Any fans of the Double Dactyl out there? (Or are ya all a bunch of free-verse sissified wierdos?)
HSR, I heartily encourage you to start a thread on various poetic forms if you would like. In fact, that could be fun. If folks are like me, they probably don't know what the various form and respective rules are. That is what I meant earlier in that I am un-schooled. That is why I have developed my own form of free-verse over the years.
(fyi, I only had the luxury of taking one creative writing class in college and the section was supposed to focuse on poetry, but the instructer decided she didn't want to do poetry that semester and focused on short story instead... needless to say, I was miffed from day one at her)
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
(Hey, Zealia, it was me that wrote the baby's smile poem. )
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
Wow! That is like when you reach for something on the shelf and look and your hand and see it is something else. I could of swore it was Polly. It is a great poem!
Fifties carryovers Beehived, aquanet coifs smart clipped crew flattops left to ruin decaying unwashed uncombed by protest and the rank bed-head of drugs, free-sex, rock n roll
As if fighting an ideal was worthy of the shame of looking and smelling like Sasquatch
I didn't have much hair then and glad Dad made it so
Next topic: Staying on Topic
-- Edited by Cat Herder at 09:18, 2007-07-28
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It seems to me the only thing you've learned is that Caesar is a "salad dressing dude."
The internet is a bunch of wires and hubs that Business Analysts pursue, Posting pointless comments while analyzing me and you. And if he has a digital camera, then any feckless boob Can post pointless profanity on a place we call You Tube.
THen there are these messageboards where obnoxious nettizens Can post their random thoughts and even confess their sins. Conspiracies and Hearsay, count the good, or count offal Any story found on the dreaded board "Bountiful."
Next Topic: Endoplasmic Reticulum
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I'm not slow; I'm special. (Don't take it personally, everyone finds me offensive. Yet somehow I manage to live with myself.)
What kind of poem could I write about Endoplasmic Reticulum? It would be very geeky, and full of biological curriculum, or very awful with bad rhyme; Or more probably both -- at the same time.
Next: Love
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
There's something about opening a brand new book. Anticipating. . . Feeling crisp, untouched pages between your fingers, The binding cracking at your hands for the very first time. Black and white painting vibrant, moving pictures; Stories created in the mind of someone not so different from me. And when I turn the very last page, I take a part of that creator with me.
Next: Opera
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"There is order in the way the Lord reveals His will to mankind. . .we cannot receive revelation for someone else's stewardship." L. Tom Perry
Stake-a-tent Stake-a-tent Wife of the Cat Herder Heads to the mountains with backpack and stuff
"Stupid unwieldy biodegradeable packaging! Dang but this camping is rough!"
(That was another double-dactyl. For those interested, here are the rules: * Usually humorous * Two stanzas, each comprising three lines of "LONG-short-short LONG-short-short", followed by a line with a "LONG-short-short-LONG" * Each stanza rhyme on their last line. * Line 1 = repetitive nonsense like "boogity-boogity" or "higgledy-piggledy" or "stake-a-tent stake-a-tent". * Line 2 = The subject of the poem, preferably someone's name. * Somewhere in the 2nd stanza, at least one line must be one six-syllable double dactyl word, (VA-le-dic-TOR-i-an, MON-o-syl-LA-bic-ly, BI-o-de-GRAD-a-ble)
Robber offends Mirk Child suddenly in danger A sudden headache
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
He said he worked on an oil rig until he lost his arm. That he drove a classic Mustang convertable surprised me. He really liked my best friend, but that wasn't surprising. The one good thing about being a third wheel that night was when he took me to my first AA meeting.
Next: My first _____ (writer's choice)
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
So there I was in the knee-deep grass Trying hard to be the biggest dumbass The bull looked slow, what could he do? He sure can't catch me, if he couldn't catch you. Over the gate with shoes in the dirt If I'm really fast, this won't even hurt Taking off like a bat outta heck Running with speed of proverbial break-neck Turning, snorting, he spots me Peaking his interest as I'm trying to flee Like Secretariat out of the starting gate I can't turn back now, it's way too late Pumping my arms, my eyes tearing up Upon my hiney I feel a quick bump Over the creosote fence do I fly Next thing I remember is staring at the sky. (Any resemblance to real life events is purely coincidental.)
Next topic- Life is (...) Pick topic again.
-- Edited by Cocobeem at 14:04, 2007-10-04
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
Life is like a box of chocolates, So Forrest Gump's mom says.
If so, then I am the oreamy caramel, sweet, and smooth, leaving sticky residue all over your lips.
or not
I guess I am the raspberry cream but not the raspberry seed in your wisdom tooth.
Maybe I am the plain chocolate, but some say I'm too nutty.
Then there's the cherry cordial, but I'd hate to think I give people stomach aches because I'm so sweet...
I've got it! I'm the coconut cream! Oh, but everybody likes me...
The butter rum, but I don't drink...
So if LIFE is like a box of chocolates, I must be a chocolate. However, nothing seems quite to fit.
I'm not the hazelnut for my eyes are brown. I can't be fluffy nougat when my hopes are down.
Peanut brittle leaves me oh so weak. And molasses chew is like chewing on steak!
Divinity, but I'm not perfect yet. Then there's toffee crunch that makes me munch too much.
I think the whole analogy of life is... dot dot dot is nothing more than a plot plot plot That makes us think Of one thing That could describe Infinity.
For instance: what analogy Could portray both a sunset And the ocean? A bedbug, And a good night's sleep? A test, and a hammock on the beach? A phone call from an old friend, and the funeral of your childhood home teacher? A roller coaster has it's ups and downs, but it takes one to get the other.
More than often life is the good and the "bad" all thrown together like a salad. With healthy crunchy vegetables Covered in fatty oily dressing.
But the dressing is what makes the salad good. Yet another bad analogy.
Life is full of hugs and kisses, hits and misses, pants and dresses, socks and sandals, ups and downs, smiles and frowns, sunrises and sunsets, peaceful times and upsets, love and hate, choosing a mate, clean and dirty, healthy and hurty, hunger and pain, money and gain, right and wrong, short and long,
In essence, life is life, and that is all I can really say.
Next topic: Run-ons!
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
— Oscar Wilde
I have a tendency to procrastinate, which makes me hesitate (and sometimes makes me late); and while someone might berate this very annoying, crippling trait, I'd like to think that, like my mate, my tendency to procrastinate does not a lesser person make: it's something that I need to work at, and maybe something you might smirk at, but it's nothing to be called a jerk at, unless I procrastinate getting to my point. . .
Next topic: minivans
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"There is order in the way the Lord reveals His will to mankind. . .we cannot receive revelation for someone else's stewardship." L. Tom Perry
Twinkling, hovering in the sky I love to watch them when they go by Pretty little dishes like Jared's ship Taken little green men on their trip My mom loves aliens, she's quite obsessed Dad thinks her brain is sort of messed Down to Nevada she loves to run Her ultimate vacation spot - Area 51!
Next topic: Ghosts
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne