Jon
02-10-2008, 01:14 AM
Please consider this post.
As some of you may know, I am a counselor for juvenile delinquents ranging ages from 13 to 20 years of age. (Yes 20 years of age…Indiana has some funny laws) I work midnights in order counsel those who have foolishly dropped out of school or have a GED and have taken a job that requires them to work into the small hours of the morn or to awaken in these small hours and go to work. These young folks need counsel as much as those going to school and sleep “normal” hours.
I wish to begin a program to elicit team work and/or “thinking outside of the box.”
This is where you come in, fellow riddles and poets and sports fans.
I wish to present these young folks with riddles and/or poem challenges (the poem challenges I envision to be much like the François Villon Contest as well as the three word contest and the poem subject contest) I intend to give certain rewards to the more difficult challenges.This includes reasonable sports trivia.
What I would like from you, my beloved friends, are riddles, trivia questions and you are willing to “donate” as well as poem subjects, words and opening lines. I assure you, I intent to steal and copy write none of these ideas. I just have several young folks interested in writing poetry and hope to lead them into working as a group (many do not get along) on some of the more difficult riddles.
***Note; none of these young folks are mentally challenged but many suffer from ADHD and ADD. In addition, those of totally sound mind have yet to be pushed by parents and teachers, many have attended school little, please keep this in mind.
I point this out to you so that you understand that a riddle on the subject of…say… the Children’s crusades of 1212 A.D. may be a bit “over their heads” by the same token a mother goose riddle would be a bit too childish. As to appropriateness, I reckon I can be the judge of that and not expose them to a poem or riddle that the facility may deem appropriate. Please do not worry about being appropriate, I will be your filter on this issue as well as the mental acumen issue. If one you ( my friends), write a poem of romance and one of the young folks feels inspired to write a poem that is not appropriate…That is his or her fault. I will deal with her/or him in kind. This will not come back to haunt my fellow writers, sports fans and riddlers…after all…I am the filter. If a “Three word” poem game is submitted and contains the word “stick” and a young one makes something inappropriate of it…I will deal with the young person rather than you, my writing and riddling friends.
After all this…It would likely be best for Admin. here if you all PM you submissions to me rather than start a new thread. Admin. may consider closing this thread if they wish, and let PMs be the vehicle. You may even consider am already written riddle, poem, trivia to “donate.”
As some of you may know, I am a counselor for juvenile delinquents ranging ages from 13 to 20 years of age. (Yes 20 years of age…Indiana has some funny laws) I work midnights in order counsel those who have foolishly dropped out of school or have a GED and have taken a job that requires them to work into the small hours of the morn or to awaken in these small hours and go to work. These young folks need counsel as much as those going to school and sleep “normal” hours.
I wish to begin a program to elicit team work and/or “thinking outside of the box.”
This is where you come in, fellow riddles and poets and sports fans.
I wish to present these young folks with riddles and/or poem challenges (the poem challenges I envision to be much like the François Villon Contest as well as the three word contest and the poem subject contest) I intend to give certain rewards to the more difficult challenges.This includes reasonable sports trivia.
What I would like from you, my beloved friends, are riddles, trivia questions and you are willing to “donate” as well as poem subjects, words and opening lines. I assure you, I intent to steal and copy write none of these ideas. I just have several young folks interested in writing poetry and hope to lead them into working as a group (many do not get along) on some of the more difficult riddles.
***Note; none of these young folks are mentally challenged but many suffer from ADHD and ADD. In addition, those of totally sound mind have yet to be pushed by parents and teachers, many have attended school little, please keep this in mind.
I point this out to you so that you understand that a riddle on the subject of…say… the Children’s crusades of 1212 A.D. may be a bit “over their heads” by the same token a mother goose riddle would be a bit too childish. As to appropriateness, I reckon I can be the judge of that and not expose them to a poem or riddle that the facility may deem appropriate. Please do not worry about being appropriate, I will be your filter on this issue as well as the mental acumen issue. If one you ( my friends), write a poem of romance and one of the young folks feels inspired to write a poem that is not appropriate…That is his or her fault. I will deal with her/or him in kind. This will not come back to haunt my fellow writers, sports fans and riddlers…after all…I am the filter. If a “Three word” poem game is submitted and contains the word “stick” and a young one makes something inappropriate of it…I will deal with the young person rather than you, my writing and riddling friends.
After all this…It would likely be best for Admin. here if you all PM you submissions to me rather than start a new thread. Admin. may consider closing this thread if they wish, and let PMs be the vehicle. You may even consider am already written riddle, poem, trivia to “donate.”