From: wagley@screaming.net
"SWG" wrote in message
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> On Jan 26, 6:53 pm, "John Brockbank" wrote:
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>> That is not bad if you don't mind me saying so. A poem with humour is
>> nice
>> to read.
>
> Appreciating your supportive comment. Humour is the only way for sanity
> in our increasingly weird world. Also, you may have noticed that I did
> not want to risk hurting anyone's religious beliefs or feelings,
> therefore I avoided any direct reference to the "blind watchmaker".
>
> A scientific friend of mine pointed out to me that actually wasps do
> not die upon having stung, only bees. Hence my trial at avoiding too
> much poetic leeway:
>
> instead of:
>> > The World to Bee
>>
>> > Stung by an idea,
>> > head hurts much less
>> > than stung by a wasp
>> > at cost of its sudden death:
>
> new trial:
>
> The World to Bee
>
> Stung by an idea,
> head hurts much less
> than stung by a wasp so cowardly
> at no cost of sudden death, unlike a bee:
>
> -"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."-
> Albert Einstein
>
Oh dear. You mucked it up. I had thought that you deliberately included
those (diametrically wrong) allusions for the sake of irony, which was why I
thought it gentle humour. Your scientific friend has spoilt your poem with
pedantry.
I will give you an example: the following poem was written by a clever man
(Milligan), is wildly incorrect in its science, and could only be ruined by
any alteration:
There are holes in the sky
Where the rain gets in
But the holes are very small
That's why rain is thin.
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)
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