ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

It's one of life's deep mysteries
to baffle the greatest mind.
Did Solomon solve it ?
No ! neither did Einstein,
nor Newton or Hawking could find
why backs always itch
where our fingers can't reach
to do scratching relief behind.

That's why we are meant to live in pairs Neville

Your rythme's out and your rhyming sucks!
(Use a back-scratcher) - Fifty Bucks!
... Thanks

Is that right Heather ??


Incorrect Manfred, slightly loose use of accentual metre ...if it is read in the usual rhythm of contemporary speech When I read the contemporary examples of metrical writing, I find that metre does not need to be rigidly symmetrical.
Mind, find and behind are full rhymes, and itch, reach and scratching make the poetic device of assonance.
As Matisse said " Exactitude is not the truth "

I have an extendable back scratcher, can't live without it.

I save $50.

I think you also have a big wooden spoon Neville!

Neville Briggs wrote: I have an extendable back scratcher, can't live without it.

That was the one I was looking for, I musta left it at your joint earlier this year!
$50 + interest $55!!!

Is that what you tripped over when you bumped your head Neville?

Wrong again Manny.


Don't give me a hard time Heather, you just get on with some poetry for the ghost of Lachlan Macquarie.

Have you thought of contacting ICAC Nev, they don't seem to have any trouble exposing a plethora of backscratching techniques!

I don't think Marty is gonna scratch your back Neville!

I was reading a book about Macquarie last night - spooky!