Post by Nalkarj on Jun 22, 2020 22:33:41 GMT
With the recent poetry thread, I was wondering if anyone were interesting in “tailgaters,” a form of light verse that Bob McKenty, an always good and often great light-versifier, describes it this way:
Can be about movies but certainly don’t have to be—whatever strikes your fancy. They’re a lot of fun. As McKenty writes them, the poems are actually four lines: a bolded title, the italicized name of the poet you’re borrowing from, and then the rhymed couplet.
Here are two of mine, for which I’ve kept McKenty’s structure:
Whoever wants to give it a go is more than welcome!
The tailgater is a rhymed couplet in which the first line is “borrowed”—usually from someone famous—and the punch line (it’s supposed to be funny) supplied by some lesser light, like me. The second line should follow the meter of the first, insofar as possible.
Here are two of mine, for which I’ve kept McKenty’s structure:
A Practical Application of Star Wars
Robert Frost
Good fences make good neighbors,
Unless they have lightsabers.
Robert Frost
Good fences make good neighbors,
Unless they have lightsabers.
The Love Song of T. the Mad Titan
T.S. Eliot
Let us go then, you and I,
And see that I’m a rather snappy guy.
T.S. Eliot
Let us go then, you and I,
And see that I’m a rather snappy guy.
