Same, Earl. I’m very intellectually pretentious, but most poetry leaves me cold. Years ago, though, I came across and English poet named Gerard Manley Hopkins and dove in pretty deep. Very moving.
Earl might have been turned off by Percy Dovetonsils, the Ernie Kovacs character as “poet laureate.” [certainly offensive these days] Now, if it had been Kim Novak reading poetry …
Ratkin Premium Member about 2 years ago
Earl’s eyes open and no glasses! A first in my memory.
Templo S.U.D. about 2 years ago
Why talk about poetry or poultry when one of two people is asleep?
Doug K about 2 years ago
Earl prefers prose chickens.
Ivy Valory Premium Member about 2 years ago
Same, Earl. I’m very intellectually pretentious, but most poetry leaves me cold. Years ago, though, I came across and English poet named Gerard Manley Hopkins and dove in pretty deep. Very moving.
TonysSon about 2 years ago
I think that I shall never see, a poem as lovely as a fricasse…
sandpiper about 2 years ago
He said nothing, so she would know that how?
iggyman about 2 years ago
“If I really have the time, I’d like to read the words that rhyme”!
jagedlo about 2 years ago
Unless the poetry is about poultry …
PraiseofFolly about 2 years ago
Earl might have been turned off by Percy Dovetonsils, the Ernie Kovacs character as “poet laureate.” [certainly offensive these days] Now, if it had been Kim Novak reading poetry …
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hQUbDGrPg9U
MayCauseBurns about 2 years ago
How do you annoy a poet? Be another poet.
Geophyzz about 2 years ago
Who remembers Churchy LaFemme and his poems in the swamp?
The Reader Premium Member about 2 years ago
She knows him so well.
My First Premium Member about 2 years ago
I’m with you, Earl.
cdward about 2 years ago
I was wondering why you wanted to go to a poultry reading.
[Traveler] Premium Member about 2 years ago
I’m with Earl
Snolep about 2 years ago
So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white chicken.
brick10 about 2 years ago
Here’s poetry with poultry———
so much dependsupon
a red wheelbarrow
glazed with rainwater
beside the whitechickens— William Carlos Williams
flemmingo about 2 years ago
Earl and I think alike. Scary! Poultry yes , poetry nah!
ANIMAL about 2 years ago
Her top is RED, his top is BLUE……. If they were 20 years YOUNGER, they would probably just __________.
JudithStocker Premium Member about 2 years ago
What a meeting of minds these two have! Where’s the mystery in marriage when this happens.
trainnut1956 about 2 years ago
You haven’t read poetry until you’ve read James Whitcomb Riley’s “The Passing of the Outhouse”…
Zebrastripes about 2 years ago
Never on the same page…☺️☺️☺️
adutcher1945 about 2 years ago
Lol! It’s a comic strip!
timinwsac Premium Member about 2 years ago
Earl must have been having that dream that he was Colonel Sanders again.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 2 years ago
Atta boy, Earl!
heathcliff2 about 2 years ago
Good for you, Earl. How is the little Red Hen?
Sir Isaac about 2 years ago
Farmer 1 said, “How’s ur poultry doing, Ed?” and Ed said, “Not to good….the chickens got into it.”
Redd Panda about 2 years ago
Wow. All this chicken poetry gives a guy an appetite.
StevePappas about 2 years ago
I’ll take chicken over Dickinson every day.
icmodivah about 2 years ago
My ex wife always wanted to start meaningful conversations as I was drifting off to sleep.