Poetry Aficionado Gifts

'Wait, my Lord! At least stay for the mad, bad and dangerous to know category!'

'Your poetry totally captures the raw, primitive essence of the writing workshops you've attended.'

Encyclopedic Novel Slam.

Friedrich Schiller

'Death, where is thy Sting?'

Humpty Dumpty sits on some scaffolding at a construction site

"Their lawyer found out that I enjoy reading poetry, and that I also like to watch professional wrestling. They're calling it a conflict of interests."

Pasternak & Kerouac meet in a cul-de-sac

"Alas,we all knew Carl. A poet, a dreamer, a roamer."

'It most certainly is not doggerel.'

Nikolai Gogol

William Blake.

When are we gonna learn something from our generation and not yours?

"A pharaoh who lived by the Nile...And was eaten by an old crocodile."

Irish Writers showing mastery over English

Leonard Cohen

"You can whip out one helluva sonnet, Shakespeare, bit for sales copy, this sucks."

"Dad, I hold a professorship, in poetry at Harvard. I'm widely published. I'm well off. I'll retire in three years. The odds of me going into medicine at this point are slim to none."

Sylvia Plath

Muriel Spark

"Maybe he's waving and drowning."

Dante Alighieri

"Granted, I could have read your body of work to find out you specialize in dirty limericks before appointing you state poet laureate."

The Two Enemy Fleets Clash. (Orlando Furioso).

"Beyond the fine starting salary, the job of a poet laureate at this corporation also carries with it an excellent medical and dental plan."

"I'm used to having a pussycat doctor."

Robert Frost today.

A Poem: With daylight's shift, winter doth come

If you can't do the time, don't make the rhyme. The Poetic Justice System.

Crawford, Russell, & Tyler Attorneys. Donaldson, Kingman & Smith Accountants. Dermott, Prentice, Small Whitaker, Wilson, Ball Peterson, Hays Garfunkle, Bays Bolton, Harcourt & Hall. A limerick.

Tailpiece - inspired by Alexander Pope's 'The Rape of the Lock'

The Three Musicians - Illustration to Beardwell's Poem (Published Version)

Hell at Last.Yawning, Received them Whole (Paradise Lost).

Stendhal

e. e. cummings explained. 'It's all fixed, sir, all that is except the shift key.'