11-24-2025, 11:49 AM
Oh I thought we were using the last lines, plus the first line of the first poem? Altho that adds up to 15 lines I guess, so many we can just use the last lines:
Mirages of life to glimpse as a ghost;
History hums but I like now the best.
Each of us living lives no king can boast,
This will be grand when it all goes to plan*.
So we need to change either my end line or yours. Perhaps yours could be "You'll hear the drums thunder all through the west / We'll rise to the mark when put to the test", or mine to something like "I frame the shot, his shadow where I stand; / History hums, but I like now, not then" (idk, these are just placeholder ideas), altho then Cryptkeeper will have to change his opening stanza
Mirages of life to glimpse as a ghost;
History hums but I like now the best.
Each of us living lives no king can boast,
This will be grand when it all goes to plan*.
So we need to change either my end line or yours. Perhaps yours could be "You'll hear the drums thunder all through the west / We'll rise to the mark when put to the test", or mine to something like "I frame the shot, his shadow where I stand; / History hums, but I like now, not then" (idk, these are just placeholder ideas), altho then Cryptkeeper will have to change his opening stanza