This...
Is not.
A poem seen
By all I know,
Gathering comments,
So few and far between -
Which begs the question,
"If it is not,
Then why write,
When naught
Read?"
Showing posts with label word_play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label word_play. Show all posts
01 August 2017
23 July 2017
"Sad Short Stories" (P.o.t.D.7/23/17)
Write a sad story
Using three words! So, I wrote:
"Climate change denied..."
Using three words! So, I wrote:
"Climate change denied..."
11 July 2017
"Organize!" (P.o.t.D. 7/11/15, no rev)
Organize chaos...
Random thoughts, upon the page,
Gathered as the mind does rage.
Anarchy "rules" within the brain,
Never making it easy to train
Intellect's galumphing, dumb
Zoo of wandering, random
Emotions and thoughts.
Random thoughts, upon the page,
Gathered as the mind does rage.
Anarchy "rules" within the brain,
Never making it easy to train
Intellect's galumphing, dumb
Zoo of wandering, random
Emotions and thoughts.
11 June 2017
"Four subject words" (P.o.t.D. 6/11/15, rev 6/11/17)
Pick four words from the environment around you,
And write four fairly simple sentences,
Using them as the subject...
First attempt, following?
"So, I'm in the kitchen,
Typing away at my laptop,
Perched upon the dining table;
And I wonder why I signed up
For a grammar group?"
None the less, I'll give it a whirl,
Using books, computers, television, and the couch:
"As the unread books gather dust,
The television blares in the background,
And the couch sags under his sleeping weight.
Meanwhile, the computers sit idle,
Frozen upon webpages visited hours ago."
Revision - turning this into 4 simple sentences:
"All of the books are covered in dust.
A television blasts the room with sounds and scenes.
The couch sags under his sleeping weight.
Meanwhile, the computer's screen locks."
And write four fairly simple sentences,
Using them as the subject...
First attempt, following?
"So, I'm in the kitchen,
Typing away at my laptop,
Perched upon the dining table;
And I wonder why I signed up
For a grammar group?"
None the less, I'll give it a whirl,
Using books, computers, television, and the couch:
"As the unread books gather dust,
The television blares in the background,
And the couch sags under his sleeping weight.
Meanwhile, the computers sit idle,
Frozen upon webpages visited hours ago."
Revision - turning this into 4 simple sentences:
"All of the books are covered in dust.
A television blasts the room with sounds and scenes.
The couch sags under his sleeping weight.
Meanwhile, the computer's screen locks."
24 April 2017
"Threshold" (P.o.t.D. 4/24/15, no rev)
A desire to describe dreams deferred
When writing is now a wrangling of each word -
How then will my hopeless heart be heard?
Be still, my soul, to soar like the black bird...
When writing is now a wrangling of each word -
How then will my hopeless heart be heard?
Be still, my soul, to soar like the black bird...
18 March 2017
"Carpenter at Work..?" (P.o.t.D. 3/18/15, no rev)
Pondering our lives:
Hardness, surface, depth, and grain
Like some woods we stain.
Hardness, surface, depth, and grain
Like some woods we stain.
10 March 2017
"Cats'... Bird... March... May... Start?" (P.o.t.D. 3/10/15, no rev)
Today's poem will be a string of words:
Cats chasing errant little birds...
Posts and tweets galore
Spewing from Austin's floor -
Music and film and computer madness
Leads to citizens feeling badness...
March is upon us, with rain and cold
And so many events, good as gold -
Rodeo, basketball, and fest
Makes me feel this month is best...
Well... May is quite awesome, too,
With the academic events,
Like the state one-act-plays,
And the end of college days.
All that started from cats,
What, then, would be sparked from dogs?
Or, if you're more esoteric wizards,
You could play with goldfish or lizards!
Ready..?
3..2..1.. Write!
Cats chasing errant little birds...
Posts and tweets galore
Spewing from Austin's floor -
Music and film and computer madness
Leads to citizens feeling badness...
March is upon us, with rain and cold
And so many events, good as gold -
Rodeo, basketball, and fest
Makes me feel this month is best...
Well... May is quite awesome, too,
With the academic events,
Like the state one-act-plays,
And the end of college days.
All that started from cats,
What, then, would be sparked from dogs?
Or, if you're more esoteric wizards,
You could play with goldfish or lizards!
Ready..?
3..2..1.. Write!
08 March 2017
"Time ticks by..." (P.o.t.D. 3/8/15)
Time ticks by...
Happy - lying beside my love,
Watching minutes weave and wander
Through their periodic patterns -
Palindromic time: 10:01, 12:21, 1:41;
Repetitive time: 10:10, 12:12, 1:11 -
And on and on, they cycle through...
Time ticks by...
I study mathematics,
She studies Roman classics -
Was this love bound to happen?
...or is it "Fated to Fail"?
Then, as sweaty summer ends,
So ends our brief relation.
Time ticks by...
The sun rises later today,
As we add an hour, in our way.
"Spring Forward" will cause missed meetings,
And confusion from clock readings...
Of course, a host of Facebook posts
Bemoan our time loss, through their roasts.
Time ticks by...
We are but one week away
From the century's Pi Day -
So much fuss now being made
Over time just so arrayed...
Seems so faked, so I ask "Why
We write numbers 'cross the sky?"
Happy - lying beside my love,
Watching minutes weave and wander
Through their periodic patterns -
Palindromic time: 10:01, 12:21, 1:41;
Repetitive time: 10:10, 12:12, 1:11 -
And on and on, they cycle through...
Time ticks by...
I study mathematics,
She studies Roman classics -
Was this love bound to happen?
...or is it "Fated to Fail"?
Then, as sweaty summer ends,
So ends our brief relation.
Time ticks by...
The sun rises later today,
As we add an hour, in our way.
"Spring Forward" will cause missed meetings,
And confusion from clock readings...
Of course, a host of Facebook posts
Bemoan our time loss, through their roasts.
Time ticks by...
We are but one week away
From the century's Pi Day -
So much fuss now being made
Over time just so arrayed...
Seems so faked, so I ask "Why
We write numbers 'cross the sky?"
23 January 2017
"Mincing words" (P.o.t.D. 1/23/15 rev 1/23/17)
I find myself mincing words:
Can I get a bowl of PHO using xenophobia...?
Do your shoulders SAG when we disagree?
IF we RENT the old rules, are we still different?
Will it BE very LONG to belong?
What will be ATE, using this list of statements?
Or can we find some LIP through liposuction...?
Does this MAN have a clue on how to be romantic?
Maybe, perchance, in BED, if I'm obedient...
What HARM is ON us, if we're in perfect harmony?
Will I find MOM in the momentous?
My challenge to you, dear reader,
Is to mix all the pieces together
And add some dashing bits of your own,
To see what you might create...
I offer to you, these ingredients:
Pho, Sag, Rent, Be, Long, Ate,
Lip, Man, Bed, Harm, On, Mom...
Can I get a bowl of PHO using xenophobia...?
Do your shoulders SAG when we disagree?
IF we RENT the old rules, are we still different?
Will it BE very LONG to belong?
What will be ATE, using this list of statements?
Or can we find some LIP through liposuction...?
Does this MAN have a clue on how to be romantic?
Maybe, perchance, in BED, if I'm obedient...
What HARM is ON us, if we're in perfect harmony?
Will I find MOM in the momentous?
My challenge to you, dear reader,
Is to mix all the pieces together
And add some dashing bits of your own,
To see what you might create...
I offer to you, these ingredients:
Pho, Sag, Rent, Be, Long, Ate,
Lip, Man, Bed, Harm, On, Mom...
01 August 2015
"Is not..." (P.o.t.D. 8/1/15)
This...
Is not.
A poem seen
By all I know,
Gathering comments,
So few and far between -
Which begs the question,
"If it is not,
Then why write,
When naught
Read?"
Is not.
A poem seen
By all I know,
Gathering comments,
So few and far between -
Which begs the question,
"If it is not,
Then why write,
When naught
Read?"
11 July 2015
"Organize!" (P.o.t.D. 7/11/15)
Organize chaos...
Random thoughts, upon the page,
Gathered as the mind does rage.
Anarchy "rules" within the brain,
Never making it easy to train
Intellect's galumphing, dumb
Zoo of wandering, random
Emotions and thoughts.
Random thoughts, upon the page,
Gathered as the mind does rage.
Anarchy "rules" within the brain,
Never making it easy to train
Intellect's galumphing, dumb
Zoo of wandering, random
Emotions and thoughts.
11 June 2015
"Four subject words" (P.o.t.D. 6/11/15)
Pick four words from the environment around you,
And write four fairly simple sentences,
Using them as the subject...
So, I'm in the kitchen,
Typing away at my laptop,
Perched upon the dining table;
And I wonder why I signed up
For a grammar group?
None the less, I'll give it a whirl,
Using books, computers, television, and the couch -
"As the unread books gather dust,
The television blares in the background,
And the couch sags under his sleeping weight.
Meanwhile, the computers sit idle,
Frozen upon webpages visited hours ago."
And write four fairly simple sentences,
Using them as the subject...
So, I'm in the kitchen,
Typing away at my laptop,
Perched upon the dining table;
And I wonder why I signed up
For a grammar group?
None the less, I'll give it a whirl,
Using books, computers, television, and the couch -
"As the unread books gather dust,
The television blares in the background,
And the couch sags under his sleeping weight.
Meanwhile, the computers sit idle,
Frozen upon webpages visited hours ago."
24 April 2015
"Threshold" (P.o.t.D. 4/24/15)
A desire to describe dreams deferred
When writing is now a wrangling of each word -
How then will my hopeless heart be heard?
Be still, my soul, to soar like the black bird...
When writing is now a wrangling of each word -
How then will my hopeless heart be heard?
Be still, my soul, to soar like the black bird...
18 March 2015
"Carpenter at Work..?" (P.o.t.D. 3/18/15)
Pondering our lives:
Hardness, surface, depth, and grain
Like some woods we stain.
Hardness, surface, depth, and grain
Like some woods we stain.
10 March 2015
"Cats'... Bird... March... May... Start?" (P.o.t.D. 3/10/15)
Today's poem will be a string of words:
Cats chasing errant little birds...
Posts and tweets galore
Spewing from Austin's floor -
Music and film and computer madness
Leads to citizens feeling badness...
March is upon us, with rain and cold
And so many events, good as gold -
Rodeo, basketball, and fest
Makes me feel this month is best...
Well... May is quite awesome, too,
With the academic events,
Like the state one-act-plays,
And the end of college days.
All that started from cats,
What, then, would be sparked from dogs?
Or, if you're more esoteric wizards,
You could play with goldfish or lizards!
Ready..?
3..2..1.. Write!
Cats chasing errant little birds...
Posts and tweets galore
Spewing from Austin's floor -
Music and film and computer madness
Leads to citizens feeling badness...
March is upon us, with rain and cold
And so many events, good as gold -
Rodeo, basketball, and fest
Makes me feel this month is best...
Well... May is quite awesome, too,
With the academic events,
Like the state one-act-plays,
And the end of college days.
All that started from cats,
What, then, would be sparked from dogs?
Or, if you're more esoteric wizards,
You could play with goldfish or lizards!
Ready..?
3..2..1.. Write!
08 March 2015
"Time ticks by..." (P.o.t.D. 3/8/15)
Time ticks by...
Happy - lying beside my love,
Watching minutes weave and wander
Through their periodic patterns -
Palindromic time: 10:01, 12:21, 1:41;
Repetitive time: 10:10, 12:12, 1:11 -
And on and on, they cycle through...
Time ticks by...
I study mathematics,
She studies Roman classics -
Was this love bound to happen?
...or is it "Fated to Fail"?
Then, as sweaty summer ends,
So ends our brief relation.
Time ticks by...
The sun rises later today,
As we add an hour, in our way.
"Spring Forward" will cause missed meetings,
And confusion from clock readings...
Of course, a host of Facebook posts
Bemoan our time loss, through their roasts.
Time ticks by...
We are but one week away
From the century's Pi Day -
So much fuss now being made
Over time just so arrayed...
Seems so faked, so I ask "Why
We write numbers 'cross the sky?"
Happy - lying beside my love,
Watching minutes weave and wander
Through their periodic patterns -
Palindromic time: 10:01, 12:21, 1:41;
Repetitive time: 10:10, 12:12, 1:11 -
And on and on, they cycle through...
Time ticks by...
I study mathematics,
She studies Roman classics -
Was this love bound to happen?
...or is it "Fated to Fail"?
Then, as sweaty summer ends,
So ends our brief relation.
Time ticks by...
The sun rises later today,
As we add an hour, in our way.
"Spring Forward" will cause missed meetings,
And confusion from clock readings...
Of course, a host of Facebook posts
Bemoan our time loss, through their roasts.
Time ticks by...
We are but one week away
From the century's Pi Day -
So much fuss now being made
Over time just so arrayed...
Seems so faked, so I ask "Why
We write numbers 'cross the sky?"
21 February 2015
24 January 2015
"Pensieve Play" (P.o.t.D. 1/24/15)
Grabbing a fistful of ideas,
I gingerly pull an image
From the twisty tangled net
Of my memories and mistakes.
Trying to sew order,
I line up the facts,
And apply a little logical glue -
Hoping my conclusions still ring true.
I gingerly pull an image
From the twisty tangled net
Of my memories and mistakes.
Trying to sew order,
I line up the facts,
And apply a little logical glue -
Hoping my conclusions still ring true.
23 January 2015
"Mincing words" (P.o.t.D. 1/23/15)
I find myself mincing words,
Just to get a bowl of pho out of xenophobia;
Or maybe find a little lip in liposuction...
Just to get a bowl of pho out of xenophobia;
Or maybe find a little lip in liposuction...
08 August 2013
Contemplating archie style
write. Write! WRITE!!!
is that a worthwhile way to begin this? I don't know...
do i bother with formatting, grammar, punctuation, and all that -
...or do i play with archie mode, not using the shift key because i can't jump on two keys simultaneously...
sad that few out there know who archie is
still trying to wrap my head around a theme, and i'll probably follow this post with a second post along that theme... thinking about it, i can still single-key '.,-=[]/`
i remember though that archie tended to avoid any punctuation creating one continuous stream rambling about mehitabel and her alter life as cleopatra
although i also remember short lines of text
hinting at the allowed use of the return key
ponder ponder ponder
do i run with it
minimal punctuation, no capitalization, and almost poetic line formatting
still... we can dress the words up in fancy rules
but can we create content that's more than just random drools
all this leads me to a theme wrapper for some posts
that i have already labeled as archie mode
so do i add this to my collection of themes
like the sssu posts or the movie monday or tune tuesday posts...
is that a worthwhile way to begin this? I don't know...
do i bother with formatting, grammar, punctuation, and all that -
...or do i play with archie mode, not using the shift key because i can't jump on two keys simultaneously...
sad that few out there know who archie is
still trying to wrap my head around a theme, and i'll probably follow this post with a second post along that theme... thinking about it, i can still single-key '.,-=[]/`
i remember though that archie tended to avoid any punctuation creating one continuous stream rambling about mehitabel and her alter life as cleopatra
although i also remember short lines of text
hinting at the allowed use of the return key
ponder ponder ponder
do i run with it
minimal punctuation, no capitalization, and almost poetic line formatting
still... we can dress the words up in fancy rules
but can we create content that's more than just random drools
all this leads me to a theme wrapper for some posts
that i have already labeled as archie mode
so do i add this to my collection of themes
like the sssu posts or the movie monday or tune tuesday posts...
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