OOC6 for the "Adventures in Gunrunning" RP
POSTED BY: FrauDirektor
UPDATED: Friday, February 20, 2004 16:31
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That's okay, Teela... It took me 28 years to write my first song, and the first four lines of the next one are just rolling around in there... I wish I could get them to bring friends!
~A~
...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.
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How about this one:
Significant
Others
In
Search
Of
Romance
S.O.I.S.O.R.
Hi, who are you? I'm a Soisor. 
BoomerGoodheart
"I love my Captain."
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Good Morning All.
Capn - yes you are correct, you were the last person to write me poetry. As a matter of fact, you were the first person to write me poetry. Somewhere along the line, it must be my fault. It's too consistant to be any other way.
Geezer - My respects to Madame Geezer and I have no interest in becoming part of a harem, one man at a time is about all I can do justice too. But still, it makes one weak in the knees to read that kind of lovely stuff.
Boomer - Right on girlfriend. I am a charter member of S.O.I.S.O.R. 
Romance may not be dead, but I think it is at least deathly ill.
Teela - Thanks for the thought. I will see if I can come up with the first 2 lines. I can write drivel quickly enough - really good stuff can start with 2 lines and take months to finish. I am a slooooow author.
Merz
If Justice is the dish, then I am your waitress
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Mercedes,
Don't feel bad - I'm slow too... !! I mean I'm a slow AUTHOR too... LOL For songs anyway. Poetry comes a bit quicker, and prose quicker still. To each his/her own... 
~A~
...I'm still free,
You can't take the sky from me.
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I sit at my terminal typing in taxes, thinking of Firefly. My tiny plastic dino looks up at me forlornly.
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I have plastic dinos! Really!
I write. If I'm brave enough to. I'm always afraid that no one'll like it. So, I try. See my poem in the Blue Sun Room? See my bravery?
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"Freedom is the Freedom to say that 2+2 makes 4. If that is granted, all else follws"-Winston, 1984
Teela Brown, keeper of bad typing.
"No one reads these things any way."- Bart on Blackboard
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My plastic dino's called Steggy. And I did see your poem, TeelaB. Good flow. I believe I initially read it a day or two after you posted it.
And I agree, It's hard to be brave enough to write creatively when you are afraid to be judged. I figure the best way to get over that problem, is to write about whatever it is that makes you the most anxious or nervous. For me that's easy. Women. There's some anxiety. So, in an effort to practice what I preach, here's an ode to the woman I have yet to find.
Around me I see only the slowly spinning darkness, but I know, in my mind's eye, that you are there. Miles away... yet so close, and coming closer. I have only to reach into the impenetrable black ether to find you...
You are there, encompassing the essences around you like so much flotsam.
I am here, in an eddying pool, longing to be picked up or swept away with the devouring torrential flow.
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Wow.
If all men wrote like you, Maniac, I don't think we'd be able to find an unhappy woman.
BoomerGoodheart
"I love my Captain."
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Maniac, that was lovely! But I understand your anxiety perhaps.
Here you have several sensible, sensitive and intelligent women reading and appreciating your words. In the real world, how many women do you actually know that will read poetry and respond to it anyway? Too afraid of being seen as weak or flighty, afraid to show that feminine side? I work with women who would neither read or appreciate a love poem if it walked up and bit them . . ummmm somewhere.
As for writing - the only way to get over that is to decide (as I did) that you are not doing it for anyone's judgement but your own! Then just do it - don't worry about it and just have fun. They always say "write what you know" but that is if what you want to do is publish. If all you want to do is write, then I say "write what makes you happy". (If I wrote what I know, it would be most boring, dontcha know.)
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I am here, in an eddying pool, longing to be picked up or swept away with the devouring torrential flow.
Marvelous! She's out there. For women the saying use to be "before you find your handsome prince, ya gotta kiss a _lot_ of frogs". I don't really know what the reverse is, but just keep the faith - we all have at least one soul mate, but the weeding out process can be frustrating.
{sigh} I never got to be a mother, so I sometimes mother everyone, sorry about that.
Merz
BTW no plastic dino's for me, I got Bob the Guardian and a pewter model of the Cheshire Cat from American McGee's Alice
If Justice is the dish, then I am your waitress
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Ooh ooh, always one to steer the topic away --I have a Bob the Guardian too (takes a moment to squeal about Reboot)...he's posed with a gun pointed at the "boy girl" decoration from the top of my wedding cake, as the Tick at Chairface look on....wacky fun.
Just a humble supplicant in service to all things Joss
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