Are there any poets out there?

[Hornspieler]

Is Schubert’s music the food of love
We’ll likely get an excess of it
How soon before we get off peed
With endless games of follow my lied
At the end will our love of him be undiminished
Or unlike his symphony will it be finished.

[Panjandrum]

Ode to Joy?

Schubert all day and all night
Thou undisputed master of song
Thy quartets and trios our endless delight.
How many more than 9 symphonies
Hadst thou not been taken by syphilis?
Thy too early death one of the great villainies.
Thy 30 years spent in the act of creation
Now crammed into a mere 8 days duration.
And all this, though done by Wright,
Yet it offends; it is Wrong!

[Hornspieler]

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Schubert on 3 - A sonnet in celebration

This week we’re having Schubert round the clock
Throughout the day and also through the night
Such chamber works as Shepherd on the Rock
By courtesy of Mr Roger Wright
If Schubert were alive this very day
He might be quite delighted with the feste
Of works that he has never heard us play
And symphonies and lieder and the rest.

Death and the Maiden, Earl King, Auf dem Strohm
Marches, Serenades and Polonaise
Where did Franz’s ideas all come from
To keep his ouvre going for seven days?
I think I'll add some gin on to my list
I'm going to listen on until I'm p-----!

Hornspieler (hic)

Already posted on the Perfomance thread, but I've changed the last stanza. Is that allowed?

[salymap]

Press Cutting -" Sir Malcolm Sargent said the cat in the painting of Lady Dalkeith was a present from him."

Americans have written books on how to be good fun
And in demand at parties every night when work is done,
Popularity's the passwork - more and richer friends the aim,
And how to influence people, gain position, wealth and fame,
Are topics of importance to the people in the street,
[Impose your personality on everyone you meet.]

In England if you wish to mingle with the upper set,
There's no improvement on this plan - give every one a pet.
A dachsi for the Duchess, a Persian cat for Jane,
And there's a ready-made excuse for you to call again,
The problem is to know if one will get the frozen mitten,
If one calls at Windsor Castle, uninvited with a kitten.

One of my efforts from about 50 years ago. I liked MS really

[Hornspieler]

Well posted, Salymap!

Well, we are certainly both trying to keep things alive on the classical forum, but I rather fear that most of our fellow message boarders are to be found queuing up at the check-in desks in their local airport. Probably been there since midday.

(Would that also be known as "Lilac Time"?)

HS

[salymap]

Well posted, Salymap!

Well, we are certainly both trying to keep things alive on the classicall forum, but I rather fear that most of our fellow message boarders are to be found queuing up at the check-in desks in their local airport. Probably been there since midday.

(Would that also be known as "Lilac Time"?)

HS

From what I read earlier I thought you had joined them HS

[salymap]

I agree kernel - the OP's restrictions do seem to be very limiting

Let a thousand blossoms bloom

I certainly wish a thousand blossoms [poems] would bloom ams 51. I've been left all alone to make a fool of myself with a 50year old effort that was once topical.

Why doesn't someone else have a go for goodness sake?

[Anna]

Why doesn't someone else have a go for goodness sake?

I don’t do meters,
Nor do I work in litres.
Iambic and Dactyl
Make me ill
Trochee and Spondee
Are towns on the Dee?
Anapaest is far more me!
But a Pyrrhic victory that would be!

Sorry saly. I think the copywright issues is a major against people posting anything they may wish to be published.

[salymap]

Ah well Anna, I don't believe anyone would think of getting the poems on here published - just a bit of fun perhaps

[amateur51]

So ...

Farewell then Franz Schubert
Died of syphilis
Which is on the increase, Kev's Mum says.
One night with Venus
Followed by a lifetime with Mercury in those days.
but I'm on O2 so should be ok.

E Jarvis Thribb aged 17 3/4

[salymap]

Well the copyright issue certainly doesn't arise there. Don't call us, we'll call you.

[amateur51]

Well the copyright issue certainly doesn't arise there. Don't call us, we'll call you.

The title of the thread is 'Are there any poets out there?' not 'Are there any good poets out there?'

Everyone's a critic ...

[mangerton]

Saly -

Many years ago at school
I tried to write in verse.
My teachers made it plain to me
With comments rather terse
I'd have to find another way
To make myself a living.
So with best wishes from Dundee
These few lines I am giving.

[amateur51]

Saly -

Many years ago at school
I tried to write in verse.
My teachers made it plain to me
With comments rather terse
I'd have to find another way
To make myself a living.
So with best wishes from Dundee
These few lines I am giving.

A masterpiece mangerton - every line speaks of the effort & creativity & struggle that it cost you.

Why, who is that on the phone now? Lord Lloyds-Bank offering to set your words to a merry tune he's just found, erm, composed

[mercia]

Is Schubert’s music the food of love
We’ll likely get an excess of it
How soon before we get off peed
With endless games of follow my lied
At the end will our love of him be undiminished
Or unlike his symphony will it be finished.

great stuff cloughie if I may be so bold
succinct and pithy