[Howard]

Thanks, Tony. Enjoyed yours, too--very clever.

Puss is "squashed flat" metaphorically by the collapsing probability waves.

Howard

[drchazan]

Well, I've only written two, and neither comply with the rules this time. Really, I found they're not as easy to write as they look! But I'll try to give it a whirl again.

(Been away, but I'm back. Still, it will be hard to beat Jan's submission here! WOW!)

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[Jan D. Hodge]

Thanks, Tony and drchazan. This crazy form does have its seductive charm, doesn't it? And a lot of fun to write as well as read.

Anyone for rendering familiar novels, plays, etc., into double dactyls?

Jan

[Clive]

Well, I tremble to post here after Jan's tour de force, but here goes: -


Higgledy piggledy,
W. Gravy and
friends crossed the States in their
magical van,

flouting the laws against
lysergic acid di-
ethylamide, cocking
snooks at The Man.

How very quaint all that
hippy-utopian
rubbish - through time's misty
focus - appears

Mind-bending drugs mixed with
psychopathology -
who could've guessed it would
all end in tears?




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[graywyvern]

Wavy Graywyvern knew
Nothing of dactyls, knew
Nothing of anapests;
Little of rhyme.

How should he flout what he
Hadn't quite grasped in the
Tortuous study of
Artistic crime?

[sam]

Platypus flatypus,
Australian monotreme
laying your eggs in the
down-under muck,

are you a creature of
hybridogenesis -
mother a beaver and
father a duck?

sam

[Rachel]

Tuffetty Muffetty,
dainty young lady, she
supped on poutine (that's curds,
gravy, and fries).

Sadly, her bad case of
arachnophobia
led her to spill up her
guts in surprise.

[sam]

Homecoming

Odyssey, schmodyssey.
Here comes Odysseus
back from the dead disguised
as an old man.

See how he bends the bow!
Then lets the arrow go!
Now all the suitors are
in the shitcan.

Loyal Penelope:
Happy to see me, O?
What's in your pocket a
winnowing fan?

sam

[Jan D. Hodge]

With such irresistible names, Romeo and Juliet have both been done many times, but I thought I'd try a summary of the whole play:

Saddest of tragedies--
Juliet Capulet
tumbles in love with fair
Romeo's grace,
but to her sorrow an
irreconcilable
quarrel denies her her
lover's embrace.

Troublesome circumstance--
Romeo Montague,
killing her kinsman in
contest of arms,
finds himself subject to
prosecutorial
fervor and flees from his
Juliet's charms.

Frantic and woebegone,
Romeo's Juliet,
hopelessly hoping her
lover to keep,
gets from her chaplain a
pharmacological
wonder that brings on a
death-aping sleep.

Rushing to be with her,
Juliet's Romeo
swallows a poison, be-
lieving her dead.
Waking, she--pitiful
epithalamion!--
joins him in death on that
sorrowful bed.


Jan

[sam]

Humpity Dumpity,
egg with an attitude,
loved by a multitude,
tragically died.

All the detectives came,
took everybody's name.
Coroner ruled it an
omelette-ocide.

sam