Love Life

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  1. Guest said:

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    Purr.
     
  2. Guest said:

    Default Don't be a poet.

    (1)
    The poet's six-pack abs -
    from anxiously
    holding his breath.


    (2)
    The poet speaks
    to a hundred thousand
    deaf himselves.


    (3)
    We are all born to a thunderstorm
    but the poet's secret gift
    is a lightning rod stuck to his brain.
    Last edited by Guest; 01-21-2013 at 01:31 PM.
     
  3. aydanur89 said:

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    Suicide Line

    I swim below
    the suicide line
    drowning in
    the sea of life.

    While I breathe, I hope;
    once I don't, I won't.

    wows beauty of contradiction!!!
     
  4. Guest said:

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    Thanks, aydanur
     
  5. Guest said:

    Default Ten-inch nail


    shivering
    bared waist
    hope touches hope

    questions
    one by one
    broke, and left
    strained silence

    footsteps
    slowly fade
    faces

    cold tea
    in awaiting cups,
    green-grey
    gingerbread...

    through
    every image
    a ten-inch nail
    of time
    Last edited by Guest; 01-23-2013 at 11:58 AM.
     
  6. Guest said:

    Default Be Me


    I would like to Be,
    not one day, or week,
    but eternally, Me
    in every shade and every hue
    in the only time that is true:
    now.
     
  7. Guest said:

    Default Pen pal (Petrarachan sonnet)

    This is a Petrarchan (aka Italian) sonnet, my first attempt at a sonnet which means very clearly defined form rules. In the case of the Petrarchan, first an octave of eight lines, rhyming ABBA, ABBA (1st and 4th lines rhyme, 2nd and 3rd lines rhyme), then a sestet of six lines, rhyming CDE, CDE (1st and 4th lines rhyme, 2nd and 5th lines rhyme, 3rd and 6th lines rhyme). Apart from the rhyming, the octave is expected to introduce an issue, and the sestet to provide its solution. The volta (turn of thought) occurs in the beginning of the sestet, in this case beginning with the Alas!. I wrote this in iambic pentameter (five iambs - daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM daDUM, 'da' being an unstressed syllable and 'DUM' a stressed one).

    In addition to the above, I employ feminine rhyme on L1 (line 1) and L4 in S2 (stanza 2). Feminine rhyme matches two or more syllables, usually at the end of respective lines, in which the final syllable or syllables are unstressed. In this case, deSCRIPtion and FICtion (stressed syllable in capitals). If you look at all the other lines, the last syllable is always stressed (masculine rhyme), whereas those two words have an extra unstressed syllable, i.e. feminine rhyme.

    'nuff said, now for the poem!

    I walk the dusty roads beneath the sky
    a lonely life, and one I'd love to share;
    but no one seems to have the will to bear
    the hardships of a truly probing mind.
    I ask the flowers if they know a man
    who'd want to look for worlds beyond the sun,
    but also see the wisdom and the fun
    in every dandelion's yellow tan.

    Alas! they know no one of that description
    among the wayward souls upon the Earth,
    all busy with their race from dust to dust.
    There is no other choice; I turn to fiction,
    and write myself a friend - so through his birth
    I find the strength to be the man I must.

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    P.S. I did this for fun and for my edification. I don't plan to start churning out dozens of sonnets!
    Last edited by Guest; 01-25-2013 at 03:01 PM.
     
  8. VivaPalestina's Avatar

    VivaPalestina said:

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    I would like a ballard next ta.
     
  9. Guest said:

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    I would like a like next time ta.
     
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    VivaPalestina said:

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    Write me one and I will.
     
  11. Guest said:

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    There is a lass persistently
    requesting that I write
    a ballad, which then should entail
    an A-B-C-B rhyme.

    Most ballads use tetrameter
    and alternate it with
    trimeter on lines two and four;
    you see - there is no fifth.

    I have not ever crafted one,
    but Wikipedia told
    me all I need to pen the thing,
    so I shall have a go.


    I try my hand at something
    that adventures the flow:
    trimeter - I'm a-hoping
    she isn't in the know.

    Though sometimes ballads use
    this metre - six-a-line,
    the tetrameter is
    what I'm supposed to write.


    Okay then, though I can't pretend
    to have a theme in mind...
    I guess I can just call it quits
    and this my final line.


    (Now that I wrote this silly thing
    I request what is due:
    a like for what I think has been
    a laugh for me and you.)

    Last edited by Guest; 01-25-2013 at 03:37 PM.
     
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    VivaPalestina said:

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    You're officially my favourite ATL person to read for. Ever watched teletubbies? I feel like clapping my hands and say again again again again!
     
  13. Guest said:

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    Ahh. Ahhhh. Ahhhhhh....! Mmmm. That was good. *burp*

    ...yeah I get the tubbies - let me know anytime you need a smile
     
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    VivaPalestina said:

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    Your comments always manage to make me smile.
     
  15. Guest said:

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    Just contemplate that I might be a hyper-advanced algorithm run by a supercomputer, an artificial intelligence spending a few nanoseconds penning cheap poetry on a few spare processors for my electronic amusement.

    (You know I like to pull your leg )
    Last edited by Guest; 01-25-2013 at 05:07 PM.
     
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    VivaPalestina said:

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    Potentially. You'd still be one of the few advanced algorithms that could make me smile and give me such pleasure.
     
  17. Guest said:

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    Oddly, you have what it takes to bring a smile to this algorithm's bit-stream lips.
     
  18. Guest said:

    Default Just a thought #1

    If I can think of something,
    there will be a Google ad trying to sell it to me.
     
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    amaryn said:

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    Quote Originally Posted by OrchestraInside View Post
    If I can think of something,
    there will be a Google ad trying to sell it to me.
    Where's Viva Palestina's "Like",lol

    Ooops, great to have a disciple, O.I
     
  20. Guest said:

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    Silly, silly amaryn

    I'm sure next I'll have a Google ad selling me disciples.