dollars 2 donuts Posted November 30, 2021 Posted November 30, 2021 Big week, thought I'd start a Patriots thread just to get us going! As you all know a Villanelle poem has... - 19 lines - 5 stanzas of 3 lines each - 1 closing stanza of 4 lines - with a rhyming scheme of ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABAA - line 1 repeats in lines 6, 12, and 18 - line 3 repeats in lines 9, 15, 19 Let's do this! I can't wait to beat the Patriots. They are so very hated. I think they are......those idiots... They'd like to be...so...rid of it Our rivalry scares them so I can't wait to beat the Patriots. No longer do they win Super Bowls. and making spirits low. I think they are those...bowls...those idiots. Football is so much... ... ... ...this was a mistake. What the hell was I thinking? It's just that everyone was starting a Patriots thread and it seemed exciting and a good idea and I had FOMO and I just... ...and it's ripping off the other poem threads, so I thought, "what's the harm, I'll just whip up a poem in Villanelle style," because it would be so easy...idiot. Moron. I'm sorry. I don't want to be around anymore. Go Bills. 5 3 Quote
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted November 30, 2021 Posted November 30, 2021 (edited) 28 minutes ago, dollars 2 donuts said: Big week, thought I'd start a Patriots thread just to get us going! As you all know a Villanelle poem has... I'm sorry. Yes. Yes, you are. 🤨 * Do a 'Vanilli style'. You just appropriate something, and claim you wrote it. Edited November 30, 2021 by Ridgewaycynic2013 4 Quote
Draconator Posted November 30, 2021 Posted November 30, 2021 Just now, Virgil said: ***** the Pats Did I win? 1 1 Quote
Ridgewaycynic2013 Posted November 30, 2021 Posted November 30, 2021 "I would like to solve the puzzle!" 3 2 Quote
Dr. K Posted November 30, 2021 Posted November 30, 2021 A Villain, NFL by Scott Campbell You never meant anything to me anyway. If I twist my wrist and thrust it down, I flick my hips and slip away. If I smash my forearm into your grill, this is how I get my thrill. You never meant anything to me anyway. I am just a player, playing for fun. But when I begin to play for money, I flick my hips and slip away. Sometimes, brutality and reality collide. Brothers and players stand side by side. You never meant anything to me anyway. Well-off fans and super-rich owners, to the players, are nothing but donors. I flick my hips and slip away. The players always give their all, but always are expendable. You never meant anything to me anyway. I flick my hips and slip away. 4 1 Quote
Dr. K Posted November 30, 2021 Posted November 30, 2021 But this is my favorite football poem, by Pulitzer Prize winning poet James Wright. It was written a long time ago (1963) so some of the language has dated, but it says something a little sad, a little scary, about why people are football fans. Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio BY JAMES WRIGHT In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood, And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel, Dreaming of heroes. All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home. Their women cluck like starved pullets, Dying for love. Therefore, Their sons grow suicidally beautiful At the beginning of October, And gallop terribly against each other’s bodies. 1 Quote
Gugny Posted November 30, 2021 Posted November 30, 2021 Roses are red Violets are blue McCorkle is a stupid name ***** him and ***** the Patriots Amen 2 1 Quote
buffaloboyinATL Posted November 30, 2021 Posted November 30, 2021 1 hour ago, dollars 2 donuts said: Big week, thought I'd start a Patriots thread just to get us going! As you all know a Villanelle poem has... - 19 lines - 5 stanzas of 3 lines each - 1 closing stanza of 4 lines - with a rhyming scheme of ABA, ABA, ABA, ABA, ABAA - line 1 repeats in lines 6, 12, and 18 - line 3 repeats in lines 9, 15, 19 Let's do this! I can't wait to beat the Patriots. They are so very hated. I think they are......those idiots... They'd like to be...so...rid of it Our rivalry scares them so I can't wait to beat the Patriots. No longer do they win Super Bowls. and making spirits low. I think they are those...bowls...those idiots. Football is so much... ... ... ...this was a mistake. What the hell was I thinking? It's just that everyone was starting a Patriots thread and it seemed exciting and a good idea and I had FOMO and I just... ...and it's ripping off the other poem threads, so I thought, "what's the harm, I'll just whip up a poem in Villanelle style," because it would be so easy...idiot. Moron. I'm sorry. I don't want to be around anymore. Go Bills. I have been here for 20 years and I believe this is the best post I’ve ever read. Bravo! 1 1 2 Quote
Rocky Landing Posted November 30, 2021 Posted November 30, 2021 Well, I'm certainly never one to shy away from a poetry challenge. Chicken wings, hotdogs, oysters on the shell Thermoses filled with hot tomato bisque The tailgates will display an epic story to tell Highmark stadium is the Bills citadel The weather in Buffalo will be quite brisk But the mood in the stands will gather and swell The Bills’ season has been a high-speed carousel The rewards will come with serious risk May this game be the Patriots*’ season death knell They lie, and cheat, and shuck so well With pitifully little more than a tsk tsk tsk From the league, the media, and Roger Goodell May the Patriots* offense flounder, pell mell From the moment they call heads or tails on that disk And may Groot cleanly ring Mac & Cheese’s bell Belichick* is the evil genius of the NFL That bastard’s earned his asterisk May he, Handyman Kraft, and the Pats* go to Hell Dang, it’s hard writing a football villanelle… 2 1 Quote
SlimShady'sSpaceForce Posted November 30, 2021 Posted November 30, 2021 1 hour ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said: "I would like to solve the puzzle!" I’ll take Who is DC Tom for $10,000 Alex Quote
dollars 2 donuts Posted November 30, 2021 Author Posted November 30, 2021 34 minutes ago, buffaloboyinATL said: I have been here for 20 years and I believe this is the best post I’ve ever read. Bravo! You are too kind, Sir. I was just aiming for it not getting locked. I figured if I didn't put in the word "Beasely" or the phrase "Hitler was pretty good to dogs" it was going to fly under the radar and survive for at least a bit. 1 4 Quote
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