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Silk Camp Algonkian Island Offline Of course, I'm sane! The voices say so.... Joined: 03/15/10 at 10:44pm Posts: 36 Mood: Fave GK Title: I Want to Go Home! Fave GK Character: Rudy Miller	Re: Poems R Us Reply #450 - 07/25/10 at 8:27pm I like the poem! I'm going to Hawaii. It's going to be fun. Dad's got a client there. I won't be the only one; My whole family will be there!
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termite Global Moderator Offline nesting Joined: 06/26/03 at 4:01pm Posts: 3,808 Gender: Mood: Fave GK Title: Flux Fave GK Character: Cementhead	Re: Poems R Us Reply #451 - 07/26/10 at 7:40pm I just flushed a dead mouse down the toilet. I hope it doesn't stick, 'cause I wouldn't like to oil it. Cats are useful when you want small critters dead. Some days I wish they'd make small children disappear instead. I just flushed a dead mouse down the toilet.
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Joe Macdonald Hall Offline Dickens Fanatic Joined: 01/11/06 at 7:12pm Posts: 4,301 Gender: Mood: Fave GK Title: Son of Interflux/I Want to Go Home! Fave GK Character: Douglas 180	Re: Poems R Us Reply #452 - 07/26/10 at 9:45pm Which, I imagine beats flushing a small child down the toilet...? Nice poem, Jen. Where's that inscrutable smiley??? Guess I'll just use the
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Biography: Okay, I'm not going to write out a proper biography so here's a little about me. I live in the UK but I'm actually American, I play several instruments and I like music. I read a lot. I'm a little weird, but generally a nice person. *smiles* And that's about it.

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Re: Poems R Us
Reply #453 - 07/27/10 at 5:24am

Haha. Nice poems everyone.

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Re: Poems R Us
Reply #455 - 08/21/10 at 10:18pm

There was a day when I would say just what I really thought
I didn't care 'bout being fair; My wisdom just was not
I've realized, and I've got wise, at least I'm on my way
Now I react with some small tact about what others say

In future days, I might amaze; I'm hoping that I will
It's quite unique to know to speak and when to just keep still
Only the few, I'm sure that you know have this quality
Perhaps in time, not just in rhyme, this gift may come to me

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Reply #456 - 08/23/10 at 5:07pm

I think a poem is what we knead
In this, our little bread factory
I know that it should be some dough
But they put in charge that nut Joe

Now that nut Joe has us knead poems
From our once semi-sane quaint homes
Just how and why he got charged in
Is anybody's good guess *grin*

Why do we sit here mincing words
To put in his poems? That's for birds
He's much more crazy than he seems
In Jon's hallucinated dreams

That's it, we're through with this weird stuff
I think we've had more than enough
Tomorrow is before today
Now Joe will really have toupee

*Just to prove to you that a good poem takes more than rhymes and metres... Tongue

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Reply #457 - 08/29/10 at 11:33am

There's no one to talk with; no one to see
No one to view my abject poetry
No one to listen; no ears to hear*
No one to comfort, or console, or cheer
All flee away, leaving only a void**
Seems all my friends I have somehow annoyed
Strangers surround, yet leave solitary
Alien heart that once was quite merry
Now left adrift on a sea of regret***
Awaiting the time when I can forget

*No one to listen; no ears that will hear

**All from me flee, all that's left is a void
All flee away, all that's left is a void

***Now just adrift on a sea of regret

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Re: Poems R Us
Reply #458 - 08/29/10 at 11:44am

My bald head this winter will
Undoubted face a sharp chill
Wonder what my wife would say
If I bought a cheap toupee

I am guessing she would be
Rather inclined to agree
Though my warm head would be glad
The results would look quite bad

Now, I could just buy a hat
Don't be shocked! I've thought of that
Though it seems that most men scoff
When inside the hat comes off

So, my bald head still would show
Then everybody would know
Maybe I should find the cure
For baldness

Some ending, eh? Roll Eyes

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Re: Poems R Us
Reply #459 - 08/29/10 at 12:23pm

It-- to my brain-- has occurred
I should invent a new word
So I put on my thought cap
Hoping a thought to entrap

Ordinary, I want not
Normal words aren't worth a lot
'Go' and 'going,' 'gone' and 'goes'
Only dull people use those

To further my argument
Here's a thought that makes great sense
Dullness from those words would flee
If we simply add an 'E'

Now "he 'goes'" would just not bore
It would be hip to the core
Proof: (As my example shows)
"Running down the street 'egoes"

Naturally, words like 'toupee'
Are much more than 'just okay'
They've got zest, and lots of style
And, in fact, they make me smile
Sweetheart

So, to stop the boring speech
Boring words I would impeach
We could keep around a few
But a bunch would be bran new

I'll be busy, I confess
Thinking up one with some zest
But, of this feel quite assured
It will be a great new word

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Biography: Jon started reading Gordon Korman more than 20 years ago, beginning with Beware the Fish, and as soon as he started, he had to keep reading everything he could get his hands on.

Eventually, he reached the point of writing to Gordon as each new book came out, passing on his thoughts and praise, and Gordon wrote back, establishing a strong friendship over the years.

Unhappy with the level of Gordon Korman websites, and convinced he could do a better job, Jon created the Semi-Official Gordon Korman Web Site, and eventually Gordon asked him if he'd like to make it the official site, and bring some more content into it.

On matters other than Gordon Korman, ~~Jon is currently freezing in Omaha, NE, and has a cat named Black Lightning who is both his companion and the bane of his existence.~~

Jon has returned to Orlando, and is mucking about with this forum, trying to make it all that it should be. It is the forum that is now the bane of his existence.

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Re: Poems R Us
Reply #460 - 08/29/10 at 8:43pm

Joe, that poem was very platinodeous!

And I say that with all mega-sincerity.

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"Kill the old guy!" -- No Coins, Please

"Me, Sir? Pool, Sir? I don't know how to swim!" -- Bruno Walton, Go Jump in the Pool

"Look, a thundering herd of clones!" -- Rudy Miller, I Want to go Home

I am not Fek'lhr!

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Reply #461 - 08/29/10 at 8:59pm

Thanks, Jon!

Shall I translate that for the 'normal' members on this forum?

True, the 'normal' members on this forum don't post, but still...

Translation:

Jon wrote on 08/29/10 at 8:43pm:

Joe, that poem was very platinodeous!

It wasn't boring.

Jon wrote on 08/29/10 at 8:43pm:

And I say that with all mega-sincerity.

And he couldn't be any more Wallace Wallace about it if he tried.

I'm more proud of my translation than I am of my poem. Sweetheart

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Biography: Jon started reading Gordon Korman more than 20 years ago, beginning with Beware the Fish, and as soon as he started, he had to keep reading everything he could get his hands on.

Eventually, he reached the point of writing to Gordon as each new book came out, passing on his thoughts and praise, and Gordon wrote back, establishing a strong friendship over the years.

Unhappy with the level of Gordon Korman websites, and convinced he could do a better job, Jon created the Semi-Official Gordon Korman Web Site, and eventually Gordon asked him if he'd like to make it the official site, and bring some more content into it.

On matters other than Gordon Korman, ~~Jon is currently freezing in Omaha, NE, and has a cat named Black Lightning who is both his companion and the bane of his existence.~~

Jon has returned to Orlando, and is mucking about with this forum, trying to make it all that it should be. It is the forum that is now the bane of his existence.

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Reply #462 - 08/29/10 at 11:35pm

You sounded like you wanted new words, so I created a new word for you.

And I was much more Hitchhiker's Guide than I was Wallace Wallace.

But we can just choose to be very fribillious about this, if you'd rather.

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Have you read Pop yet?

"Kill the old guy!" -- No Coins, Please

"Me, Sir? Pool, Sir? I don't know how to swim!" -- Bruno Walton, Go Jump in the Pool

"Look, a thundering herd of clones!" -- Rudy Miller, I Want to go Home

I am not Fek'lhr!

Where are we going in such a hurry? And why am I in this hand basket?

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