KataraAltinaII's Premature Not So Short & To-The-Point Random Banter #130

[Shadow_Elf]

Hey, I missed the new thread creation. Oh well.

I have to write a poem as part of an English assignment, and it has to be at least 12 lines, and haiku and limericks are banned. What am I supposed to do?

[V'icternus]

Any other rules about the poem creation? Rhyming, etc?

[KataraAltinaII]

Originally Posted by Shadow_Elf

Hey, I missed the new thread creation. Oh well.

I have to write a poem as part of an English assignment, and it has to be at least 12 lines, and haiku and limericks are banned. What am I supposed to do?

wing it.
I did that once, and said poem became part of a novel I wrote.

[Phase]

Originally Posted by V'icternus

The Megalodon can't even live in shallow water, let alone land. It's too big. And besides, it needs to live out in the deep water where the yummy, yummy whales are.

But the whales of thirty million years ago are so much better than Megalodon! If they co-existed the Basilosaurs would kick Megalodon's ass three times to Sunday!

[V'icternus]

They tried... it still ate them as its primary source of food. Omnomnom, and whatnot.

[KataraAltinaII]

and then came Chuck Norris.

[Assassin89]

Originally Posted by Shadow_Elf

Hey, I missed the new thread creation. Oh well.

I have to write a poem as part of an English assignment, and it has to be at least 12 lines, and haiku and limericks are banned. What am I supposed to do?

Give a description of an event in your life, a particular person, a place you enjoy while using a rhyme scheme and/or alliteration? Express your dislike for the structure of the assignment?

[V'icternus]

And remember, poems don't have to rhyme... (Though the good ones do, in my opinion)

[Dragonrider]

Whenever I write poetry, it turns out crappy. Probably because I hate sentimentality but I can't help but be that way anyway. Contradictory? Maybe just a bit. ;)

[V'icternus]

I just pretend to be sentimental, and it works.

Throw some words together, mention stuff like how flowers are like sunshine, and bam!

[Shadow_Elf]

Oh, an this poem is part of an assignment where I have to analyse a partner's favourite song choice in detail and find rhetorical devices in the song and it has a visual component and blah blah blah blah I hate it with a passion.

The poem can be about "your partner, your partner's song choice, the meaning of the song, your experience with the project" or anything else tangentially related, basically. And the only restrictions I can see are "12 lines, no haikus, no limericks".

Oh, and I can be quite good at fake sentimentality/meaning when I want to be - I call it "Brain Barf", because its like I upchuck the most philosophical parts of my brain onto the page and reword it to make it look nice.

[Pyrian]

I love sentimentality, but somehow that just makes it so much worse. I refuse to inflict Pyrian poetics upon the populace.

[Phase]

Originally Posted by V'icternus

They tried... it still ate them as its primary source of food. Omnomnom, and whatnot.

You blaspheme against the mighty Basilosaurus. The great preying whale was second only to the Mosasaurs. Take it back.

[V'icternus]

Ergh, poetry...

Just hope you don't have to read "Sometimes Gladness" by Bruce Dawe. Or I will pity you like I pity a man who's been set on fire and hit in the crotch with a sack of ice.

Originally Posted by Phase

You blaspheme against the mighty Basilosaurus. The great preying whale was second only to the Mosasaurs. Take it back.

Carcharodon Megalodon > Whales. And anything else that ever set skin in the ocean.

[Coidzor]

You can't have a twelve line limerick or haiku anyway, so no worries there. Limericks are usually just 6, if I recall...

My partner is a silly git
observing this musicianship
on par with a wet blanket,

It makes me retch so
his poor discernment
in how he tunes his radio

If he had any taste
whether palate or ear
he'd spit out this waste

Dashing it across the rocks
and heading to the music shoppe
for something to truly take off socks


A Pyrian Poem would not belong
upon my funerary pyre

Nay, 'twould far better be for it
to adorn a tag, wrapped in pink

Emblazoned with a salmon
or a cute light lime

Perhaps worn about the collar
of a pretty little kitty

Tabby I think, or at least a ginger
purring all the while in hand, and

Presented to a dear heart
or at least an appropriate sissy.

[KataraAltinaII]

heh... catchy.

I thought it was funny, mostly because it didn't make much sense to me.

then again, I seldom pay attention to anything anyways, soooo...

EDIT: oohh... another one.

I like that 2nd one even more.

[Phase]

Originally Posted by V'icternus

Carcharodon Megalodon > Whales. And anything else that ever set skin in the ocean.

Eh, I couldn't care much less. I'm more of a terrestrial paleontologist anyway.

[KataraAltinaII]

and cockroaches > dinosaurs.

why? because they actually SURVIVED.

[V'icternus]

Originally Posted by Phase

Eh, I couldn't care much less. I'm more of a terrestrial paleontologist anyway.

In that case, Humans FTW. We own any land not occupied by Saltwater Crocodiles, Hippos, or giant reptiles of any kind.

[KataraAltinaII]

Originally Posted by V'icternus

In that case, Humans FTW. We own any land not occupied by Saltwater Crocodiles, Hippos, or giant reptiles of any kind.

psh... by that logic, Giant Reptiles FTW.
besides, if we left this planet for a year for whatever reason, Nature would easily reclaim a lot of the stuff we think we have "dominated".

and that's jsut a year. imagine if it was 25 years, or 100, or 5,000...
[yes. I've seen that History Channel documentary about what would happen if people disappeared. it was awesome, for the record]

[Alteran]

Originally Posted by Shadow_Elf

I have to write a poem as part of an English assignment, and it has to be at least 12 lines, and haiku and limericks are banned. What am I supposed to do?

I suppose she doesn't want the poems to be...

Haiku-ality.

Originally Posted by Coidzor

My partner is a silly git
observing this musicianship
on par with a wet blanket,

It makes me retch so
his poor discernment
in how he tunes his radio

If he had any taste
whether palate or ear
he'd spit out this waste

Dashing it across the rocks
and heading to the music shoppe
for something to truly take off socks

Heeeey! I'm his partner!

I actually am, though.

[V'icternus]

But the same is true of any species.

However, we currently rule everything. That's no mean feat. (And as all giant reptiles are dead, we know how to control Saltwater Crocodiles (or we did when Steve was here...), and we know to steer clear of Hippos... we just rock.)

[Phase]

But we're boring. Aside from the whole "Civilization" thing, we've got nothing cool. Even Ravens can use tools, and fly. He can't even vomit out our stomachs. Plus, we've only been here a bit. If we can hold on to the planet without ruining it for more than a million years, then I'll be impressed.

[KataraAltinaII]

Originally Posted by V'icternus

But the same is true of any species.

However, we currently rule everything. That's no mean feat. (And as all giant reptiles are dead, we know how to control Saltwater Crocodiles (or we did when Steve was here...), and we know to steer clear of Hippos... we just rock.)

except the fact that Mother Nature > everything else [ > PS3, because that joke never gets old ]

ultimately, if Mother Nature wants something gone, she'll take care of it. Humans merely are an *insert antonym for catalyst here* against her.

I mean, right now, it looks like Giant Pandas are going down. sure we can probably slow the process, but ultimately, now that they're on MN's list, they won't be here for long.

[Pyrian]

Originally Posted by V'icternus

However, we currently rule everything.

Vast swathes of ocean beg to differ.

[KataraAltinaII]

Originally Posted by V'icternus

However, we currently rule everything.

that quote in my sig...

you could do for reading it.

[Coidzor]

Originally Posted by KataraAltinaII

heh... catchy.

I thought it was funny, mostly because it didn't make much sense to me.

then again, I seldom pay attention to anything anyways, soooo...

EDIT: oohh... another one.

I like that 2nd one even more.

Thank you, I just felt like being a bit silly and seeing what I'd whip up. I wonder how Pyrian will react.

...*thought bubbles* Probably with a machete to my face, but, ah well.

Originally Posted by Alteran

Heeeey! I'm his partner!

I actually am, though.

Wow. Well, I hope you don't have bad taste in music then.

So how did two guys who are in school together come to be on this site anyway?

[KataraAltinaII]

Originally Posted by Coidzor

Thank you, I just felt like being a bit silly and seeing what I'd whip up. I wonder how Pyrian will react.

...*thought bubbles* Probably with a machete to my face, but, ah well.

well, I was in a silly mood, and so looking at it that way and in that context, I found that I liked it.

[V'icternus]

Originally Posted by Pyrian

Vast swathes of ocean beg to differ.

We still rule 'em. You know, when we feel like it, we can kill anything and everything in any ocean you can care to name.

But it's true, physically speaking, we're the lamest species on earth. We're the only ones to stand up wonkily on two legs without a tail, and though we're the smartest, we kill more of us than other animals do.

[Phase]

Originally Posted by V'icternus

But it's true, physically speaking, we're the lamest species on earth. We're the only ones to stand up wonkily on two legs without a tail, and though we're the smartest, we kill more of us than other animals do.

But that's only because we're woefully overpopulated. I'm pretty sure rodents are the only mammals that outnumber humans. I'm not considering birds (Infinitely cooler than mammals), fish or insects, though.