipped into death and permanent infamy

[Roger]

In spite of which he has remained in mind,
Very much like Christopher Isherwood and his kind.

[Lori S.]

I did not mean that in any way negative
I was thinking of Wilde as a real positive

[Lori S.]

His quotes, his plays, and his wondrous ways
Give hope that we can find joy in the light of day

[Roger]

Wilde was a smart cookie, rich like a Garibaldi,*
Shot through with current like Peter Capaldi.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garibal...

[Lori S.]

Ah, you've hit a sweet spot, currant and true
Capaldi is great, Garibaldi was too

[Roger]

:-))

[Preston, Moderator]

What rhymes with :-)) ?

[Roger]

That's simple: I'd run many miles
For just one of your smiles :-))

[[deleted user]]

A smile is an expression, using lips and teeth,
To describe a happy feeling that lurks underneath.

(hahahahhaaha sorry, it's no good)

[Roger]

That's okay, we're none of really poets, Bethany
But just trying to meter and rhyme is Heavenly.

[Preston, Moderator]

We don't write poems we view with motherhood,
We don't care if they're bad or good.

[Preston, Moderator]

There's only one measure for what we've done,
If spending time here is having fun

[Preston, Moderator]

As I sit here writing from Albany,
I enjoy the pleasant company.

[Preston, Moderator]

I try to write amusing poetry,
Never thinking of any scrutiny.

[Preston, Moderator]

But even if it's words of disharmony,
It only matters if it's fun for me.

[Preston, Moderator]

When I write a rhyming verse,
I always think, 'It could be worse.'

[Preston, Moderator]

So now I'll stop, indeed suspend.
This is the last line—The End.

[Roger]

No, no… take a bow
And a rest just for now.

[Roger]

Apropos nothing much… for goodness sakes
It's ages since I made gin & tonic cupcakes.