Sunday, April 15, 2007

A stranger in Fib Sunday

Bonjour!

I'm being fooled, here, dear reader. The calendar says it's April, but the thermometer says it's July. It's hotter here than it is in Malawi! Something to be excited about.

Of course, excitement soon turns to depression when we remember the power of karma. Four stomachs, one heart is no more.

For every good thing in the world, there's a bad. I know, it stinks, doesn't it, hen.

Still, we've always the sunshine and the joy of Fib Sunday to take our minds off of other more sorrowful things. And there are other blog games to be played, too, dear reader, if you do so desire. There's Haiku Saturday and Remember that one time...? to name but two.

If you don't know what Fib Sunday is, or indeed, what's going on, click here for the original instructions. Or here if you want to do something just as fabulous and play Bubbels.

In brief:

1) I take the topic as given in last week's final entry, write a Fib and give a new topic.
2) Your reply to the topic is in the form of a Fib in the comment section.
3) You then supply the next topic.
4) The next visitor replies with a Fib on the newly given topic and then provides a new topic and so on...

A Fib is a six line, twenty syllable poem with a syllable count by line of 1/1/2/3/5/8. The only restriction on a Fib is that the syllable count follow the Fibonacci sequence. An example of a classic fib:

One
Small,
Precise,
Poetic,
Spiraling mixture:
Math plus poetry yields the Fib.

Last time, Brian left us with the topic of I hate to tell you this but that's not tea you just drank. I hereby excrete the following:

Heard
the
kettle...
She drank it.
Just biding my time
to see the health effects of piss.

Next topic:

My place.

10 comments:

  1. This comment has been removed by the author.

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  2. I
    Heard
    What you
    Serve to drink
    Boil the flavour out?
    I'd rather we went to my place.

    Next topic:

    The use of leeches in medicine

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  3. Suck
    blood -
    cleansing
    flow of humours;
    treatment? bloodletting.
    Now, doctors are money leeches!

    Next topic:

    talk radio celebrities

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  4. Anonymous4:58 pm

    I
    Say
    Can you
    Imagine
    A world where it's fine
    To speak your racist, ageist mind?

    The next topic is the media.

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  5. Anonymous6:02 pm

    Dumb
    down!
    No way!
    Not like that...
    Dumbing down is like...
    Patronising! Talking down to.

    Next topic -

    Morse code

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  6. Dot
    dash
    knew it.
    Phoning home
    was easier than
    tapping out code on children's toys.

    Next topic:

    Falling to pieces

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  7. Not
    hard
    to cry.
    Keep your head?
    Catharsis awaits.
    One little meltdown just for me.

    Next topic:

    A career you'd wish on your enemy

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  8. Eat
    Egg.
    A job
    to savour.
    But it makes you fart
    causing faltulence and death.

    Ina

    Next topic

    Ripping paper

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  9. Anonymous11:04 pm

    Paid
    that
    massive
    repair bill
    and now I will take
    my sweet time to tear it in strips

    Next topic: Quality or quantity?

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  10. I don't know how to do these things. I'm not smart enough. But, I do enjoy Anne Murray's cover of the beatles "you won't see me"

    Anne Murray strung the beads
    on the string of thread
    and
    no one cared.

    wait -- that might be more of a Hiaku. ...or maybe it has nothing to do with anything. ...or perhaps it is filled with deep meaning beyond the grasp of anyone other than yoko.

    we may never know.

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