Coin Poetry, For Kurt

AMEN

 

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Yes and I posted my Peace dollar on their Facebook page LOL
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Reno-Club/121852097825679

 

I can't, I just can't.

 

I'll bet there would be a lot of us who would even understand it!

Chris

 

I don't even know if they have a Holiday Inn Express.

Chris

 

Here you go:

This lustrous piece had a most humble beginning,
Never thinking in 70 years it would our hearts be winning.
A most ordinary coin hot off the press it came,
While right behind it the hammers another planchet tamed.

The rainbow tones dance around the Mona Lisa smirk,
And caresses the reverse with a most astonishing display of seven decades in the work.
Liberty, America, One Cent does it proudly proclaim,
The most irreverent of coins loudly putting others to shame.

Alas it has been captured and stored behind plastic captivity,
As would a princess locked in a tower, safe from unclean activity.
This beautiful cent well struck and red wine-aged fine,
Could easily replace my most beloved Valentine.

 

Nice..., but I might suggest NOT showing that to said "Valentine". Jus' sayin'

 

Please?

 

Heck, that goes without sayin' Kurt.........

 

Poetry's easy, people:

Write a 5-line poem in the following constructivist manner:

1. • On the first line write a noun of your choice (in our case, a coin)
   • On the second line write two adjectives joined by and to describe this noun
   • On the third line write a verb and an adverb to describe this noun in action
   • Start the fourth line with like or as followed by a comparison
   • Start the final line with if only followed by a wish

Example:

Politician
phoney and false
lying desperately
like a mocking bird
if only I had the key to the bird cage

 

Not yet. Not until I've had at least one 'belt'........

 

WOW I read that wrong

 

I assumed so. You're too sharp for it to have been anything else. BTW, I've never used Facebook, and never will. I object to Zuck's hypocrisy.

 

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
Over many a quaint and curious volume of coining lore,
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
"'Tis some numismatist," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door - only this, and nothing more."

(thanks to Edgar)

 

Visit Poe's grave when next at the Baltimore Whitman show. Or don't; it'll be cold out by then. Go have some nice seafood instead.

 

My wife and I will be touristing in DC in a couple of weeks. Mostly will do museum-hopping including the National Numismatic Collection. Will stay in Springfield and use the Metro. Any good seafood in DC or Springfield without making the trip to Baltimore?

Cal

 

I've not yet found a seafood place in DC that I can say much for or against. Anyone else?

You'd think it'd be easier with so much that's fishy there, wouldn't you?

 

I visited Poe's house when I was in Baltimore last (about 4 years ago).

Geez, that is a scary part of town.... cops on every corner, gangs of hoodlums roving the streets, run down buildings and dark alleys abound!

I wouldn't have braved it except for the fact that I am a Poe....

Living in Charleston, SC, I live in his shadow (he was stationed at Fort Moultrie in the early 1800's), and there is a restaurant here named after him (Poe's Tavern). I walked in and showed them my ID, and they gave me a free drink for being a Poe.

 

I lived in the DC metro area for nearly 30 years, and I can't recall any decent seafood restaurant back then. You had to go to Annapolis, Baltimore or Crisfield's or Phillip's Crab House on the Eastern Shore.

Chris

 

You lived near DC that long? I see, it's all YOUR fault then.