The Bottom Burp #poetry #terrible

Posted on Jan 29, 2019 by TanGental

Every Friday Chelsea Owens runs a terrible poetry prompt. I’ve yet to win which may or may not be a compliment. In fact the quality is very high so there’s room for others who can really plumb the depths. Here’s the link to last week’s winners and this is my entry.

At heart
The fart
Was really very small

And well
It’s smell
Was nothing at all.

But parps
That start
On the tiny side

May grow
You know
And be difficult to hide

Don’t think
The stink
Will give you away

It’s the sound
That’s bound
To make you pay.

Try, my boys
To keep the noise
Under some control

Or you’ll find
Mankind
Won’t be very impressed and may well think you’re some kind of uncivilised idiot.

About TanGental

My name is Geoff Le Pard. Once I was a lawyer; now I am a writer. I've published four books - Dead Flies and Sherry Trifle, My Father and Other Liars, Salisbury Square and Buster & Moo. In addition I have published three anthologies of short stories and a memoir of my mother. More will appear soon. I will try and continue to blog regularly at geofflepard.com about whatever takes my fancy. I hope it does yours too. These are my thoughts and no one else is to blame. If you want to nab anything I post, please acknowledge where it came from.
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26 Responses to The Bottom Burp #poetry #terrible

  1. Ritu says:
    Jan 29, 2019 at 1:08 pm

    Another very funny take!

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  2. Mary Smith says:
    Jan 29, 2019 at 1:18 pm

    Ha ha. I once read that T S Elliot reputedly said that reading one’s poetry aloud was very much like smellng one’s own farts.

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  4. robbiesinspiration says:
    Jan 29, 2019 at 5:13 pm

    Jolly good entry, Geoff.

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  5. thecontentedcrafter says:
    Jan 29, 2019 at 6:36 pm

    Well, it’s terrible on two counts so maybe you just need a third sort of terrible to win…… 🙂

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  6. Elizabeth says:
    Jan 29, 2019 at 7:57 pm

    Just saw an ad for gas relief that featured a man lifting the bed covers to let out the smell. Hope it went into his nose!

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  7. Dorinda Duclos says:
    Jan 29, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    Ah, the ever so unpopular stinky toots lol Great, I mean, terrible write!!

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  8. JT Twissel says:
    Jan 29, 2019 at 11:05 pm

    And you didn’t win? I’m shocked. T’is very cute.

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  9. D. Wallace Peach says:
    Jan 30, 2019 at 4:50 pm

    Your poem cracked me up, Geoff. (Our thoughts went to the same place on this prompt). A wonderfully terrible effort. Well done!

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  10. Chelsea Owens says:
    Jan 31, 2019 at 7:38 am

    Keep trying! -Maybe try not so hard, too. Who knows -just be terrible!

    Liked by 1 person

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  11. Gary A Wilson says:
    Feb 2, 2019 at 2:22 am

    ow – what a bladder burst!

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