The idea of a pre-written flying monkey poem is actually quite plausible, since I searched the internet and found that there are already quite a few flying monkey poems out there, and Bill is not one to let others write all the flying monkey poems without him while all his own poems involve only flightless monkeys. Here are a few in the existing canon:

• http://poetrypoem.com/cgi-bin/index....number=1078715
  
• http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/flying-monkeys/
  
• http://allpoetry.com/poem/5955791-Th...y-by-imroberte
  
• http://hellopoetry.com/poem/the-fall...lying-monkeys/

There are quite a few others if you care to dig a bit.

I myself do not want to duel, since I'm on a diet and have forsworn seconds, but I would love to witness a duel requiring ballad meter, or limericks, or G&S-like anapestic tet rhyming couplets, or rhyming dimeter quatrains, or sonnets (no nonce rhyme schemes). Sonnets would be particularly nice, since the most famous poetry duel ever, the one that produced "The Grasshopper and the Cricket" in fifteen minutes, was a sonnet competition.

I think we all need to speed up our compositional wpm, and submit all the results at once to AGNI, near neighbor of Hahvard, MIT, and them ilk --- and we do know where and who! However there is a downside to speed, and in my signature mode of 'pata-relevant YouTube link posting, here's the downside : "All aboard?"

Enjoy the scenery. It's a beautiful bunch of roads they've got in CO.

Your welcome.

Kate -- who is a 1st cousin to She Who Must Be Obeyed, being She Who Makes Too Much Sense To Disagree With -- has spoken, and that is that. No dueling, I guess, my buckoes.

However, I'd love to see Bill become a light versifier on the side. I think many of us would be overjoyed to be one front and fore, if only we could get a splice of the Whitworth gene or a Slater prosthesis.

By the way, Bill: of course it's dishonorable to shoot into the air, and against the dueling code -- think of what you might hit! (Hint: they wear little caps).

Best,

Ed

Hi Bill

Thanks for the reassurance that "Who's on line" is coming back. Sounds like a panel show. Oh, no, that was "What's my line"! Seriously though I also find the facility of being to know who is around useful, most particularly I think for directing me to threads I would not otherwise know about. I was wondering if the function might have been disabled because of privacy issues. I am glad to know that is not the case.

Best regards

Chris

I shot an arrow into the air.
Dishonor! But I did not care.
This forum's full of threads like these
for Sphereans to shoot the breeze.

What, no flyting monkeys, then? Darn. Could somebody please pass the Cheetos?

Shoot the breeze? But Julie, will it
hurt the breeze, or maybe kill it?
Slap the breeze a bit, perhaps,
but let it not come down to taps,
for breezes are beyond compare
in dealing with the Sphere's hot air.

I think I read somewhere that "Ozymandias" was written in a head-to-head competition with someone else. I can't recall the other fellow's name though.

Name a theme, name a meter, name a form, name a time frame and I'm happy to participate! I did a competition once where you had to use ten particular (and dissimilar) words one time each in a poem. I didn't win, but I thought it was a fun exercise, at the very least.

OK, write a hundred lines (rhyming and metrical), no more, no less, on mixed nuts in America. Post it here by Monday morning, 9 a.m. eastern time. No acrostics.

u c u again!

did i spoil the fun thread?

Any takers?