Poetry

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  1. Ba Lord of the Pies

    Write poetry off of the following:

    Numbness=electric shock=electric ray=explosive device=underwater missile
  2. Bradthewonderllama New Member

    See, see the electric shock sky
    Marvel at its big explosive device depths.
    Tell me, Ba do you
    Wonder why the dugong ignores you?
    Why its foobly stare
    makes you feel electric shock.
    I can tell you, it is
    Worried by your Dreezle facial growth
    That looks like
    A cheesesteak.
    What's more, it knows
    Your underwater missle potting shed
    Smells of electric ray.
    Everything under the big electric shock sky
    Asks why, why do you even bother?
    You only charm numbnesss.
  3. Bradthewonderllama New Member

    One not randomly generated this time.

    Arnold's Secret Weapon
    A poeum, by Braud Kennuyeu

    Like a winter's pond
    I am alone, unmoving
    Stilled with a numbness

    An electric shock
    Causes this foul condition
    Why have I been struck?

    It is the mad Ba!
    His electric ray dancing
    maiming the masses

    A harsh diversion?
    Another plan, what is that?
    Explosive device!

    The dolphins shall cry
    An underwater missle
    The world sees first frost
  4. Hsing Moderator

    Oh, great! :D

    (I completely fail at poetry.)
  5. spiky Bar Wench

    Numbness hit me like a rock
    I blame the electric shock
    When inventing the electric ray
    The explosive device of the day
    I danced all the while
    It was hit by an underwater missile

    A true masterpeice of its kind, if I do say so myself :)
  6. Cynical_Youth New Member

    Made this a quick exercise. Thematically sloppy and "underwater missile" doesn't quite work, but here it is.

    [b:da2714c166]Park[/b:da2714c166]
    (A New Fountain)

    My morning Eden wakes abused.
    Names, numbness on a plaque,
    And ancient vanities are fused.

    The sun is an electric shock,
    Running open every crack.
    Electric rays on cold rock.

    Here our ceaseless modern game,
    Culture as explosive device,
    Explores its destructive frame.

    On the old and familiar gristle
    The new fountain tries to excise,
    Each drop is an underwater missile.
  7. Hsing Moderator

    Those are all better than anything I could have come up with.
    CY's pretty much described how I feel this morning.
    Can I still be nitpicky and ask wether "gristle" and "missile" rhyme at all? (i know, I know... "But... it doesn't rhyme!" I don't deserve to read poetry...)
  8. Katcal I Aten't French !

    [quote:ffee9a6c9f="Hsing"]Can I still be nitpicky and ask wether "gristle" and "missile" rhyme at all? (i know, I know... "But... it doesn't rhyme!" I don't deserve to read poetry...)[/quote:ffee9a6c9f]
    It all depends on what accent you have... In some american accents it rhymes, in some british accents it doesn't even sound vaguely similar. Anywhere in between, it sounds similar enough to be not to awful ;)
  9. Cynical_Youth New Member

    It depends. In General American it's a perfect rhyme, but in Received Pronunciation (the general academic standard for British English) it's a half-rhyme.

    Edit to add: [quote:238f16d7b9="Hsing"]CY's pretty much described how I feel this morning.[/quote:238f16d7b9]

    I'm shamefully glad at this (since that can't have been a nice morning).

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