# Message-Board World **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 23, 1999, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463 "1999-09-23T16:15:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 1999, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/1 "1999-09-23T16:15:00Z")
Does anyone like to write “prompted poetry”? As in… I give you a list of words and you have to incorporate those words into a piece of writing? Here is an example: Craft a poem using the following words: Pillow, Request, Stilted, Lonely, Gun, Girl, Dilemma, Original, Wolf, Mother, Spill # [these are all words taken from the user names of some of the most frequent post-ers on the poetry message boards i haunt] message-board world and so this stilted girl types through the gunshot villages of her mind sees words pressed in loneliness forged for others of her kind words spill from keyboards onto screens, some people mother the thoughts with original concern, wonder what dilemmas will rise from the sometimes lost and the stilted go on stilting, written wolves howl but nothing is harmed, and this lonely girl rests upon the pillow of other people’s charms. * * * [OfficeGirl’s Cubicle Farm](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) “Argue for your limitations; sure enough, they’re yours.” ---
**Author:** ![ChrisCTP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@ChrisCTP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChrisCTP)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/2 "1999-09-24T09:56:00Z")
## Pillow, Request, Stilted, Lonely, Gun, Girl, Dilemma, Original, Wolf, Mother, Spill I’ve spent the last 20 minutes trying to come up with something. I guess I’m just NOGODDAMNGOOD at “assigned creativity”… * * * Veni, Vidi, Visa … I came, I saw, I bought. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/3 "1999-09-24T11:32:00Z")
You don’t want to read my poetry. And neither would I. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/4 "1999-09-24T12:19:00Z")
my pillow tightly held my breath request your scent to smell stilted my heart breaking lonely no chance taking a gun cool metal in my fevered grip I’m a girl dilemma hip original thoughts slip like a wolf, in my mind. Mother? My thoughts spill I let this go until the fire creeps in my heart deep anger pain shame I hunt you down. Single shot the pain is over I dispar my parents cover No one sees the hole inside killing frees what I long to hide. Does that count? If you want really dark shit, just ask me. It’s there, all the time, and yeah, it’s personal. It’s off the cuff but to me, there is meaning. Give me some happy words and I’ll take a stab at “nice” poetry. This just brings out my “dark” side. ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/5 "1999-09-24T12:29:00Z")
Okay, Happier words. Hmmmmmmmmm. Here we go: yellow fingertips radiate barefoot eden myth slender smile Happy composing! * * * [OfficeGirl’s Cubicle Farm](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) “Argue for your limitations; sure enough, they’re yours.” ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/6 "1999-09-24T12:30:00Z")
words given: delicious, pedestrian, smear, sincerely, crumble, hunger, soul, and plastic ``` So sincerely I smear the lipstick upon my melted plastic smile, grin at the hunger of wanderers, watch their pedestrian souls crumble, and laugh when they are swallowed by the cracks of their beloved sidewalks. and why do you think the hungry wanderers deliciously smile at me in turn? ``` * * * [OfficeGirl’s Cubicle Farm](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) “Argue for your limitations; sure enough, they’re yours.” ---
**Author:** ![JoeBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JoeBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeBlank)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/7 "1999-09-24T13:27:00Z")
Byz, that was fantastic. Raw. ---
**Author:** ![JoeBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JoeBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeBlank)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/8 "1999-09-24T13:37:00Z")
Here’s my shot. Walk barefoot radiate yellow smiles at the slender girl reach fingertips almost touching wake yawn realize myth close eyes and go back to eden Feels forced, not as inspired as Byz’s. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/9 "1999-09-24T14:24:00Z")
I wanna see TennHippie make a limerick out of THOSE words! * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/10 "1999-09-24T14:32:00Z")
JoeBlank: Thank you! But you realize there are some here who consider me a newbie so anything I post is shit. Sorry, just can’t get over the PIT. Oh my God that rhymes! But thank YOU. No, yours was not forced. Felt flowing. A part. In tune to you. I like it! And OfficeGirl, you are just way too good at this! No fair! You know the words ahead of time! Just kidding. Let me try to be happy in a poem thread. This is really HARD for me so okay: my mind calls yellow it flows out from my fingertips like strands tugging at my hips spilling out along the world I feel fire and passion color, like heat, can radiate from my barefoot toes feels like fate garden of Eden your hand in mine is this a myth that our slender minds create? You smile I echo we fall to the carpet of the leaves around us passion within us explodes my heart can’t contain want let go the pain feel your arms around me lust can’t think nor see want is that all this can be? No you take my hand again hold me close whisper “when” the earth springs anew our love shines through the glass of the world walk from this place Original sin has no face within you me us. There is only us. ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/11 "1999-09-24T14:43:00Z")
Byz, wow. You’ve done it again. I love doing this and you do it better than most. How about you throwing out the next words? That way we’re all at the same playing level. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![JoeBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JoeBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeBlank)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/12 "1999-09-24T14:57:00Z")
Byz, (do you mind the short nickname?) 450+ posts does not equal a newbie. There are some here who have time to post all day every day. Trust me, you are a valuable reg. Of course that’s coming from someone barely above lurker. OfficeGirl, you’ve inspired us. Keep it up, maybe someone else will join in. Loosely based on a true story: pedestrian hungers lunch across the street delicious tomato soup to warm the soul take out sincerely served car skids tires squeal rubber smell smear soup cup crumbles office news via plastic e-mail: be wary police are citing jaywalkers hefty fine ---
**Author:** ![Byzantine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@Byzantine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Byzantine)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/13 "1999-09-24T15:28:00Z")
Wow, Joe, I thought I got dark… words, words… I’m in so many fights right now on the board… I’ll throw out words but won’t post a poem… K? And I don’t mind Byz… that’s what everyone calls me in a post back. Even if they are slamming me I still like it. I’m gonna call you Joe… K? Red pen phone photo coffee spider knife planet spinning stick Okay, that’s what I can see from my desk. Let’s go folks! ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 1999, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/14 "1999-09-25T05:28:00Z")
Try this list: to be not to be question slings arrows outrageous fortune fardels contumely conscience cowardly ## Let’s see somebody write poetry with that!! “non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem” – William of Ockham ---
**Author:** ![JoeBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JoeBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeBlank)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/15 "1999-09-24T18:16:00Z")
Pluto, I stayed away from OfficeGirl’s first list because someone (Byz) had already done a far better job than I could hope for. I think someone has also done well with your list, so I won’t touch it. Byz, Joe is fine. Your list was hard. Since you said it was the view from you desk I took a little artistic license: Byzantine sips her coffee the phone does not ring the spider is spinning it’s world wide web she picks up her pen sticks it back in the cup next to the exacto-knife glances at his photo his red hair and goes back to that other planet that message board retreat ---
**Author:** ![JoeBlank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@JoeBlank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoeBlank)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/16 "1999-09-24T18:35:00Z")
Here is a list from where I sit. Tuesday glass hair stick eyes scale map mountain shoe ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/17 "1999-09-24T18:52:00Z")
this pen in my hand bleeds into me with heavy redness and i know the phone call can’t be far your photo, once framed in silver now stained with coffee and something else you’re like a spider within me always spinning with spite i hold the knife like a planet carefully i move it from end to end but it sticks in some places and doesn’t want to cut those parts of me * * * [OfficeGirl’s Cubicle Farm](http://www.homestead.com/allusions/allusions.html) “Argue for your limitations; sure enough, they’re yours.” ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/18 "1999-09-24T19:09:00Z")
list: to be not to be question slings arrows outrageous fortune fardels contumely conscience cowardly aw geez, here goes nothing. i guess i really asked for it, huh? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= he asks the question as if he thinks he is clever. anyone can throw around shakespeare when it’s convenient. to be honest, romeo and juliet bore me and my conscience is heavy with the arrows of contempt i carry so what is to be done with the fardels he brings to me? they are like slings on my back, weighted with contumelies of everyday conversation each of us jaded with boredom and conscience both of us too cowardly to ask for something different, some new fortune because maybe we both know that is not to be =-=-=-=-=- whew- that was a hard one! sucky too. ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/19 "1999-09-24T19:24:00Z")
## Wow! Way to go, Office Girl! Not quite up to the original (IMHO) but I’m surprised anyone even tried, much less did so well. I’m shocked right out of my facetiousness! “non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem” – William of Ockham ---
**Author:** ![OfficeGirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/97f17d/32.png) [@OfficeGirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OfficeGirl)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 1999, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463/20 "1999-09-24T19:26:00Z")
okay, JoeBlank, here is my response. god, it sounds like a country song. not even a good country song. well, here goes. ``` Tuesday glass hair stick eyes scale map mountain shoe ``` =-=-=-=–=-=-=-=-= here’s a map to somewhere i’ll give it to you if you fix your eyes on me that way you do it’s tuesday and i don’t know where to hang my hat or how to fix my hair because your eyes have closed and i can’t see and there’s nowhere for me to look except through that broken glass so just put on your shoes like you always do and whisper lemon goodbyes to me while i sing my tuesday lullabye and curse the mountain in my throat [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/message-board-world/8463.md?page=2)