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2022-08-02 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran steps up Bahai persecution with wave of arrests

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Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-02 03:41|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1
Poor Al Hazred. No one invested in 'im.
Bahaullahs and Mohameds... mehh, dim!
T'was the mad Arab, alone who knowed
secrets like, say what must plow and
what unholy creature be plowed,
to birth truly transient beings
that may be called xe, xer and xim.

[high fives all Lovecraft fans]

Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-02 09:07|| 2022-08-02 09:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Your poems are getting better, Dron... or I’m becoming more accustomed to them.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-02 09:24|| 2022-08-02 09:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Just one more example of why Rantburg is *the* go-to place for the latest in the War on Terror and Poetry!

Posted by SteveS 2022-08-02 09:37|| 2022-08-02 09:37|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sure it's the latter, tw, because I've always been the same level of genius. 🤖

Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-02 09:39|| 2022-08-02 09:39|| Front Page Top

#5 Poetry happens differently than prose, Dron. The more one thinks in rhyme, rhythm, and image, the more easily they come. as Zenobia F. discovered.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-08-02 09:48|| 2022-08-02 09:48|| Front Page Top

#6 At least until you need a rhyming word to go with "maladroit" or "onomatopoeia."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-02 09:55|| 2022-08-02 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 Though, John Prine did good with:

"Onomatopoeia
I don't wanna see ya
Speakin' in a foreign tongue."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-02 09:57|| 2022-08-02 09:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Cornucopia could be had fun with. And anything from Detroit to ... Jon Voight? Ha ha ha.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-02 09:58|| 2022-08-02 09:58|| Front Page Top

#9 As in...

This actress maladroit,
daughter of Jon Voight,
full of pharmacopeia,
named her tenth son-thing
from a lexicon of
Californian onomatopoeia.

Posted by Dron66046 2022-08-02 10:05|| 2022-08-02 10:05|| Front Page Top

#10 One of my favorite things about words like onomatopoeia is that they clobber most text to speech engines.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-08-02 10:08|| 2022-08-02 10:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Speaking of California culture...

"A clan from the land of Yossarian
Sprang up," sang an antique Aquarian,
Like rats! What to do?"
[safety catch,.22]
"Too barbaric!" mooed shop steward Marian.

Off to drop the big twenty-cent piece for a nice deacquisitioned Grossman D.Q. I couldn't quite pull the trigger on the other day.

Posted by Hupomosing Trotsky9444 2022-08-02 16:29|| 2022-08-02 16:29|| Front Page Top

#12 In all seriousness, I wonder if they're not supposed to collect two cents tax on that. Think I'll ask. Probably cause mass consternation.

Posted by Hupomosing Trotsky9444 2022-08-02 16:37|| 2022-08-02 16:37|| Front Page Top

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