What, like anal?

You first. :p

or like a fruitbasket or something. or a male bonding (non-sexual) experience.

but um...er...maybe let someone else go first...

Nah NEW MODERATOR I SAID.

Go to that thread in the site forum and rant about we needing more people moderating to make this place a lot more active.

I can offer you pretty cookies and the opportunity to win an e-car!

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Plus I have a cute labrador that barks and stuff.

On a related note, if joshmay is willing to make the workshops and shi, I'm willing to participate.

Nath4Mod2006

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i have a labrador also

labradors4mod2006

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But I have 4 chihuahuas and a cat.

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i have a cat. its old and rubbish. it came with the house.

[QUOTE=Surf;13366263]i have a cat. its old and rubbish. it came with the house.[/QUOTE]
lol

Surf:"Hey the house is cute"
Mom:"wtf a cat"
Surf:"Let's keep it"
Mom:"ok lol"
Surf:"lmao rofl"

most expensive cat we ever bought

I hate weird al yankovic

he's not weird enough to deserve his title

I have a Doberman. Great dog and all, but sometimes he walks me. :p

my dog is too lazy. not fat, just really lazy. couple that with the fact that the cat is too old to move, and i really don't have to look after my pets much

>Worst pet owner right here< My cat has no fur left, and it's not one of those cats. My dogs walk about 1 mile every week, one of them has a broken leg, and I havn't seen my other cat for like 3 days.

Winner

i posted this in another thread, but more people need to see it/comment

Carol Ann Duffy - Lizzie, Six

What are you doing?
[I]I'm watching the moon.[/I]
I'll give you the moon
when I get up there.

Where are you going?
[I]To play in the fields.[/I]
I'll give you fields,
bend over that chair.

What are you thinking?
[I]I'm thinking of love.[/I]
I'll give you love
when I've climbed this stair.

Where are you hiding?
[I]Deep in the wood.[/I]
I'll give you the wood
when your bottom's bare.

Why are you crying?
[I]I'm afraid of the dark.[/I]
I'll give you the dark
and I do not care.

I've seen this before, I like CAD. It's pretty dark, but I love the simple childlike language in it, yet it has a serious, underlying dark theme. I don't like the obviousness of it though, 'bend over that chair' doesn't leave much to the imagination. But this did provoke me when I read it, which is what writing is meant to do

first time i read it, i had to go back again and again. freaked me out. i just love the way that for three lines of every stanza it could be a love poem, but its about childabuse. nice.

Yeah, it kind of reminds me of [i]Red Roses[/i] by Anne Sexton.[quote=Anne Sexton][b]Red Roses[/b]

Tommy is three and when he's bad
his mother dances with him.
She puts on the record,
"Red Roses for a Blue Lady"
and throws him across the room.
Mind you,
she never laid a hand on him.
He gets red roses in different places,
the head, that time he was as sleepy as a river,
the back, that time he was a broken scarecrow,
the arm like a diamond had bitten it,
the leg, twisted like a licorice stick,
all the dance they did together,
Blue Lady and Tommy.
You fell, she said, just remember you fell.
I fell, is all he told the doctors
in the big hospital. A nice lady came
and asked him questions but because
he didn't want to be sent away he said, I fell.
He never said anything else although he could talk fine.
He never told about the music
or how she'd sing and shout
holding him up and throwing him.

He pretends he is her ball.
He tries to fold up and bounce
but he squashes like fruit.
For he loves Blue Lady and the spots
of red roses he gives her[/quote]

Hmmm, I really don't read any poetry at all. It's shocking really, as I know it would help my songwriting etc, but it just doesn't interest me. :-/

Don't get me wrong, I can appreciate a good piece of writing and so on, but I just don't enjoy sitting and reading poetry.

EDIT: and on the subject of today's other topic, I have an old cat. The baby think's it's the best thing ever. The cat's not so impressed.

poetry owns

Strange, I've just written my first piece of Poetry.
Its up for critique, called Journal's End, if any of you guys wanna give it a run over.

I love the imagery in Red Roses, but its so sad. Really is quite a powerful one, that. Especially the last stanza, incredibly written, really.

[QUOTE=pixiesfanyo]poetry owns[/QUOTE]

this

i love reading/writing poetry, as i find it much more rewarding and interesting than song lyrics, which, for me, depend too much on a musical backdrop. granted, there are some writers whose work stands on its own without the music, but for the majority, without a setting for their lyrics, the words become a bit stale and one-dimensional

I prefer to make my writing musical.

i have a severe lack of musical (or at least melodic) ability. so I'm slightly hindered on that front

I think that poetry and lyrics are one in the same.

[QUOTE=pixiesfanyo;13368530]I think that poetry and lyrics are one in the same.[/QUOTE]
Of course they are. People are just silly.

[QUOTE=TojesDoLan]I prefer to make my writing musical.[/QUOTE]Same here. I at least try to include some kind of rhythm or repetition, even if I don't have any music in mind. It just makes the process a little easier.

In a sense, you are basically writing music anyway, since words are sounds. :)

valid point, and music and poetry were birthed together. the first poems were sung, and the first songs became poetry.

i've forgotten what my line of arguement was.......

I don't know if anyone's noticed, but just about ALL of my stuff is poetry... not lyrics, no matter how synonymous they are.

i noticed, but only when you started playing with the structure.

i thought, [I]'hang on, how will this work in a song wtf?'[/I]

then i realised