Cherry Trees
Pink pedals sprinkle the grass.
Pink pedals shower the lawn.
Pink pedals rain o’er the yard.
Pink pedals grace their old home.
Pink pedals cascade in the wind.
Pink pedals blanket the landscape.
With time comes only greatness.
Long awaited (I think), at least the Image Poem arrives.
The assignment was to create a poem composed of images. Lots of images. They are supposed to communicate an emotion and a theme. I’m kind of worried about mine because when it was submitted for peer review, the desired emotion wasn’t really identified. I only made a couple of edits to it, but I hope that they clarified the emotion more.
Regardless: I hope you enjoy. I’m interested in hearing your thoughts.
| Guiding Light
The trees sway in invisible wind The darkness moves - The coyote howls in mourning. Muffled shouts The beacon is off. Armed statues wait in the alley All hail – and stop The beacon is off |
Okay. Exercise two.
Part one: Join a scene and an emotion in a paragraph or poem, using images to describe it in great detail. The scenes and emotions you can pick are listed. I picked high noon on the river, and… sinister. I’m not sure if I did well, the teacher wasn’t sure if I had picked dangerous or sinister. >__>
Part two: write a bad poem. Like, bad poetry, the worst that you can imagine. Then explain what’s so terrible about it.
Part three: Take a paragraph that was given to us, and space it out to turn it into a poem. In a poem, timing is everything, so the spaces were important. Then write a paragraph explaining your reasoning on the spaces. Then at the end of that paragraph, define the difference between prose and poetry.
I got 100% on this assignment~. Read More »
I have a lot of trouble spelling “exercise” sometimes…
Anyway, this quarter I’m taking Creative Writing I. Which I love. Oh how I love it. It’s a purely online class, which is good, because I can work on it wherever I wish and that’s always nice for an author. Today’s assignment was to first crank out ten “concrete, significant details” about your location - that is, details that can help you imagine the object being described very clearly, by appealing to your senses. You were also to include two metaphors and two similes, and label them. The second part was to write a poem. About food. It’s supposed to be in a certain format, and very short, so it wasn’t too difficult, and it was quite fun.
Below, I allow you to gaze upon my raw and unedited work. These are ALL the details and poems I came up with, from which I picked my favorites. Just thought you might like to see something of this sort. Read More »
While I do not (or try not to) assume that whoever I might be talking to understands the faces I make in internet conversation, I do tend to make these faces anyway, out of reflex, to express emotion. It has been brought to my attention that frankly, you have no idea what they mean. So, I hope to clear this up, on the off chance I use them in my posts. That, and because evidently, my writing amuses you, and you haven’t had any of my words for a while, so why not? Read More »
http://www.fairgamed.org/fairgame.htm
ENEMY :
SP Order. Fair game. May be deprived of property or injured by any means by any Scientologist without any discipline of the Scientologist. May be tricked, sued or lied to or destroyed.
Absolute0SK (3:09:45 PM): How come they’re allowed to exist? > >
Absolute0SK (3:09:48 PM): I don’t think that’s legal.
Mavrick882 (3:10:22 PM): Anon’s get followed home, killed, raped, whatever the f*** they feel like doing to us. And Scientology protects them within the law, so if you don’t have a mask…Do one brave thing, then run like hell.
Mavrick882 (3:10:54 PM): Scientology hides behind being a “religion”.
Absolute0SK (3:11:05 PM): Religions are not allowed to kill people.
Absolute0SK (3:11:07 PM): That’s legal no matter what.
Absolute0SK (3:11:09 PM): *illegal
Mavrick882 (3:11:24 PM): Scientology has some of the best damned lawyers.
To say “algebraic expression” is vague; it can be something simple like 4x-1 or it can be a long and complex mutli-degree, rational or radical function, perhaps even an implicit equation with more than two variables. No matter what, however, algebra is constant. The procedures are always the same, no matter how complex the equation. With the mathematician’s expertise, the complexity of solvable equations increases; it’s merely a matter of confidence and familiarity with the concepts and procedures at hand. The most skilled of mathematicians can build and solve equations with several dozen variables and even hundreds of terms, given the value of a few variables. Such an equation rarely has much of a bearing in reality, but nevertheless, the skill is certainly there and it takes a lot of practice to get there.
Programming is interestingly similar; the novice programmer can write a few lines, which produce a minor effect. Sometimes they can even write one effect that depends upon user input (a variable). Given time, the novice could write their own version of the classic calculator on all computers. As a programmer gets better, he can write larger and more complex programs, ones that deal with more variable on a grander scale. The best programmers can write a program that depends on many, many variables to produce a specific result.
Is it interesting to compare these various fields to each other? Further, if they are so similar, is it surprising that I find them all so amusing? So interesting?
I think I am interested in these three “different” things because I see them as very similar. They are all mathematical in nature. Yes, I am comparing writing to math. Fiction writing, at least, is very similar to an algebra worksheet, and because of that, I enjoy it, just like I enjoy long, complex algebra problems that are simple but require a lot of work. Read More »
If you’ll recall, CommandoMan is my fictional MMBN character. He’s a powerful Navi who resembles a hacker in the Matrix, in a way - he has a few hacks and edits available that he can use against his enemies (one of my favorites being a “lock”, which prevents Navis and programs from leaving a certain area of the internet. Using this, he can force a target into fighting. Fear the Agents who get ahold of such a weapon!).
CommandoMan’s specialty is versatility, adaptability, the ability to have no weakness. He has changed as I’ve gotten older. The first few versions of CM were before I learned how to sprite; the shape was the same as the first few sprites I’ll show you, but his weaponry was a little off. He’s always had the sky-blue sword, but his other arm was a vulcannon (the MMBN name for a machine gun). He had a variety of other weapons/attacks that focused mostly on swords and artillery attacks. He was also mostly heartless in my mind.
As I got older (and better at MMBN), his weaponry changed. An awesome-looking stick I found in a friend’s backyard was responsible for the vulcannon edit below. His “folder” (a collection of once-per-battle special attacks) evolved to include various elements, so that he could counter any other elements.
If you look across the index, you’ll find all my posts - save the Anon overview - have 4 comments except the literature one. I also logged in today to 4 comments awaiting moderation (all of which were spam).
Maybe I shouldn’t have approved yours, grandpa…
Anonymous is a strange entity.
They have their own sort of religion, in a way. Anonymous is everyone; everyone is Anonymous. They’re a group of people on the internet who are… bored. They hide out on the internet where anonymity is easy to preserve and discuss many things. What separates them from other ‘groups’ of the internet is that they act.
If you are bored enough, search Youtube for a video on Fox News’ report on Anonymous. Be aware before you search that Fox News is - pardon my italian - retarded. They don’t know anything about the actual Internet or the actual Anonymous. (I don’t know or care if they can be trusted but I heard a comment on Youtube somewhere that stated that the Fox News anonymous they did a report on wasn’t at all related to the actual Anonymous.) Read More »
