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Emily 'Twa Bui' Ultramarine Posted Jul 14, 2001
Would anyone like to particpate in a sonnet writing game? I'd quite fancy starting one...
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Cabby Posted Jul 14, 2001
14 lines in iambic pentameter, right?
Be more of a challange than haiku 
Speaking of Haiku..
Chinese medicine,
The chi flows like spring water,
Who needs liniment?
nt: Shakespeare 
(Now all I have to do is remember what iambic pentameter is!
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PhilFogg Posted Jul 14, 2001
He shakes pear who thinks
He is a poet of strange
Delusions - headsick
Next: grammophones
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Emily 'Twa Bui' Ultramarine Posted Jul 14, 2001
Here's a sonnet - albeit a bad one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/F48949?thread=121349 You are right indeed - 14 lines, iambic pentameter - that is ten syllables per line (or thereabouts), often divided into an octave and sestet. Iambic meter is alternate soft and hard stresses. But here's a haiku: 'To be or not to Be' is of irrelevance To the dead Hamlet Next topic: David Starkey (sorry - I'm listening to 'the Moral Maze' on Radio 4 :-))
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Emily 'Twa Bui' Ultramarine Posted Jul 14, 2001
Arrrggh!
This graceful brass horn
Once so deep and sonorous
Now sits there, silent
Next topic: The Tory leadership race
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Cabby Posted Jul 14, 2001
Portillo, Clarke or
Duncan Smith? First to the tree?
Ready, set and go!
nt: Parrots
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Emily 'Twa Bui' Ultramarine Posted Jul 14, 2001
Such graceful plumage
This delicate cursive head
Hangs cramped in its cage
Next topic: sausages
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Cabby Posted Jul 14, 2001
'Walls', the old joke went,
The only thing not in them.
Stick to veggie ones!
nt: A nice glass of Merlot
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Emily 'Twa Bui' Ultramarine Posted Jul 14, 2001
With my allergy
To alcohol I cannot
Hope to taste this stuff
Next topic: the Evil that is Cheese...
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Cabby Posted Jul 14, 2001
Wine, cheese and biscuits
The perfect end to a meal.
Can this be evil?
nt: Foucault's pendulum
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 14, 2001
Foucault's pendulum
broke Corelli's mandolin.
Schrodinger's cat laughed!
Next topic: The lost chord
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Ormondroyd Posted Jul 14, 2001
Grab guitar. Pause. Pose.
KERRRANNGGG!!!
Did you all see that?
Huh! What is the point? 
NT: Mirrors.
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Cabby Posted Jul 14, 2001
.esoP .esuaP .ratiug barG
?taht ees lla uoy diD!!!GGGNNARRREK
?tniop eht si tahW !huH
nt: cherry trees
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Monsignore Pizzafunghi Bosselese Posted Jul 14, 2001
Elephants can hide
easily in cherry trees
it's the eyes, it works!
next: winkeye
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Jul 15, 2001
UFO stands for
unpeeled flying orange...OUCH!
War of the Worlds...Not!
Next topic: the penguins of runway 9
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Emily 'Twa Bui' Ultramarine Posted Jul 15, 2001
In plastic wrappers
Do lie the penguin biscuits
CRUNCH! I board the 'plane
Next topic: bed, bed, sleep!...
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Iacko Posted Jul 15, 2001
Bed Bed Sleep, few hours
No think, no do, grunt roll sleep
Morning: Beep beep beep
NT: Cheese in Plastic Wrapping
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Jul 15, 2001
Pre-packed cheese has that
plastic wrapping designed to
prevent cheese access!
NT; rubber,
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Phreako Posted Jul 15, 2001
Rubber duckies swim
Rubber bands snap and hold things
Very close together
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