Saturday, October 13, 2012

A pome for my readers

If Yorkshire Pudding can be a self-confessed poemoholic, I can at least give it the old college try:

A Blogger’s Lament
by rhymeswithplague (1941 - )


My posts are a-growin’,
But my comments are slowin’,
And soon there may be none at all.
I’ve an urge to keep writin’
But the fish are not bitin’;
I might as well talk to the wall.

My blog is a-waxin’,
My audience wanin’,
Just like that old moon up above.
I’ll still keep on sharin’
Though few seem a-carin’;
They have other people to love.

So I sit here a-pinin’
While my blog is declinin’,
Perhaps people think I have germs;
I don’t know what they’re thinkin’
But their thinkin’ is stinkin’;
I’ll go outside now and eat worms.

(End of pome)

I don’t know why, but those three extremely clever little stanzas (if I do say so myself), which just seemed to create themselves in about five minutes flat, have put me in mind of a song the members of our high school band used to sing while riding on the band bus to our school’s football games:

“Nobody likes me,
Everybody hates me,
I’m gonna eat some worms.
Long, slicky, slimy ones;
Short, fat, and grimy ones;
Itsy-bitsy, fuzzy-wuzzy worms.”

(End of song)

We also sang “Ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall” and “Helen had a steamboat” but they are obviously off-topic.

Really, where else are you going to read posts like these?

5 comments:

  1. After reading this post I figured I better leave a comment.

    An Arkies Musings

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  2. Oh dearest Rhymes
    These are hard times
    For bloggers everywhere.
    You do your best to blog with style
    And sometimes go the extra mile -
    It really isn't fair.

    But like those wagon trains of yore
    Or soldiers fighting in a war
    We bloggers must keep blogging on
    With endless posts for everyone
    Though you and I are not the same
    We're brothers in the blogging game
    So steel your heart and do not bend
    Let's keep on blogging till the end!

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  3. richies, it's good to hear from you again! And I don't Mena maybe.

    Yorkshire Glob of Sugary Delight, I will do my best to keep plodding along. Thanks for the encouragement and the spirit of camaraderie in which it was given.

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  4. nothing like a peome to send a guy on a guilt trip for not COMMENTING

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  5. Putz, not to worry, you got time off for good pumpkin-growing behavior.

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