RobertFrostMichele Bachmann wasn’t alone Tuesday in probing unlikely links between politics and poetry. Two Minnesota bloggers also used poetry to illuminate the political landscape, adapting familiar lines by the late New Hampshire poet Robert Frost to Gov. Pawlenty’s trip to New Hampshire today.

Bluestem Prairie’s Sally Jo Sorensen, with help from Robin Marty of The Power Liberal, calls the rejiggered work “Stopping by New Hampshire on a Snowy Evening“:

Whose state this is I think I know
He’s going to New Hampshire, though
He will not see me struggling here
Or clear his roads now packed with snow

The GOP must find it queer
To act without a leader near
Between the Range and frozen lakes
The darkest forecast of the year.

Bloggers give his handlers a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the steep
Decline in what our families make.

The pothole’s looming, dark and deep
And Tim has promises to keep,
And miles to go until he’s Veep
And miles to go until he’s Veep.

Now that the barrier between politics and poetry has been breached, MnIndy offers this take on one of William Carlos Williams‘ better-known works:

This Is Just To Say (to the DFL)
by Rukavina Thomas Rukavina

I have noticed
the funds
that were in
the bank account

and which
you were probably
saving
for Margaret

Forgive me
they were outrageous
so sweet
and so bold