December challenge - Endings/New Beginnings

[GuiltyPleasure]

I just did a quick check to see if either of mine have been outed......I don't think so.

Tz, did you get rattled last night?

 

[AlwaysHungry]

I would lamely venture that "Oxymoronic" is GM's, because of the provocative title and the story-telling quality of the poem, plus the military allusion. I also strongly suspect GM for "Changing Chemistry", again for the story-telling, and the well-delivered punch line at the end. Kudos to GM or to whomever wrote that.

GM, I think I am becoming hip to your style.

I did "Changing Chemistry" so much as a teenager Father Riley would have damned me for eternity unless I said 3 Hail Marys and 1 Our Father.

I did "Oxymoronic" too, but that's a venial sin for those of you in the know.

 

[legerdemer]

I'll admit to When Once a Scribbler...

Yes, gm, I think I've got your style pegged pretty well (had to be careful about the wording on that one).

 

[Trixareforkids]

No they are not, sorry.

Bang on. I guess I would ask why am I so obvious?

Dunno if I can explain it, but there's a dry wit and melancholy to your writing, at least what I've seen, that has a particular pull. Especially with your voice, which so well matches your pieces, a rare treat btw, that once you've heard it, you can't un-hear it. You and Todski are almost always easy picks for me.

Of course I was behind the scenes this time so it was much easier for me

 

[Angeline]

No they are not, sorry.

Bang on. I guess I would ask why am I so obvious?

On your poem that I did guess correctly, the last line clinched it for me. It just sounded like you. No one else would end a poem that way. I suspected it was you and read the last line and was sure.

 

[HoneyAdored]

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[HoneyAdored]

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[AlwaysHungry]

Bingo!

Reading "Some Polaroids", I found that it tickled my brain. It seemed very familiar. Then I realized that I thought it was matched to the wrong poem. It could just as easily been the response poem to this one.

 

[Remec]

In pairing 9
Phoenix is by Piscator

In pairing 12
Swapping Sciences is Remec

Phoenix was mine, but you got me on the my follow-up poem. As I mentioned to Trix when I apologized on coming almost down to the wire, but Changing Chemistry struck me as pretty tight and it took me a bit to think of how I might want to revisit its theme and/or narrative

You're not the only one to tag me for the Untitled poem in pair 7, going to have to go reread that one.

 

[Trixareforkids]

Here's the cheat sheet, unconfirmed guesses are in (...)

#1 Remember, (???)
Evolution, (Mer)

#2 The Big Question for Those of Little Faith, Piscator
Sphere, (???)

#3 When Once a scribbler, Legerdemer
Oxymoronic, GM

#4 Seasons Change, (???)
An Emotional Weather Report, (Honey)

#5 Unchanging Terzanelle, (Angeline)
Evanescent Haikus, (Angeline)

#6 Hindsight, Trix
Visions, (Honey)

#7 Untitled, (Trix, Piscator)
Rememories of Love, Past Present and Future, Butters

#8 Beginnings and an Ending, (???)
Polaroids, Tzara

#9 Phoenix, Remec
Phoenix Rising, (Trix, Honey)

#10 Untitled, (Trix, Todski)
On a Winter's Night, (Todski, GP)

#11 plot tensions, Butters
Ever After, (GP)

#12 Changing Chemistry, GM
Swapping Sciences, Remec

#13 Venral blurt, AH
Untitled, (Todski)

 

[Angeline]

Phoenix was mine, but you got me on the my follow-up poem. As I mentioned to Trix when I apologized on coming almost down to the wire, but Changing Chemistry struck me as pretty tight and it took me a bit to think of how I might want to revisit its theme and/or narrative

You're not the only one to tag me for the Untitled poem in pair 7, going to have to go reread that one.

To me your poetry is often narrative, with the narrator having a conversational, laid-back kind of tone. If I read a poem in a guessing challenge that seems to have those elements, I assume it's yours.

And yes you did guess one of mine as did Tzara and one other person, I think...because who else here writes terzanelles on a fairly regular basis?

 

[Angeline]

Here's the cheat sheet, unconfirmed guesses are in (...)

#1 Remember, (???)
Evolution, (Mer)

#2 The Big Question for Those of Little Faith, Piscator
Sphere, (???)

#3 When Once a scribbler, Legerdemer
Oxymoronic, GM

#4 Seasons Change, (???)
An Emotional Weather Report, (Honey)

#5 Unchanging Terzanelle, (Angeline)
Evanescent Haikus, (Angeline)

#6 Hindsight, Trix
Visions, (Honey)

#7 Untitled, (Trix, Piscator)
Rememories of Love, Past Present and Future, Butters

#8 Beginnings and an Ending, (???)
Polaroids, Tzara

#9 Phoenix, Remec
Phoenix Rising, (Trix, Honey)

#10 Untitled, (Trix, Todski)
On a Winter's Night, (Todski, GP)

#11 plot tensions, Butters
Ever After, (GP)

#12 Changing Chemistry, GM
Swapping Sciences, Remec

#13 Venral blurt, AH
Untitled, (Todski)

I like that people guessed I wrote both poems in that pairing lol.

 

[HoneyAdored]

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[GuiltyPleasure]

Here's the cheat sheet, unconfirmed guesses are in (...)

#1 Remember, (???)
Evolution, (Mer)

#2 The Big Question for Those of Little Faith, Piscator
Sphere, (???)

#3 When Once a scribbler, Legerdemer
Oxymoronic, GM

#4 Seasons Change, (???)
An Emotional Weather Report, (Honey)

#5 Unchanging Terzanelle, (Angeline)
Evanescent Haikus, (Angeline)

#6 Hindsight, Trix
Visions, (Honey)

#7 Untitled, (Trix, Piscator)
Rememories of Love, Past Present and Future, Butters

#8 Beginnings and an Ending, (???)
Polaroids, Tzara

#9 Phoenix, Remec
Phoenix Rising, (Trix, Honey)

#10 Untitled, (Trix, Todski)
On a Winter's Night, (Todski, GP)

#11 plot tensions, Butters
Ever After, (GP)

#12 Changing Chemistry, GM
Swapping Sciences, Remec

#13 Venral blurt, AH
Untitled, (Todski)

Thanks for this, Trix, it's really interesting to see all the guesses together. It saves toggling back and forth.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

I have to declare, that I did not write 'Vision', I'm telling ya all this because I am thinking that 'Vision' is written by GuiltyPleasure *fingers, toes, eyes and legs crossed*

Sorry, t'weren't me. Uncross everything, that can't be comfortable.

I didn't write Winters Night or Ever After either although I love all three of those poems. So far my two efforts are all ????s.

 

[HoneyAdored]

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[AlwaysHungry]

I have to declare, that I did not write 'Vision', I'm telling ya all this because I am thinking that 'Vision' is written by GuiltyPleasure *fingers, toes, eyes and legs crossed*

So you don't deny that you wrote "Phoenix Rising"?

 

[HoneyAdored]

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[legerdemer]

You are right AH, I cannot deny that one, not without my nose growing that is.

And, Honey-chile, do you confirm or deny having written An Emotional Weather Report in pairing 4?

 

[AlwaysHungry]

-in Pairing #4, I'll guess Honey wrote An Emotional Weather Report, and I'll also guess it was the first of the pair.

OK, I'm going with Mer on this one (having mis-guessed on "Vision".) The more I think about it, the more I think that "Time drags its galoshes" has a decidedly Honeyed flavor.

 

[HoneyAdored]

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[HoneyAdored]

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[AlwaysHungry]

I'm getting frantic, now. I shall guess HA for "Ever After", and if I have blown it yet again, please bench me.

 

[Trixareforkids]

...even I thought I wrote it

I'm getting frantic, now. I shall guess HA for "Ever After", and if I have blown it yet again, please bench me.

LOL, even when you think you know someone's writing these challenges throw curveballs at ya.

 

[legerdemer]

Ummmm, damn....GP, then, for An Emotional Weather Report??