3-minute poetry

[Paulie]

Someone at work asked me to write a poem. I gave myself three minutes and came up with this:

Leaves by Paulie
Autumn arrives
In spattered overalls,
Splashing color onto the leaves.
Heavy with new paint,
The leaves fall to the ground
And marvel at their new wardrobe.

Now it's your turn. You have three minutes.

Do not perform this exercise if you have aspirations of publishing a book of poetry someday.

[agentcarver]

Ode to Vive (On Woven Mole, I'm Jeannevive, and the producer is "Jenn" so I'm "Vive"... Weird.)

Here she comes
Riding high on her blue moped
through the dark streets
Spreading intelligence :rolleyes:
and Yelling at those damn trumpet players...

[John]

Back in High School's English Lit class, we had to take a popular poem and create a new one using the same, um, whatever it's called, "beat" (my brain is mush today because I got no sleep last night). Here's what I came up with, in a fit of defiance (my teacher pulled me aside shortly after class began one morning, and told me "no matter what you do, you will fail this class" - so I helped make his life miserable. I failed, and he quit at the end of the year):

I'm sorry I hit the telephone pole
which was outside your house
and which you were probably using for electricity
It hurt very badly
It really did

(Ah, that brings me back!)

[Feifer]

Time is of the essence
I rush to find a thought
I am pushed to my limit
Three minutes is all I've got


And I AM a published poet. Good luck finding one of my poems though.

[sher]

(iambic pentameter, john?)

[agentcarver]

I'm sorry I hit the telephone pole
which was outside your house
and which you were probably using for electricity
It hurt very badly
It really did

My roommates were recently in a car crash... With each other... (Her lime-green Beetle rear-ended his 4-year-old midnight blue BMW... Now they're both dependant on my refurbished 70s light blue moped to get around...)

[sher]

i sit quite bored at work now
my boss has left me
i will post and post and post.

my haiku

[Feifer]

Wow!, John, you have a successful life anyway! Shows you what some teachers know! Kinda sad that there are some bad ones out there. I like your poem. (not sucking up, just stating fact)

[sher]

Originally posted by John
I'm sorry I hit the telephone pole
which was outside your house
and which you were probably using for electricity
It hurt very badly
It really did

this makes me think of last night's episode of "will & grace!"

[cali]

Sitting there watching
as time goes by
Wondering what happened
wondering why

Seeing all your loved ones
float across the rug
reaching out to touch one
wanting just one hug

you wake up feeling batterd
as if weathering a storm
wondering just what was real
and what was just a form


OK, that sucked
3 minutes indeed Paulie! I'll get back to you when you give us three DAYS!