🚀 go-pugleaf

"Michael Cook" <cook368NOSPAM@ameritech.net> wrote in message
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> "Horatio" <qwerty_h@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > OK
> >
> > As of now I have compiled a master list for the Poetry Telephone Game
> which
> > is:
> >
> > Colin (Ward)
> > Crystal
> > PJR
> > Michael Cook
> > Thomas Dillion
> > Rik Roots
> > michael (?)
> > Dale Houstman
> > Zinc
> > Julie Carter
> > sophie
> >
> > If your name is not on the list - - - You Are Not Playing This Time.
> > (sorry)
> >
> > The list is already much larger than I expected.  Here is how gameplay
is
> > anticipated:
> >
> > 1)  I will send out an original poem to a member of the list.  (The
order
> > may change at my discretion)
> >
> > 2)  That member has 24 hours to re-write and return the message
> > incorporating their own style, unique flair for language and meaning but
> > maintaining some aspect or relevance to the original.  (any tenuous
thread
> > or inspiration is fine)
> >
> >     *If you are not available to re-write in the next 24 hours but would
> > still like to play that is fine, return the message with a note and I
will
> > move you in the list.
> >
> >     **If you have  changed your mind and would no longer like to play
> please
> > simply return the message with a note and I shall remove you from the
> list.
> >
> > 3)  I will forward only the rewritten poem to the next player (possibly
> > randomly selected) who will receive the same ,mission should they choose
> to
> > accept.
> >
> > 4)  I will post the full chain in temporal order at the end of the game
> and
> > possibly also as separate threads.
> >
> > 5) I am accepting any generous suggestions as to improvements to
gameplay.
> >
> > 6) If you post with a "munged" address, please send me an e-mail at my
> > address with a valid e-mail addy.
> >
> > Thanks for playing!!
> >
> > Have FUN!!
> >
> > -H
> >
> That's a Murders row!  I don't see the name Horatio?

I will be starting this round, so my poem is first.


> Do try a set list, if I am to follow PJR I need renew my Library card

sorry, I have already decided against that.

> Preparation is important.
> If Houstman I must practice Iyengar and learn Sanskrit
> Bhujangasana assumed.

yes, it is too bad Hammes didn't join, he would have made the perfect
Housman follower, I think.

> If any of the Ladies I find myself following, well
> A complete review of  Wordsworth, Coleridge,
> Keats, Shelley, Whitman, Goethe, Tennyson and Wilde
> Is in order.
>      Did I forget to mention Blake?
> Piping down the valleys wild
> Piping songs of pleasant glee
> On a cloud I saw a child.
> And he laughing said to me.
>
> Pipe a song about a Lamb:
> So I piped with merry chear,
> Piper pipe that song again --
> So I piped, he wept to hear.
> ------
> Piper sit thee down and write
> In a book that all may read --
> So he vanish'd from my sight,
> And I pluck'd a hollow reed.
>
> Ok I'm ready
>    mdc

you seem to have a handle on it.  Your address is good, no?

-H
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