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				 Posted: 2009-04-02 06:55:09    Post subject: Clerihew | 
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				Clerihew
 
 
American poet Robert Frost,
 
whose two roads many have never crossed.
 
Someone taunted him, “You write on subjects”,
 
“You write bric-a-brac”, said he, with respect. _________________ the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins | 
			 
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		kino 秀才
 
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				 Posted: 2009-04-03 02:14:37    Post subject:  | 
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				  不过我还挺喜欢他的 | 
			 
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		Lake 举人
  
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				 Posted: 2009-04-03 05:25:56    Post subject:  | 
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				I like that old fella, too.    
 
 
Just tried to write something funny. But it's not, I know. _________________ the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins | 
			 
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		博弈 榜眼
 
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				 Posted: 2009-04-08 08:19:05    Post subject:  | 
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				good, like it. 
 
Lake is almost known for liking Robert Frost;
 
if wanting to be closer to that poem,
 
"whose two roads many have never crossed"
 
may also be expressed as
 
whose "Two roads diverged in a" forest   
 
 
though Frost and forest a little rhyme variation,
 
but fun for a Clerihew
 
 
a copy of that poem for readers;
 
 
The Road Not Taken
 
 
 
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
 
And sorry I could not travel both
 
And be one traveler, long I stood
 
And looked down one as far as I could
 
To where it bent in the undergrowth.
 
 
Then took the other, as just as fair,
 
And having perhaps the better claim,
 
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
 
Though as for that the passing there
 
Had worn them really about the same.
 
 
And both that morning equally lay
 
In leaves no step had trodden black.
 
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
 
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
 
I doubted if I should ever come back.
 
 
I shall be telling this with a sigh
 
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
 
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
 
I took the one less traveled by,
 
And that has made all the difference. _________________ (在不斷的審醜裡終將建立起新的審美) | 
			 
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		Lake 举人
  
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				 Posted: 2009-04-08 15:55:58    Post subject:  | 
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	  | whose "Two roads diverged in a" forest  | 
	 
 
 
 
What a great funny line with that "forest" at the end! Can I steal it, Mark?
 
 
American poet Robert Frost,
 
whose two roads diverged in a forest.
 
Someone taunted him, “You write on subjects”,
 
“You write bric-a-brac”, said he, with respect.
 
 
Thanks much! _________________ the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins | 
			 
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		博弈 榜眼
 
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				 Posted: 2009-04-08 19:45:37    Post subject:  | 
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				who can argue now stealing is 
 
not a virtue as he stole from a wood
 
did you trace him into one road
 
did i catch him in the other
 
that presentable as a poem's merit
 
 
   _________________ (在不斷的審醜裡終將建立起新的審美) | 
			 
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		Lake 举人
  
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				 Posted: 2009-04-09 07:51:17    Post subject:  | 
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	  who can argue now stealing is 
 
not a virtue as he stole from a wood
 
did you trace him into one road
 
did i catch him in the other
 
that presentable as a poem's merit
 
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How true!
 
now that presentable.
 
偷就偷彻底吧。 去掉引号。 _________________ the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins | 
			 
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		William Zhou周道模 探花
 
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				 Posted: 2009-04-10 14:22:59    Post subject:  | 
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				read, studied, thanks! _________________ 诗歌是灵魂的歌唱.
 
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		Lake 举人
  
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				 Posted: 2009-05-04 14:40:42    Post subject:  | 
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				It's not very funny. Some say, I need to be a little bit mean. So this is not mean enough.
 
 
学做坏人也不容易。    _________________ the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins | 
			 
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