Piccalilli stains

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courage my boy
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Mon Aug 29, 2011 4:56 pm

A new little ditty that came to me last night...


I spilt some piccalilli by Piccadilly
and felt quite silly
for a second,
before clarity beckoned
as I wiped the yellow stain
from my car window pane
and sighed a sudden sigh of relief
and thought to myself in vain.
This is the last time I eat sandwiches whilst driving...
JohnLott
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Tue Aug 30, 2011 9:06 pm

Hello courage my boy.

You obviously posted this for comment.

If the piccalilli stained the window, it could not have been spilt - more likely splashed.
I didn't get the placement of the word vain in the penultimate line - it didn't make sense.
The last line is pretty bad - I'm sure you can do better.

This reminds me of a nursery rhyme, given that it is so simplistic - like the man going to St Ives.

Some will hate it, some will like it; many will ignore it...

I'm between yuk and yipee.

J.
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gavin
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Thu Sep 08, 2011 11:02 am

dear courage -my-boy

do not worry about what john says he is knocking at every door closed to him.

your poem is a little over done in terms of rhyme;

while the poem is clear, in what you want the reader to notice;

house your rhymes for awhile, read Wordsworth, John Donne;

if you want to see someone who shoots themselves in the foot have a look at johns first poems;

keep going gavin
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