I am trying to write a rondeau.  That...is about the extend of what I'm doing today.  I don't think I even have the energy to *try* to do more than that.

Mostly this is because I spent about 48 hours doing stuff over the weekend, haha.  We had our church's Easter cantata last night.  We were both involved: engelhardtlm1  was playing keyboard with the worship ( Read more... )

Tam Lin on Crack is done!! And it only came out to like four freaking pages. This sucker is almost a thousand words long, yo. The rhyme scheme is weird but I still kind of like the way it turned out.

(For reference, here is the original version that I worked from.)
( Tam Lin: A Modern Ballad )

It's been very slow in the HHC, so I've been working on what is tentatively called "Tam Lin on Crack."  The actual poem is like 5 pages long (see!  It's really really long!) and so far mine's about a page and a half or two.  Ridiculous.  But I'm having a lot of fun with it.  It's entirely not like anything I ever do, the feel and subject matter, at ( Read more... )

Tonight at the library scottwoods hosted a Halloween poetry slam. It featured a convict, a cowgirl, a witch, a pirate, a wizard, and a mad scientist. As the mad scientist, I'm very pleased to report that I won! *beams*

(Although it was a highly contested fight. A kid came up to me afterwards and said "I didn't want you to win, but I guess you did anyway ( Read more... )

I need a mad scientist haiku.  All I've got so far is:

Science is my slave.
A doctor, since I have my
PhD in mean.

Anyone got something better?