The Poetry Game

Rottweiler · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 9:44 am Post subject: The Poetry Game

The object of this game is to come in and continue the poem with a line that follows the current rhyme scheme, whatever it may be.

You may only post one line at a time, and you must wait until at least two lines have been added by others before posting another.

Rhyme schemes are to be taken literally. Posts that violated will be ignored and/or deleted.

No shorthand. Meaning, don't type "l8r" in a line. Type "later". Not that hard. Abbreviations will be read as they are, so make sure you're clear.

A new poem must begin if no new lines are added within two weeks.

New poems may have a different rhyme scheme, so always start your post with the current poem number and current rhyme scheme and somehow highlight which line you're on. The person who starts the new poem chooses the scheme.

Regular forum rules apply after that.

RULES EDIT:

Please include the whole poem thus far and highlight the line you added (which, if you're following the rules, will be the last line).
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RULES EDIT:

Just to be clear, anyone can post here, including Mods and Admins. This isn't just confined to "all us people".
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And now, the first line and scheme:

POEM #1 - ABABCDCD...

If maple leaves could talk,

If no one posts, this poem expires Sep 20 07.

Rottweiler · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 11:16 am Post subject: Re: The Poetry Game

Okay, that one died quick. Here's another:

POEM #2 - ABCBDEFE...

Groundhogs have it so easy.

If no one posts, this poem expires Oct 6 07.
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TheDarkestofsouls · Site Admin Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 140 : Items

Groundhogs have it so easy.
Working the Ground all day.
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"A Nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.

For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in familiar accents to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the heart of all men. He rots the souls of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillar of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."

TheArtistOrSomething · Posted: Sat Sep 22, 2007 8:54 pm Post subject:

Groundhogs have it so easy.
Working the Ground all day.
It's a wonder they never get dizzy.