It seems so long ago
Way back in yonder days
BuddyPress was conceived
To multiple happy raves
The interface, still blue
The user experience, clunky
But lo the potential was there
And the final result so chunky.
Indeed it’ll run on your single
Or multiple user MU,
Sure it might stuff up your rego
But let us give it its due;
There’s the all conquering wire
And even activity streams
Perhaps it could do for Twitter
What Prologue has done for themes.
You’ll be into a group within no time
Pimping your profile hard,
But don’t you o’run the messaging
Or you’ll come over a bit of a ‘tard.
So lets hear it loud for the BP!
Let’s socialize all our sites,
Let communitization run wild
And pummel yon facebook to shite.
Let’s shimmy up all the flagpoles
And slaughter a dozen hens
And look forward to photos and status
Some time in the two thousand and tens.
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April 30, 2009 
James Farmer on Google+
Cracking stuff, I particularly liked verse 5;
“You’ll be into a group within no time
Pimping your profile hard,
But don’t you o’run the messaging
Or you’ll come over a bit of a ‘tard.”
How rare it is to come across something that is both true AND rhymes!
Hell yeh, took me weeks this did… weeks :)
Oh, and technically it’s stanza 5 :D
Isn’t it a verse if I was singing it?
Yeh, but that doesn’t make me much of a self-appointed WP laureate, does it!
Is the Pome tag the result of you missing engerland? or were you reluctant to tag this poem? :D The facebook line is my favourite :)
All the cool kids call poems pomes – didn’t ya know ;)
Re: UK I’d have to include stuff about whinging, bastards, etc.
Who would have known you were such a poet Mr F! :-)
You’re obviously out of practice
I’m sure your poems never used to rhyme
I also seem to remember them being far ruder back in the day
Heh, I have been neglecting my true vocation!