Oh, why not?
By BarBaraPrz
@BarBaraPrz (45472)
St. Catharines, Ontario
August 12, 2018 8:30am CST
Since other people post their poems here, I'll go ahead and post one of mine. I found it when I was going through a box of collected rubbish. It was printed out on tractor feed paper in dot-matrix, so I'll translate it here:
You have a lot in common with my cat...
You're cute and cuddly,
You both love me,
You both whine whine whine!
And I can't take that.
Sk**tch cries that she's hungry,
She's starving,
I have to feed her right away.
But she's got water and nibblies --
It's canned food and milk she wants.
You cry that you're not happy,
You want me,
You wish you could leave,
But you have a wife and kids,
A house and home.
All that's water and nibblies
And I'm canned food and milk.
After a while, if you live with me,
I'll be water and nibblies too,
So, Good-bye Gary G.
It's dated June 29, 1997, and the ** should be oo but myLot thinks it's a bad word.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
12 Aug 18
Sounds like the modern version of " The Nymph's reply" by Sir Walter Raleigh to Christopher Marlowe's " The Passionate Shepherd" 
Hope people still remember and read English prose and poetry
Hope people still remember and read English prose and poetry3 people like this
@BarBaraPrz (45472)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
12 Aug 18
I'll have to loook that up.
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@louievill (28851)
• Philippines
13 Aug 18
@paigea The Passionate Shepherd was an Elizabethian era poem written by Christopher Marlowe, a young Shepherd was so obsessed and infatuated with a beautiful young nypmh that he promises everything, it was so popular that it triggered so many responses, think down to the 50s or 60s.
Among all the replies, Sir Walter Raleigh's version was the most popular, talks about the futility of all the promises since they live in different worlds. Its very beautiful if you appreciate Victorian and Elizabethian poetry ( it's written in old English) I mentioned it cause
@BarBaraPrz seems to have a talent for Romanticism or romantic poetry
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.@BarBaraPrz (45472)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
12 Aug 18
What do you mean? You think I'm not a romantic poet? 
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@topffer (42156)
• France
12 Aug 18
@BarBaraPrz It was not a criticism. No, you are more like Voltaire, a virtuoso of poems of circumstances
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It was not a criticism. No, you are more like Voltaire, a virtuoso of poems of circumstances.1 person likes this
Thank you. 
