Accuse The Blues
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- Lightning Rod
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Accuse The Blues
I'm bluer than a milk of magnesia bottle
bluer than the State of New York
bluer than Picasso on his period
blue as the heart of a flame
but you can't blame the blues
the blues is a verb not a noun
makes you stand up or git down
so, don't accuse the blues
a cobalt criminal with a harp
I play the blues in B sharp
which is a C you see?
Don't blame the blues
Do dat you're bound to lose
when we abuse the blues
we bruise our enthusiasm
put it on cruise, don't fit our shoes
the opportunity blues is something to use
to amuse yourself with a color or shade
but the ruse of the blues is that it's sad
nothing short of booze can make you happier
bluer than the State of New York
bluer than Picasso on his period
blue as the heart of a flame
but you can't blame the blues
the blues is a verb not a noun
makes you stand up or git down
so, don't accuse the blues
a cobalt criminal with a harp
I play the blues in B sharp
which is a C you see?
Don't blame the blues
Do dat you're bound to lose
when we abuse the blues
we bruise our enthusiasm
put it on cruise, don't fit our shoes
the opportunity blues is something to use
to amuse yourself with a color or shade
but the ruse of the blues is that it's sad
nothing short of booze can make you happier
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- Doreen Peri
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- Lightning Rod
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thanks jack, I'll breathe easier now
right doreen, you would never catch me using the word enthuse in a poem.
not as a verb anyway. I used it in it's nominative form--'enthusiasm'
still gets the requisite 'oooo' sound but doesn't sound like a silly teenaged girl's poetry.
Yes, there are words that just shout, "I'm a novice poet who thinks who thinks that words like 'gossamer' and 'evanescent' and 'enthuse' are flowery and make me sound like a poet." But they are just trite.
right doreen, you would never catch me using the word enthuse in a poem.
not as a verb anyway. I used it in it's nominative form--'enthusiasm'
still gets the requisite 'oooo' sound but doesn't sound like a silly teenaged girl's poetry.
Yes, there are words that just shout, "I'm a novice poet who thinks who thinks that words like 'gossamer' and 'evanescent' and 'enthuse' are flowery and make me sound like a poet." But they are just trite.
- Doreen Peri
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- stilltrucking
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gossamer. damn! i was working on a really gossamer piece that was starkly evanescent that i just knew would enthuse the readers of S8, especially clay. but now, just this one brief moment, it turned like an over-ripe banana into a stinging piece of compost not fit for an serious poet or reader of poetry. thanks for letting me know. i came 'this close' to making an complete ass out of myself.
((whew!))
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- Lightning Rod
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arcadia, that's me minus thirty years plus warpaint
cec, I'm glad I could give you a heads-up
so you wouldn't commit one of the crimes of poetry
words like toadstools and gila monsters are better poetry words
"Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health,
rudeness of body, withdrawnness,
Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness, such are some of the words of poems."
---Whitman, Song of the Answerer
cec, I'm glad I could give you a heads-up
so you wouldn't commit one of the crimes of poetry
words like toadstools and gila monsters are better poetry words
"Divine instinct, breadth of vision, the law of reason, health,
rudeness of body, withdrawnness,
Gayety, sun-tan, air-sweetness, such are some of the words of poems."
---Whitman, Song of the Answerer
- Lightning Rod
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re. blue-ish-ness ...yeah, i think a few of us are right there with ya. maybe it's the end of the year bug.
now...about correct and incorrect words for poetry...blah! i write what comes out and if that's painfully honest or whimsical & girly...so what? if you like it, you like it. if you don't, you don't. not attacking...jus saying
cecil...you made me grin. heh
now...about correct and incorrect words for poetry...blah! i write what comes out and if that's painfully honest or whimsical & girly...so what? if you like it, you like it. if you don't, you don't. not attacking...jus saying
cecil...you made me grin. heh
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