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How very apt ! :D And all that's missing is the "W". ;)

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And as she stirred the stew the guests were already arriving, only Richard was a little tardy. Moira and Jim were the first to arrive followed shortly by Alan and Joy. Soon, the table was bristling with conversation. The previous nights argument seemingly forgotten Alison excused her husband, Rich had a migraine. The table was laid, the food enjoyed by enthusiastic company, little did they know they were eating Dick as the main course.!

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Something Im missing with haiku... can somebody explain it accy style?

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It looks complicated -

How to Write a Haiku Poem (with Sample Poems) - wikiHow

....not my scene.... it doesn't rhyme either:(

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I think it has something to do with capturing an emotion, a feeling, a moment, and exploring it and its opposite in as few words, and as imagistically as possible. The frogs wrote a lot of it in the late nineteenth century ... imagistic poetry that is, not haiku. You just try to pack as much meaning and feeling as possible into 17 silly bulls ... altho' that's not compulsory any more,;) it adds more challenge. Rhyme isn't important. It's a fun to try and write one. I got the inspiration ... if you can call it that:D ... for mine when I was walking my dog. My neighbour's big muttly smiled at me from his yard ... yes, he does smile ... a great dog. There were snowdrops under the tree in my neighbour's front yard. And there were also lots of last year's dead leaves blowing around. Seemed like an image of winter leaving and spring arriving to me ... why not;)? So, I sat down and wrote the haiku.

If I were not so bloody bone idle, I would have written a sonnet:D

Enough of being sensitive. Time to grab a beer and a joint, and watch baseball.:theband:

Los Angeles Dodgers vs San Diego Padres brawl | HD - YouTube

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Hows a bag of crap grab yeh?

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Still, you gotta admit that wasn't a bad bench-clearing brawl for this early in the season:D

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Roger McGough thinks he's a toff

spouting disjointed words on the wireless

He gets paid for the crap, even raises a clap

from those who aspire to be clueless.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McGough

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Harry Kissed Sally

The wedding dress hung over the wardrobe door.
The wedding bouquets… in buckets in the scullery.
The pies, sandwiches and cakes had been taken to the church hall,
A tea urn borrowed from the Mother’s league. Sally should be getting ready.
Putting on her dress, her veil. Walking down the aisle on the arm of her father.
Yet, she didn’t feel she could do it. Sam was a nice chap….but Harry (his best man) excited her
Was she going to accept second best?
It was going to be impossible now. Harry kissed her.
‘Dad, tell them the wedding’s off’

I know it took me quite a time...but I have been busy......honest

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Ladies & Gentlemen, I present to you

The Vet

Once he’d walked with heroes, green titans striding through battlefields in foreign lands, young, proud and immortal. Like warrior kings of a bygone age, in their hands, the power over life and death by flicking a safety and the casual pressure on a trigger.

Their love and loyalty to one another unfettered, brothers bound by arms and the warriors creed, living, fighting and dying alongside each other. All this and so much more was their lot in this alien arid landscape until that fateful assault on the stronghold.

Now all he has is medal ribbons, a shattered body and memories.

pertinent, then, now & for the foreseeable future.

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More haiku.

Eight year old eyes shine
Bright thunder spewing dark death.
Cowardly evil.

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She sat in the gloom. How had it come to this ? One minute everything seemed bright, she could see clearly. Life was good, very good in fact. But slowly, very slowly darkness descended and now she was here, in this room staring in to the void that was now her life. Then suddenly as the water lashed against the windows the room filled with the brightest of light, armed with a squidgy and pair of marigolds Westend lass had finally cleaned her windows !!

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After spending the day installing a printer to download a UPS return label, and disassembling and repackaging a heater, I thought, 'now I can print, I can send off an entry'.

On looking again at the website, email entries ARE acceptable:o - so I have sent the one called Fall Back

PS hope that putting it here doesn't disqualify me

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Good Luck Margaret.

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Only a few days left
Word Counter
is a good site for counting words

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Please do Margaret. Last year's comp was won by a non-Lancastrian - you are representing the county.

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How to enter

Fill the online form and pay the £2 via paypal

Send separate email with your story attached

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I have had mail today to say that the competition has been abandoned and my £2 will be refunded.

Only 23 entries were received, and the rules require 25.

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me too :(

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That sucks:mad: ... we should have held our own competition. First prize could have been an AccyWeb coffee mug, second, a framed autographed picture of Less and Mick in the Railway, third, a cold bacon butty with lots of Branston Pickle on it. Same entry fee; although, for me, it would be three toonies.:D

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I actually went to a theater with him as the main billing, at half time everyone headed for the bar, they rang a gong to let folk know the second torment was about to begin.
I asked the barman for another drink before having to go back, he gave me the drink and said, 'the second half is even longer than the first, if you want I'll stay and serve you throughout, I've seen it 3 nights on the run and would rather be here'.
I took his advice and enjoyed myself.

That guy was a saint, he could obviously see someone else in torment.