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Offline Kamikaze

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on: February 13, 2003, 01:53:30 am
hmm was just wondering if you peeps have any tastes in poetry or whether you utterly despise it...

personally I prefer more straightforward ways of communicating but it's fun when you think of it as a "code" or sorts...

So, post your fav poems here... :D



yes, I'm using HLP for homework material but at least this will have content.... :p

damn, shoulda had a poll :p
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Reply #1 on: February 13, 2003, 02:04:06 am
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utterly despise it


That about says it for me... :D

Do you have to write poems for english class? I had to do that some years ago; very, very difficult and frustrating.
 

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Reply #2 on: February 13, 2003, 02:11:13 am
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Originally posted by CP5670


That about says it for me... :D

Do you have to write poems for english class? I had to do that some years ago; very, very difficult and frustrating.


Actually, CP, methinks you'd like a certain kind of Japanese poetry called Haiku - it has a very rigid mathematical framework you need to work in. First line must be composed of 5 syllables, second line of 7, and the third and final line of 5 once again. Aside from that, you're completely free do write whatever you like.



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Offline Blue Lion

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Reply #3 on: February 13, 2003, 02:14:07 am
Limericks are more my style
 

Offline Knight Templar

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Reply #4 on: February 13, 2003, 02:18:49 am
Haiku annoys me
                                I learned it in comp. lit class
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                                               :p
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Offline Kamikaze

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Reply #5 on: February 13, 2003, 02:24:58 am
I have to write/read/analyse poems for english class. I don't utterly despise poems, but certainly don't like them much.

By the way, one of the poems I "analyzed" was Shivan Pie :D (though it's not strictly a poem :p)
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Reply #6 on: February 13, 2003, 02:27:35 am
Care to share your pie with my eye?


:D
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Offline Kamikaze

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Reply #7 on: February 13, 2003, 02:30:48 am
PIEPIEPIEPIEPIE

Pie for all ;) (credits to Eishtmo for making it)

Now if someone would re-record the song with those lyrics :D
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Offline Tiara

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Reply #8 on: February 13, 2003, 02:35:23 am
One from some sort of Haiku generator

lovely hyena
licks fiercely, hullaballoo
beseeches, eery

or

chimeras castrate
chase bears somersault softly
strongly, snowstorms loom

:lol:

Heres one of mine:

Apocolypse:

expectation melts
destroying immortal
Ending is nearing
I AM GOD! AND I SHALL SMITE THEE!



...because I can :drevil:
 

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Reply #9 on: February 13, 2003, 05:32:53 am
stavelser fattar
jag inte på engelska
så det blir svenska
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Reply #10 on: February 13, 2003, 06:07:13 am
Poetry in english, finnish and swedish.

English:

Island island, Grassy island. Grassy islands bride.

Same in finnish:

Saari saari, heinäsaari. Heinäsaaren morsian.

And swedish:

Ö ö, hö ö, hö öns mö.  (ö is pronounced the same way as "ir" in bird)

As you can see, swedish is the beautiful language in the world.




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Reply #11 on: February 13, 2003, 06:59:34 am
I like poetry, but haiku sucks. :D :p
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Reply #12 on: February 13, 2003, 09:09:26 am
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Ö ö, hö ö, hö öns mö.  (ö is pronounced the same way as "ir" in bird)

As you can see, swedish is the beautiful language in the world.


hmm... yeah. better be a joke, cuz I can't figure out wtf that means. or "öhh?"
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Reply #13 on: February 13, 2003, 09:30:58 am
[color=66ff00]Let go the ting rocket to rate the fallen tree.
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Reply #14 on: February 13, 2003, 03:54:10 pm
Good poetry can be very powerful.  The trick is to allow the words to paint the picture, to establish the medium of thought and understanding, to guide (or rather, create) your emotional responses.  If few here appreciate good poetry, it is either because they have had little experience with it or because they have not cultivated the necessary sort of imagination.  We are a bunch of gamers here: we like visual presentations.  To be linguistically based rather than visually based requires another sort of mind-set, and only some here will have developed that.

Oh, and to answer the question, yes I do.
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Reply #15 on: February 13, 2003, 04:25:54 pm
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Reply #16 on: February 13, 2003, 05:45:20 pm
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Reply #17 on: February 13, 2003, 05:57:25 pm
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Jabberwocky


By the way, I didn't write that one. :p
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
 

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Reply #18 on: February 13, 2003, 05:58:54 pm
Poetry can be really good, or really bad (i.e. free verse or anything ever written by a high school student, myself included).

I like the good stuff, dislike the ****.


If I get the energy up later tonight, I might put in a bit from something or other.
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Reply #19 on: February 13, 2003, 06:37:42 pm
I like it in music...
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