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A challenge from far Mississippi,
And a blogger so daring and hip, he
Asks us for a meter most skip, we
Bemoan a sestain,
Beg for limericks again,
And what muses for his readership be!

More: Having taken on this fiendish AAABBA rhyme scheme meme, I've been gleefully scattering poems at the blogs of others (and some more from others have started popping up here in various comment threads as well).  I'll add links to my verses as they come online...

Smoky Mountain Family Historian:

Unlooked for gift from Lori I see,
Such praise from a poet in East Tennessee,
(Quite undeserving though I be)
If you're seeking a secret admirer
This Valentine's Day, you should hired her,
You'll be in cross-stitches, just take it from me!

Cow Hampshire:

There once was a cow from New Hampshire
A poet inspired, for damn sure
A rarified wit, and a ham, her
But Sitemeter gives me a pleurisy:
It says that she comes from New Jersey!
Perhaps that's to confound the spammer.

Genea-Musings:

For Randy, whose Genea-musing,
Illuminates posts of his choosing,
Conducive to eager perusing,
So now let us praise,
His most generous ways,
It is he we should all be enthusing!

Geneablogie

Craig Manson, the Geneablogie,
Though he lives where the gold rivers ran free,
Now prospects for lore in ancestry.
With his posts he reveals,
Old wounds that he heals,
A service to kin and to country!

Destination: Austin Family:

A Man with Dolls is Tom MacEntee,
With curios diverse and plenty,
To my cabinet proudly some sent he.
And with captions he's deft,
For rhyme has a gift,
Erato herself must have sent thee!

The Apple Doesn't Fall From The Tree:

I must confess the Apple of my eye
Is not Macoun, nor yet a Northern Spy,
But she who's tree I often wander by,
It's clear she's given family roots and wings,
And though it's she to others praises sings,
There beats a noble heart, let none deny!

Civil War Memory:

Unique among buffs is this fine Charlottes-villain,
He's unmoved by manoevers, knows that war's about killin',
Black confederate myths to debunk he's most willin'.
A fresh look at our past offers Civil War Mem'ry,
(And fresh templates as well, he's gone through 43),
His High School is blessed, makes me wish I were still in!

Dum Luk's:

Oh, dinner at Dum Luk's, a feast of delights,
You'll flip for his fruitcake, in single serve bites,
Which I can attest, for Dum Luk's overnights.
His way with a wok is a wonder to watch,
He marmalade laces with single malt scotch,
You're bound to find something you like when he writes!

West in New England:

Three cheers for Bill West in New England!
And his penchant for distant kin minglin!
(Though this meter his tongue sets a tinglin')
A droll wit, ever wry,
Genealogist spry,
So with poetic praise him I'm singlin'!

Comments

[Bill West]

Sorry it took so long to come up with one back at you, Tim.
I'm older. Sometimes the brain needs a kick or two to get the Muse going:

A Berkshire greenman named Tim,
Will often just on a whim
Post old family photos
And then ask us just who knows
Funny captions to put upon them.

[Tim Abbott]

Dear Mr. Corbett:

Would that all such differences of opinion could be expressed civily in verse.

Regards, Tim

[David Corbett]

Dear Berkshires ,
Enjoy the blog but perhaps have a different view :

Kevin the Carpetbagger with his liberal opinions,
Delights in flogging the white Old Dominion ,
Sadly , he's a fish out of water and not a Virginian ,
Pity the Civil War Memorist born white and not black ,
The priviledged school teacher on the attack ,
How different t'would be were inner city student his minons !
Cordially ,
David Corbett

[Janice]

Tim,

Thank you for writing such a, um lovely poem about me! I am gladly reciprocating! lol

Tim Abbott, who may be a cousin
Quips curiosities, more than a dozen
He walks in the Bershires
The strange are his frontiers
And his poems sometimes contain cussin'

J