Showing posts with label rhyming couplets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rhyming couplets. Show all posts

Friday, August 01, 2008

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

War at the start is like a beautiful girl,
any live man’s delight.
And by the end? A disaster, a hag,
regret, repulsion - and flight.

- Samuel ibn Naghrela

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Head Wide Shut, Please

Those who are dead are not dead
They’re just living in my head

- 42, Coldplay

Given a choice between oblivion and living eternally in Chris Martin's head, I'll choose the void.

Monday, June 23, 2008

Illustrated Rhyming Couplet Of The Day



RubberTrust
Defends in rain and sleet:
Without galoshes,
Europe sits and weeps!

- Vladimir Mayakovsky

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

I am a figure of fun:
Obsessive, deadpan and moribund.

- Figure Of Fun, The Birthday Party

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Uplifting Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

I drink to the trick of a mouth that betrayed me,
To the eyes and the look that lied.
I drink to the terrible world we inhabit
And to God, who never replied.

- Anna Akhmatova

Monday, April 21, 2008

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

’Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore,
And coming events cast their shadows before

- Thomas Campbell, Lochiel’s Warning

Friday, April 11, 2008

Illustrated Rhyming Couplet Of The Day



I fuck lakes
And I've screwed some fakes
And I've licked and sucked
The pink mountaintops

- I (Fuck) Mountains, The Pink Mountaintops

Thursday, April 03, 2008

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

I must lie down where all the ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

- William Butler Yeats, The Circus Animals' Desertion

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

I saw his body thrashing round,
I saw his pulse rate going down,
I saw him in convulsive throes,
I said, "I'll have one of those."

- (He'll Never Be An) Ol' Man River, TISM

Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

I came home one night, she was in my bed
With my best friend giving him head.
What really pissed me off about this shit,
The bitch had never even sucked my dick!

- I Used To Love Her, Body Count

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

Are you the answer to a drunken sailor’s lonely wish?
Or are you an optical illusion caused by a woman sitting on a rock
Holding half a fish?

- Mermaids, Flight Of The Conchords

Monday, September 03, 2007

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

Of Grandfatherly gentleness I'm devoid,
there's not a single grey hair in my soul!

- Vladimir Mayakovsky

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Inspirational Christian Verse Of The Day

Mommy she loved Jesus, but not like others did
For she had a special bottle in which our savior lived
Mommy she loved Jesus, but not like others did
For she could unleash His vengeance by unfastening the lid

- I Dream Of Jesus, Dead Milkmen

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Dope Rhymes Of The Day

Each herb and each tree,
Mountain, hill, earth and sea,
Cloud, Meteor and Star,
Are Men Seen Afar.

- William Blake, letter to Thomas Butts (October 2, 1800)

Monday, July 23, 2007

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

I love you for free and I'm not your mother,
But you don't even bother :(

- Objection! (A Tango), Shakira

Monday, July 16, 2007

Inspirational If Slightly Obsolete Rhyming Couplet Of The Day



Whatever happens, we have got
The Maxim gun, and they have not.

- Hilaire Belloc

Wednesday, June 27, 2007

Illustrated Rhyming Couplet Of The Day



It's a monumental big screen kiss,
It's so deep it's meaningless.

- So Hard Done By, The Tragically Hip

Thursday, June 21, 2007

The Greatest Rhyming Couplet, Of All Time

Generals gathered in their masses
Just like witches at black masses

- War Pigs, Black Sabbath

Thursday, June 14, 2007

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day



Good love is what I'll be givin ya
I got a pussy 'bout the size of Bolivia

- I Need Some Pussy, Willie D (guest verse by Choice)

Friday, June 08, 2007

Rhyming Couplet Of The Day

It's a small world and it smells funny
I'd buy another if it wasn't for the money

- Vision Thing, Sisters Of Mercy