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If you're struggling to hear the poem out loud, it can be fit into the tune of "Skip to my Lou." That's not how I heard it in my head, but it works.
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Home on the Open Sea The sailor's life's not the life for me So I’m sailing home from the open sea Where the prettiest girl she waits for me In a land far away from the open sea Her eyes are blue like the cloudless sky And her breasts a sight to see The men stand up straight when she goes by So I'm sailing home from the open sea No the sailor's life's not the life for me My wandering days are done I'll carouse no more with the lasses free And have no more need of fun Oh I'm sailing home from the open sea I see the land ahead Where the prettiest girl she waits for me By the church where we'll be wed The black gulls swoop and joyful cry ‘On the ocean we're all free!’ There's virgin ports yet for the lads and I So I'm sailing home to the open sea
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Mar 25, 2020 08:50
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Ahoy! After much deliberation (and also our entire country going on lockdown and the world falling neck-deep into some poo poo), the judges have come to an agreement. Azza wins, Yoruichi HMs. Both judges really enjoyed both entries, and neither shanty was without its flaws, but we think that Azza's just slightly edged in a victory. You should both be pleased with yourselves though. (We apologize for the delay in judging, and squarely pin the blame on *gestures at everything) Azza, please pick up your Crown of Starfish at the earliest convenience. Ahoy!
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I just want to thank everyone who turned up to witness my amazing victory. And now on to the prompt: A Peculiar Feeling I want this week (and a few days) to be a bit of fun and something that's hopefully not intimidating at all. I want you to write me a Limerick. I'm not requiring crude humor, but I'm not going to ban it either. The only real requirement is that it's a poem of five lines following the traditional meter and rhyming pattern of a limerick. Have fun! Hellrule: If you want a challenging flash, I'll give you the first line of the limerick which will read something like "There once was a [man/woman] [called/from] [flash]" remember, this line will determine most of your poem's rhymes, so flash at your peril. I'm giving you until 23:00 PST on the 14th Judges Old Ladies From Ealing Saucy Rodent - Flash "There once was a man from Beijing" sephiRoth - Flash "There once was a woman named Laura" Djeser Thranguy - Flash "There once was a man from Peru" Doctor Eckhart - Flash "There once was a woman called Kia" Cda Yoruichi Azza Bamboo fucked around with this message at 17:15 on Apr 12, 2020 |
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Apr 5, 2020 02:25
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flash me daddy
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Apr 5, 2020 02:44
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Saucy_Rodent posted:flash me daddy There once was a man from Beijing
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Apr 5, 2020 02:55
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I’ll play with flash
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sephiRoth IRA posted:I’ll play with flash There once was a woman named Laura
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limerink
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Apr 5, 2020 03:40
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In and flash
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Apr 5, 2020 04:27
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Thranguy posted:In and flash There once was a man from Peru
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In, and flash me
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Doctor Eckhart posted:In, and flash me There once was a woman called Kia
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Apr 5, 2020 16:47
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There was a fine fellow from Wuhan Who liked to take naps with the news on Dreaming, to his chagrin Of a pert pangolin He awoke, crying"I've hosed my futon!"
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There Once Was a Hydra from Lerna Once, quaffing too many a flagon I courted a three-headed dragon I took him to bed And found his fourth head (And fifth, and the sixth) in the shagging.
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Apr 8, 2020 14:29
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Can I replace “woman” with something different, or would that break the flash?
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Go Away Rona There once was a virus called Rona Her arrival gave preppers a boner But as she swept round the world So much trouble unfurled Now in lock down I wish this was over
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sephiRoth IRA posted:Can I replace “woman” with something different, or would that break the flash? I'm not going to disqualify you for making an entry with a broken flash, but it does break the flash and that could hurt in tiebreaker situations.
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There once was a woman named Laura who hosed people based on their aura. We went out for a flick; when I showed her my dick she said “I don’t do fedora”.
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Apr 11, 2020 23:40
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There once was a man from Beijing Who had trouble regarding may-TING. He told all the girls He’d take for a whirl, “When I enter you may feel a sting.”
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Apr 12, 2020 20:43
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Azza Bamboo posted:There once was a woman called Kia There once was a woman called Kia Who came in to tell me her fear I could not assist I am a dentist Drilled and said come back next year
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Apr 12, 2020 20:57
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Submissions close in 17 hours 48 minutes (11PM PST April 14th). You may enter until the submission deadline without a flash, but entries with a flash are now closed. Really enjoyed the poems so far.
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Apr 14, 2020 13:12
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There once was a man from Peru Whose dingus was coiled in a screw He searched all of the land For a woman or man With a hole with the right thread and skew
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Apr 15, 2020 03:25
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I left a word out of the last line!!! 
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Apr 15, 2020 07:23
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Thranguy posted:There once was a man from Peru Lol
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Subs closed will read and judge within the next hour, crits tomorrow.
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Firstly I want to say that every entry at least made me chuckle, so nobody's limerick was an outright fail where it really counts - the humor. The WIN goes to Djeser. I think going for the vulgar/sexual themes always pays dividends in the realm of limericks, and the best way to do that is to have your reveal in the last line. It's very effective and got a laugh from me. HMs go to Thranguy, for writing something with fantastic comic imagery, and to Yoruichi for a very well executed poem. DM goes to SephiRoth for a poem that slightly drops the ball on the meter, but that spared itself from a loss for its strong second line. The Loss goes to SaucyRodent. I didn't particularly go for the stress on May-Ting, although I understand that being dealt "Beijing" as a flash is partly to blame. Also I felt like the sting wasn't particularly as well developed as the stories in other limericks this week.
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Sorry, due to The Everything I've been a bit busy. Prompt will be up by afternoon today.
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A clever title for this prompt isn't coming to mind so welcome to Rhyme About Animals. This round of Poem Dome, you're going to write poetry about animals. Write it from an animal's perspective, or not. Use a real one, or a mythological one. Only one rule on the form: the last two lines must form a rhyming couplet. The rest can be free verse or rhymed, up to you. 200 word limit. Enter by the end of Wednesday, May 13 and submit by the end of Friday, May 15. Judges: Djeser Entrants: sephiRoth IRA Thranguy Your beautiful username here Djeser fucked around with this message at 17:56 on May 9, 2020 |
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Yeah, I can make up some stuff about cats or bears or catbears or whatever
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Manticore It's easy for A manticore To live a life Alone With lion's mane To make him vain So stylishly Windblown And venomed sting Paralyzing His prey before It's flown And last, a face The likes as grace King Richard on His throne The manticore Pure carnivore Devours meat And bone He doesn't see a friend unmet or partner for a deal. But looks at everything he sees as servant or as meal.
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Return Of the King I rub on face and snarled fur, your face distinguished in its gray. My hands are dwarfed by paws that stalked the salmon streams. I feel your bones, old like oak, and see your river stone eyes; your body boulder-like in its stillness. No breath remains to huff your calls or strength to pace your castle halls.
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After spending the requisite two weeks quarantine after coming into contact with infectious material (your poems) I can finally announce the RESULTS Thranguy wins, which means the only other entrant, sephiRoth IRA, is the loser. It's a difficult pick, since the poems are very different, but there was just a little more warmth in my heart for Manticore. Or maybe that's just the palpitations. Crits coming up as soon as I type them up.
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Thranguy - Manticore The meter here is probably what got you the win. There's one line that's out of place (par-RA-ly-zing?) but even the last lines, despite being much longer, are still using the rhythm of the earlier stanzas. It's easy to follow, if somewhat straightforward, aside from the King Richard bit, which threw me off a little on my first read as I was trying to parse the phrasing--I guess I don't know whether he was a particularly handsome or ugly king. (I'm assuming it's Richard because of the lion connection.) The rhythm and subject here remind me of a satirical poem, though if I'm grading on that curve I think leaning harder into the 'character' of the manticore would give the last stanza more punch. sephiRoth IRA - Return Of the King The meter here goofed me up good. I think the thing is that the first two lines are (as far as I can tell, I'm bad at this sort of thing) iambic, but then after that it's free verse, until the end which goes back to a stricter meter. That sort of structure could work I think if the opening and closing were stronger and more separate from the lines in between, but I didn't see any shift in what you were saying to match the change in form between lines two and three. (The closing couplet does a bit better at distinguishing itself.) Also, it took me a moment to suss out whose face and whose fur we're talking about in the first and second lines, since until I hit that 'your' I assumed it was the narrator's. There's good phrases in there, but I just had a little more trouble parsing it than I did the other poem this week.
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Let's close out the trifecta for short forms with a round of Double Dactyls. From the Wikipedia page quote:An example by John Hollander: The requirements are: two verses, each having three lines of dactylic dimeter and one line with a choriamb, which is just like the other lines with the last two syllables cut off. Those two short lines should rhyme. One line, traditionally the first, is repetitive nonsense words. One line, traditionally the second, is the subject's name. One line is a single six syllable word. I'm not going to give any restrictions on who you can choose as the subject. Don't make me regret that, and remember that this is a form for light/comic verse. Sign up by June 10, Submit by June 17
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