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I can't be bothered with pseudonyms anymore. I've had a few that I've used on various sites: The Phantom Pen (from a NZ comic strip called "Footrot Flats"), Fantastic Freya (because Freya was a goddess who knew how to get what she wanted, even if she had to do rude things with dwarves) and Boadicea (who wouldn't love a chick in a chariot slaying Romans and burning cities?). Now I'm too lazy to explain things, so I just go with my name.
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boadi was a nasty piece of work right enough. freya was hot, i had a thing for the Valkyries when i was kid.
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Freya would have chewed you up and spit -- oh wait, you like that.
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(01-11-2013, 03:20 PM)serge gurkski Wrote: (01-09-2013, 01:01 PM)arbil_poieo Wrote: arbil is libra spelled backwards (my sign) and poieo means "I create" in Greek
Indeed! At least person knows what poieo means in Greek.
thank you for that!
cheers
(am dead seriously relieved here)-
Serge
Lol, I stumbled upon the word by accident online (can't remember what I was looking for) and I fell in love with it and the language.
What else would it mean?
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It's a word we should all know, for poiesis makes poetry 
I'm a Libra as well, but dreadfully unbalanced...
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the Greek meaning reveals that poetry writing is a craft.
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It's a shame more people don't realise that -- it takes craft first, then art comes if you're really, really lucky and people agree with you
But without the craft you're just spewing words, crossing your fingers and hoping people are nice to you.
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Mine is from a nickname, since "card" is slang for someone who is funny.
Also because I just have this strange liking for playing cards.
Won't be seeing you through the field of tears I left behind
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I should of used my nickname as my username...oh well.
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(01-13-2013, 07:15 AM)Leanne Wrote: It's a shame more people don't realise that -- it takes craft first, then art comes if you're really, really lucky and people agree with you
But without the craft you're just spewing words, crossing your fingers and hoping people are nice to you.
It's abstract! Totally deliberate! It's just the poet's style, he's/she's too deep and enigmatic for you!
Back!
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(01-16-2013, 02:52 AM)brandontoh Wrote: It's abstract! Totally deliberate! It's just the poet's style, he's/she's too deep and enigmatic for you!
You're right of course. Poets are so deep!
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(01-13-2013, 07:07 AM)serge gurkski Wrote: the Greek meaning reveals that poetry writing is a craft. sadly most poets haven't read that part 
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i thought up of mine on the spot.
I'll be there in a minute.
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My surname is Heslop, so it's a reference to adjectivised names like Hitchcockian and Chandleresque.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe
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Well my other online tag is OralFungus.
I choose benthejack (my name is Ben Jack.. no surprises there) when I'm trying to be a little less inflammatory.
If something happens and you can remedy it, Why worry?
And if something happens that you can't remedy, Still why worry?
www.benjack.co.nz
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(01-09-2013, 02:15 PM)billy Wrote: billy
it's an alien word for "godlike creature of high intelligence and an extremely large penis"
it also means giver of life to wonky poets and used car salesmen.
backward is spells yllib, yiddish for fuck ewe
Haha
I believe you totally.
Gurkski is a German word (Gurke "cucumber" with a slavic suffix  ki)
so as to majestic penissses (?) or phalli (Ha! )we are not too far apart.
Even if you should lie and I daydream.
I should really better leave now. There is a Weißwurst challenge awaiting me tomorrow.
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Hamartia is 'missing the mark, failure, fault, or error', and was the most appropriate thing I could think of, given the circumstances. Also, my name is Hannah, so (I've been told) it's an easy username to string to a proper name.
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because, I bet you didn't realize I wrote such bloody awful poetry.
The Smiths' song "Mr. Shankly" became a joke between my partner and I, when I told him I intended to spend more of my personal time writing poetry. In any event, the song is great and also it's message: we all have inclinations toward art, even the oppressive boss Mr. Shankly.
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Wylie? You of Orkney descent?
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