Mikiesboy

Something for people who cannot seem to finish anything:

Thank you very much. I mean that most sincerely. Tommy is very close to my heart. I tell people to write bravely, i think our best work comes from when we are not in our comfort zones. Thanks again xo.

Thanks very much for reading Changes and this one. It is very humbling and gratifying...

Thank you! I appreciate your comments very much!

Left early..bad weather...

Good night

Well written. Hard topic to write and read about. Trust is so easily destroyed... you did a great job with this piece, A.

yeah... i knew mine for 15 years... i understand missing them

Post it on live poets...let AC see it. Don't worry he is a gentle teacher....

Try poetry soup

you, Reader can call me timothy...LOL out loud. yes, i'm sure there are ... i know all about default whatever.. WHY i never tried them on Word... i do not know.. but it was funny. Did you hear on the radio that yesterday was squirrel appreciation day? Odd time of year to appreciate them I'd have thought.

good night all

Aw, you're very kind. There is much to learn and to perfect. I still dont like that last Tanka but i'll let it sit for a bit. Thank you for your support, i really do appreciate it. xox

It's a french form that's all i know ... ive written two octaves.. enough for today

LOL... like that's gonna happen ... maybe they'll leave me on e-mail for a day rather than chat. Results were great.. which is good .. but seriously what kinda virus is this thing?? Anyway.. i'll try and drink lots and get to sleep a bit earlier, plus take these pills... Been sleeping pretty well, in any case.

well there we are... LOL

Michael often pats me on the head and tells me i'm adorable (that means i've done something silly, goofy or dumb). Well, after using Word for i dont know how long, and constantly growling about the default font (which i hate) i thought 💡 ahha!! i will look and see if i can change the default font ... and surprise you can ... 😕 so.. yeah.. LOL idiot.

Fun? i don't know but defo a challenge, but i like to make them work and they have to just sound natural. And the refrain needs to work for each octave ... that's a lot of of rhyming words.. you'd need 6 for A, 11 for B, and 5 for C Here is an example: Ballade of a Ship by Edwin Arlington Robinson Down by the flash of the restless water (a) The dim White Ship like a white bird lay; (b) Laughing at life and the world they sought her, (a) And out she swung to the silvering bay. (b) Then off they flew on their roystering way, (b) And the keen moon fired the light foam flying (c) Up from the flood where the faint stars play, (b) And the bones of the brave in the wave are lying. (C) 'Twas a king's fair son with a king's fair daughter, (a) And full three hundred beside, they say, - (b) Revelling on for the lone, cold slaughter (a) So soon to seize them and hide them for aye; (b) But they danced and they drank and their souls grew gay, (b) Nor ever they knew of a ghoul's eye spying (c) Their splendor a flickering phantom to stray (b) Where the bones of the brave in the wave are lying. (C) Through the mist of a drunken dream they brought her (a) (This wild white bird) for the sea-fiend's prey: (b) The pitiless reef in his hard clutch caught her, (a) And hurled her down where the dead men stay. (b) A torturing silence of wan dismay - (b) Shrieks and curses of mad souls dying - (c) Then down they sank to slumber and sway (b) Where the bones of the brave in the wave are lying. (C) Prince, do you sleep to the sound alway (b) Of the mournful surge and the sea-birds' crying? - (c) Or does love still shudder and steel still slay, (b) Where the bones of the brave in the wave are lying? (C)

Happy you're ready now.

i am working on a Ballade ... which is a poem made up of 3 octaves, which is 8 lines and for mine i have chosen 10 syllables per line. The last octave is followed by a quatrain. The rhyme scheme for the first three octaves a, b, a, b, b, c, b, C. The rhyme scheme for the quatrain is b, c, b, C. The last line of each stanza consists of a refrain, (a repeated line), indicated as the C in the above rhyme schemes. i've written the first octave ....

Thanks .. tomorrow it will be a full month.. i'm tired of it .. but i'm gonna go back to work tomorrow. i'm tired of being home as well.

Well that was fun... blood work fine, xray fine ... He thinks it's just a super virus that doesn't want to let go. Said there could be some bacteria hiding out even though it didn't show up, so i have a five day course of Azithromycin.

i just haven't had the desire to post anything ... sad cuz all i need to do is copy it... word of the day will be back....