posted by cobra libre on February 5, 2003 · 4 good · 0 bad · 0 offensive


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posted 2003-02-05 09:16 AM by pogo:
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Ottava rima? Me? That can’t be right!
Too frivolous? But tut, there’s no such thing!
Let others ponder thoughts of wrong and right,
Or sit and think how much they love the spring;
I’d rather spend my time in gleeful spite,
Or maybe laugh, or maybe sit and sing.
Besides, it might be fun to be inspiring -
But surely it would get so very tiring.

If I were not this, I would be blank verse. Or triolet.

Very cool.

posted 2003-02-05 09:25 AM by seth:

I am heroic couplets; most precise
And fond of order. Planned and structured. Nice.
I know, of course, just what I want; I know,
As well, what I will do to make it so.
This doesn’t mean that I attempt to shun
Excitement, entertainment, pleasure, fun;
But they must keep their place, like all the rest;
They might be good, but ordered life is best.

posted 2003-02-05 10:26 AM by cobra libre:
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I am, of course, none other than blank verse.
I don’t know where I’m going, yes, quite right;
And when I get there (if I ever do)
I might not recognise it. So? Your point?
Why should I have a destination set?
I’m relatively happy as I am,
And wouldn’t want to be forever aimed
Towards some future path or special goal.
It’s not to do with laziness, as such.
It’s just that on the whole I’d rather not
Be bothered — so I drift contentedly;
An underrated way of life, I find.

posted 2003-02-05 10:41 AM by austingrrrl:

Nice pop-ups (!)

I am heroic couplets too.

posted 2003-02-05 10:47 AM by dakotasmith:
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I was a tanka. I did know what a tanka is, but I found this:

Tanka is a poetic form that requires 31 onji, and is divided into 5 lines of 5-7-5-7-7 onji each.

posted 2003-02-05 10:50 AM by pusgums:

I’m terza rima, and I talk and smile.
Where others lock their rhymes and thoughts away
I let mine out, and chatter all the while.

I’m rarely on my own - a wasted day
Is any day that’s spent without a friend,
With nothing much to do or hear or say.

I like to be with people, and depend
On company for being entertained;
Which seems a good solution, in the end.

posted 2003-02-05 10:57 AM by cobra libre:

I didn’t see any popups!

you get terza rima if you submit the form without answering any questions.

posted 2003-02-05 12:12 PM by fhazel:

i got terza rima by answering questions.

posted 2003-02-05 01:01 PM by chomi2003:
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I’m the limerick, mired in muck.
I refuse to be bored or get stuck.
   I like to offend,
   But not, in the end,
As much as to thwart expectations.

posted 2003-02-05 01:16 PM by erin:

I am the descort, and thwart, and long
for discordant, mordant chaos;
See the pretty dissolution,
See the ditty pattern briefly then
Dissolve away
Into a
Newer
Mode of messy disagreeable
(but me-able)
Affray, with lovely spite and hating,
Fights and hurting,
Never abating.
(Quite contrary me.)

i don’t like that. if i wasn’t this i would be a limerick.

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