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Originally Posted by Bookpossum
For instance:
Any hound a porcupine nudges
Can't be blamed for harbouring grudges.
I know a hound that laughed all winter
At a porcupine that sat on a splinter.
(I love Ogden Nash dearly, but I don't think he is a literary poet!)
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I love Ogden Nash.
Then there is this by Hilaire Belloc:
Quote:
I shoot the Hippopotamus
With bullets made of platinum,
Because if I use leaden ones
His hide is sure to flatten 'em.
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This always makes me think of what it takes to be a successful politician. A skin so thick that one has to "shoot" him with platinum bullets just to get his attention. That and platinum is worth so much more than lead and we all know how well politicians respond to money.
Anyway clever, but literary??
Not to mention Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel).
Quote:
Think left and think right and think low and think high.
Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
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He was a genius at creating books to teach children to read, but a literary poet?