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Venefyxatu enters the banquet hall, looking somewhat out of place among the poets that frequent this part of the Mighty Pen.

 

Tanny and I were talking a few minutes ago ... or rather, complaining to each other about various little frustrations. One thing led to another and before I knew it I found myself accepting a challenge to put these frustrations into poetry.

 

Feel free to add your own irritations here :)

 

 

 

Computerstorewebsites

 

Information.

Lines upon lines

Or hardly three words.

It doesn't matter,

For what is sought

Is omitted.

 

Different terms

Mean the same thing.

They all say the same

Or maybe they don't.

Try to figure

It out yourself.

 

 

 

He grins at the people who've tried to make him write poetry in the past, then shimmers out of view again.

Posted (edited)

My part in the challenge... :)

 

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Indents

 

Click... click... done.

Preview.

Ewww.

 

Try again... click... click... ...

Sighs.

 

How easy it is

writing in paper

using indents

in neat verses...

 

Now go through clicking

infinite times

previewing a bunch

sighing each time:

Indent comes

and double-spacing.

Indent goes

and so does the spacing.

Back the indent

mixed spacing...

Indent twisted into garbled words...

 

... there goes the keyboard

flying in frustration.

 

 

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And a haiku:

 

Clicking happily

thinking indents are easy.

Preview. How naive...

Edited by Tanuchan
Posted

oh, i can't resist this one, though perhaps i should. ;)

 

 

I hear the phone ring

four times, then five

before a cheery voice

carols "Good morning!"

I begin to tell her why

I've called today

but thirty seconds is

all the time she has

to spare for me,

then i hear "You need

to talk to *this* person!"

and i'm on hold before

my mouth has opened

to ask her why.

The phone rings again,

three times, then four,

and the person i've been

sent to has again sent me

on to someone else

and i'm on hold again

silently wondering,

how can i get the

runaround

when i haven't even moved?

Posted

Choices

 

What are the right ones to make?

What I am told is right by you

Or what I feel?

 

In the end, who does it affect most?

You'd think my choices are my own

But I have to make you all happy, don't I

 

Why is it so difficult to understand?

I can make my own decisions

I mean, it is my life, right?

 

...

 

Right?

Posted

....beep....

 

....it is such a simple thing really....

 

....beep....

 

....shouldn't take you long to fix....

 

....beep....

 

....you should have done it months ago....

 

....beep....

 

....it is after all a rather important part in our....

 

....beep....

 

....alarm system, that we have still been....

 

....beep....

 

....paying you for even though it has not been....

 

....beep....

 

....working for the last five months....

 

....beep....

 

....when can you come fix it?....

 

....beep....

 

....you need to call head office for approval....

 

....beep....

 

....but that is what you said five....

 

....beep....

 

....months ago when i first called you....

 

....beep....

 

....click....

 

....beep....

 

....turn the music up again....

 

....beep....

 

:raven:

 

ooc: five months of intermitant beeping from a part of our alarm system that is mulfunctioning, and still not fixed. and i am polite to them..... really..... [ducks a pm from the elders as they move post to more pg13 place in the pen]

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