Today in UK: / National Poetry Day! / Celebrate your way.
From the brits and insomniacs -
10:39
OldMiner What celest'l body / have we found? Sun? Moon? / Not yellow nor silver / Blazing blue, tis grundoon -- I got the syllables right, someone else will have to fix the emphasis if I totally botched that.
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10:50
grundoon Gnarl, snarl, cuddle and croon/ under a crinkling sea/ the (something) tosses his silver net, fashioned of sunbeams three.
10:50
cassparadox Triton.
10:52
gnarl SKELETON
10:54
grundoon Oh, obviously. Gnarl, snarl, cuddle and croon/ under a crinkling sea/ the skeleton tosses his silver net, fashioned of sunbeams three.
10:55
gnarl or Tri-skel'ton
10:55
grundoon Then it had better be moonbeams he's tossing, though.
11:27
grundoon And the waves roll out, and the waves roll in, and the noders come and go, but why the grundoon fishes the sea, only the grundoon knows.
11:47
grundoon I plagiarnze everyone. You haveae few choices. Stay in a tradition rhyme form but make up new words, and you become carroll. Use limierikcs, and you are either Ogden Nash or Ed Gorey...
11:47
grundoon Use song lyrics or tempos, and you will be flanders adn swan or tom lehrer.
11:48
cassparadox Sirens three, of wind-tossed sea/ Songsters bright of abyss dark/ Sing the wave and sing the tide on/ Bones to waves and dreams to dawning.
11:48
cassparadox pillages ruthlessly.
11:49
cassparadox Bones to depths and dreams to dawning, along with killing the comma in the first bit, would be better, but eh.
11:49
cassparadox Sure.
11:50
gnarl Frito-lay change back most of thier completely-degradable snack bag due to complaints by secret snacker that the bags were too noisy.
11:50
Cuh-thoo-loo How about both? "There once was a man from ziffleeber / Who wrompled too oft of the xeeber / His wife, quite concerned, plaughts him not to get burned / But alas, one sad day, he'll kazheeber."
12:47
grundoon Cassparadox, she's not a hag,/lays eggs inside a paper bag. The reason for this, there's no doubt / it serves to keep the lightning out. ///But what this tempramental bird / has failed to notice, is that herds / of wand'ring
bears, they come with buns / and steal the bags to hold the crumbs.
Later...bu bu bu buuusted
and way to get it in under the wire - I think that's a GMT time stamp
23:52
Kizor There will come soft rains
23:53
Simulacron3 To relieve hard pains
23:55
doyle From misspent youth on bowling lanes
00:04
Kizor Balsam hemorrhoid cream -
00:04
Kizor for the discerning athlete.
00:04 You realize that I must never let
grundoon see this.
Feel free to ask an editor or admin to add yours if it's from that day; please keep the time stamp.