Let's Write Poems!
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queensthiefIt's time to write countdown poems to carry us through to the 23rd.
Here's today's:
Just twelve more days to go!
The time crawls by so slow-
Ly till the book appears
It seems more like twelve years!
I cannot wait to know
Just what happens to So-
Phos and of course to Gen.
It's ages until then!
Join in, everybody!
Here's today's:
Just twelve more days to go!
The time crawls by so slow-
Ly till the book appears
It seems more like twelve years!
I cannot wait to know
Just what happens to So-
Phos and of course to Gen.
It's ages until then!
Join in, everybody!
*joins in with glee*
Date: 3/12/10 02:09 pm (UTC)Non-US fans beginning to panic.
From all over the world
The enquiry is heard
"Where oh where can we get it from quick?!"
I fail at limericks, but it's true! The only place I can get CofK from is Amazon.co.uk, and it won't even be sent 'til the 25th D:
Another (non-spoilery!) effort:
Temptation: A chatzy monologue
No! DON'T spoil me-
I have no desire to know.
I read books in entirety -
Look and see my resulting halo.
Don't tell me the plot
I've self-control and I've got
a couple of weeks still to go.
Don't tell me which king
conspires with which
or against whom their plot is conceived
Escapades, quests - anything
I'm not scratching that itch
With less information I'm pleased!
Go on then, read your preview on Amazon!
I'll stay here and keep myself pure
I know not to go down that road.
Past experience has showed
Once you start there's no cure
You'll just come back yearning to read on!
Oh those chapters they call to you do they?
They're stuck in your head, you say?
I'll just wait here for you
While you go read the preview -
Don't say I didn't warn you honey
Soon you won't think it's funny
There's two weeks still to go
Before the rest of it's to know!
...is she gone? Is it clear to go?
Quick, riffle through that bookmarks list
I *won't* look, though they'll never know
She'll be back and want to tell me what I've missed
...
I'm just here to see the cover...
Maybe the next page, then another...
teptation from each pixellated letter.
My halo will be tarnished
And yes, I thought I could do better
But pre-crime, anticipation's got me punished!
WHY NOT? Sixty pages
And I've alrady waited ages
Sorry morals, goodbye restraint
I can live with a spoiler's taint.
This waiting makes me sick
And it's so easy just to - *click*.
Re: *joins in with glee*
Date: 3/12/10 03:37 pm (UTC)Re: *joins in with glee*
Date: 3/12/10 06:00 pm (UTC)TLE, are you still spoiler-free?
I forgot to put a little disclaimer saying I was talking about myself if anyone (I gave in in about 20 seconds, though) not anyone else. Staying spoiler-free is hard, and to those who've done it, well, I admire you, oh pure white angels.
Re: *joins in with glee*
Date: 3/12/10 11:23 pm (UTC)Re: *joins in with glee*
Date: 3/12/10 11:27 pm (UTC)Re: *joins in with glee*
Date: 3/12/10 11:30 pm (UTC)Re: *joins in with glee*
Date: 3/13/10 02:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/12/10 03:16 pm (UTC)Phos and of course to Gen.
Cheater.
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Date: 3/12/10 11:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/13/10 12:06 am (UTC)I get *extrea* points for that!
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Date: 3/13/10 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/13/10 01:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/13/10 02:31 am (UTC)Huh. I thought maybe that was more poetic license.
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Date: 3/12/10 08:52 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 3/13/10 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/13/10 01:34 am (UTC)Whazzat mean????? I want to use it in conversation!
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Date: 3/13/10 01:37 am (UTC)Jeeez, you guys impress me constantly.
Straddling...hmm
Date: 3/13/10 02:14 am (UTC)Re: Straddling...hmm
Date: 3/13/10 02:17 am (UTC)Re: Straddling...hmm
Date: 3/13/10 02:32 am (UTC)Re: Straddling...hmm
Date: 3/13/10 02:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/13/10 02:07 am (UTC)I chortle in my glee.
Eleven days! A week plus four!
My heart is sore.
So long a time, so short
A paucity, a mort.
Time drags and flies.
/me waits, and sighs.
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Date: 3/13/10 02:17 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 3/13/10 02:18 am (UTC)This is...it's....words fail me. But not you.
For Want of Conspiracy
Date: 3/13/10 02:26 am (UTC)My friends know my wails to the word.
"I am going to DIE!"
They have all heard me cry,
And they heartlessly say, "Yeah, we've heard."
Re: For Want of Conspiracy
Date: 3/13/10 02:37 am (UTC)AHEM slant rhymes AHEM
Date: 3/13/10 08:38 pm (UTC)Something's coming
With a loud melodious rumbling
We can hear it
We can hear it
And we stretch our minds out toward it
To the future
To the future
That obsession nurturing future
That contains
a book we'll know
And we'll crease its pages, though
the perfection will remain there
As we all discuss it here
All the words
All the thoughts
And the people
'bout whom we care
(And yes, that rhymes with "bear")
For the book,
that lovely book
Lovely, viprous, vulpine book
We can hear it
and we'll see it
and we'll read it,
turning pages with elation
(all by Turner, Megan Whalen)
Cause it's coming, coming, coming!
We'll shout:
"Conspiracy is HERE!"
These poems are quite, quite wonderful, e'rbuddy. I'm enjoying them.
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Date: 3/13/10 09:41 pm (UTC):pppppp
*blows raspberries and runs away to pout*
No, seriously...
Date: 3/13/10 09:42 pm (UTC)You guys are amazingly talented. What imaginations! I am in awe.
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Date: 3/14/10 01:41 am (UTC)Ten days left until
Conspiracy of Kings, and
I will be gleeful
Definitely haiku time. I agree.
Date: 3/14/10 02:09 am (UTC)Sophos and Gen and the rest.
Can we wait for them?
I must confess this:
I have read the ARC
But I still can't wait
Plaintive cries abound
"Steal the time, the ten days!
"So we can all READ."
Tiegirl is in awe.
But she should give it a try.
It's quite fun, right, guys?
Ten more days
Date: 3/14/10 03:53 am (UTC)Are adjoined, then they make up a ten
Ten more days we must wait
For our next scheduled date
With our brilliant and devious hero.
Now consider the things that before
Have been done to that quicksilver King;
If one looks at that ten
As two handfuls, why then
There is irony there, to be sure.
(I was going to put in something about two digits are two handfuls and yet Gen has one hand and five digits, but it started getting rather strained, so I quit).
Re: Ten more days
Date: 3/14/10 08:31 pm (UTC)