Lands Challenge Thread

[_Land]

In this thread you may challenge anyone that regularly posts to write a poem on a certain subject or in a certain style, or with certain word usages etc...... you get the picture. This is meant to be fun, have some fun with it.


Here is the first Challenge!


Elda, I challenge you to write a sensual poem, using mountain scenery as the metaphor. The real challenge is, you can not name any specific part of the human anatomy! Minumum length of three stanzas. Oh yeah and ya cant have WE help




*twist his hands in delight*

 

[_Land]

In this thread you may challenge anyone that regularly posts to write a poem on a certain subject or in a certain style, or with certain word usages etc...... you get the picture. This is meant to be fun, have some fun with it.


Here is the first Challenge!


Elda, I challenge you to write a sensual poem, using mountain scenery as the metaphor. The real challenge is, you can not name any specific part of the human anatomy! Minumum length of three stanzas. Oh yeah and ya cant have WE help




*twist his hands in delight*

HEHEHEHE " IM NOT FUCKING NICE"

 

[Suzi]

Senna Jawwa

I challenge you to write a poem, or prose, about LOVE, through use of your feelings, not pure "logic" or topography or iambic pentameter alone....

 

[Never]

Suzi,
I challenge you to write a poem about the first object your eye sets on when you look away from the computer. Don’t tell the reader its name, make it a verbal puzzle for the reader to figure out.

 

[Suzi]

lol

Suzi,
I challenge you to write a poem about the first object your eye sets on when you look away from the computer. Don’t tell the reader its name, make it a verbal puzzle for the reader to figure out.

you are a sly vixen aren't ya! *winks*

 

[Suzi]

Oh I forgot to ask!

Suzi,
I challenge you to write a poem about the first object your eye sets on when you look away from the computer. Don’t tell the reader its name, make it a verbal puzzle for the reader to figure out.

do you want it to rhyme? or can I write it in free verse form?

 

[Never]

Suzi:
“you are a sly vixen aren't ya! *winks*”

Un finmatois

~edit~
Let the object itself influence the form the poem takes. A bottle of coke might lead to a poem of short, isolated thoughts, like bubbles. A calculator might require a highly abstract and ridged form. A telephone might best be shown using a conversation or prose poetry.

 

[Suzi]

Uh...

Suzi:
“you are a sly vixen aren't ya! *winks*”

Un finmatois

Well...I know that is French....translation?

 

[Never]

Poetry first.
Yours to be exact.

 

[Suzi]

What Am I?

Not circle or square
Not a triangle
This ready object
Shaped like a rectangle

As it lies nearby
Computer keyboard
It looks in one piece
As it lies ignored.

But when the mood hits,
Like when I'm alone,
It changes its shape
To parts more than one.

 

[karmadog]

A notebook? Stop ignoring the poor thing. I feel bad for it.

 

[Never]

Clues from this poem:
This object is rectangular
This object is beside the computer
This object typically appears to be in one piece but is really made of many
You play with this object when you’re board.

Okay, is it a puzzle or a book?


If not, is it because I missing clues that are in your poem, that you need to add more clues in your poem, or that I'm making a logical fallacy?

 

[Suzi]

*smiles*

Clues from this poem:
This object is rectangular
This object is beside the computer
This object typically appears to be in one piece but is really made of many
You play with this object when you’re board.

Okay, is it a puzzle or a book?


If not, is it because I missing clues that are in your poem, that you need to add more clues in your poem, or that I'm making a logical fallacy?

Very good!

(book)

 

[Suzi]

Un finmatois

.

ok....now...the translation please?

 

[Never]

Karmadog was correct as well, Suzi.

Now, the second part of your challenge (it’s harder):
Edit your poem so that those other options, a puzzle, a notebook, and a deck of cards (I just thought of the last one), couldn’t possible fit. However, make sure your puzzle is still takes awhile to solve.

Un finmatois.
The literal translation is, ‘you're a sly dog.’
However, it’s meaning is more like ‘You pretend to be [typically disinterested], but I can read between the lines.’

You said I was being ‘sly’, which typically has negative connotations. It was obvious that you liked the fact that I gave you a challenge, though.

 

[Suzi]

No way............

[BNow, the second part of your challenge (it’s harder):
Edit your poem so that those other options, a puzzle, a notebook, and a deck of cards (I just thought of the last one), couldn’t possible fit. However, make sure your puzzle is still takes awhile to solve.

You said I was being ‘sly’, which typically has negative connotations. It was obvious that you liked the fact that I gave you a challenge, though. [/B]

You said you challenge me to WRITE A POEM...there were no PARTS...first, second or anything....and I did that. My challenge has ended. I am not a person that can edit any further than punctuation and grammar. As far as I am concerned, your request is moot, because I already fulfilled my commitment!

"Suzi,
I challenge you to write a poem about the first object your eye sets on when you look away from the computer. Don’t tell the reader its name, make it a verbal puzzle for the reader to figure out."

 

[Never]

Suzi:
“You said you challenge me to WRITE A POEM...there were no PARTS...first, second or anything....and I did that. My challenge has ended. I am not a person that can edit any further than punctuation and grammar. As far as I am concerned, your request is moot, because I already fulfilled my commitment!”

I am not quite certain what the source of this sudden hostility is, if you disliked the second challenge then all you needed to say was that you would rather not change your poem. I never imposed on you a commitment to write a poem; therefore, you never filled a commitment other than one you might have had with yourself. If you are not willing to edit your poem that is one thing, but that does not mean you cannot edit your poem.

I also believe you’re slightly confused over the meaning of moot.

 

[Elda Furry]

In this thread you may challenge anyone that regularly posts to write a poem on a certain subject or in a certain style, or with certain word usages etc...... you get the picture. This is meant to be fun, have some fun with it.


Here is the first Challenge!


Elda, I challenge you to write a sensual poem, using mountain scenery as the metaphor. The real challenge is, you can not name any specific part of the human anatomy! Minumum length of three stanzas. Oh yeah and ya cant have WE help




*twist his hands in delight*

How did I overlook this delightful thread? I have no idea. I love a challenge. And of course, I won't get any WE assistance. It's not like I don't have a mind of my own...

The real challenge is mountain metaphors. I've never been atop a mighty mountain. Never traced its worn trails with gaze or touch. Never sat upon heavy log to soak in wild, rugged perfection. I have yet to be coated in heat and sweat as I climb up the mountain, back down - rising and falling in the landscape of nature's most solid, upright notion.

Yes, I'll truly love a big, hard mountain the day I see one. You see, I live under the sea. See?

 

[Suzi]

Sorry I over-reacted....

Suzi:
I am not quite certain what the source of this sudden hostility is, if you disliked the second challenge then all you needed to say was that you would rather not change your poem. I never imposed on you a commitment to write a poem; therefore, you never filled a commitment other than one you might have had with yourself. If you are not willing to edit your poem that is one thing, but that does not mean you cannot edit your poem.

I only thought you were trying to imply there were two parts to the challenge, and that you were stating the second part of it....(those were your words!) It is challenge enough for me to write something like that out of the blue! It is even more of a challenge to change my own poem around when I think it is fine as it is.

 

[WickedEve]

REDWAVE

I challenge Red to write a poem -- an optimistic poem. I want happy, feel-good poetry from you, Reddeath!
Write about a sweet, lovely memory. If you don't have one, make it up! Or any happy-happy thing you think up!

At least 3 stanzas.
Rhyme if you want.
I like alliteration. So do it, at least twice.

And here are some must-use words:
money
law
plastic
stick
fluffy

Wicked

 

[REDWAVE]

Do I have to?

You're a tough taskmistress, Eve. Writing a happy, feel good poem might kill me! (lol) But I'll try, if only for your sake.

Just one question, though. If I do this, will you let me lick your asshole?

 

[Never]

Re: Sorry I over-reacted....

Suzi:
“I only thought you were trying to imply there were two parts to the challenge, and that you were stating the second part of it....(those were your words!) It is challenge enough for me to write something like that out of the blue! It is even more of a challenge to change my own poem around when I think it is fine as it is. “

I tacked on the second part after I saw your poem. I’m used to a very edit heavy school of draftsmanship and, had I known you felt so strongly about not changing your poem, wouldn’t have stuck the second part on. I have no desire to offend you.

 

[Never]

WickedEve,
Fifteen lines, three parts, ABABA rhyme scheme, and no more than eight syllables per line.
Give me your life story.

 

[Suzi]

Re: Re: Sorry I over-reacted....

Suzi:
“I only thought you were trying to imply there were two parts to the challenge, and that you were stating the second part of it....(those were your words!) It is challenge enough for me to write something like that out of the blue! It is even more of a challenge to change my own poem around when I think it is fine as it is. “

I tacked on the second part after I saw your poem. I’m used to a very edit heavy school of draftsmanship and, had I known you felt so strongly about not changing your poem, wouldn’t have stuck the second part on. I have no desire to offend you.

Thank you honey for the clarification...I feel better

My poetry is like a piece of me. It took alot for me to post the ones I did post here on Lit...and every poem I write...it takes alot of energy. In a way, it is almost like magick. Obviously this one wasn't...lol....but to me editing a poem to the extent you described is like taking a baby and changing its ears, feet and hands....Nobody would do that. It is just as personal to me.

Now that you have told me why....at least I know where you came from...now you know where I come from. I hope this has not reduced chances of becoming friends...?

 

[WickedEve]

WickedEve,
Fifteen lines, three parts, ABABA rhyme scheme, and no more than eight syllables per line.
Give me your life story.

Bitch.
I'll return later to take up the challenge. Other duties call first... like kids, going to the bathroom, washing laundry, finding new hiding place for dildos...