Two Hundred, Two Hundred and One!
by
Anthony Lane Stahlhut
(Age: 48)
copyright 03-18-2005
Age Rating: 4 to 127
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This work was planned to be my 200th poem. In the eighties a group of my friends asked me once how many poems I had written. When we counted them, there was 173. I told everyone that when I wrote 199, that my next poem would be titled 200. They asked what it was going to be about and I said I would decide that when I was at that point. Months went by, parties were had (some really good ones) and They said how many now? I counted them and I already had wrote the 200th poem just before the count was done. So hence the title.
I planned to put this up on the site when my first poem had been read 200 times....wouldn't you know, My poetry while I believe is good, was not the first to be read 200 times...it was a recipe for Hot Wings. A fitting story wouldn't you say? Please enjoy, Anthony
Two Hundred, Two Hundred and One!
This is a story
about a few tales,
like Gulliver's Travels,
or how Columbus sailed.
Something that was planned
but forgotten, too!
Was supposed to be one thing,
but was another when through.
Supposed to be two hundred
by the time it was done.
Yet when a recount was taken
it was two hundred and one.
A simple mistake,
but a mistake none the less.
What seemed so precise,
became only a close guess!
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What's that phrase... close only counts in horseshoes... lol.
And here I thought it was going to be about counting beer bottles on the wall. Oh wait, that song counts them down... not forward (which is a good thing... I'd hate to imagine the scenario for counting them forward)!
Two hundred, two hundred and one -
Not quite what you imagined
When first the thought begun!
Two hundred, two hundred and one -
A few parties and poems later
You must have had a lot of fun!
Two hundred, two hundred and one -
When keeping count of your poems
It seems you forgot to count one!
Two hundred, two hundred and one -
Planning to post it on 200 reads
200 it was, but on the wrong one!
Two hundred, two hundred and one -
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Another tale like Gulliver's spun!
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