Hey, it turns out that I'm a poet!

[Redstone]

Somebody posted about some guy named Rumi who they said is the most popular poet in America, and sent me a sample of his poetry:

"I want to be where
your bare foot walks,

because maybe before you step,
you'll look at the ground.
I want that blessing."

...Hey, I can do something like that!

"I would walk barefoot
through the snow

for a mile and a half,
just to stand
where you sat."

Not bad, eh? Think I have a future as a poet?

Redstone

[Dora]

1. As long as you don't pee on the furniture.

you have a typo....

[Redstone]

4. Hey, but it was a FUNNY typo, wasn't it? Thanks for the heads-up.

Redstone

[ZombieNixon]

2. Maybe if you write in Persian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi :shrug:

[Redstone]

5. They said he's popular in America. I doubt many peope in this country

read his stuff in the original Persian.

Redstone

[Bucky]

3. "And I would walk five hundred miles; And I would walk five hundred more..."

Dah-dee-da-da
Dah-dee-da-da

Dah-dee-da-da
Dah-dee-da-da

Da-da Dum-dee-dee Dum-dee-dee Dummmm!

[Redstone]

6. Mine actually worked to pick up a woman once, though. Only problem was,

she made me prove it.

How could you not like a woman with a sense of humor like that?

Redstone

[billyskank]

7. Was he the guy who wrote Ars Amatoria?

Augustus was not amused, if I remember rightly. Miserable git.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

8. No, that is Ovid, a truly dirty Roman and my hero as far as Roman poets go.

He was exiled for that stunt. :D

He's also the wit behind Amores and the Metamorphoses, which was one of the first attempts at codefying Greco-Roman mythology. Almost all Greco-Roman myths are inside that handy poem.

ETA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid

I :loveya: Ovid.

[billyskank]

9. Thank you!

It's so good we have someone with brains around here. :D

:hi:

[WritingIsMyReligion]

10. I'm becoming a Latin nerd.

:D I love the Roman poets, especially Ovid and Catullus, who are wickedly schoolboyish in their innuendo and humor and very witty.

[Redstone]

11. Catullus...now THERE's a guy who would have adapted quickly to writing rap

lyrics, wouldn't he?

Redstone

[WritingIsMyReligion]

12. YES. Catullus 16 for the win!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16

[DarkTirade]

13. Hey, I've got brains too.

I keep them in jars.

In my pantry.

O8)

[Bullwinkle925]

14. i just wanna know if your feet show it?

:evilgrin:

[regnaD kciN]

15. Hmmm...You're a poet/and you didn't know it...

:evilgrin: