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There Once was a Pirate from Limerick...

<!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->There once was a seadog named William  
Who, when tankards were empty would fill 'em.  
He'd pass round the rum  
to every last bum  
And when they were all drunk he'd kill 'em.  <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

THAT RULES!!!!!!!!! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
Wow, Red, you're on a roll! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />

I've found I can paraphrase and personalize one I posted earlier, to some satisfaction:

Catalina is furtive and mean;
You must keep her in close quarantine,
Or she sneaks to the slums
And promptly becomes
Disorderly, drunk and obscene.

<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
I have to correct myself, on the "William" poem, William Red Wake (Sorry Will, I'm fighting a constant urge to type William Wed Rake, <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eek:ops" border="0" alt="blush.gif" />: ) must be the author of that one for it far surpasses Homer's work. It comes a a complete shock to me personally that a person named William would have any gift for poetry at all. (cough* Shakespeare, *cough)

Since we're on the theme of Lady Catalina the Pirate, here's the verse in my translation of the <b><u>Oughta' See</u></b> by Homer:

<b>Catalina's Aubade</b>

(possible translation second word, "obeyed")

Catalina's a pirate, "First water",
This rare jewel finds her lustre in slaughter,
She's our Queen of the Sea,
Even `mod-erately`,
And she's prob'ly Poseidon's fair daughter!
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-SirChristopherMings`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SirChristopherMings)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin--> `mod-erately`[/quote] <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":woot" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" />

Very PUNNY, Sir Christopher! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
I'd apologize at the obvious suggestive nature of this one, if this weren't a pirate site.

After all...


When the coxswain went over the side
Catalina would not let it slide
It's a terrible pox
to lose a good cox
so she came hard about on the tide
 
When the chase for ole Spaz oft ensued,
he showed cunning and great aptitude.
When his foe said heave to
he blasted him through
and requested some more latitude.
 
They argued of ballast and baling
after sperm whales had hit them while sailing
but Python's embargo
said bucket, not cargo
so each took his turn at the railing.
 
He found a wench willing and able
to be tied up and had on the table,
but while tying the knot
he was put on the spot
by an uncertain groin in the cable.


I'm very happy with this one. Of course, without knowing what "groin in the cable" means, the pun is entirely lost.

Arrr.
 
OMG!!! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":woot" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" /> We have a poet amongst our fine company! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_praise.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":bow" border="0" alt="icon_praise.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/onya.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":onya" border="0" alt="onya.gif" />

Very good, Red, and please, don't apologise for "suggestive" nature - I've been hanging around here with all these fine pirates for months - and haven't departed in disgust ONCE... I can take it, go ahead, dish it out...

"...so she came hard about on the tide", LOL!!! Priceless... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />
 
<b><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Originally posted by Lady CatalinaThePirate
OMG!!!  We have a poet amongst our fine company!  <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--></b>

I second that Will! Your muse is very generous, and so thereby are you, for sharing the results of your encounters.

And speaking of muses, it never fails, Lady Mings got wind of my posting a poem about another girl, and I am in Douwesan with the wife. In a effort to mollify her, and gain a sleeping berth somewhere other than in the mastiff's kennel, I post this couplet by Homer thats speaks of my relationship with my lady, a love as great as that of Romeo for Juliet, Abelard for Heloise, and Abbott for Costello..

<b>Sir Christopher Mings' Quandary</b>

Lady Mings and I have a good gig,
And our life's a perpetual jig,
(However...), should my dear lady ask,
And thereby take me to task,
"Does this hoop skirt make my ass look big?"

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Ah, L'amour!"
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-CatalinaThePirate`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(CatalinaThePirate)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->OMG!!!   <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":woot" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" />   We have a poet amongst our fine company![/quote]

Thankee. But this here pirate be liking better the title of bard.




There's more to come. I can feel it in the wind...

Admiral8Q is next.
 
Oooooh... That word... WIND... Brings to mind a "nouveau vaudeville" group of actors that do what they term "Fakespeare" - Shakespeare, but in parody, wild overblown, silly, deadly funny... Sound and Fury... I am sure the Bard himself would smile...

From "Romeo and Juliet (v2.0)" -

"...Hark, what light through yonder <i>wind doth break?</i>..." <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="xD:" border="0" alt="laugh.gif" />

<a href="http://www.soundandfury.org" target="_blank">http://www.soundandfury.org</a>

Deliberately and wickedly outrageous, they are a HOOT! They've been performing at the Southern California Renaissance Pleasure Faire for quite a few years now, and I never miss their show if I can help it...

Anyhoo, it was just the mention of the wind coupled with the mention of a bard that did it... <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blush.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":eek:ops" border="0" alt="blush.gif" />:

There was a young wench from Madras
Who had a magnificent ass;
Not rounded and pink,
As you'd probably think
It was grey, had long ears,and ate grass <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
Admiral8Q was young and not noted,
but the crew got together and voted
for the musket he waved
had there wills all enslaved
and right soon that seadog was promoted.
 
It's rumored Keith's mom was a peach
and Poseidon a bit of a leech
for he wooed ole Keith's mother
and took her as lover
so he might be a son of a beach.
 
<img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/w00t.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":woot" border="0" alt="w00t.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_praise.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":bow" border="0" alt="icon_praise.gif" /> <b>William Red Wake</b> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_praise.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":bow" border="0" alt="icon_praise.gif" /> <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/par-ty.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":cheers" border="0" alt="par-ty.gif" />

There was a young wench named Slater
who married an old alligator
the night that they wed
they climbed into bed
but rather than mate her he ate her! <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":rolleyes:" border="0" alt="rolleyes.gif" />
 
<b><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Originally posted by William Red Wake
Thankee. But this here pirate be liking better the title of bard.  <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--></b>

Certainly that is your title, but If I may, I would like to make this ammendment:

<b>The Ballad of William Red Wake</b>

To the lyrical pirate, I toast,
Who enlivens this thread with each post,
There can be no mistake,
That it's William Red Wake
Who's the Bard of the Barbary Coast!

<img src="http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/332ZK34H/58693.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

Don't feel confined to limericks if you want to utilise other verse forms; haiku, varying rhyme schemes, or crank out a sonnet if you like. You truly captured the spirit of 8Q in the poem above, but a such a profound entity needs an equally profound medium to be expressed properly. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_praise.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":bow" border="0" alt="icon_praise.gif" />
 
<!--`QuoteBegin-SirChristopherMings`+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(SirChristopherMings)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteEBegin-->
To the lyrical pirate, I toast,
Who enlivens this thread with each post,
There can be no mistake,
That it's William Red Wake
Who's the Bard of the Barbary Coast![/quote]

Thankee, kindly.

(bows low spilling his wheellock, bording cutlass and quills)
 
Of bilge pumps, bales, ballast and bucket
Muddymonkey77 said chuck it
For the irish will sail
without bucket or pale
For they're to drunk by half, so just f...



That one practically wrote itself. I love the Irish.


ARRRR! More Guinness!!!
 
<b><!--quoteo--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Originally posted by William Red Wake
Thankee, kindly.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd--></b>

Entirely my pleasure, well, that's not exactly true... I'm a little nervous about posting my next selection from Homer, and I may need a friend to create a distraction for when Fred Bob comes a gunnin' for me. <img src="http://www.piratesahoy.com/forum/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_eek.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":shock:" border="0" alt="icon_eek.gif" />

<b>An Ode To `Fredrickus-Robertus`</b>

<img src="http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/332ZK34H/8210.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />

Fred Bob is unlikely to primp,
Lacking curls he can tease out and crimp,
But we never poke fun,
Of our "Son of the Gun,"
'Cause we're scared of his fierce `Ninja-Shrimp`

<img src="http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/332ZK34H/35583.jpg" border="0" class="linked-image" />
 
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