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  • Nellie; Fill my life with laughter

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  • Olly Buckle; Laughter

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Thread: Laughter

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    Mentor Olly Buckle's Avatar
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    Laughter

    This threadre-instates the more formalfortnightly challengewith a poll at the end and the winner choosing the form of the next challenge.
    Please do not post anything other than entries in this thread, if you wish to comment please do so in the Bards Bistro, or wait until the challenge is over.
    In the past this has been both a subject and a first line challenge.
    I shall make an arbitrary choice to get us started, it will be a subject challenge and the subject will be
    laughter.
    Please post your entries on this subject, in any form, in the thread below, The thread will be open to entries for a fortnight and then I will put a poll on it.

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    Ink Slinger The Backward OX's Avatar
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    He said write about laughter
    So I said to my daughter
    Will you throw out the water
    Or maybe I oughtta.
    But she split her aorta
    So I then went and bought her
    A bandaid, and that made her shorter -
    My silly young daughter,
    Who was screaming with laughter.

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    For our Amurrican friends

    It’s all about laughter
    So you hafta join BAFTA
    Altho if you’re much dafter
    You’ll hang from a rafter

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    Fill My Life With Laughter

    When I was hit on the head
    they surely thought I was dead,
    Now I don't know the hereafter
    I fill my life with laughter.
    Nellie

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    Mentor Olly Buckle's Avatar
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    Laughter.


    Sounds, tumbling, spilling, fast overflowing
    Leaving me shining, positively glowing.
    Dredge me out of misery, the depths of despair
    Laughing and howling, as though I were there.

    Sounds uncontainable, have to come out
    Sometimes in whispers, other times shout,
    Letting out feelings, and all the emotions,
    Inspired by ideas and impossible notions.

    Soundss stuck in the mind, the back of the brain
    Twisting, circling, spinning; again and again.
    Sounds to expel, use, loose, never save
    Sounds to take with me into the grave.
    With my empty cadaver, not poet as heard,
    The sound of the laughter is lost in the words

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    Gut punch-
    struggling for air
    Grabs fistful of my hair
    Foul onion breath- my tears fuel their
    laughter
    Last edited by NathanBrazil; 05-19-2010 at 06:20 AM.
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    Perhaps a ha ha, maybe a hee hee
    or a hohoho, it seems to me
    a belly laugh or a tittering
    surreptitious giggling
    or howling to the rafters
    Any one will do, if laughter's what you're after

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    "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it." - Groucho Marx

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    Always Read the Fine Print

    'Tis the best medicine
    I haven't a doubt
    just a few giggles
    will cure your gout

    two little titters
    can soothe any pain
    a gleeful guffaw
    sedates the insane

    a hearty ha ha
    will help you pass stones
    a good belly laugh
    helps knit broken bones

    a bunch of ho hos
    will kill off your crabs
    sneaky soundless snorts
    clear drugs from your labs

    a roaring chortle
    amidst childbirth
    lessens the labor
    despite baby's girth

    there's not very much
    that laughter can't heal
    medicate yourself
    with a mirthful squeal.

    Tip for those of you
    who value your life
    this scrip often fails
    if stabbed with a knife.

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    Time is up folks, I am adding a poll to vote for your favourite of the above.

    You are now welcome to add comments on the poems as well as voting

    Winner chooses a subject or first line for the next round

    It will not take as long to vote as to compose a poem, the poll will therefore stay open for one week, this will help cut down the time between competitions.

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    Mentor Olly Buckle's Avatar
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    Congratulations ChestersDaughter, would you like to choose the next subject or a first line?

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    Poetry Moderator Chester's Daughter's Avatar
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    Thank you, dearest Olly, I sent you a PM, if my choice is too icky, I'll switch it. Let me know, love.

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