2010 Team Poetry Contest

[annaswirls]

Stewards Enquiryyyyyyyyy ......... Tzare writes complete threads just about form poetry ffs there's nothing he doesn't know about forms !!!!!!!!!

Yeah, perhaps, but I suck so much at forms, hopefully he will be able to even out the pressure so we don't implode into a black hole of awesomeness

 

[annaswirls]

I stepped in some of your awesomeness and we don't even live in the same state. I think it is drifting.

Actually, m'dear, I'm more like a BBC presenter reading off a teleprompter. I'm usually regurgitating Lewis Turco (author of The Book of Forms), when talking about form poetry.

And, in any case, there are the paired problems of (1) getting the form precisely correct and (2) writing something worthwhile within that form. I suspect Quizmaster bflagsst is more interested in (2) than (1), since that would make for a better poem.

But beware. I'm getting to be so awesome that I'm now tending to leave it here and there around the house. Not intentionally, of course, just incidentally as I walk around. My wife is starting to complain that I've left awesomeness on the kitchen counter, on the stairs down to the garage, even on the front porch. She's getting kind of pissed about wiping it all up, even though it is awesome. (It sure helps get those persistent stains out of grungy towels, though.)

 

[Tzara]

I stepped in some of your awesomeness and we don't even live in the same state. I think it is drifting.

Go out to the garage and rub your shoe back and forth on that part of the concrete that's stained by your car's engine oil dripping out of the oil pan. Awesomeness works well on that.

It doesn't always get the stain out, but it does make you feel really good about it.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Maybe have Remec fall back into the arms of UYS and Charley while Tristesse plays a waltz on the harmonium while reading Wallace Stevens...as I hear EPMD and crew are attending a trapeze seminar to get nimble as a team.

We're not Cirque du Soleil wanna-bees, we mean bidness. If you think Remec will wilt, UYS and Charlie fold and I play a swan song on the harmonium (I'd really prefer a Hammond) you're in for a suprise............

*fist pump* (hey we beat Russia in hockey! Bite me)

 

[The_Fool]

We're not Cirque du Soleil wanna-bees, we mean bidness. If you think Remec will wilt, UYS and Charlie fold and I play a swan song on the harmonium (I'd really prefer a Hammond) you're in for a suprise............

*fist pump* (hey we beat Russia in hockey! Bite me)

If only she would make me that offer. Well, to bite her of course...

 

[Epmd607]

We're not Cirque du Soleil wanna-bees, we mean bidness. If you think Remec will wilt, UYS and Charlie fold and I play a swan song on the harmonium (I'd really prefer a Hammond) you're in for a suprise............

*fist pump* (hey we beat Russia in hockey! Bite me)

The Russians lost all their mythological advantage in hockey when the Soviet Union fell. I can't wait until the United States gets a chance to beat Canada in Canada again. I'll drink Canada Dry ginger ale with my friends and family in celebration. The Canadian Painter John A. Hammond will be resurrected to paint the scene of the victory. He'll be kept alive on the dust of crushed Smarties.

 

[butters]

Have you seen the size of Remec??!! I'd be squished to pulp!

but what a way to go!

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

The Russians lost all their mythological advantage in hockey when the Soviet Union fell.

What's the American's excuse?

I can't wait until the United States gets a chance to beat Canada in Canada again.

Only days away baby - they get their chance............(breaks out the Kleenex)

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Go out to the garage and rub your shoe back and forth on that part of the concrete that's stained by your car's engine oil dripping out of the oil pan. Awesomeness works well on that.

It doesn't always get the stain out, but it does make you feel really good about it.

Is that the gunky stuff thats dripping off my guttering? Could you try and perfect your aim please after all aren't little boys taught to take aim?

but what a way to go!

Hmmm I could think of better ways to go than squishiness

 

[EroticOrogeny]

Have you seen the size of Remec??!! I'd be squished to pulp!

Based on avatars, Team Awesome clearly has the size advantage!

 

[UnderYourSpell]

Based on avatars, Team Awesome clearly has the size advantage!

We have finesse and don't they say that size isn't everything? unless you're Champ of course

One small pointer ....... What am I supposed to doing???panic attack panic attack!!!!

 

[bflagsst]

I don't want to shovel my driveway.

I'm almost done writing the rules for the contest, getting third-party noncontestant input on the understandability. Should be enough structure for a team game, everyone should know what they're doing with minimal guidance from captain, and there's still plenty of room for creativity. I'm basically just using half of a traditional form, but don't think you're getting off that easy, there's still a tool that many of you seem to shirk that you'll need to use.

 

[butters]

I don't want to shovel my driveway.

I'm almost done writing the rules for the contest, getting third-party noncontestant input on the understandability. Should be enough structure for a team game, everyone should know what they're doing with minimal guidance from captain, and there's still plenty of room for creativity. I'm basically just using half of a traditional form, but don't think you're getting off that easy, there's still a tool that many of you seem to shirk that you'll need to use.

oh oh ...

 

[bronzeage]

I don't want to shovel my driveway.

I'm almost done writing the rules for the contest, getting third-party noncontestant input on the understandability. Should be enough structure for a team game, everyone should know what they're doing with minimal guidance from captain, and there's still plenty of room for creativity. I'm basically just using half of a traditional form, but don't think you're getting off that easy, there's still a tool that many of you seem to shirk that you'll need to use.

spellcjek?

 

[CharleyH]

It makes a difference. The myth is somewhat differently related in other sources.

"Ovideek" sounds like something the late Billy Mays



might have hyped in an infomercial at oh dark three AM on American cable.

Which makes me curious. Do the Portuguese do infomercials, or is that plague uniquely American?

The Portuguese take on infomercials is Oprah at 10am and Oprah at 4pm and Oprah at 10 PM and again at 2am. Suzanne Summers, and her Thigh Master, hasn't quite caught on here yet. People in Europe already know what to do with their thighs.

 

[butters]

spellcjek?

snicker ...

 

[CharleyH]

Stewards Enquiryyyyyyyyy ......... Tzare writes complete threads just about form poetry ffs there's nothing he doesn't know about forms !!!!!!!!!

Well shit, get on it! You are on my team and there are exercises for you in the war room! xo

 

[bflagsst]

spellcjek?

You're contesting my use of 'noncontestant'? That's not wise, seeing as you're a contestant in my contest and I'm the sole arbiter of judgment for or against your team. This challenge won't be ruled a no contest, there will be a clear winner.

 

[CharleyH]

You're contesting my use of 'noncontestant'? That's not wise, seeing as you're a contestant in my contest and I'm the sole arbiter of judgment for or against your team. This challenge won't be ruled a no contest, there will be a clear winner.

You are Zeus? There is no Poseidon or Hades?

 

[bflagsst]

You are Zeus? There is no Poseidon or Hades?

I'm a nonprofessional in the field, looking for noncontestants all the time, but most everyone here is already a contestant. I'd take a Hera over a Poseidon, he's an idiot.

 

[CharleyH]

I'm a nonprofessional in the field, looking for noncontestants all the time, but most everyone here is already a contestant. I'd take a Hera over a Poseidon, he's an idiot.

He may have been a brute, but man she was one cruel f***ing bitch! I'm not sure if I am excited about this challenge anymore. lol

 

[bflagsst]

He may have been a brute, but man she was one cruel f***ing bitch! I'm not sure if I am excited about this challenge anymore. lol

Hera was pretty fair. Her husband wasn't faithful, she had to dispense justice one way or another.

This is going to be the worst challenge ever! No one should play unless they want to toil through the hardship of working with other people to create something fantastic. Definitely don't play if you've ever felt the pride of accomplishing something that was a little tricky. There is next to no objectivity in artistic judgment, but the better poem should be evident before anyone says it out loud.

I plan on leaving it open on that Friday for noncontestant opinions of the poems. It has to be names that have been around here for a while for me to take them into consideration. Friday evening I'll give my opinion.

 

[Epmd607]

I got an idea. Let me, Tzara, and AnnaSwirls be the judges. Our judging credentials are spot on.

 

[UnderYourSpell]

perhaps I could call a sicky ........

 

[EroticOrogeny]

I don't recall any of those gods being very nice.

For some reason that got me to thinking when I was very young, 1st or 2nd grade, feeling sorry for Satan being cast out of heaven by the archangel. There was a picture on my catechism showing this scene - sympathy for the devil long before the Stones song.