Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

It's not that fabulous:.

I'm pretty sure if you submitted it to the right poetry market you'd probably sell it and get somewhere between $50 and $100 for it. :shrug: Unfortunately, I don't do poetry, so I can't tell you which one is the right one.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I'm pretty sure if you submitted it to the right poetry market you'd probably sell it and get somewhere between $50 and $100 for it. :shrug: Unfortunately, I don't do poetry, so I can't tell you which one is the right one.

Seriously? That's crazy, it's rubbish! I could do better than that every day though for half decent poetry, really, I could earn money for that carp? I have had poetry published way back, I won a competition as a kid and submitted a few to comps as an adult that got published, but no real money.

If I could get paid for throwing out something that rhymes and is not brilliant but alright and get fifty dollars I could do three or four a day without even thinking about it.

It's not a joke I often talk in rhyme, but that really is rubbish, and involves poo a lot because it rhymes with you :rotfl: but I can throw out something semolina poetry v. Easily.

Not interested in the poetry society or anything like that because not interested in wafting about pronouncing my self a poet and being smug. Besides, my mother. Is a member as is dh's godfather. Same reason I don't do comps any more. But I do write poetry, all the time. Some of it is even half decent, but the crud comes as easily as brushing my teeth.good stuff that actually means something less often, more like the frequency of a leg wax. Funny stuff is frequency of hair washing I guess.

Edit...just off to take predictive text of again.semolina poetry, really?

tomterm8

lostinrates wrote: »

Seriously? That's crazy, it's rubbish! I could do better than that every day though for half decent poetry, really, I could earn money for that carp?

Yeah, it doesn't make the kind of money that nonfiction can ( if you go to the right pro markets, there are a lot of places which pay $1 a word... selling to that kind of market you only need to write two articles that sell a month ) but there is a market for short funny poetry that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Wheezy_2

As tomterm says there's money to be made from poetry, I gave it a go
Any donations to my paypal account please.



After brekkie with cheese and bread
I headed to the nice people thread

It’s Chinese new year, so misskool been toiling
Baking cookies and putting noodles to boiling

Then Lydia popped in, the one who is hot
Bragging about her panels and the tariff she’s got

Davesnave been busy hanging pheasants on a hook
And lemonjelly tells us he’s been reading a book

PN then says there’s none of that her way
Even with a round trip many miles away

But did LIR just say Ljubljana’s got no brain?
Nope, it’s her silly spellchecker again.

Wheezy_2

oops, I killed the thread....was it that bad?

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

That said, tne us grads i habe met in recent years are generally more likely to be polymathamatic intellectuals, more cultured, appreciative, intellectually curious......

I'm far more interested in some subjects, particularly sciences, since the time when I didn't have to study them any more.

lostinrates wrote: »

You see, the nhs couldn't get me fit, but the us system could. The nhs is good, but its really not that good for all of us.

I have an absolute loathing for the American health system myself.

misskool wrote: »

feeling terribly homesick this weekend

Sorry to hear that - hope you feel a bit better today?

Davesnave

Wheezy wrote: »

oops, I killed the thread....was it that bad?

No, I liked it. I think we were all just elsewhere.

Couldn't help goggling at the latest Lidl email. Never have I seen such cheerfully nonchalant emergency action! :rotfl:

Davesnave

And while I'm in a silly mood, here is a reconstruction of a notice I saw on the Spar shop's notice board today:

"Has anyone an old land line type phone they would like to swap for big a jar of whisky marmalade?"

michaels

I feel so untalented today, neither a poet nor a purveyor of amusing adverts. We kept DS out of hospital over the weekend but at the cost of him being given steroids - not sure if that was a good thing or not and 3 nights of not much sleep for me listening out for his coughing and wheezing left me falling asleep at my desk today then home to have to drive to next town to pick up DDs from brownies then home to cook dinner so late dinner and knackered.

lostinrates

michaels wrote: »

I feel so untalented today, neither a poet nor a purveyor of amusing adverts. We kept DS out of hospital over the weekend but at the cost of him being given steroids - not sure if that was a good thing or not and 3 nights of not much sleep for me listening out for his coughing and wheezing left me falling asleep at my desk today then home to have to drive to next town to pick up DDs from brownies then home to cook dinner so late dinner and knackered.

You poor things. Is he any better now? He's had a rough old winter. Hope everyone sleeps better tonight.