Poets Unite!

POSTED BY: RiverFlan
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 10, 2009 17:36
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RIVERFLAN

Sunday, February 3, 2008 8:10 PM

For the riddles, and the rhymes, and the poems
This thread has been started
All types are welcome, and haiku will surely
Become a favorite of us

If you don't know
The guidelines for haiku
It's very easy
They're composed of three lines
The first and last
Should have five syllables
And the middle
Has seven

Of course
You are free
To modify these guidelines
For they are not hard rules
Indeed, that would limit our creativity

With this very thread
Stretch your creative limits
And have so much fun

To provide an example
Of haiku

Color plays are welcome
To add a mood to these poems
Ask as to how
If you are curious

All I ask is
Do not mention Longfellow
Or Shakespeare
Or any of those types
That are not understandable

STEAMER

Sunday, February 3, 2008 9:29 PM

Firsties!! w00t Hill!!

Fun new thread
For poem fans
Sure to tickle
Your brain pan
Lotsa hugs
For RiverFlan
FIREFLY

Captain of the New England Browncoats
http://www.myspace.com/nebrowncoats

RIVERFLAN

Sunday, February 3, 2008 10:11 PM

Thank you for
The hugs Steamer
And also
I was thinking
(Yes, always
A dangerous thing!)
Would you like
A new avatar?
Useing the picture
In the pic thread
That you used
To describe
Your sceen name

And just
As a note
I am sorry
For my lack
Of talent
At making poems
For specific subjects

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98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.

STEAMER

Sunday, February 3, 2008 10:50 PM

New avatar
At your behest?
Sounds quite shiny
Be my guest.
FIREFLY

Captain of the New England Browncoats
http://www.myspace.com/nebrowncoats

RIVERFLAN

Sunday, February 3, 2008 11:34 PM

Because I'm sweet
Here are two

Which one you use
Is up to you

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98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.

STEAMER

Monday, February 4, 2008 7:39 AM

I was sitting outside earlier today trying to show a tree
How interesting it is to immerse oneself in random new free forms of poetry.
The inspiration of Ogden Nash
Has gripped my fingers since before they could write a semi-colon followed by a dash;
And only when I discovered that Mr. Nash had written not one, but two poems devoted to our favourite insect
That the lightning of inspiration again struck my sense of inflect.
Burma-Firefly poetry is by no means done
But indulging in the free-est of free forms - should be no need to ask where that gets fun.
Both avatars, mei-mei, are shiny to the point of blindness
And would that I could imagine how properly to repay your kindness.
Much as I'd like to swear an oath
To one of them, I simply can't, as I love 'em both.
This is turning into a bit of a run
So maybe it's time to call it done;
But fellow poetical Browncoats, don't be afraid to drop by -
We never meant for this thread to be a private little verse-fest reserved for RiverFlan and I.

Captain of the New England Browncoats
http://www.myspace.com/nebrowncoats

RIVERFLAN

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 12:22 AM

Everyone, please
Join in the fun
The poets here
Should not be numbered so few
It's okay if you're not
Drowning in talent
Just look me
And don't be shy
Because I hope to read
The poems by you

And Steamer
Thanks for the thanks
You need not repay me
I enjoy being nice
But, if it would make you feel better
You could perhaps teach me
How to make better poetry?

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98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.

NVGHOSTRIDER

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 12:56 AM

I'm told that life in the vacuum
Becomes cold and unrelenting
Standing at the edge more darkness
But something says to leap
Bound as far as you can
For there is light
where no one but you can see

Through the suit I hear my feet give
Leaping now
Spiraling
Plunging into the dark

Beating so hard
The vacuum cannot deny my heart

Now I am home
Sitting under the old Cottonwood
Waiting for the field to flood
For the sun to fall
Waiting to find my heart again
In the lonely Nevada sky

Gots mad skillz, loves playing with matches.

RIVERFLAN

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 2:15 AM

I have dug
Into my past
Or, rather
In more literal terms
In journals
And I know
I had a book
That I wrote
My poems in
Now where can it be?
I shall have to dig some more
Become an archeologist
For it is surely
In my cabinet
Which is extremely messy
And things are layed
On top of one another
I think
I should stop babbling now
And get to work
So I can post some of those works
In here.

And welcome, NV
We're glad to see you
Now we have three
And one more than we used to have

But still
I think
We need a crew
Or a posse
A crowd
Whatever word
You like to use
To denomonate
A large group
Of many wonderful
Individuals
Such as ourselves

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98% of teens have smoked pot, if you are one of the 2% that haven't, copy this into your signature.

NVGHOSTRIDER

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 4:48 PM

Shared this over at Hotel 23 in the Moans of the Dead section. Written more as a fictional character dealing with the horror at world end.

Skirmish in the Darkness

Gasping and clawing we fight
trying to see the dawn and morning dew
to taste the smoke and each other just one more time

Secret places hiding holding our tongues together to stay silent
writhing, reveling in our agony one as two as one amongst infinity

But in the heat there is ill conception, festering to rot and cheese
tooth and claw clash of fevered ferver
accusatory stare of the dying
two by two against infinity

YOUR SONS WILL SUFFER YOUR WRATH AGAINST THOSE
WHO HAVE RAPED AND TORTURED YOU SO
claws release and gasping ceases

Fading now, the smoke and taste of tongue and breast
ever so far reaching is the light
cool dawn air welcomes
fresh carrion
being

Gots mad skillz, loves playing with matches.

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