# Post random lines from random "poems" you've written **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134 "2006-06-26T00:25:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/1 "2006-06-26T00:25:14Z")
I’m sure other people, like me, have from time to time written random “poems” (and I put it in quotes, as what I really mean is things-that-rhyme-but-don’t-necessarily-have-artistic-merit) for random inside joke occasions, to woo women, etc. Here is a thread for posting random phrases or couplets from them, out of context. I have two: Nine months will be tough, but we’re sure you’ll pull through And when it’s all done, you’ll have a small Jew and Such fun to schooze! Just like when Jews Get drunk and spin the dreidel twice Here’s how to most impress your hosts: By bringing them some Edelweiss ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/2 "2006-06-26T00:41:24Z")
Two couplets inspired by our hyper-affectionate dogs: “When the heart goes thumpa-thumpa The tail goes whumpa-whumpa” “Lickety-lick-lick. Good God, you make me sick!” ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/3 "2006-06-26T00:48:29Z")
Nostalgia grips me tight As I lay here at quarter to four Will I look back on this night And wish I had written more? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/4 "2006-06-26T01:07:23Z")
Oh, please don’t pee on my Peonies Oh please don’t pee on my plants If you’ve got to go then I think you should know I’d rather you pee’d in your pants. -[sub][sub]Yes, it’s a song[/sub][/sub] ---
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/5 "2006-06-26T02:43:29Z")
Do you like to ride a swing, Into the sky so blue? It’s the most wonderful thing, That I like to do! Into the air, over a wall, I can see so wide! Trees and rivers and mountains and all, In the countryside. I go low and I go high, Viewing almost anything! Up in the air, I like to fly, When I ride a swing! NOTE: Inspired by Stevenson’s “THE SWING” ---
**Author:** ![Dinsdale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/97f17d/32.png) [@Dinsdale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinsdale)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/6 "2006-06-26T13:36:40Z")
skin, to chew on and think in the dark ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/7 "2006-06-26T13:50:59Z")
To the west the pine trees blow in a swoon And a star hangs a cross the crescent moon. I wish my muse would come back. ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/8 "2006-06-26T16:40:54Z")
> [@adam yax](#): > > To the west the pine trees blow in a swoon > And a star hangs a cross the crescent moon. > I wish my muse would come back. That sounds suspiciously like REAL poetry. What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/9 "2006-06-26T17:03:30Z")
Welcome to Disney World. Hope you have fun. Now give us all your money and your firstborn son. (That poem actually came to me in a dream, and I wasn’t even under the influence!) ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/10 "2006-06-26T17:27:33Z")
No place to run, no where to hide from carbon-tetra-chloride. (From my fridge poetry set) are you dry drink liquid s here from morning to evening or after dark use a glass ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/11 "2006-06-26T17:37:41Z")
You’re only supposed to post random _lines or couplets, out of context_ from your poems. Here are a few examples. I will not be posting the poems in full because most of them were lost in a hard drive crash in 2003. He was eight. He jumped out the window once. - from _Why I Cooked the Dog_ your name a dark nightblooming flower opening to breathe - from _Marie_ Now and then a man is mad, marinated in the sacred pee, consecrated to the subway God. - from _Subway_ Only exceptionally beautiful women _yawn_ in Latvia. - from _In Latvia_ ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/12 "2006-06-26T17:39:23Z")
We live mostly out of habit, but there are worse reasons. ---
**Author:** ![borschevsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/97f17d/32.png) [@borschevsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/borschevsky)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/13 "2006-06-26T17:40:51Z")
Come to the church with me And see Phoebe be Phoebe Bebe ---
**Author:** ![Rocketeer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocketeer/32/4437_2.png) [@Rocketeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rocketeer)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/14 "2006-06-26T20:26:24Z")
The water on the river sparkles I sit, dull as dust and massage reality into words. The water on the river sparkles Red leaves flicker in the slanting light Cathode rays assault my eyes. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/15 "2006-06-26T20:37:16Z")
From an attempt to write a conservative folk song: _This ain’t a situation where you’re free to choose You’ve got to pay your union dues!_ From an attempt to write a pop hit: _“Love all those you can” Is advice you can trust Be you woman or man I am saying you must…_ ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/16 "2006-06-26T21:25:11Z")
She sits perched on raptor claws argent wings swept back in the sun. My demon lover. (part of a longer poem about flying all the time) ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/17 "2006-06-26T21:31:14Z")
Terrible wounds can produce beautiful scars. or, from a punk song I wrote when I was 15: Small minds have conspired together to make a single thought about what to take away and new ways for you to get caught ---
**Author:** ![LiveOnAPlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3d9bf3/32.png) [@LiveOnAPlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LiveOnAPlane)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/18 "2006-06-26T22:22:18Z")
> [@Cluricaun](#): > > Terrible wounds can produce beautiful scars. > > or, from a punk song I wrote when I was 15: > > Small minds have conspired > together to make a single thought > about what to take away > and new ways for you to get caught That’s interesting. I rather like it. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/19 "2006-06-27T03:15:21Z")
Okay, two random sentences from a poem I wrote about a year ago: First person ever created. God wove the threads of her soul and formed the neck, the womb, the wet grey brain with the spirit glowing through bright eyes with the fire of the sun reminiscent of a sweet georgic summer with light night breezes on top of rock strewn shepherd hillsides. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/20 "2006-06-27T04:31:06Z")
Random slabs of poem gristle. my love for you is a flickering electric blue thought on the dying breath and vaulted hush of a late summer dusk crawl with quiet, scuttling politics over the husk of a real life her gingham pinafore billowing spirals up from the damp loam past the smoldering conifers over the ocher hills your children striding past you into infinity the earth precesses whirling about it’s axis the arrow of time brushes past your face This Is Your Valentine My Valentine To You relative reality is handy contextual candy until the urgent, electric day comes calling the arc of her life spiraled out a flickering stutter of fate idly considering the rise of your hip and the swell of your breast crashing against the endless shore skittering past empty streets kissing the earth wheeling into the wind on a lemon bright, cloudless day the sky is opening into the heavens [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134.md?page=2)