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Classical Composer Limerick #4
The Hungarian composer Franz Liszt
Sat down on a lady friend's fist;
With the suavest of smiles,
He said "stroke my piles
While I toss myself one off the wrist".
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Free verse
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I appreciate moderate constructive criticism
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How was my language use?
How does this theme appeal to you?
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London, Culture Capital of the World
Favorite Poets
Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).
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Gracy
Thu, 2020-10-22 21:27
Hi Edna, you always let us
Hi Edna, you always let us have a good laugh with your limericks! I love the last two lines...wow.
The title, theme, spacing an all else are fine. Kudos to you!
All the best, Gracy
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Edna Sweetlove
Sun, 2020-10-25 13:33
Ta very much..
..for your comment.
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xxx
Edna
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