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Impromptu Verse


Is it a game, or is it an actual writing exercise?  Actually, a little of both.  biggrin.gif  It is fun and can really get the creative juices flowing, particularly if a number of folks get involved and inter-post response time gets short.  Think of it kind of like Poetry Uno!  wink.gif

Here is how it works:

1.  I will start by revealing a randomly selected topic.
2.  Create a short poem to the best of your ability on that topic.
3.  First person to post their finished poem gets to sets the next topic.
4.  A topic can be either an object or concept (just keep the topics tasteful).
5.  If you didn't get your poem in first on the previous topic, you can still post it until the first poem on the new topic is posted.


If you are a "winner" at posting first, don't feel shy about trying to post first on the next topic you announce.  Just giving the topic doesn't mean you have to let someone else have first dibs... Just don't have a poem written before you announce the next topic.  Remember, impromptu is the goal  smile

Okay, ready?

Topic:  Thunder Storms



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Thunder Storms (by RayB)

Swimmers get out of pools
Golfers that golf are fools
Roofers find someplace low 
Good Dad's let their Kite's go...
Lumber Jacks and Huggers de-treed
All of them agreed...
There ain't no need to wonder...
Death is calling in the thunder.


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Next topic: A Fear of Public Speaking


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I'm not particularly proud of this but I feel it is the appropriate contrast to Ray's eloquent verse....

..also,  I love public speaking and hope to make a fortune at it some day..


A Fear of Public Speaking
By Rosaline
Public Speaking makes me vomit
Stuff shoots out just like a comet
Sorta green
Subtle sheen
Guarentees my speech will bomb it.

Next: Wasp Nests in the rafters.


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Wasp Nest in the Rafters

Wasps Go Buzzing in the Night
Wasps Go Buzzing in the Day
Little Baby Bunting Goes Dancing all the Way
Rafters way up high
The night is drawing nigh
Baby Bunting Goes a Hunting
To remove them before day.

Next: Mutant Killer Squirrels

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Mutant Killer Squirrels
A Haiku By HSR

Just can't get enough.
Them Mutant Killer Squirrels
sure make good eatin'

Next: Why Best Buy customer service is of the Devil.


-- Edited by Homestar Runner at 16:52, 2007-06-14

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A Waka (older version of Haiku 5-7-5, 7-7) by Roper

Patiently in line
Return the Hi-def flat screen
What restocking fee?

No, don't get the manager
I'll just find out where you sleep

next: Pirates!

-- Edited by Roper at 17:23, 2007-06-14

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Pirates!

Robin Hood and the Sheriff
Corporate CEOs
Corrupted public figures
And maybe you and me

The rich know they deserve it
The poor feel it is theirs

No need for sweat of the brow
When scheming broadsides work
So-called code is mere guideline
When gold lands in our hand


Next:  Spring Water


(p.s.  I am really impressed folks!  Wow!  HSR and roper, great use of haiku and waka on the fly!  biggrin )

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Spring Water
by Euphrasie

Spring Water costs too much.
Tap water's fine for me.
Except the tap tastes nasty
unless it's germy-free.

So filters on my faucet
make water taste so nice,
I only wish that somehow
the filter'd filter ice.

Next: spreadsheets. biggrin.gif

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I Wish I Were a Spreadsheet
by glumirk

There was a time,
Not so long ago,
When I was deciding
Where my life should go.

I really like physics,
And definitely like math,
But somehow I just couldn't
Find the right path.

I love to crunch numbers,
And write them down neatly,
Oh such satisfaction,
When the sheet's filled out completely.

I finally found something I love,
Something that can't be beat
Only to realize,
I am merely a spreadsheet.

Excel beat me to it,
So I changed my gear,
And that's why I am
Now an Engineer.



Next Topic: dogs barking at night

-- Edited by glumirk at 00:21, 2007-06-16

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Dogs Barking At Night

There's one thing I really can't stand,
Even worse than swimsuits with sand.
That dog in the night
His barks frantic and might - y

oops-Lemme start over. wink.gif




Dogs Barking At Night, by cocobeem

There once was a dog down the street
He was black and brown with white feet
He dug up grass
And licked h-rofl.gif ahem. I'll try again.




Dogs Barking At Night, by cocobeem

Once there was a doggie, so fluffy white and fair.
He had a fluffy owner, they made quite the pair.
But when the owner went to sleep, we all thought she was dead.
That friggin mutt wouldn't shut up
So we beat it on the head.



Next topic: Snakebites





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Rattlesnake. Rattle-snake. Vicious vendor of venom. Silently sneaking sinister sidewinder. Un-move--ing. Un-blink--ing. Un-cover--ed?

"You bit my leg!" He screamed into the morning like a mailman running from a Chihuahua that has no bite--except the bite of the desert wind.

I am feverish. It's fading fast. This poem--sucks.

Next: Obsession



-- Edited by Roper at 17:58, 2007-06-16

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Is this subject for me
because I have ocd?
I would not say that
to be obsessed with
worries is to be blessed.
I would say that it has
given me humility
and that it it has made
me appreciate moments
of tranquaility.
Many have ocd to some degree.
And I like to think there is
more to me than ocd!

next subject: frames

-- Edited by zealia at 20:30, 2007-06-16

-- Edited by zealia at 20:31, 2007-06-16

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Nobody sees me.
Nobody cares.
They only see the painting.
And I get to watch their stares.

I am simple.
And made of wood.
I'm almost a square,
But I guess that's not good.

Nobody wants me.
They want to see colors.
Not stupid wood.
They want to see wonders.

"I see you,"
Said the old man.
"I see you,
You do what you can.

"You think you are merely
scraps and slivers
You don't understand
The beauty you deliver.

"Please understand your worth!
For without the frame
The beauty of the painting
Cannot be contained."

Really?
Is that so?
Is it true that the frame,
Is part of the show?

The task of the frame
Is to bring out the true beauty
Of the painting within
That is its duty.

The frame mustn't o'erpower
The delicate art.
But let it shine forth,
Straight from the heart.


next topic: hot summer

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hot summer

in snowdrifts of ice
how forgotten by longing
brown sun scorched lawns




Next Topic: Sleeping Child

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There once was a baby of beauty
whose care was my joy and my duty
He lay in his small bed
covers over his head
and stuck in the air was his booty.

Next topic:
linear accelerators

eta: P.S. Roper, it looks like you've seen "So I married an axe murderer" as well.




-- Edited by arbilad at 15:39, 2007-06-17

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Linear Accellerator
by RayB
When I think I'm under stress
And want relief from my duress
I remind myself that I'm not a pawn, 
or subatomic tachyon
That in a circle accellerates
So scientists can peep my traits

--Ray

NEXT Topic: My Solution to Illegal Immigration

-- Edited by rayb at 10:50, 2007-06-18

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My Solution to Illegal Immigration

By Brandi, Heather, Feather, Devauxn, and William Jefferson Clinton Baxter-Markoff-Black-Hontze

Mz. Simmons' 5th grade English class
The Uppity-Correct School of Inclusivity
Boulder, Colorado

If Bush wouldnt steel elektions,
And steal all our protections,
And make our water taste yucky,
and make Iraq a place th ats suck-y,
And give money to corpoations,
And not have us to learn about m*st*rb*t**n
And keep forcing his god down our throats,
And keep killing the cows , pigs, sheep, and, goat's,

Then maybe the world would be more safer for us to grow up in.

(Teacher note: Although we don't hand out grades here, if we did, this one would get an A+!)

Next topic:
Dogs hanging out of car windows




-- Edited by Homestar Runner at 12:56, 2007-06-18

-- Edited by Homestar Runner at 12:57, 2007-06-18

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Dogs Hanging Out Of Car Windows

The air blows in my face and ears.
I'm so much better than my peers.
When we go fast, I get so happy.
My lips go crazy and get all flappy.

I like to look in people's cars.
I want to bite their candy bars.
Sometimes I'll bark if I feel like it.
Then I cry cuz we have to quit.




Next topic-
Someone stole my treat


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Someone Stole My Treat

Sweet, Sweet Tomacolatte
Early in the Morning
Sweet, Sweet Tomacolatte
Stolen Early in the Night
Who Could Be so Cruel In Stealing...
My Afternoon Delight!

Next Topic:

Jock Rot



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Dog with head out Window...
by RayB

Wish I didn't like so mush
the wind in my gums, the thrill! the rush!
Dribbles dribbles drools and slobbers
Head out window, phone pole clobbers!

The End.


--Ray

PS> I forgot to post this one... but thought it was funny...

-- Edited by rayb at 15:30, 2007-06-19

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How canst thou not malign jock rot, said I?
It is a scourge most vile, hated, not dry.
When will it stop? The question must be asked.
But it is most clear, stay away from lye.

eta: Next topic: The sun never sets on the British Empire.

-- Edited by arbilad at 16:01, 2007-06-19

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The sun has set on
my Southwest sky of red flame.
Must not be British.

Next topic: River Rocks.

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The River Rocks
by RayB

The river rocks the drifting splinters of wood.
It tumbles over smooth lozenges of licked granite.
Frothing down a stairway carved by its ancestors,
The river rocks slowly back and forth, back and forth,
Gathering in threads and swirling pools of excitement.
Too soon gathered in long brown ribbons.
Creekbed veins pump muddy mucky smooth sluice
Joined by friends and sloshing together they form a river with a name
That carries a fleet of fat frowning fish for furlong after furlong
Until it fans out, lapped up, over level seasonal plains and fertile fields,
Before slowing in the clog of green carpetted swamplands
And then beyond...
Out to the edges of oblivion,
To join all the dead rivers gone before and the new ones yet to be.
An eternal river of light and wind, floating and refined,
There are no more boundaries here, only the ebb and flow of dreams.
Until the void cools and the memory of mighty waters congeal
And dash once again upon Jagged rocks to be made smooth
By the eternal rocking river.



--Ray

PS> Next Topic: Gethsemane

-- Edited by rayb at 01:44, 2007-06-20

-- Edited by rayb at 00:12, 2007-06-22

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Okay Ray, can I just say jawdrop.gif

Teach me, my master.

Ain't no way I'm posting on this thread after that.

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Gethsemane
Christ Jesus gave me my life and rest
If I but give my will, then pass the test
Gethsemane was his ultimate feat
What peace shall come when with him I will meet

Next topic: grizzly bears


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Grizzly Bears

Grizzly bears are big and strong
Their nails are sharp and very long
The teeth they sport can bite my arm
They can do quite a bit of harm

They look for honey in a tree
And try to avoid the angry bee
Salmon jump into their jaws
They swallow and then lick their paws




Feel better now, roper? rolleyes biggrin

Forgot next topic--  Satisfaction

-- Edited by Cocobeem at 09:10, 2007-06-21

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Satisfaction

Demanded, rough-gloved on the cheek,
Delivered, fog-shrouded in the morn,
Desired, blood-soaked pound of flesh.



Next topic:  Kipper Snacks

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What is fouler than a kipper snack?
Your tastebuds it will vilely attack.
Smear in anchovy paste
Run away in great haste
I am thankful that there is a lack.

Next topic: Book of Abraham

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Book of Abraham

There once was a little book
I decided to take a look
I read it through
In an hour or two
And now I'm just plain hooked.



Yeah! Even idiots can play!! imslow.gif


Next topic- Mixed Nuts

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What did you have for a snack today?
We? Mixed nuts.

What did you do with your time today?
We mixed nuts.

Who left this trail of posts today?
We Mixed Nuts.


(Hey...it's a poem if I say so.)

Next: French-cut Green Beans

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I like walnuts and salted peanuts
But about the type I don't much futz.
Eat them as you may like
Give them to your small tyke
Opening them may give you deep cuts

eta: good thing I didn't name a next topic, Euphie beat me to it!
BTW, Coco, I'm just a hack when it comes to poetry. I know just a few styles, and I force the words to fit the patterns, such as limerick, iambic pentameter, etc.

-- Edited by arbilad at 12:54, 2007-06-21

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Mixed Nuts

and bolts and drywall screws
they clutter up my bench
But that's okay
I have to say
my palate delights in smoked herring
and mustard sardines -- yes anchovies too
But fish egg bait
Not on my plate
they taste worse than my wrench
and nails and dirty shoes

oh what a mixed up nut...


-- Edited by Cat Herder at 12:58, 2007-06-21

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Doh!  doh  both Euphie and Arbi beat me to the post!

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French-cut Green Beans

French-cut swimsuits out on the beach
French-cut hairstyles, dyed and bleached
French-cut booties on your little baby boy
And french-cut green beans, my pride and joy!


Next topic-- Dill Pickles Rock my World

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Rock-a-bye Baby tune

Rocking her chair, Coco at the table
Eating dill pickles, as much as she's able
When the chair breaks, dear Coco will fall
And bring down the table, pickles and all

next:  if you're happy and you know it...


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If you're happy and you know it, bang yer head headbang.gif
If you're happy and you know it, bang yer head  headbang.gif

If you're happy and you know it, then yer head will surely show it
If you're happy and you know it, bang yer head. headbang.gif


Next topic--  My wife left me wink.gif

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My wife left me food
That was very sweet and kind
My taste buds rejoice

next topic - sweet potatoes

-- Edited by arbilad at 13:37, 2007-06-21

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Hello! Next topic, BrainFried!!

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Since I don't have a wife or a husband for that matter, I will insert my two cents. I agree that Ray's poem was amazing!

I think it is so important to create. Sometimes when I hear or read something far beyond my abilities, it makes me feel that my efforts don't have a point. And yet, I know how important it is for my mental well-being to create. I know some of my poems have struck a chord with others as well.

Poetry is so wide open and individual that there is room for all!

To conclude, this thread is great! Well, I know you are supposed to sum up what you already said in a conclusion. I wanted to work that in there.

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Oh, there were two posts while I was making my comments so it is a little out of place.

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**goes back to read ray's poem ... again**

**concludes she'll stick to nature and art and um... animals for that Ah-hah! experience**

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Eat sweet potatoes every day
for a source of vitamin A.
Anti-oxidants in food
can also taste good.


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Topics, people!! frustrated.gif

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I tried and I tried
but I couldn't think.
My brain was fried.
I often have problems
with attention.
But it is not due
to an addiction.
I think the gaps
where concentration
is breaking
helps me have space
for creating.
I heard that some
people with perfect
recall have no insights
at all.
but if my brain is fried,
I must rest and eat
so the feeling will subside.

Next topic
aha from nature

-- Edited by zealia at 13:50, 2007-06-21

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I didn't get Ray's poem...

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Actually, I don't think the BrainFried was not an actual topic given.  But nice recovery, zealia!   wink.gif

So, to get everybody back on track, the current topic is: aha from nature

(according to the rules, folks could still post against the current topic until someone else a poem and was first to assign the next topic...  So, as it happened a couple times here just recently, if the poet doesn't assign a new topic, the next person can posting another on that same topic -- thus making the previous poster draw four with your slamming down the wild card and changing color when you post your poem with the new topic wink.gif  It gets fun when you're working against beating someone else to the punch, isn't it?  biggrin.gif)


-- Edited by Cat Herder at 13:59, 2007-06-21

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A-ha from Nature

Thunder, lightning, sideways rain
It messes up my thick brown mane
I see the black clouds looming in
I don old clothes with a growing grin
I finally find informal fun
I go and grab my water gun
All is shiny, wet and new
I think I'll start the bar-be-que





Topic -- Dead Houseplants




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Dead houseplants
Dead houseplants
Aren't much fun


Next topic: I've got a secret

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I've got a secret
And I ain't tellin' you.
Poop poop de do.


Next Topic-- Sunburn

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To the fair ones,
stay out of the sun.
or use much sun screen.
I don't mean to be mean.
As a fair one, I have learned
how easy it is to sunburn.

Next topic: being lonely

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