#internal rhyme

[shawnlbird]

A Hope Poem

This poem is wishful_________wistfulWhistle fears into the darkSpark hopeScope out the dreamsthat mean the mostMark out those goalsBe wishful, even when wistfuland whistle whteverbrings joy into beingSing hopeBe peaceAchieve what we needBelieve whollyin hope....I was leafing through my draft poetry notebook and found this one written in the fall. It seems a very appropriate poem for the first day…

[whiterosebrian]

Bearded Gnomes

This exercise comes from one of the exercises that I did during a previously mentioned online course on spoken-word poetry.  The instructor asked me to observe what immediately surrounded me, fixate on one particular thing, and “wondering” questions, and note those.  As I was in the local metaphysical store while watching the video, I made notes about a display of plush gnomes.  Thus, I’ve written this exercise.  I again experimented with a novel form, but I mainly intended to push internal rhyming.  I found that slightly easier to handle than ending rhymes—the results certainly seem less awkward than the ending rhymes that I’ve had to contrive before.  The final revisions to the text before posting were trickier than I thought, however.

Little plush gnomes sat on a display

In a store that sold lush crystals,

Oracular cards, singing bowls, candles,

And sculptures of gorgeous ancient gods.

The gnomes warmed the hearts of old women

Through sapient gazes from under their hats.

How did gnomes with pointed caps

That overlap their upper faces become

Such common gifts, keepsakes, and decor?

Who really are the gnomes?

Hidden people who drift beneath the ground?

Spirits who freely build the earth?

The store’s owners claim to be selective

Of who supplies crystals from offshore.

Who crafted the plush bearded gnomes

In what conditions in what nation?

What would the gnomes say when learning the truth?

Would they shut themselves off from us?

Whatever the truth, maybe the gnomes still

call out to you and me.

Let us touch the palms of our hands

To the earth and receive vibrations from the depths,

Let our spirits expand wide,

And listen to breaths and words of gnomes.

[peaamlipoetrydoctor]

Ghost House Soused by Dust-Crusted Longing

I sit, stalling, with my chosen tipple –

a bottle of juice that began as apple –

ripe heart howling as I stretch to swipe –

ritual that glottal-STOPS. Stutters rustily.

I have lost the fluency of writing the rite –

I watch the screen dimly dappled by light –

hear the near screen-windows tap and stutter,

stalled from draping by the shutter stopper –

meadows of shadows stencil a dusty stipple

over mouse and pencil, stacked by the stash

of wasted paper, dumped rumpled paperbacks

my desire cancelled, encrusted, toppled.

My most-trusted typeface forms a trowel

I type a-right with calloused finger-pads,

throttling invention, showering the drift

of once-trusty dreams with shade-malus

dowsing the loss with mad mead. Stylus

jumps against the groove. Messes the

movement of the manuscript. Motion

is how – and – ow – and I accept it all.

All right.

Nice prompt for Day 13 - wordbank time (my kinda prompt!)

Finally, our optional prompt for the day asks you to play with rhyme. Start by creating a “word bank” of ten simple words. They should only have one or two syllables apiece. Five should correspond to each of the five senses (i.e., one word that is a thing you can see, one word that is a type of sound, one word that is a thing you can taste, etc). Three more should be concrete nouns of whatever character you choose (i.e., “bridge,” “sun,” “airplane,” “cat”), and the last two should be verbs. Now, come up with rhymes for each of your ten words. Use your expanded word-bank, with rhymes, as the seeds for your poem. Your effort doesn’t actually have to rhyme in the sense of having each line end with a rhymed word but try to use as much soundplay in your poem as possible.

This didn't start out as creepy - but it, ahem, GOT THERE!

[if-loki-was-a-fox]

I think Grian's flavour of clinginess and inability to be separated from Mumbo is my favorite thing ever, because it's basically all built up around the fact that he needs to be ruining Mumbo's day every waking moment of his life or he goes a little bit stir crazy

He needs his proper dose of pestering this one guy he imprinted onto super hard half a decade ago or else he'll get malnourished and die

If Mumbo isn't either exasperatedly repairing whatever redstone Grian ruined or being dragged along by him to cause even greater problems then Grian crumples in on himself and implodes

[brian-in-finance]

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Photo: IFTA, 2 February 2018

Remember International Women’s Day 2024?

[rhyme-thinks-stuff]

You know, when I was playing through the first Hades game I was still mid religion-crisis and queerness-realization, and I'm just thinking about how nice it is going to be to Not worry about that while playing Hades II

I don't have to worry about whether it's more religiously correct to romance a guy as a guy character, or a gal as a gal player!

I can just enjoy playing the game and get flustered about pretty women and draw yuri of the characters without a care in the world! it'll be great :D

[moon-jellie]

Get on your knees suck the keys hanging from their carabiner

[johnconn]

Sigzai vs skk discourse is insane for number of reasons actually. listen i think sigzai is really cute and shit and i dont mind it at all but you have to have something wrong with you to think both of these actually compete in any way. Skk is literally ingrained as part of bsd lore whereas sigzai started as a borderline crack ship. Thats just my opinion tho. Peace and love

[drinkingbitterboy]

hello it's time to yell about song lyrics again: horny edition

ever listen to "potion approaching" and "don't let it get you down" in one sitting? because now i have! and oh my god!

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i think it's clear a matinée's about to start and someone's gonna play the leading part if you know what i mean

[milkbreadtoast]

Sakura Kiss English Lyrics

Was suddenly overcome by nostalgia and in a frenzy wrote my own english lyrics for Sakura Kiss (Ouran HSHC) just now while in the shower MFNSMND it was fun and I'm actually p proud of these... Sharing in case anyone wants to do a cover w these lyrics!!🥹 (pls credit and show me if u do🥺)

I also did a v quick recording (v out of breath😵‍💫) to show how the lyrics match up w the song 🫣 LMAO (i dropped my phone in the beginning KFJSJ)

EDIT: I did a new cover here! A bit less out of breath this time🤧

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Sakura Kiss

(milkbreadtoast ver)

KISS KISS FALL IN LOVE (HEY HEY HEY)

I've realized that all this time... you've always been right here with me

But is it hate, or like, or am I going crazy?

If i could look inside my heart

and see my feelings clear as day,

lady or host, it doesn't(/wouldn't) matter either way.

When love comes into our lives,

we dont always know why

but when i look in your eyes...

MAYBE YOU'RE MY LOVE

I want(/need) to see you now

so I can give you a cherry blossom kiss, and if your heartbeat skips then it's love you know!

Tomorrow's far away, let's focus on today

It's just you and me,

and this beautiful spring

is a flower's blooming hour of love!

(HEY HEY) MAYBE YOU'RE MY LOVE!

[akkivee]

kuko actually has the perfect reason to come hang out w/ the yamadas! like how he'd pay ichiro back after they reconciled and he can do so by helping out w/ household chores since even though he hates doing them, i'm sure he's pretty damn good at them when he puts his mind to it lmao. another is after the events in the s2 anime when he decided to stay and helps with the rebuilding? kuko voice: let me stay over in exchange for my body (doing chores) ichiro: (spits out his cola) ???

i’m sure ichiro would feel like he’s living the good life now that he needs to whack both his bros and his bf upside their heads because they’re bickering over his attention lmao literally like 99 problems but not enough love ain’t one 😭😭😭

[shawnlbird]

poem-insomnia

Black nightsleep tightcreeping creaturethoughts featurerampant racingadrenaline pumpingthumping heart.Black nightcount sheepcrush the creeping thinkingshrink the thinkingblock thinkingstop thinkingBlack nightsleep tightYeah.Right.

[amarguerite]

I’m so impressed at how they managed to perform Stromae’s stuff live, with no pre-recorded songs?? 

[coldgoldlazarus]

Metroid II and Metroid Prime 2 share something fundmental, I think, and it's not the number.

The darkness, for sure

Samus deleting an entire species, sure

But also, contrasting that with her empathy and willingness to help

[cto10121]

In Love (Aimer)

Original English lyrics to my nemesis the bane of my existence “Aimer” from Roméo et Juliette. My latest breakthrough is without a doubt the counterpart solos; no matter how many improvements I made, I could never come up with decent lines. I do slightly regret not being able to include some ideas like leaving fear behind and love giving meaning to your life (the Hungarian equivalent especially is so nice). But at least with these lyrics I get to have both commentary re: the feud and epic foreshadowing in my non-aria aria, which is nice. What can I say, my English RetJ are expert shade-throwers, 200% done with literally everything, and have slightly feral vibes (canon-compliant, naturally). You guys will tell me if I have completed the assignment. Reblog, like, comment, etc.

MAJOR-ISH EDIT 7/9/23: Tweaked some of the words (the "our" was perhaps too on-the-nose for my tastes). Also decided to replace the Chorus echo of Juliet's verse with an original one à la Hungarian to lessen repetition somewhat and give a sense of ˜progression. If you dislike it, just pretend it's the Juliet verse echo; that works too. Otherwise...not gonna lie, this is looking pretty official; at the very least the B-melody verse is set in stone. Which means, of course, that I will 99.999% change it up even more, lol.

MAJOR EDIT 8/30/23: Aaaaaaaand I’m back, changing things up some more. Surprise! So apparently the lot of you really didn’t like the repetitions…for a famously repetitious song at both the lyrical and melodic level. 😑 Luckily for you lot, I wasn’t satisfied with all the “I”s, so I took this opportunity to switch it to “we” and keep the gerunds. I had to sacrifice some of my internal rhymes (RIP), but I kept the most important stuff re: RetJ rhyming together. Plus, now they refer to each other as the married couple they most certainly are. It’s canonical, folks. Either way, this turned out to be one of my most faithful translations yet.

In Love (Aimer)

Romeo In love beyond this life’s end We’ll be until we’re rising And yearning in flight, in splendor In love, beyond this life’s end

Juliet In love, beyond this time’s end We’ll be until we’re binding And burning in flame, in tender In love, beyond this time’s end

Both In love, we’re strong together Fighting for one another Plighting to one another Our lives, our souls forever

Chorus In love beyond this life’s end We’ll be until we’re rising And yearning in flight, in splendor In love, beyond this life’s end

In love beyond this life’s dream We’ll be until we’re living And dwelling in hope, in meaning In love, beyond this life’s dream

In love beyond this world’s wrong (Juliet: Beyond this world’s wronging) We’ll be until we’re dying (Juliet: In love till I’m dying) And drowning in night, in longing In love, beyond this world’s wrong

In love beyond this life’s end (Romeo: Beyond this life’s ending) We’ll be until we’re rising (Romeo: In love till I’m rising) And yearning in flight, in splendor In love, beyond this life’s end

All In love...

[brian-in-finance]

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Remember… now, I change the future every time I save a person's life here, and Jamie, even though he's not a time-traveller, his very presence here has affected the future of a lot of people who aren't breathing anymore, and a few who are, like you and Jemmy… So time, space, history be damned. — Claire Fraser, S05E02 Between Two Fires