Don't Matter If You're Black and White - Nonsense (Warning, Dirty Language)
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Warning - Dirty Language

Don't Matter If You're Black and White - Nonsense

Twas a dark and stormy day,
That's what separates this from cliche

Up upon the stony wall
Four fingers there did crawl

Down below the brushes and gate
Our sweet Michae Jackson lay in wait

Four and nine since the dance began
Well...seven should you choose to ask that man

Four more fingers and two new thumbs
As Michael's heart began to drum

Two left feet make his gait,
Only half the tale, all can wait

Now two new eyes where thumbs once were
They were Pat's, Mike was sure

Another beat his heart did flit
Quite quiet our hero there did sit

Of all seven, he chose this day
Of that he'd tell you, could he say

But that tale, is for another time
When the sun there does shine
For this tale is on a dark and stormy day
Keeping all that cliche far at bay


Ding ding ding the bell did toll
As Pat began his victory stroll

Down below the brush lay our Mike
Patiently waiting, poised to strike

Not so fast you little twat,
it wont be all as quick as that.


Mike explodes from down below
His two left feet all on show
Two right feet his left did join
Teeth were bared toward the groin!

A girlie shriek betrayed Pat's shock
As Mike's teeth tore toward his cock

Boof, Boof, Boof, went Pat's feet
Toward the safety of the street

Running wild Mike snarled and spat
...he was going to get that twat

As the gate was slamming closed
It caught poor Mike upon the nose

Laughing loud the postman thought he'd won
Until a scratch dug into his bum

All at once he saw his folly
And began to turn his legs all wobbly

There in that garden path he saw,
A black white cat blood dripping from his claw

All at once he saw his fate,
Waiting for him by that gate

It's all rather simple really,
The moral to this silly story:

When you're a postman named Pat...
Beware of me the great big fucking black and white cat.



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--- a bit of fun, let me know what ya think if you please. Mods my humblest apologies if this is not the right area of the forum for this sort of thing / language, or if infact it's the entirely wrong forum, just having a bit of fun and I did read in rules somewhere colorful language was alright.

Feel free to flog away.

Peace,
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Colourful language is just fine Smile

You could tighten up a few lines as you get more familiar with the way that meter and rhyme work together but for now, it's great that you're thinking in creative and interesting ways... although I now have the Postman Pat tune stuck in my head, with the Gaelic lyrics for extra irritation. Thanks for that.

And then I re-read it and a strange hybrid of Michael Jackson v Postman Pat started happening... "it doesn't matter if you're dubh nó bán"...

OK, enough rambling. One main thing to beware of as you go forward: try to avoid inverted syntax just to make a rhyme work (eg. did sit). It sounds as though the rhyme is in charge of you, rather than the other way around.

It's silly, funny, entertaining -- a fair way from perfect, but a good enough philosophy to work with for now.
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Thanks kindly for taking the time to comment Leanne. Glad you could find it silly, funny, entertaining, meant for a bit of fun. I must say, I'm rather disappointed though. After a good 15minute Googling I still can't find Postman Pat theme in Gaelic Tongue further to that, I can't begin to imagine the horrors of a combined Michael Jackson and foreign (to me at least) language Postman Pat theme tune *shudder*

I will remember what you've said regarding syntax, makes sense. Rereading with that in mind there are many occurrences. I find it useful and quite like it in one instance:

Mike explodes from down below
His two left feet all on show
Two right feet his left did join
Teeth were bared toward the groin!

...however elsewhere largely unnecessary. Using your words, would a good rule of thumb be ensuring *I* am in charge of the rhyme (rather than 'the rhyme being in charge of me') make it more suitable? Provided of course it's used sparingly?

Many thanks and good luck with getting that tune out your head!
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Padraig Post, Padraig Post... nope, it's not going anywhere...

Yes, you rule the rhyme. No matter how cool you think it might be, if you have to shoe-horn it in then you need to change the line. Rhyme is a great tool but it can end up pretty cheesy and that's the battle the rhyming poet needs to fight constantly. Can't have cheese with your poems Smile
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