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