Meaningful poetry

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 1:43 pm

The subject of a poem by Robert Service, entitled The Spell of the Yukon, published in 1916, is much more about enchantment with the journey and the beauty of the region than about gaining gold. Here are a few lines from it I wanted to share that seem to be appropriate in our search for that elusive, ultimate reel, the journey and the mystique of the angler's environment much more valuable than the find:

"There's gold, and its haunting and
haunting;
Its luring me on as of old;
Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wanting
So much as just finding the gold.
Its the great, big, broad land way up
yonder,
Its the forests where silence has lease;
Its the beauty that thrills me with
wonder,
Its the stillness that fills me with peace."

Meaningful thoughts! Bad Bob

Len Sawisch · Post by **Len Sawisch** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:01 pm

I liked your synopsis better than the poem . . . nice!

Post by **john elder** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 4:02 pm

Nice note, BB! Hey, we ought to bring back the Poetry Wars we had going a few years ago...er...well..alot of it was closer to limericks...but great fun. The fly rod board has a Haiku contest going...seems we should do similar.

deke

Len Sawisch · Post by **Len Sawisch** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:08 pm

For the life of me,
I am truly confounded.
What is a haiku?

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 7:29 pm

You win hands down Len,
So why go further with this?
Only fools do so!
Bad Bob

Post by **john elder** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 8:07 pm

Oh Clever one,
Feigning confusion, out at sea
befuddled Not!

Deke

Len Sawisch · Post by **Len Sawisch** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:03 pm

Then a fool I am
for fools tread quickly nowhere
with focused intent

Post by **Brian F.** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 10:32 pm

You guys crack me up
I've never written haiku
too much else to do

orourke · Post by **orourke** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:37 am

Limericks PLEASE!

Post by **john elder** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:47 am

(it's early...make allowances

)

If Bronson had wooed Johnson
Instead of Joseph Coxe,
O’ Rourke might have a lot more Green
In his collection stocks

(Back by unpopular Demand:)

O-City's reels were of high quality,
But pricey, with poundage galore.
They coulda done
With a bit less Achtung,
And an ounce or two more of l'amour.

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:57 am

Limericks PLEASE!

Please consider not being too keen--
To ban writers of Haiku, I mean.
Most of them, they admit,
Stop the poems they have writ,
Till they learn to count past seventeen.

Len Sawisch · Post by **Len Sawisch** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:47 am

Stop It! - Too Funny!

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:25 am

Wise is the man who
condenses thoughts to three lines.
Slow thinkers need five.

BB

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:49 am

Expand your mind! Increase its radius!
But, alas, writing poems is so tedious.
A jotter of Haiku
Is much like a tyke who
Gets sidetracked too soon by his ADS.

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 1:29 pm

A clever poet named Steve
Had acerbic lines up his sleeve.
These he retrieved on demand
When galoots called his hand,
That anapestic rhymer named Steve!

BB

Steve · Post by **Steve** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:54 pm

We're sorry, Bad Bob,
for hijacking this, your thread.
Elder wants Haiku.

Len Sawisch · Post by **Len Sawisch** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:32 pm

I am not worthy . . .

Post by **john elder** » Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:53 pm

Haiku, schmaiku
Bring on rhyme
Throw in some reels
But be sublime...
About it...

Rick H · Post by **Rick H** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 12:57 pm

You just had to go there, huh John?

There once was a man who collected reels
He searched and dickered and made many deals.
T'was but an impulse in the beginning,
then the wife turned and a buy became sinning.

He had control whence he first started
but the reels gained numbers and were often carted,
Off to Shows and Trade Rooms to show off their glitter
and parting became difficult and selling 'em bitter.

Still the numbers grew, regardless of some parting
and the many left, were far from disheartening.
That collector he weakened, he lost control,
the reels took over and filled every wall.

Eventually he and the house were enveloped,
the garage, the basement all were developed
Like a fine quarter-acre, those reels grew,
And he pondered one day..."Who-da Knew?!"

All can ask, what reels to capture...eventually
the question becomes..."who is the master?"

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Sat Jan 21, 2012 2:06 pm

Haiku with a twist:

The answer to the
reel-eschewing spouse: Keep them
Elsewhere than the house

BB

Jonathan P. Kring · Post by **Jonathan P. Kring** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:21 am

I avoided Facebook for years, now that I'm on it, I don't understand it. I guess you have to be an intellectual reel collector to understand all of this stuff. I guess I'm not and guess I don't. Oh, well.

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:41 pm

Jonathan...Its best, when reading this kind of stuff, like me to not think. It is generally meaningless, being the ramblings of mostly old minds weary at times of reading posts about Zebcos and Ocean City's etc. on the Reels Site. Stay tuned for more entertaining gibberish!
Bad Bob

Jonathan P. Kring · Post by **Jonathan P. Kring** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:50 pm

Now that I can Understand!

Rick H · Post by **Rick H** » Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:43 pm

...and far better than sitting around whatching each other drool and belch.

RAM · Post by **RAM** » Mon Jan 23, 2012 10:23 am

A reel collector
is like a womanizer-
Too many winches (or is it wenches?)

Bad Bob

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