Monday, June 30, 2008
WANNA PLAY? ~
Aww.....no one wants to play??? I cry. WAAAAA! LOL, okay I'm over it. Please come play! The poem in the making is the post below!
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WANNA PLAY? ~
Okay, let's play a game I call Syllie Ethee! This game is used with an Etheree poem. For those of you that don't know what an etheree is, it is a poem that starts with the first line being 1 syllable, then the second line is 2 syllables, the third line is 3 syllables, and so forth until 10 lines (10...
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Sunday, June 29, 2008
In Case You Didn't Get Enough of Our Poem...
HERE IT IS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a collaborative work by myself and vickip... SWSRN was our inspiration.... Copyright © 2008 V. Pate and Mindy YU (HAHAHA, I love you Vicki!) - No attribution for the photograph could be found. Please let me know if you know whose this is.
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Recipe for a Girl
Recipe for a Girl Add 2 halves of a brain And a dash of wit. Add a teaspoon of sadness For every cup of happiness. Add 1 quart of education And let it sit until absorbed. Then add a pinch of competitiveness, And a tablespoon of sleep. Slice and dice a whole amount Of jealousy, anger, and rage, And...
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
The Yearning Return (a Tanka)
My heart went to the sea, Never to be seen again, Now I am not whole. I cry in tortured silence, Till my heart returns to me. Copyright © 2008 by Mindy Yu. All Rights Reserved. (**This is something I wrote years and years ago in high school, but I still like it, and I hope you do too!)
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The Request
I scream your name like a banshee in hate, I yell that to meet you was my ill-fate. I say you’re nothing but a graveyard’s wind You’re my punishment for all I have sinned. I tell you I’ve lied, stolen, and cheated, I shriek at you till my soul’s depleted. You’re like a bad habit that I don’t want...
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Friday, June 27, 2008
AND THE RESULTS ARE IN...**DRUMROLL**
OKAY! The poem is complete and here is the LOVELY and EXCELLENT poem created by our fellow Blogiteers!!!!! (Next time, I hope more people play the Poem Game! ) The Shadow Left Behind Through the effervescent mind of solitude soft champagne bubbles kissing my quietude things not seen softly speak to...
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Hey BLOGITEERS, Let's Have Some FUN!
**If you haven't yet, please join in on the poem game! IT ENDS AT 4PM TODAY!!!!!!
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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Hey BLOGITEERS, Let's Have Some FUN!
Okay, I used to do this with my students to get them into poetry and I thought it would be fun to do it here! Of course this needs to be slightly modified for Blogit, but I think it will still be fun! All righty! What I will do is give you one poetic line and every person who reads this will also...
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Unexpected Theft II
Love is not The sigh of the heart, The batting of eyelashes, The subconscious smiles, Or the shaking hands. Love is not The abashed giggles, The shining eyes, The breathless whispers, Or the need to please. Those are The aftershocks of love, Shaking the shaken soul. Love is revelation That the heart...
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