 Alphabet Challenge, An exercise to try! |
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 Mar 21 04, 13:14
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 Mosaic Master  Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep  |
Hello!
Here's a neat one to try! Pick a letter of the alphabet to start with and write a line or a sentence starting with that letter. The next line or sentence will then start with the next letter of the alphabet. See how you do! Good luck! An example: My eyes are colored many shades, never revealing their true self. "Oh, can't you overlook that which fades?" "Perhaps if you applied makeup from shelf!" Well - ok - so this is quick and pretty bad but you get the idea, right? 
·······  ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here!  "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner           |
  
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| Guest_Cathy_* |
Dec 30 04, 01:12
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Eyes are windows to the soul,
framed in darkness to hide the lies. Gazing downward in theatrical role, hiding the moment of truth's demise. |
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| Guest_Jox_* |
 Dec 30 04, 10:38
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© James Oxenholme, 2004. I, James Oxenholme, do assert my right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with Sections 77 and 78 of The Copyrights, Designs And Patents Act, 1988. (Laws of Cymru & England, as recognised by international treaties). This work was simultaneously copyrighted in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America. This work is posted as an unpublished work in order to elicit critical assistance, only.
Ref: PF-0253-AB Florey Flora & Flemish Chain by PF Antibiotic panacea? No: bacteria too clever - clinically proven to defeat anything. Eternity beckons. Forever doomed - Grateful Dead? Hopeless progress, despite iconic developments. Jousting nature; killing disease? Looking for immortality - mankind’s dilemma: never die or always live? Order on Earth demands pharmaceutical research... quantity or quality? Real-time decisions. Sadness stimulates, tragedies promote and ultimate desires drive: vivisection questing. Why do we think that x-rays reveal innermost yearnings? Humbug! Zoology 1 - Humans 0. (end) |
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| Guest_Jox_* |
Dec 30 04, 11:58
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Cathy - your poem reminds me very much of Princess Diana - a deceased member of the Royal Family. Fits her to a "T" so to speeak.
Well done. James. |
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| Guest_Bren_* |
 Jan 5 05, 03:04
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A massive undertaking faces me...
before, it had been treated carelessly. Could this be something new I see in me... desiring to complete a given task. Eventually, someone is bound to ask for proof that my desire is not a mask. Good habits are not easily acquired. How soon I found that work was still required! I think about it and get very tired... just contemplating what I need to do, aware I must complete this task for you lest you should say,"You're not surprised, you knew my weakness would win out and I would fail." No wonder my resolve is thin and frail, ordained by following the trail procrastination had laid out for me... quite clear and followed oh so easily! Rehashing life, it's plain for me to see such lack of methodology, creates tremendous problems, and it indicates unecessary worry that awaits victims of my lack in motivation... with that in mind, I'll end this oration X marks the grave of procrastination!! :pharoah2 You see no task of great complexity... Zealot I'm not, so I am free... no massive undertaking faces me!  Brenda Ascott Fry That's a big pipe dream. I'm just as guilty of procrastination as I ever was. 
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Jan 5 05, 06:15
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Mosaic Master Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep |
Well done James, Cathy and Bren!
 P.S. James and Bren - now now - you didn't HAVE to go and use the entire alphabet - but what FUN to read your tiles! Good show! ~Cleo  
······· ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner |
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| Guest_Jox_* |
Jan 5 05, 07:02
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Lori - thank you. A most topping challenge.
Brenda - Hello. I PM'd you this morning to wish you well but now I'd like to publically welcome you to MM. (I hope you've not been putting-off joining for too long!) Your poem, above, is more complicated than mine because you have multiple rhymes, too. Well done. It looks like you are going to be making some very interesting contributions to MM over time... don't put them off now. Best wishes to you both. James. |
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| Guest_Bren_* |
Jan 5 05, 19:35
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Hi Lori , it was fun and once started I just "went with the flow"
Hi James, thanks for this welcome too. I appreciated your welcoming P.M. I enjoy challenges and this was a fun one. Blessings to you both Bren |
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| Guest__* |
Jan 8 05, 18:02
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THE KEY
About time too, she bellowed, loud voice free, right ’cross Independence Square Damn her and her every word, I thought faking a greeting, grinning hugely and horribly insincerely at her “Just fancy that - I left my car key inside my coat again when leaving it in my car “Now all you have to do is open with your set so I can pop the coat out and quickly rescue my keys “So I’ll be on my way to work up to an hour late very good considering what with ... x-cuse me - those in there ARE your keys ?” (Zip drawn over subsequent words by Internet Censorship Board) Alan McAlpine Douglas |
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| Guest_Jox_* |
Jan 8 05, 18:20
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Most chucklesome, Alan... despite the slight "cheat" on X - what's wrong with incorporating “xylophone“?
All the best, James. |
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| Guest_Perrorist_* |
Jan 8 05, 18:55
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Brenda
The line: aware I must complete this task for you, should that have been: knowing I must complete this task for you? Perry (nit-picker extraordinaire) |
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Jan 9 05, 07:59
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Mosaic Master Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep |
Tee hee!
Yes Perry - I believe Bren did mean to use "K" there and knowing certainly fits...
······· ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner |
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Jan 9 05, 08:00
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Mosaic Master Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep |
QUOTE (Jox @ Jan. 08 2005, 18:20) Most chucklesome, Alan... despite the slight "cheat" on X - what's wrong with incorporating “xylophone“? All the best, James. Yes Alan - a cool and chucklesome tile! :pharoah2 I enjoyed the read! :StarWars1: ~Cleo ······· ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner |
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| Guest__* |
Jan 10 05, 09:42
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Dear Jox,
" what's wrong with incorporating “xylophone“?" Nothing (in fact in your honour it was the first word committed to ! ) : ZIGGURATS ARE IN About that bloody or- chestra, do we have to have every damn instrument ? For goodness sake glockenspiel already, holy serpents in several guises inconsequential things like variously water-filled jam jars; klaxons and kettle drums which love to make that ghastly noise some could call music, others not. On the other hand perhaps quirky, probably central richly sonorous sensually, nay, shockingly timberous utterly compelling virtuously vibrant wonderfully woolly xylophones yes - a vital foundation to any orchestral ziggurat, are in ! Alan McAlpine Douglas |
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| Guest_Jox_* |
Jan 10 05, 10:09
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LOL!
Thank you very much, you're an excellent dj... I think this is the first time I've had a request played on MM. Well done, Alan, clearly there is no poetical challenge you're not (at least) equal to. Simply music to your ears. You even resisted the temptation to play your own trumpet. A remarkable work of note. More than enough to save me from being too crotchety with the grey weather. And what a clef-hanger at the end! James. Lori... it's no good saying we don't have to use all the letters now... Sound the horn - the game's afoot! |
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Jan 10 05, 19:49
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Mosaic Master Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep |
Hmmmm - here's an even tougher one (but I'm not gonna make it a new challenge just yet)....
Make youe first word's letter in each line the corresponding one as in above examples A B C D AND also make the LAST letter in each match your first - this is kind of like a double acrostic so you'd have... A ripened banana burst forth from a bomb catapulted by the historic dagger known as "Galahad" Exaliber's friend and foe... 
······· ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner |
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| Guest__* |
Jan 12 05, 18:18
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Dear Cleo,
Is this what you had in mind ? : TO THE BACK TEETH Abracadabra burbled Blighty Bob causing the caustic descaler to bubble up hard enough to dislodge all the scale For goodness sake, it’s come off gleefully Bob, hand-clapping high up, above the arch in which like glitterati jammed, an Indian joint - “Raj” Klaxons blared, stuck on lock, luck would have it all morning, up to the very cusp of the next p.m. noon to you, damn siren of disaster, us blocking up our ears, shouting “Oooooooo !” Perhaps things are on the up quoth Bob’s fifth raven, named Cinq rather obviously. Would we rather size up all the others - there are eighty-eight ? Up to now, we’ve heard nothing from you - very well, stuck-up spiv, wax lyrical, Bob says, right now x-ray your brain, Rex yes you, huh, you got nothing to say ... ... zzzzzzzzzzzz .... Alan McAlpine Douglas |
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Jan 13 05, 06:18
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Mosaic Master Posts: 18,892 Joined: 1-August 03 From: Massachusetts Member No.: 2 Real Name: Lori Kanter Writer of: Poetry & Prose Referred By:Imhotep |
Tee hee!
YES - by george I think he's got it! :detective: Awesome Alan! :dance: :dance: How about another one - this time make every word in each line start with the same letter? :grinning: Actively, Alice ate an apple by bobbing bouncily... Cheers! Cleo :dragon: ······· ·······"It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." ~ J.R.R Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings
Collaboration feeds innovation. In the spirit of workshopping, please revisit those threads you've critiqued to see if the author has incorporated your ideas, or requests further feedback from you. In addition, reciprocate with those who've responded to you in kind. "I believe it is the act of remembrance, long after our bones have turned to dust, to be the true essence of an afterlife." ~ Lorraine M. Kanter Nominate a poem for the InterBoard Poetry Competition by taking into careful consideration those poems you feel would best represent Mosaic Musings. For details, click into the IBPC nomination forum. Did that poem just captivate you? Nominate it for the Faery award today! If perfection of form allured your muse, propose the Crown Jewels award. For more information, click here! "Worry looks around, Sorry looks back, Faith looks up." ~ Early detection can save your life.MM Award Winner |
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| Guest__* |
Jan 13 05, 07:15
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Dear Cleo,
Pleased you approve of my start/finish alphabetical. But as to "this time make every word in each line start with the same letter", I think I will decline, as this has to be the ultimate in the near-equivalent of rhyme-driven ! As I reread the above, I can see far too many poetic weaknesses, caused by the arbitrary need to end the lines with certain letters. But thanks, anyway LOL ! Love Alan |
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| Guest_Jox_* |
Jan 16 05, 17:42
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© James Oxenholme, 2005. I, James Oxenholme, do assert my right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with Sections 77 and 78 of The Copyrights, Designs And Patents Act, 1988. (Laws of Cymru & England, as recognised by international treaties). This work was simultaneously copyrighted in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America. This work is posted as an unpublished work in order to elicit critical assistance, only.
Hi Lori, Alan, et al. Well, what can I say? I agree with Alan. However... Some time ago I did compose such a useless verse. I have dug it up, altered the obscenities to things I can post here and present it but not for crit!! Ref: RL 0067 AF (Started: 6th March, 1995) AAA, BBB, CCC by RL. Atrocious Alligators Aching; Barings Bank Blows Billions; Canny Chimpanzees Canoodling; Dreadful Derbianians Dithering; Erudite Egyptians Eloping; Foxy Fabians Fornicating; Giant Gannets Gobbling; Hysterical Honeys Hobbling; Irate Imams Illustrating; Juicy Julias Jumping; Kind Kevins Kissing; Late Lucindas Loving; More Mean Misogynists; Nice Nigels Nannying; Officious Ogres Orating; Pink Pirates Poncing; Quality Queens Questing; Rustic Rectors Ranting; Stupid Servants Shamming; Titillating Trollops Teasing; Ubiquitous Unicorns Urging; Violent Voles Vibrating; Witty Wallabies Waggling; Xenophobic Xylophones X-Rayed; Yellow Yetties Yelping; Zany Zombies Zooming. (end) |
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