Didn't there used to be a poets corner

[legalbeagle]

on the forum? Have searched but cannot find......

[StraferJack]

This one maybe?

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,516540,516805#msg-516805

[legalbeagle]

Yes! Odd. Didn't come up when I searched poet or poetry.....

Thanks

[Huguenot]

Perhaps it was the period you searched in? Perhaps only the last year?

[StraferJack]

Yep. Search defaults to last year. You have to drop it down to select "forever"

This is all dull prose and no poetry however. ;-)

[Ridgley]

How about

The rich will play and the poor will pay:)

[StraferJack]

more slogan than poetry methinks Ridgers

[Annette Curtain]

StraferJack Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> more slogan than poetry methinks Ridgers

That's the first use of 'methinks' that hasn't angered me to the point of smashing my screen/face/sponge wear pottery.

Progress indeed Stafer.

[StraferJack]

Nice sentiment, but again the rhyming is non-existent, and iambically it's all over the shop. Must try harder Annette

[El Pibe]

if the slashes are line breaks it actually scans quite nicely:

That's the first use of 'methinks' that hasn't angered me to the point of smashing my screen

face

sponge wear pottery.

Progress indeed Stafer.

[Huguenot]

Kind of kicks off with a trochee

but then all hell does break loose

[El Pibe]

If I ever own a pub I reckon "Sponge Wear Pottery" would make a great name.

[RosieH]

Band name, surely?

[computedshorty]

Do the East Dulwich members after reading still have the time,

to post some current poetry, prose, or something in a rhyme.

Using some of these themes that come back into our mind,

lets look to see what could make sense, just a few that I find.

Will my cycle be safe at Sainsbury?s car park while I shop,

I cant buy much anyway as there is not room some may drop.

There are camera?s watching over near by the recycling bin,

to take a Nuns bike surly would be a terrible unforgiving sin.

The orange filled bottles still arrive here on the back streets,

mostly near a corner or where the two roads join and meets.

Speculation asks of what those bottles here might contain,

it might better if the contents be disposed of down the drain.

Camberwell Old Cemetery, once again chose to raises its head,

to make it look better to make some changes above the dead.

Any who book now to get a place on a waiting list to be the first,

will lie prone within a coffin inside the slowly moving hearse.

What does Lordship Lane need? A comic who makes you laugh,

people that don't argue, and appreciates views of their other half.

Bring back some local toilets, they will have to sooner or later,

even paying as you enter, that will cover the cost of soft paper.

Iceland may soon be altered for shoppers to get a best design,

that does not matter much, as long as the foods will be fine.

Bet your life the spaces will be filled with a best of choice,

without piped music where you cant hear anybody?s voice.