
Happy Birthday to the Bard
We really can’t send you a birthday card
Your rhymes are better and more renowned
Than the rhymes, I’ve read on the cards I’ve found.
Why do rhymes today sound so trite?
Is it the modern way that we write?
Our vocabulary may have gone astray
by using emojis to mean what we say.
Is an emoji worth a thousand words?
The very thought seems so absurd.
We couldn’t use an emoji to write a sonnet
even if we stumbled upon it.
Hoho, clever, love it! Happy birthday to ol’ Billy!
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Thanks, Priscilla.
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Happy birthday, William. Nicely done!
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Thanks , Mark. Appreciate your kind words.
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He died on his birthday, goodness me.
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Quite the coincidence. From what I gather, they estimated his birthdate from his christening date
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I wonder what Shakespeare would write if he were alive today!
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Probably something equally timeless but in the language of our times.–maybe he is reincarnated as Dylan or Lennon or McCarthy.
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