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obsteve 25-Jan-13, 04:54	Sonnets! Thanks Shehensha for starting the 4 liner thread! Brilliant   Anyone here think we can do a sonnet now, one line each? Rules: It is a 14 line poem Aiming for Iambic Pentameter ("Dedum, dedum, dedum, dedum, dedum") Rhyming a-b-a-b, c-d-c-d, e-f-e-f, g-g (last 2 lines a rhyming couplet) No more than one line per turn Poster of the last line dictates the title of the next sonnet Posts not adhering to the rules may get deleted Here's an example, Sonnet 130, by Shakespeare: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun; Coral is far more red than her lips' red; If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun; If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head. I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks; And in some perfumes is there more delight Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know That music hath a far more pleasing sound; I grant I never saw a goddess go; My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare. And the title of the next sonnet is...
obsteve 25-Jan-13, 04:56	Deleted by obsteve on 27-Jan-13, 14:23.
kewois 25-Jan-13, 16:50	"Chess" (sonnet) The world on this eight by eight squares, full of adventures
obsteve 25-Jan-13, 17:27	I think back to the time that I first played
the-sigularity 25-Jan-13, 18:10	I lost, and that fellow was proud of his dentures
obsteve 25-Jan-13, 18:46	Deleted by obsteve on 25-Jan-13, 18:47.
obsteve 25-Jan-13, 18:47	Deleted by obsteve on 25-Jan-13, 18:48.
obsteve 25-Jan-13, 18:50	twinkling like pawns in his tight mouth arrayed
kewois 26-Jan-13, 02:45	Clad with that experience, I had no inkling
the-sigularity 26-Jan-13, 13:14	of what lay ahead in this struggle for me
obsteve 27-Jan-13, 00:01	I played Pawn to Queen 4 without thinking
the-sigularity 27-Jan-13, 04:05	the immediate response was so obvious to see
kewois 27-Jan-13, 08:03	Check to mate was I thought to remediate
obsteve 27-Jan-13, 11:44	But then I chanced to see my foe's wry smile
chaz- 27-Jan-13, 12:27	Restraining snickers to repudiate
kewois 27-Jan-13, 16:01	Renounced myself for buzzing empty guile
chaz- 27-Jan-13, 16:22	Pondering resolution to this quest
kewois 27-Jan-13, 16:35	Pursuit to sport play I pledged to my chest.
kewois 27-Jan-13, 16:44	CHASING TREASURE Furrow, was rumored for some hoarded wealth
chaz- 27-Jan-13, 16:50	Buried deep in dank and moldy caverns
kewois 27-Jan-13, 22:06	Underground, hidden very well like stealth
obsteve 28-Jan-13, 02:06	Locals tell the tale in smokey taverns
chaz- 28-Jan-13, 07:12	. The wooden trunk cast with silver casings
obsteve 28-Jan-13, 10:06	About the handles laid with leaf of gold
chaz- 28-Jan-13, 10:24	Inlaid with mirrors, velvet trays and frilly lacings
kewois 28-Jan-13, 15:05	Laces of riches as stories were mold
chaz- 28-Jan-13, 15:24	Finding bags of trinkets, jewels and coins
the-sigularity 28-Jan-13, 15:54	And some solid figures of platinum pure
obsteve 28-Jan-13, 16:18	Many a seeker had girded his loins
chaz- 28-Jan-13, 16:28	With more than merely frankincense and myrrh.
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