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Here is your invitation to my feast of poetry! I have volunteered to cook one dish for each of you. All you have to do is ask.

The rules:
1) Give me ingredients! Either three words for a theme, or a link to an image or video. Please keep words and links PG13.
2) Give me a recipe! Tell me what kind of poem you want. It can be as simple as a rhyming couplet, or as complicated as a sonnet.
3) One per person. Spread the word if you know somebody who would like their own creation!
4) You can share! You can reprint or link to the poem, simply give me credit and link to my journal, please.

You can request a sonnet for your favorite lolcat, or a haiku for a sunset. Silly or serious. I promise to do my best.

I'm opening requests now. I won't start making poetry until tonight, when I get home. Please be patient- good food takes time.

EDIT: closing requests! So few!

Date: 2009-09-02 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] djinni.livejournal.com
Hi! I would like to request a poem about this picture of my guy and a kiwano melon: http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/5083/vincentwithkiwanomelon.jpg (his eyes are wonky because he has scarring over them from when he was a baby. Cat is fine and dandy!) I would like it to be a silly poem! He is a silly cat.

Date: 2009-09-03 12:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stryck.livejournal.com
An epigram for an appetizer-

Carnivore's Lament
I love to settle down to feast
On bird or fish or dainty beast.
Alas, this meal is far too tame;
A melon's guts aren't quite the same.

Date: 2009-09-03 12:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] djinni.livejournal.com
Yay! Thank you! My roommate and I (and Vincent!) enjoy that a lot :D
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Date: 2009-09-05 01:23 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stryck.livejournal.com
Serious I managed, but not free form. :)

Lessons

The noble wolf lives in a pack
They run, and hunt, and live as one.
Numbers add strength to meet a lack
But they turn on those who run alone.

The stalwart cougar walks alone.
Solitary and strong, the mountain beast
Needs no pack to raise her son
But has no others to share her feast.

Both have their strength, both their sorrow
Some would play dog, and others cat.
But you, my son, may face tomorrow
At times with friends, at times without.

So learn from both, but make your plans
To fit the circumstance; be a man!

Date: 2009-09-02 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] haikujaguar.livejournal.com
1) mail (letters, not armor), imperial, dragon
2) something that rhymes!

I could not think of a title..

Date: 2009-09-06 03:52 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stryck.livejournal.com
Creamy parchment, yellow silk ties,
Gemstone ink, cherry blossom perfume.
Moonlit delivery, away from all eyes;
Shadowed horns and dark wings loom.

Trusted courier, soft pink hands,
Fragile flesh, stone-firm soul;
Slip past roving warrior bands
Ever mindful to his goal.

Mountain retreat, dressed in snow,
Fearsome guards breathing steam.
Wool-clad servants, blowing low,
Ice-rock garden, frozen stream.

Well draped wings, red for passion;
Ink-whispered words warm the heart.
Courier rewarded in royal fashion;
Wrapped in jewels and silken art.

Sunset army soars with spring;
Warriors descend as blossoms fly.
Scalefolk battle; a reptile king
Fights for love in bloody sky.

Starlight crown, leaf-framed moon,
A dusky maid, a triumphant lord.
Struggle-stained hides, flower strewn,
The beloved embrace in peace restored.
Edited Date: 2009-09-06 03:53 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-09-02 06:20 pm (UTC)
zeeth_kyrah: A glowing white and blue anthropomorphic horse stands before a pink and blue sky. (Default)
From: [personal profile] zeeth_kyrah
Ingredients: Pickles, pasta, and petunias.

Recipe: How about some blank verse?

Date: 2009-09-07 12:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stryck.livejournal.com
Plenty

Princess Petunia packed a picnic plucked
From pantries stocked with pastries stuffed with plums.
She picked pastrami to prepare with pickles
And peppered cheese on pumpernickel. To pour,
A pitcher perilous with peach libation.
A bite of pasta spiced with pimento, the meal
Completed perfectly with pinwheel popsicles.
Perchance if you approach politely, you
May perch on plushy pillows and partake with her.
Edited Date: 2009-09-07 12:17 am (UTC)

Date: 2009-09-07 02:14 am (UTC)
zeeth_kyrah: A glowing white and blue anthropomorphic horse stands before a pink and blue sky. (dog in the field)
From: [personal profile] zeeth_kyrah
Ah, lovely humor, to cause my laughter.

Date: 2009-09-03 03:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com
Doesn't look like you got too many requests!

Thanks again for my poem from last time. (-:

Date: 2009-09-03 03:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stryck.livejournal.com
Requests are still open, since I haven't had that many yet.

Thank you for your appreciation! Feedback is wonderful.

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