STRIKE OUT COUPLETS

Michael Edwards

 

STRIKE OUT COUPLETS

                                                       

Between you, me and the bed post.

life’s a bitch and then you die  .

 

Beauty is only skin deep.

Many a slip twixt cup and lip clasp

 

Still waters run deep nowhere

don’t jump off into the deep end.

 

Two and two make four twenty two

catch 22?

 

one swallow doesn’t make a summer full belly

Make a clean breast plate.

 

 

 

  • Author: Michael Edwards (Offline Offline)
  • Published: August 22nd, 2017 00:04
  • Comment from author about the poem: Five Strike Out couplets - a very rare poetic form – in fact so rare these are probably the only ones ever written.
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  • Goldfinch60

    Clever write Michael, you do realise that in the USA if you have two many strike outs you become out.

    • Michael Edwards

      No but in the UK two strikes and you might be sacked - thanks Andy

    • orchidee

      A fine write and pic M. I knew there must be some use for the Strike-out function. I couldn't understand it. We can't do professional reports, etc, with loads of bits crossed out!

      • Michael Edwards

        Cheers O - yes I had To think hard how to use it and came up with this. Beginning to wish I hadn't posted it .

      • Frank Prem

        As long as the heart of the poem is still beating M. Bravo.

        • Michael Edwards

          Still beating Fred - but not sure what 🙂

        • sue.evans

          Love playing with words and language - you can get lost in the practice as I feel you did when writing this.

          • Michael Edwards

            Thanks Sue - yes so do I - there's a bit of a poem versus aphorism versus idiom debate about all this.

          • FredPeyer

            No way are you the first, Michael. I wrote strike-out couplets many, many times, only I stroke out the whole thing!
            Does the painting have anything to do with the Rorschach test?

            • Michael Edwards

              Darn it - another knock back - will have to think of something else now. Nothing to do with the teat but you'd need a bit psycho to interpret it whatever it is.

            • BRIAN & ANGELA

              Thanks MICHAEL ~ Proverbs a Goldfield but also a Minefield ! Remind me of the Spaniards in Bilbao stuck in a revolving door !

              "Too many Basques in one Exit !"

              Yours are all very droll but English humour always confuses Americans ! Love DENDRITES my fave in Nature is Dendritic Elemental Copper from ZIMBABWE ! ~ Yours BRIAN

              • Michael Edwards

                It puts me in mind of Too Many Cooks Spoil the Broth but I haven't the courage to post the alternative version with so many lovely ladies on the site.

              • orchidee

                Ooh, don't strike about the whole poem! lol. Cos I comes along to everyone's poems and strikes out anything remotely 'hot'. It saves me many swoons! heehee.

                • Michael Edwards

                  Consider it unstruck oh great Orchidee and swoon not.

                • Tony36

                  LOL1 Love them

                • burning-embers

                  What have you started??? this such fun. i like it very much indeed

                  • Michael Edwards

                    We'll have to see if any one else has a go - why not give it a try b-e?

                  • malubotelho

                    I liked this very much. Had to go back and read again. It is like those charade reads one find on those test magazines. Only you Michael to write this.

                    • Michael Edwards

                      Great fun aren't they . Thanks Malu.

                    • WriteBeLight

                      Wow. So great Michael. Poem and pix too!

                    • myself and me

                      I guess, after yesterday's "journey", you must get tired, otherwise, how come you made mistake on each line?
                      The paint is a win.

                      • Michael Edwards

                        Story of my life - thanks for looking in.



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