Thanksgiving Challenge

[Guest]

Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater
Had a wife but couldn't keep her
So he cut her in the shell
where he kept her very well.





Jack Spratt etc etc.....

And so betwixt the two, you see,
They kept the platter clean.

 

[Guest]

Jack Spratt could eat no fat
his wife could eat no lean
he stuck in his thumb
and pulled out a plum
and frightened Miss Muffet away.

Laffin'

 

[The Mutt]

Speaking of Jack Spratt...
http://english.literotica.com:81/stories/showstory.php?id=149758

 

[Guest]

Speaking of Jack Spratt...
http://english.literotica.com:81/stories/showstory.php?id=149758

OMG That's classic!


*rushes back to vote*



(It scares me when I think how many more like this I've missed.)

 

[tungtied2u]

OMG That's classic!


*rushes back to vote*



(It scares me when I think how many more like this I've missed.)

Ditto! Anymore where that came from?

 

[The Mutt]

I don't think I have ever written anything else like that before or since. But you are welcome to search through all my poems to be sure.

 

[average gina]

You guys have been working on them already? Wow! I haven't been able to do anything but read! This is a hard challenge. I didn't think it would be. I think this would have been easier to put the lines in the poem...? Or am I just a putz that just isn't getting my writing groove?

I said I would do it. At least I have some time left.

I'm not giving up!

 

[champagne1982]

Thankful for jd4george and denis hale

The legend prevails*
and no amount of rational
thinking will allow
truth to peek out.

We couldn't have minds
like yours clearing
up the boggy swamp
of myth and fable

Who do you think you are
when you walk all over my ideals
like you were stepping
over thresholds to homes

where you're not welcome?
Rather that muddy mire
than the ivory tower
logic built.

Come carry us to clarity
and then if you're not too scared,
let's hie to starbucks
to go have coffee now.**

*Mudbone's Street School, jd4george
**Strangest 7-ll Pickup Line Ever, denis hale

 

[BooMerengue]

*waits with bated breath*


Jack Spratt could eat no fat
His wife could eat no lean........

...and so between
the two of them
they licked the platter clean!

Did I miss something here?

Ohh... Tris got it! lol

*walking back out very quietly.

 

[annaswirls]

*lazy anna wanted this unburied*

Latest update including drop-outs and newcomers.



annaswirls
average gina
BooMerengue
champagne1982
CremeBrule
denis hale
darkmaas
flyguy69
jd4george
Lauren Hynde
LilDarlin
Miss Oatlash
Neonurotic
postobitum
Remec
sandspike
SeattleRain
Tathagata
The_Fool
The Mutt
Tristesse
tungtied2u
twelveoone
WickedEve

Submit on Tuesday, November 23rd so they appear on Wednesday November 24th.

Be sure to post in this thread the poets and poem titles from which you took your first and last lines.

I would suggest adding "Ange's challenge" below your title just to identify it as your challenge poem.

 

[Guest]

lazy Tess thanks anna.

 

[annaswirls]

Re: lazy Tess thanks anna.

have I told you lately that you are beautiful?

 

[LilDarlin]

Not started yet either~

You guys have been working on them already? Wow! I haven't been able to do anything but read! This is a hard challenge. I didn't think it would be. I think this would have been easier to put the lines in the poem...? Or am I just a putz that just isn't getting my writing groove?

I said I would do it. At least I have some time left.

I'm not giving up!

Just for the record : I have't started yet either. I have been reading tons...Been reading the others poems. Wow !! There are sooo many... Everyone has so many good poems and lines. Feeling wayyy overwhelmed with this challenge. I will not give up. I am determined to see my first challenge thru. I am hoping to make it something a lil differ than what I have done before. Thats why it is taking me foever to start.

Best wishes to all. This is soo fun..~!!!


LilDarlin~

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: lazy Tess thanks anna.

have I told you lately that you are beautiful?

Same back - inside and out.



(in my avatar I'm blue with cold and my nose glows - you just can't see it)

 

[Guest]

A start - it's a doozie of a challenge, no wonder Ange cut and ran.

Hell hath no Fury

Razor poems for your unpardonable flirtation. (]from Slither by Lauren Hynde)
Acid word-baths for your barefaced lies.
Poisoned letters for every faithless message
And ground glass in your roasted crow.
Threats of retribution, murmurs of murder
Chains of regret will bind you rigid,
No need to hold you accountable for
Every foozle and infraction
I have them listed – all
And you become a prisoner
Willingly. (from Aloneness by Tungtied2u.)


edited to change the title.

 

[annaswirls]

A start - it's a doozie of a challenge, no wonder Ange cut and ran.

Busted

Razor poems for your unpardonable flirtation. (]from Slither by Lauren Hynde)
Acid word-baths for your barefaced lies.
Poisoned letters for every faithless message
And ground glass in your roasted crow.
Threats of retribution, murmurs of murder
Chains of regret will bind you rigid,
No need to hold you accountable for
Every foozle and infraction
I have them listed – all
And you become a prisoner
Willingly. (from Aloneness by Tungtied2u.)

hmm is it cheating to steal one of your lines from the challenge for the challenge? Is that like cannibalism?

"And ground glass in your roasted crow."

 

[jd4george]

I was away this past week, and am trying to catch up. I saw the post that requested we list the poets and poems we are planning to use. I've already contacted the two poets for permission.

I'm using Average Gina's "I Screamed at Humanity", and
references to two of Angeline's poems, "Memory like Skin" and "Nightingale". The former is the poem that I will be using a line from, whereas I'm intending to use a quote from "Nightingale" as conceptual glue.

That is, of course, assuming that I can do them justice. Usually I have no trepidations about challenges, but in this case I'll admit that I'm scared to death. Their lines are soooo good, and soooo powerful...

As for the poem, I'm gonna keep tinkering and trying, right up until the deadline.

 

[average gina]

Speaking of Jack Spratt...
http://english.literotica.com:81/stories/showstory.php?id=149758

So inspired by this poem, I grabbed a line from it and was able to finish the challenge! Thanks!

 

[average gina]

A good poem in my eyes...

The yearning in this poem made me post it here. Tathagata, this was so melancholy that I felt it--a definition of a good poem to me.

A Trace
by Tathagata ©

I build a bridge
Of words
magic utterances that will somehow
span the distance
and allow me
a trace of your smile


The feelings flow
out of me
like demon spirits
exorcised
writhing onto pages
for you to see
to capture
an echo of your voice

The dreams come at night
like bleak reapers
sullen monks on horseback
and they haunt me
with a taste
of your kiss


And in the sunset I see your eyes
ablaze and sultry
like a moth to a flame I'm drawn
gladly accepting
a touch
of death

My soul yearns for it's shadow
screaming from abandoned mountain tops
through plagues and sandstorms
waking gargoyles and freezing men
all for a trace
of your love

 

[The Mutt]

So inspired by this poem, I grabbed a line from it and was able to finish the challenge! Thanks!

Baby, I'm a star!

 

[Guest]

Hell hath no Fury

Razor poems for your unpardonable flirtation. (from Slither by Lauren Hynde)
Acid word-baths for your barefaced lies.
Poisoned letters for every faithless message
And ground glass in your roasted crow.
Threats of retribution, murmurs of murder
Chains of regret will bind you rigid,
No need to hold you accountable for
Every foozle and infraction
I have them listed – all
And you become a prisoner
Willingly. (from Aloneness by Tungtied2u.)

okay.... little dense here, but I still don't get this

And I am referring to the formatting of the poem. Tess, when I submit my poem on whatever day (I think they all end up on my day for review...), do they look like your above example? What are we supposed to put in this thread? Exactly? There was some mention of posting the lines by which authors here, but why add them here and then on the poem submitted for the New Poems page?

sorry


- neo

 

[Guest]

okay.... little dense here, but I still don't get this

And I am referring to the formatting of the poem. Tess, when I submit my poem on whatever day (I think they all end up on my day for review...), do they look like your above example? What are we supposed to put in this thread? Exactly? There was some mention of posting the lines by which authors here, but why add them here and then on the poem submitted for the New Poems page?

sorry


- neo

Hello, neo. I'm not sure why Ange suggested we post the chosen lines and authors in here.

I will submit my final draft as you see the example above, if it's some kind of copyright thing and it doesn't appear like that in the New Poems - then I'll come in here and give the credits.

The submitting day is November 23 to appear on the 24th.

I'll try and reach Ange to find out the reason for posting in here.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

The way I'm going to format my poem(s) when I submit it (them) is:

 
 
Quickened pace betrays my careful plans 1

[poem content that I'm still working on]

I'll untie me
from your cerebellum 2
 
 
 
1 in "By Night's Sweet Darkness", by JUDO ©2003.
2 in "Still", by Cordelia ©2004.



And thanks, Tess. I love the way you used my verse.

 

[Guest]

I think Lauren's way is best. Let's settle for that. OK, neo?


But Lauren - you've opened up the entire collection! I'm restricting myself to the participants' poems. No time to read through any more even though I'm enjoying it immensely.

Thank you. Just a quickie.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

But Lauren - you've opened up the entire collection! I'm restricting myself to the participants' poems. No time to read through any more even though I'm enjoying it immensely.

I couldn't resist! If the point is to have people reading our poems and then discover the poetry of others, I want all the newbies to find about some of those of us who aren't posting as much as they used to or as they should!


By the way, the codes I'm using to get the results above are these:


Quickened pace betrays my careful plans¹
...
I'll untie me
from your cerebellum²
 
 
¹ <I>in <a href="http://english.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=81241">"By Night's Sweet Darkness"</a>, by <a href="http://english.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=28543&page=submissions">JUDO</a> ©2003.</I>
² <I>in <a href="http://english.literotica.com/stories/showstory.php?id=126515">"Still"</a>, by <a href="http://english.literotica.com/stories/memberpage.php?uid=28467&page=submissions">Cordelia</a> ©2004.</I>