# Are You A Poet? Then Show It! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 29, 2000, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270 "2000-08-29T23:33:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![red\_dragon60](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@red\_dragon60](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/red_dragon60)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2000, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/41 "2000-09-03T17:05:03Z")
The sky is bleeding Pierced by the craggy mountains White clouds patch the wound My bonsai reaches to the sky! Twisting in search of light Up, up, up it goes in the air not knowing it is only six inches tall ---
**Author:** ![Nanno](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Nanno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanno)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/42 "2000-09-04T01:26:12Z")
Now you know. ``` Selia You felt my heart beat I did not feel yours You saw my life I did not see yours You saw my heart breaking I let yours go We felt our pain together forever lost ``` ---
**Author:** ![Kalahari\_Khala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c77e96/32.png) [@Kalahari\_Khala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalahari_Khala)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/43 "2000-09-04T02:34:53Z")
You’re a poet and don’t know it, but your feet show it - they’re long fellows. ---
**Author:** ![aha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eada6e/32.png) [@aha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aha)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/44 "2000-09-04T03:17:53Z")
Brothers We played too long among the 'simmon trees As the summer sun sank late and orange in a giant sky. All elbows, legs and dirty knees So daring we could fly With wonderment and boyish joy, We pushed the bounds of fate Till’ a mother’s voice broke the country wood, Come home! Come home! And be safe. aha 1999 ---
**Author:** ![JoeyHemlock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ba0ec/32.png) [@JoeyHemlock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeyHemlock)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/45 "2000-09-04T03:39:58Z")
I’m sorry, Slythe, that I must grumble But it’s my opinion (oh so humble) that although you though this thread would floor 'em, this is mundane pointless shit (wrong forum!). ---
**Author:** ![honkytonkwillie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3da27b/32.png) [@honkytonkwillie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/honkytonkwillie)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/46 "2000-09-04T08:00:21Z")
Bubbly! Bitter! Golden! Good! Goes well with all kinds of food. Comes in bottles, comes in cans. I’d drink more beer if I had more hands. ---
**Author:** ![Anniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@Anniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anniz)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/47 "2000-09-04T08:51:52Z")
Here is the 2 I wrote the other day to **Montfort** and posted in MPSIMS. \*\*I wake up in the mornig and wish you where here I go to bed in the eavning and wish you where here I dream of you all the day and wish you where here I dream of you all the night and wish you where here You are the man that I want. I have never meet you but still I know you. I have never talked to you but still I know you I have never kissed you but still I know you I have never slept with you but stilll I know you But do you know me… \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/48 "2000-09-04T12:20:42Z")
Please take time to note That submission time’s done It’s now time to vote (Please choose only one!) ---
**Author:** ![Kid\_Gilligan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kid\_Gilligan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kid_Gilligan)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/49 "2000-09-04T14:46:07Z")
I really doubt my shoes would fit If I had seven toes. And glasses would be hard to find If I had an extra nose. An extra head would be, I think, An item quite redundant. And were I offered extra legs, I’d say “No, two’s abundant”. Yes, I’m happy with my body And the placement of each part. I just regret that I can only Offer you one heart. ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/50 "2000-09-04T15:44:27Z")
Do we vote here, or e-mail you privately? Sorry if this has already been explained. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/51 "2000-09-05T02:42:26Z")
Voting here is what you should do I’m sorry for confusing you. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Spider\_Woman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cdc98d/32.png) [@Spider\_Woman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spider_Woman)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/52 "2000-09-05T02:49:35Z")
Roman Roads ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/53 "2000-09-05T03:29:35Z")
My vote is split between Tasha’s “as yet untitled” and Lauren’s “one poem she actually likes”. I can’t pick. Tasha’s is amusingly odd, and Lauren’s just fits her personality so well. And I have to support my frends since I can’t write poetry to save my life. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/54 "2000-09-05T08:37:01Z")
To Gadarene my vote is owed I, too, was touched by _Roman Roads_ ---
**Author:** ![iksova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/59ef9b/32.png) [@iksova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iksova)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/55 "2000-09-05T12:40:31Z")
I vote for Dogsbody’s ‘Caution’. Am I too late to vote? ---
**Author:** ![relic\_11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/50afbb/32.png) [@relic\_11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/relic_11)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/56 "2000-09-05T19:33:14Z")
My vote is for **andygirl**. ---
**Author:** ![Gadarene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47c2d/32.png) [@Gadarene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadarene)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/57 "2000-09-06T21:54:34Z")
Do we have a quorum yet? 🙂 I vote for **Triskadecamus’s**. ---
**Author:** ![tradesilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tradesilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tradesilicon)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/58 "2000-09-07T01:19:20Z")
So hard to cast a single vote With all the good poems you all wrote With Silver\_Fire and 2nd Law I could not find a single flaw When I read Relic, Rob and Andy I felt it was like mental candy Dogsbody, yESTERmAN and Balance With Rob and Monster fill my palate Rysdad, betenoir and ssskuggiii Keep sounding better still to me Speaker, Trisk and Spider’s mom Have given me yet one from Which to choose My favorite muse Johnny Angel and Aha And Gravity and Iksova Kid\_Gilligan, DigitalMuse How can I know which one to choose? To pick just one is quite obscene But if I must, it’s Gadarene! ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/59 "2000-09-08T03:34:22Z")
Two more days to cast your vote Then the total I will tote! ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270/60 "2000-09-08T15:33:26Z")
Allow me, if it shall please To cast a vote for lovely **Anniz** [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-a-poet-then-show-it/31270.md?page=4)