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Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 17th Jan 2025 17:48

Perhaps you could rename your post 'Top of the Poops'.

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 17th Jan 2025 11:31

No names, no pack-drill...oh yes!

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John Coopey

Fri 17th Jan 2025 10:43

Thankyou Uilleam. A peek at what it might have contained would have revealed one or two odious bastards from the top table of American politics. (You get the idea).

Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh

Fri 17th Jan 2025 09:44

Sadly, I’ve not had the opportunity to read your poem, John, therefore I’m unable to speak in your defence.

I can only suggest that maybe it was not your lack of literary prowess which was actually the problem, rather, the / an opinion / message contained in your post?

May I suggest that the WOL membership be given the opportunity to read your contribution and to decide for themselves whether or not it constitutes poetry?

One last thing; for what it’s worth, here’s my list of TOP 10 INGLORIOUS BARSTEWARDS: ...........qwertyuiop,
(runners up)..................................................asdfghjkl;
(last but not least)......................................zxcvbnm,./
(but not necessarily in the right order!)
It's poetry, but it's in code.
😡

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John Coopey

Fri 17th Jan 2025 08:35

I have withdrawn this piece on the advice of the moderator that it was not poetry.
I dispute that.
Not only did it end on a rhyming couplet in iambic tetrameter but the very title “Odious Bastards” is pure poetry. it couples two words, a dactyl and a. Spondee in succinct and evocative rhythm.
Readers are invited to “go a penny blind” and make their own suggestions as to who should be on the list.

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