it's meant to be fun so thanks for that 
i also wanted it to be half right as well so i posted it here.
i meant posies as in a bunch of flowers (a metaphor for pretty hallmark poetry)
thanks for the read.
we all have different tastes.
that you got a laugh from it works enough for me to say thanks for the time you gave.
it might be but lots of filipinos wouldn't agree, seeing as it's about the yanks taking their country over.
i also wanted it to be half right as well so i posted it here.
(06-12-2014, 05:44 AM)ellajam Wrote: Oh, this is fun, well done.
Because it's in serious, maybe
the tune poetasters spout,
for Nuggets from the pen of Billy Din!
And don't blame me for digging it up, I saw a "guest" read it. :
i meant posies as in a bunch of flowers (a metaphor for pretty hallmark poetry)
thanks for the read.
(06-12-2014, 07:46 AM)Brownlie Wrote: "Look! i'm posting artful posies watch me preen," -- Did you mean poesie?
we all have different tastes.
that you got a laugh from it works enough for me to say thanks for the time you gave.(06-12-2014, 08:48 AM)just mercedes Wrote: This made me laugh - I'm sorry I can't offer much more than a cheesy grin. I really don't like Kipling's imperialism, propaganda and slogans for the right wing fanatics, and that colours his work for me. I know it shouldn't but it does.
it might be but lots of filipinos wouldn't agree, seeing as it's about the yanks taking their country over.
(06-12-2014, 08:52 AM)Brownlie Wrote:(06-12-2014, 08:48 AM)just mercedes Wrote: This made me laugh - I'm sorry I can't offer much more than a cheesy grin. I really don't like Kipling's imperialism, propaganda and slogans for the right wing fanatics, and that colours his work for me. I know it shouldn't but it does.I haven't studied it, but the white man's burden seems pretty bad.