Two truths and a lie

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3 was the lie. I eat a bit more protein.

1. I wrote a poem about my age (which I am no longer as of today)

2. I used to write my brother a birthday poem every year when we were young

3. I compose my poems using classic structures

1. I read or write poetry nearly every day.

2. I manage an online rhetoric and literary criticism forum.

3. I have a thing for iambic pentameter.

Number 2 doesn't sound like you...

no 1 is not a lie - I'll find it and post it forthwith

You're right, 2 is my lie.
It doesn't sound like me because I don't know enough about computers, and I've never even made a website!

1 and 3 are true:





Re: feeli0
I remember that you and your brother wrote poetry together, so I thought 2 was true.
I'd love to read your poem!

I am Sixty Four

They claim, they do not calm
They excite me, lift me, hurl me to great heights and then fill me with peace.
No, Numbers do not numb me

The awe inspiring Fibonacci series
Close relative to the Golden Ratio - exquisite proportions

The deep mysterious quality of Pi
Factorial! (This last said loudly with an exclamation mark)
Some numbers delight with playful patterns
Others annoy with elusive secrets

What if humans had 8 digits instead of 10?
What does Pi look like now?

I see the structure
Sense the order
Numbers reflected everywhere
In this order the whorls on the thumbprints of God
Show themselves to me.
It is well with me.
I am sixty four.

1 I am enjoying my breakfast - a new cereal I have never tried before

2 I am fussy with my food to the point of rudeness

3 I don't have a favourite food, but I do like garlic

Aww thanks Isabella!

Here's a poem by Samuel Coleridge Taylor that I always think of when scansion is mentioned"


TROCHEE trips from long to short;
From long to long in solemn sort
Slow Spondee stalks; strong foot! yet ill able
Ever to come up with dactyl trisyllable.
Iambics march from short to long;—
With a leap and a bound the swift Anapæsts throng;
One syllable long, with one short at each side,
Amphibrachys hastes with a stately stride;—
First and last being long, middle short, Amphimacer
Strikes his thundering hoofs like a proud high-bred racer.

Last night, I dreamed:

1. feeli0 was at my house while my mother visited. feeli0 saved the day by saying words I'd never speak.

2. Magna and I met AprilR to go to a Sex Pistols show in Moscow. The Sex Pistols were all 'little people'.

3. I was reading and writing WP games and PM messages.

Indeed! But don't forget to pick my lie, or jacked the thread will be...

No I'm afraid not.

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