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Absolute brilliance, if you know what you're doing.
The Mad Gardener's Song
by Lewis Carroll
He thought he saw an Elephant,
That practised on a fife:
He looked again, and found it was
A letter from his wife.
'At length I realise,' he said,
'The bitterness of Life!'
He thought he saw a Buffalo
Upon the chimney-piece:
He looked again, and found it was
His Sister's Husband's Niece.
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13th set of quatrains. From The Rubiyat by Omar Khayyam
49
'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
50
The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left, as strikes the Player goes;
And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,
*He* knows about it all---He knows---HE ( Read more... ) -
Intimations of Immortality - William Wordsworth
Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;--
Turn wheresoe'er I may,
By night or day,
The things which I have seen I now can ( Read more... ) -
I'm here. I'm writing in school. I'll post new assignments if I damn well want to. Otherwise, :)
For the first three people that reply to me and re-post this challenge - I will send you something that I think rocks ( Read more... ) -
Desiring...
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Writer's Block: Summer Break
How did you spend summers when you were a kid?
Alone, at home, in the air conditioning. Watching movies, making up choreographies, creating useless projects, braiding my hair like a black chick.
You know, normal stuff.