# Post random lines from random "poems" you've written **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 26, 2006, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134 "2006-06-26T00:25:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Salem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8c91f0/32.png) [@Salem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Salem)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/21 "2006-06-27T04:56:28Z")
I seek safety in danger Sanity in madness Bring me to the edge but keep me from falling Pushing away as I hold on tight ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/22 "2006-06-27T05:06:39Z")
She wanted peace. She wanted quiet. She had the wrong words To make rhyme and meter come out right. ---
**Author:** ![Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b782af/32.png) [@Clockwork\_And\_Candy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clockwork_And_Candy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/23 "2006-06-27T05:16:55Z")
I used to write poetry in my early teens. Here’s a part on one who’s title escapes me. Beware of angst. the Eternal Serpent spirals downward, forever falling can you find me in the azure sky? or will you cast your eyes elsewhere? the Beast cries its’ last lament and still you are not here I’m all alone now, all eyes are on me, yet still I sit alone Will you look for me? I can still remember the day I lost my mind Can you? Will you? I’m here if you want me-- waiting upon your bittersweet shores willing and ready for you should you chose to destroy me, I wouldn’t care I’m lost already, trapped in oceans of blue without a voice WTF was I thinking? I mean, I was only thirteen at the time, but _still_. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![MaxTheVool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MaxTheVool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MaxTheVool)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/24 "2006-06-27T08:06:17Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > She wanted peace. > She wanted quiet. > She had the wrong words > To make rhyme and meter come out right. That reminds me of a limerick I wrote (the first two lines were provided) (I’m not sure if it was “whitehall”… some other place might scan better.) There once was a lad from whitehall Who attended a fancy dress ball A lass, she danced with him Alas, she’d no rhythm Just like the last line of this limerick. It has no rhythm. No rhythm at all. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/25 "2006-06-27T08:41:03Z")
Interesting thread. I personally write what I call “proto-poety”. This is done by getting your mind into a state where its natural tendency is to think in rhyme (perhaps by closing your eyes and repeating rhyming words and phrases for 15 minutes), then, without thinking at all about topic or phrasing (or really anything at all), pouring a stream of consciousness onto the page. When you do this, you generally end up with semi-random yet surprisingly semi-coherent blurbs that can, if you care to think about it, serve as insights into your subconcious. Or total shit. One of the two. Here are some examples, from the bowels of my own thoughts: In myself I see a time Yet in time I see no self Self becomes a state of mind Time becomes an empty shelf On this shelf now rest our thoughts And our consciousness so dear Mind and self in time on shelf …will the time-shelf disappear? * * * Worlds within a single thought that floats inside my head Many thoughts within these worlds are come and gone and dead And in this complex abstract web, what truly can be said When in my head these thoughts are dead before their truths are bled? * * * We are us, I am myself, and you and I are we. If myself and you are us, then what else can we be? You aren’t me, and I’m not you, that much is plain to see So what bizarreness is this “us” that forms an entity? Is it, and are we, the totals of our hearts and minds? Or is there, too, some common soul we share but cannot find? Do we keep our sense of selves when thus we are combined? Or is uniqueness put aside by you and I in kind? And if within this bond we truly form some brand new “us” Is our bond akin to friendship? Have we gained a newfound trust? To honestly say we are “we”, is unity a must? Or is it just that “we” and “us” are phantoms of the mental dust that swirls up in confusion’s gusts when you and I and both our minds remain combined for some brief time in which we find we cannot bind our consciousnesses thus? ---
**Author:** ![Dervorin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Dervorin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dervorin)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/26 "2006-06-27T08:41:34Z")
From my most successful poem to date (it’s been read by FIVE people!!), boldly entitled _Elegy Written on the Death of a Favourite Sock_, a gripping saga of loss and longing, of tragedy and disaster at the hands of a merciless washing machine, cursed be its name! Where art thou now, O lonely, left-footed friend of mine? Wandering through Valhalla, some afterlife divine? Art thou gone to Oblivion, or gone indeed to Hell? Or reborn as a handkerchief - who among us can tell? ---
**Author:** ![rinni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@rinni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rinni)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/27 "2006-06-27T12:35:38Z")
From a poem I wrote in high school: Biology assignments take way too long to do. Let’s throw them in the toilet, and cover them with poo! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/28 "2006-06-27T12:43:12Z")
I think, as I sit by the laughing river Watching the wind making ripples, How I’d like to take a spoonful of honey And spread it all over… (Ode to an attractive blonde co-worker, via IM. An amusingly creative afternoon ensued, and also a slight case of blue balls.) ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/29 "2006-06-27T12:59:18Z")
We eat hot sweet love and fluffy eggs for breakfast, Milk drunk after the storm, Juice the bitter crush of life, We who have felt the void. Gotta love teenage poetry! ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 1:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/30 "2006-06-27T13:16:07Z")
> [@LiveOnAPlane](#): > > That’s interesting. I rather like it. Aw shucks… ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Clam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@Happy\_Clam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Clam)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/31 "2006-06-27T13:53:30Z")
One of my favourites, although not mine: > [@A Love Sonnet](#): > > Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? > But it is spring, and you are hotter. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/32 "2006-06-27T14:51:51Z")
> [@MaxTheVool](#): > > That sounds suspiciously like REAL poetry. What’s up with that? It was real poetry. In the spirit, as I saw it, of the OP it was a couplet out of context. Was I just supposed to make something up? That would be tough since my muse left me. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/33 "2006-06-27T15:01:53Z")
Part of a poem I wrote called “Banana Skin” It’s a peeling, But it’s not appealing. Okay, so it’s the whole poem. Here’s another called “Discordant Bell” It’s a’ peeling, But it’s not appealing. And another called “Overdue Stripper” She’s a’ peeling, But she’s not appealing. Do you see a trend? I find myself quite the amusing fellow. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/34 "2006-06-27T16:10:30Z")
A few lines from my putative poems: for telling me i am not to pierce my ears because your father had not pierced ears nor had his father If you try to slice a pomegranate straight through the blood of the fruit will shoot out and stain your fingers, your knife, your counter, your clothes. when we shattered the glass last time your skin in the morning was warm and soft, and your lips were moist. You killed yourself - they bombed the Taj Mahal, Removed and melted down the Eiffel Tower … The love I dissevered was buried under a date as precise as a calendar or a scalpel. but still it was kind of strange to hear the Mountie say, “you can’t go in here, this is the House of Commons” I love you much too much for just one gender. I want to smash my angel’s devil’s face, reduce the death-shell thing to harmless shards, and it will be an act of vengeant grace. and the dead queen is the goddess of spring; the fruit of death is so heavy with seeds that they grow facets against each other and explode at a touch ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/35 "2006-06-27T16:51:31Z")
The haiku’s gnomic pith hath delighted Generations of esthetes benighted But the limerick’s shape Fits the sassy, lewd jape And it rhymes, which is not to be slighted! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Unkempt\_One](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b782af/32.png) [@The\_Unkempt\_One](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Unkempt_One)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/36 "2006-06-27T19:09:15Z")
What ho, foul primate, Stick not your penis there! ---
**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/37 "2006-06-27T19:37:01Z")
> [@](#): > > I > > am a tampon > > _Sucking the BLOOD out of life_ (Okay, I just can’t post that without background info…my friends and I wrote a poem called “Ode to the Literary Magazine” way back in high school. The lit mag was just FULL of bad teen angst “poetry,” so we wrote something that mocked all style of it and submitted it to the mag. It was, sadly, rejected.) ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/38 "2006-07-01T00:54:53Z")
The warrant was signed by the Guv’nor with care To say that Nick Santer must go to the chair. ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/39 "2006-07-01T04:37:07Z")
Here comes a cop. He’s not looking at me. I think I will move, anyway. They always notice if you are still in the same place, later. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2006, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134/40 "2006-07-01T21:35:06Z")
Here’s a fairly short poem that’s not too serious. It’s more bizarre in context than out of it: Come children, let’s play a game that is fun, cut off your head and spin it on your thumb, just saw through the bone, it’s easy as sin, and then pass it on to your next of kin. Now in your hands is the head of your neighbor, you can attach it without too much labor, stick it right on your neck, you might need some glue, and look in the mirror-- it’s the new you! Now go home and show your mommies and dads, they’ll love the change and although they’ll act sad when they see you they’ll cry and they’ll cry and they’ll moan, but really all that’s just them playing along! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-random-lines-from-random-poems-youve-written/362134.md?page=3)