[Jack Land]

The man doing
little or nothing
is the man with
little or nothing
to do.

[Jayne Osborn]

OK folks, this looks like fun so let's go for it... I'll move it over to Drills & Amusements.

Thanks Jane.

Jayne

[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

Oooh, fab. I'm not going to start with a poem though as I think this space is lighter on illustrators/visual than poets/words. But I will stick my hand up for the first illustration/visual response if someone else posts a poem.

Sarah-Jane

[Jayne Osborn]

Well, I'm not sure how you'll illustrate this, Jane, but I'll kick off with my "Spinster’s Lament" pantoum...

Tell me, where can I find Mr. Right?
I seem destined to stay on my own.
Talk of marriage and men get uptight,
- same old story with each one I’ve known!

I seem destined to stay on my own;
why are some men afraid to commit?
Same old story with each one I’ve known -
I fall madly in love, then we split!

Why are some men afraid to commit?
Aren’t their feelings and needs just the same?
I fall madly in love, then we split.
It’s beginning to feel like a game.

Aren’t their feelings and needs just the same?
After all, love’s no different for men.
It’s beginning to feel like a game,
being let down again and again.

After all, love’s no different for men.
Will I always be left in the lurch,
being let down again and again?
I’m determined to keep up the search!

Will I always be left in the lurch?
Talk of marriage and men get uptight.
I’m determined to keep up the search!
Tell me, where can I find Mr. Right?

[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

Oooh, that's great. Thank-you Jayne.

The thing that's brilliant about this is that it isn't something I'd normally come across and it will be exciting to think about. I've a few ideas. Give me a couple of days and I'll post a response.

thank-you!

Sarah-Jane

[Ann Drysdale]

Is this meant to be a spreading thing, like a drop of ink on a blancmange, or is it a pairing of poet/artist one-to-one.

What I mean is, if others posted visual responses to Jane's poem, and then more others wrote poems in response to those pictures (like our jolly 'exquisite corpse' game) would it matter if it webbed-out all over itself?

Or do we wait for another, unrelated poem or picture to appear and then claim it?

In other words, has Jane bagsied Jayne?

[Sarah-Jane Crowson]

Hi Ann,

The way I've played it before is more linear (in other words, I have indeed bagsied Jayne).

Can we do linear to start with please so my poor brain can cope - and if we find it doesn't work or gets boring we can go all rhizome later on?

Sarah-Jane

[Orwn Acra]

Originally Posted by Jack Land

The man doing
little or nothing
is the man with
little or nothing
to do.

[Orwn Acra]

I don't know how to make my image smaller.

[Ann Drysdale]

I think I see, Matt. It's complicated but it would mean that more people can join in.

I got the lines-and-rhizomes expression from Jane, who has used the 'R' word twice. I confess I don't know for sure what she meant by it (it may have a specialist meaning in the art world) but I have taken it as a reproductive method where a root extrudes lumps that break off and make other plants, which seemed to be what Jane was trying to avoid.

Orwn has given us a root with a rhizome. It's little bloke's head. If one were to break it off and plant it, it might turn into a basil bush (Shut up, Johnny, you are a bad influence on me...)

Jane, would your game still work if we applied Matt's idea to this thread, or were you hoping to keep it exclusive for a bit longer?