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5 to 4, bottom of the 5th, one out, nobody on.

Entries to my poetry contest

Insubordinate (no blog but should have one) emailed me the following versions of familiar poems.  They are wonderful and have admittedly an agricultural theme which endears them to my heart even more.

O what can ail thee, farmer man

  Alone and watching carefully

The crops are late and autumn comes

  I am afraid

O what can ail thee, farmer man

  So haggard and so tres concerned

The blight is on these crops of mine

  And spray is dear

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I wandered 'cross my fields of green

Waving so slightly in the breeze

When all I once I saw a sheen

A spot of dreaded crop disease

On the heads of my crop so fine

So many there I felt like cryin'

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On this year's hay crop . . .

Shall I compare thee to last year's hay crop

Thou art more greener and as high as the gate

Heavy rains do fall, beat thee down to earth

And haying time hath all too short a date

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I wandered - a lonely little cloud

But friends soon came to have some fun

With driving rain and hail so hard

We pummeled on Saskatchewan

Upon the crops, upon the ground

We flooded basements all around.

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Grow grain along with me

Riches are yet to be

The rain is much, the GDD are low

Our crops are in Her hand

Mother Nature rules the land

Will we harvest; fear Jack: damage much, still no dough.

With apologies to Keats, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, and Browning .

And many many thanks to Insubordinate. 

Like Kipling? Don't know. Never Kipled.

Now on Rob-Bear's Blog, you will find links to Rachel's Blog, "The Waxing Moon".  She recently ran a poetry contest for the best Haiku about bears, which Rob-Bear won.  He even got a prize.  He had some good competition too.  There was one dissenting poet in the group who did an excellent imitation of Robert Service, which was much more to my liking.  And it gave me another idea for a contest.  Sorry, no prizes, other than the satisfaction of winning.

Here are the rules.  Pick a poet, any poet but a real one i.e. one who writes with rhyme and meter and such stuff, none of this cheap free verse that any idiot can write.  Pick a very identifiable poem from said poet and write your own version.  As per the example below.

The tumult and the shouting dies—

  The Captain and Tennille depart—

The weather’s hot; the water’s bad,

  And I am too afraid to fart.

Remind me the dogs need walking yet,

Lest I forget, lest I forget!

Winners of the last contest

This is the end of my Sunday Contests. Entries have dropped off so interest has also. Many thanks for the great captions. By the way, according to an article in the Regina Leader-Post,
Studies suggest the sight of a cute animal can stimulate the same neurological pleasure centres as those aroused by chocolate, sex and psychoactive drugs. That likely accounts for my sister who sends me all these cute pictures.

Put me in coach! I want to play! from Grammie

This chair is lumpy. from Demeur

This is payback for not being walked enough. from Rob-Bear

Sending a Pee-mail (honourable mention from my brother)

Sunday Caption Contest 220309

Last Sunday's Contest Winners

Some very good entries on last week's pictures. Thanks so much. Hard to chose just one best so I doubled up in a couple cases. Someone wondered about prizes. (I mean, besides being given prominence on my blog with its daily readership of an entire 25 people...Thank you... Thank you very much. I love you all). Hadn't really thought of it. I knew this contest was missing something.

Al's Scotch really is great! Rob-Bear

That's the last time I ask for a poodle cut. Demeur
I will punish you for this. May-B

Ok, I'll take the right and you circle around from the left, we'll jump him. Airman Mom
"So, that's what 'outside' is!" Grammie
Why do we always end up in here after they do that? Give us AIR! The Wisper

Sunday Caption Contest 150309 edition

This week's contest features cats.
Winners will be posted next Sunday.
Thanks for last week's excellent entries and looking for more entries this week.

Last Week's Winners

You are not my cousin (Demeur)

I was here first! (Airman Mom)

I demand a DNA test (Dana at Life is Good)

Sunday Caption Contest 080309 edition

People, especially my sister, love to send me pictures of animals that make me go "Awww, that is so cute". I save all of them and posted two last Sunday for captions and got some very good ones. Today I have three pictures concerning rabbits. Next Sunday I will post the winning captions and give you three more pictures. Waiting a week saves me from missing late entries.

Picture 1

Picture 2

Picture 3

Sunday Caption Contest

Two pictures today. Pick one or both. And imagine the conversations.

This week's Caption Contest

Last week, I asked for captions for a silly picture and got 6 times normal comments on my blog. This old couple has always intrigued me as to what conversations they might have such as the example given. Lets hear your ideas.