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    Quote Originally Posted by Frunobulax View Post
    Glad you like it.
    I enjoyed yours more than mine...but so it goes with me every time.
    Same, but vice versa.
    "Help me out here
    All my words are falling short
    And there's so much I want to say"

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    Such is the way of the artist.
    My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.

    The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.

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    The bells were ringing
    the day is at an end
    darkness comes
    my dear friend

    Come in
    sit by my fire
    warm yourself
    And rest your weary feet

    Working hard
    all your days
    You need to take time
    To stop and play

    Your family needs you
    the children grow up
    Too fast for you
    to really see

    The bells are ringing
    The day is at an end
    Join the family now
    Love never ends
    Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

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    Fear
    The bells were ringing
    Loud and clear
    And everyone came
    From far and near.

    At one such event
    There can be no cheer,
    The community united
    Solely by fear.


    To look upon it in the past,
    One might have found it queer,
    But after that day
    The reasons were quite clear.

    Our buildings were hit,
    With force they did veer,
    The impact was striking,
    The hatred sincere.


    And so now they mourn,
    Some even dare here
    To remind us of pains in the past,
    To feed off our fear.
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    Very nice, Candice! Perfect poem to retire that first line!


    new opening line...

    "Up, up, and away!"
    Buddy, you think you look strong? You’re wearing a cape.

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    Up, up and away
    My beautiful, my beautiful balloon...



    Wait...that's been done...sorry.
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    Will a haiku do??


    Up, up, and away!
    Homosexual in tights
    Hard, gay man of steel

    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    Ok...I have a poem now.


    *****Warning. The following poem is meant in total jest but contains content that the general, right thinking public would label as smut. You have been warned. I hope you take it with the humor in which it was written.


    -Jon*******























    Up, up and away!

    Cried the effeminate man ready to save the day.

    No lisp to be detected

    But so many he’s erected

    Tough man as catcher needs no lube

    Be careful on horseback, Mr. Kent

    Or you’ll be blowing another kind of tube




    *runs from the thread ashamed!*
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    printf("9813c.94ba/a:\n");
    Up, up and away
    To a sunnier place.
    Erase erase, you still have free will
    Erasmus Erasmus was wrong.
    Fly away, up and away
    To brighter days.
    Erase erase gray
    Speak and say think and play.
    Do and do and don't.
    Up, up and away.
    To Ypres, to Spain.
    To Waterloo, to Moscow.
    To me, to you.
    Up, up and erase.
    Wipe it over, punch me in.
    Up, up and away.
    Flit off to a better place in your mind.
    My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.

    The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.

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    I'd like to lay claim as the only poet to title using a line of C code.
    My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.

    The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.

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    It's YOURS!!!
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    you win, fruno!
    Buddy, you think you look strong? You’re wearing a cape.

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    that Fruno's poem is one of his best indeed

    I wish he would reappear as soon as possible, and post more and more; I already know most of his poems by heart (the rhyming ones at least), and I'm beginning to get hungry for more.

    Meantime, since Jon was the first to answer the challenge (with a perfectly shaped haiku), it's his turn to offer an opening line


    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
    When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)

    bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    "On a nightmare's edge."
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    On nightmare’s silent edge

    Self doubt erodes sanity

    Pushing the sleeper over
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    On a nightmare's edge
    impish creatures dance
    to and fro they sway
    with the rhythm of chance

    Dark partners light
    in the sleeping mind
    performing their waltz of
    good and evil entwined

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    Buddy, you think you look strong? You’re wearing a cape.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ladysai View Post
    On a nightmare's edge
    impish creatures dance
    to and fro they sway
    with the rhythm of chance

    Dark partners light
    in the sleeping mind
    performing their waltz of
    good and evil entwined

    This one I LOVE!
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    May we start again with 'pushing the sleeper over'?

    ~rouses the drowsy Turtleback poets~

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    I suggest the next round's first line being any of the three lines of this haiku by Jon:

    On nightmare’s silent edge

    Self doubt erodes sanity

    Pushing the sleeper over

    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
    When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)

    bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    I suggest the next round's first line being any of the three lines of this hailu by Jon:

    On nightmare’s silent edge

    Self doubt erodes sanity

    Pushing the sleeper over

    I am honored.
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    I suggest the next round's first line being any of the three lines of this haiku by Jon:

    On nightmare’s silent edge

    Self doubt erodes sanity

    Pushing the sleeper over

    I am honored.

    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
    When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)

    bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    {Pan2.ar(SinOsc.ar (100, 0, 0.5))}.play
    On nightmare's silent edge
    We skate so deftly in fear
    On nightmare's vorpal blade
    We dance ever clinging to hope of brightness.
    On nightmare's poisoned words
    We take the supine to death,
    And on nightmare's blackened cloak
    We embrace that which is unknown.


    [The code is to generate a 100hz tone in SuperCollider.]

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    Fruno!
    Great to see you and your words again on Turtleback Lane!

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    Crappy poem that I'll most likely regret posting later.




    On nightmare’s silent edge
    There’s she and I alone
    Walking in pale sunlight
    Comfortably silent

    Her hand in mine, perfect
    Like magic, it soothes me
    Taking away the pain
    And stress I left behind

    When I entered this world
    Where we are the center
    Of everything and time
    Slows down to watch our love

    Arms around her, I sigh
    And watch the ducks eat bread
    Thrown by children with smiles
    Almost as real as mine

    We watch the sun sink down
    Casting shadows all ‘round
    And eerie gloom gathers
    But she makes me content

    Some say that’s no nightmare
    I have to disagree
    And I wake, heart rending
    Because that time is dead.
    There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

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