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"Horatio" <qwerty_h@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Fvrtb.18545$Gj1.319@news02.roc.ny...
>
> "Michael Cook" <cook368NOSPAM@ameritech.net> wrote in message
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> > "Horatio" <qwerty_h@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:%Djtb.11713$691.5106@news01.roc.ny...
> > > 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.

Hey, I thought I was a day ahead of Dale! Now I see the Horatio scenario
(I'm taking up drinking again). Never mind, it's just as well I die by /his/
sword (heh).


> > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
>