07-20-2013, 07:44 AM
Abridged Fauxku Choo Choo guidelines for lazy people:
The Officious Fauxku Choo Choo (the play's the thing)
Rules with Explications Thereof*
contemporaneously known as The One True Rules*
Your TINY poem should:
1. Use 2 or more significant words from the previous poem.
(Tense and plurality may be changed -- homonyms and adventurous word-play are encouraged .)
2. Poem reflects some aspect of the previous poem (encouraged but not obligatory).
3. Contain 1 to 4 lines, or be a limerick.
4. Be a fauxku, pseudoku, otherku** (seebelow), a real haiku (not that
anyone really knows what one is), limerick, or a whatever-you-please
(e.g. metaphorically dense rhyming Nyāya Sūtra). Just make it TINY.
(And since this is fake art, TINY is not defined.)
Ancillary Rules:
5. If miscalculation, confusion, lapse in judgment, good intentions, ill temper,
addled thinking, or self-deception lead to snarl; don't try to communicate,
don't try to resolve: Just write something (e.g. lists of various vegetables
or something about dog diapers) and keep moving.
6. Use the "New Reply" button to pathetically attempt to impede the inevitable.
7. And YES! It's OK to play with yourself.
8. It's OK to add TINY extraneous (or not) notes.
9. Ray can do whatever he wants to do as he is the One True God.
10. Anyone else must religiously obey these rules unless a spirit has appeared to them
and suggested that it might be OK, just this once, to tell Ray to go fuck himself.
**otherku: fauxku, pseudoku, parody-ku, paraku, urku, calypsoku,
circumku, contraku, cryptoku, psychoku, forniku, galactiku, juxtaku,
mechaniku, numbku, palinku, platyku, pneuku, pornku, kineku,
cephal, retroku, somaku, subku, uberku, umbiliku, zenku,
ironiku, farciku, lowku, turdku, fucku, kukukachooku
*Please note:
The Officious Fauxku Choo Choo (the play's the thing)
Rules with Explications Thereof contained within this post RULE!
Any and all disparities and similarities; be they coherent, ridiculous,
contemptible, incomprehensible, or just plain tedious permutations of
the aforementioned shall be considered subservient to the The Officious
Fauxku Choo Choo (the play's the thing) Rules with Explications Thereof
contained within this post shall triumphantly prevail, overrule, annul,
disallow, invalidate, nullify, override, overturn, quash, rescind,
reverse, revoke, strike down, veto, void, abrogate, cancel, negate, and just
plain smite any representation, portrayal, effigy, or embodiment that
ever existed or ever will exist anywhere, everywhere, and in all those other
places too.
Please note: the first seven poems below were written before rules existed:
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in a cloak of fallen leaves
spring, summer, fall
forgotten
- rayheinrich
Spill your silver stars
for my ears a golden moon
heady heart murmurs
- Heartafire
stars and meadow and fireflies and moon
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busy night
- rayheinrich
Passing equinox
A ripening barley crop
A new hair cut
- cidermaid
equinox
our hippie earth mother
growing her hair long again
- rayheinrich
Outdated sundial
mother's herb garden
flowers in her hair.
- cidermaid
outdated sundial (and mom)
run slow
(they catch up at night)
- rayheinrich
i used to know a lotta stuff, but i still have eight cats