tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32485385.post115827440890450355..comments2023-08-19T07:32:42.829-04:00Comments on Public Pondering: There Once Was A Man From NantucketUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32485385.post-1158360912349005932006-09-15T18:55:00.000-04:002006-09-15T18:55:00.000-04:00Rachel: Before I got to the end of your post I th...Rachel: Before I got to the end of your post I thought, "Is she thinking of a haiku?" Ha ha! That's ok. Today, I was talking class jumping in relation to a novella we are reading and I used Carnegie as an example. I said Dale Carnegie instead of Andrew...DUH!!!! A student politely corrected me; I wasn't offended. :) Just think, I actually had eight hours of real sleep last night...first in years. Couldn't form a sentence all day, but I wasn't tired. Yep..take a personal day!<BR/><BR/>FIAR: Oh, you keeeeder!Sezmehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06788407585696655259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32485385.post-1158348200476501832006-09-15T15:23:00.000-04:002006-09-15T15:23:00.000-04:00"I couldn't invent a nifty new limerickI wanted to..."I couldn't invent a nifty new limerick<BR/>I wanted to do one about beating hippies with a stick<BR/>So I'll just wait until next time<BR/>To submit my jovial rhyme<BR/>And it's sure to be brutal, violent and sick"<BR/><BR/>Even when I can't do one, I can.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32485385.post-1158304532465364982006-09-15T03:15:00.000-04:002006-09-15T03:15:00.000-04:00Today I was trying and somehow got it stuck in my ...Today I was trying and somehow got it stuck in my mind that there were limits on the numbers of syllables in each line of a limerick. I was literally counting the numbers of syllables in "There once was a man from Nanucket..." When I realized there was more than 7, I started to lose faith in <I>all</I> forms of poetry. Fortunately, something at work summoned my attention, and I managed to forget about it until now.<BR/><BR/>When you start imposing the rules of haikus on limericks, you really, really know it's time for a vacation.rachelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01592225365703831656noreply@blogger.com