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Clerihew
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PostPosted: 2009-04-02 06:55:09    Post subject: Clerihew Reply with quote

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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.
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PostPosted: 2009-04-03 02:14:37    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very Happy 不过我还挺喜欢他的
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PostPosted: 2009-04-03 05:25:56    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like that old fella, too. Very Happy

Just tried to write something funny. But it's not, I know.
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PostPosted: 2009-04-08 08:19:05    Post subject: Reply with quote

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 Wink

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.
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PostPosted: 2009-04-08 15:55:58    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quote:
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!
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PostPosted: 2009-04-08 19:45:37    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: 2009-04-09 07:51:17    Post subject: Reply with quote

博弈 wrote:
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
...


How true!
now that presentable.
偷就偷彻底吧。 去掉引号。
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PostPosted: 2009-04-10 14:22:59    Post subject: Reply with quote

read, studied, thanks!
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PostPosted: 2009-05-04 14:40:42    Post subject: Reply with quote

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。 Razz
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