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.
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Author:
Michael Edwards (
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- 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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Clever write Michael, you do realise that in the USA if you have two many strike outs you become out.
No but in the UK two strikes and you might be sacked - thanks Andy
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!
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 .
As long as the heart of the poem is still beating M. Bravo.
Still beating Fred - but not sure what 🙂
Love playing with words and language - you can get lost in the practice as I feel you did when writing this.
Thanks Sue - yes so do I - there's a bit of a poem versus aphorism versus idiom debate about all this.
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
Consider it unstruck oh great Orchidee and swoon not.
LOL1 Love them
Cheers Tony
Welcome
What have you started??? this such fun. i like it very much indeed
We'll have to see if any one else has a go - why not give it a try b-e?
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.
Great fun aren't they . Thanks Malu.
Wow. So great Michael. Poem and pix too!
Just fun - thanks.
I guess, after yesterday's "journey", you must get tired, otherwise, how come you made mistake on each line?
The paint is a win.
Story of my life - thanks for looking in.
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