Steph, lovely work, especially the second.
She just... she just did the math.
Kaylee ,'Objects In Space'
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David J. Schwartz - Apr 13, 2003 11:13:30 pm PDT #1152 of 10001
New, fully poseable Author!Knut.
Steph L. - Apr 13, 2003 11:16:59 pm PDT #1153 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Thanks, Knut! I admit the first was just a fun little one, although I really like it. It's got some substance in it, but also a lot of fun, whereas the second one is all a bunch of tangle-y feelings.
Theodosia - Apr 14, 2003 6:12:07 am PDT #1154 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Wow!
erikaj - Apr 14, 2003 12:37:00 pm PDT #1155 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
I think I like the first better, but they are both great.I've only written structured poems for classes, and they were nothing to write home about. What makes an acrostic?
Steph L. - Apr 14, 2003 12:43:44 pm PDT #1156 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
erika, an acrostic is where the first letter of each line spells a word, if you read it down.
Like this
Curled up in the window, yet
Alert to all the birds
That fly past.
See?
erikaj - Apr 14, 2003 12:47:05 pm PDT #1157 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Ok. That makes sense.
deborah grabien - Apr 14, 2003 12:54:48 pm PDT #1158 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Hmmm.
My living senses fail me.
Eyes that see no present or future
Moments of laughter and shadow
Only in this frozen breath of time passing.
Reality has a different taste:
You're lost to me.
Steph L. - Apr 14, 2003 12:59:27 pm PDT #1159 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Niiiiice, Deb! I love these lines particularly:
Moments of laughter and shadow
Reality has a different taste:
Quite good.
deborah grabien - Apr 14, 2003 1:02:29 pm PDT #1160 of 10001
It really doesn't matter. It's just an opinion. Don't worry about it. Not worth the hassle.
Thanks, sweetie. I write very little poetry, almost none structured these days (I realised, after years of happy structuring, that sonnets and sestinas and vilanelles were actually math), so it's nice to be lyrical in something other than prose.
Steph L. - Apr 14, 2003 1:07:09 pm PDT #1161 of 10001
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
I have NEVER written poetry (except bad angsty stuff in high school, so I'm going to not count it) until this past year. The reason, mostly, is that my Mom is a poet, and she has always harped on me that I should write poetry. The surest way to get me to NOT do something is to have my Mom tell me I *should.*
But suddenly, this year, poems suddenly come rocketing out of nowhere and demand to be written. It's odd. And they are very different from my prose, which is sooooooo long and rambly; my poems are very spare, and work with as much space as words -- the space *around* the idea/theme.