Quatrain Corner

[ronthepon]

my last quatrain

dedicated to Turtle

who understood,

and peered out of his shell at me pulsing.

Why last quatrain?

 

What does he mean?

[Tarantism]

dancing on the swamp

the creature somewhere down there

jabbers the jitterbug

for all to see.

[Tarantism]

and if you were a trumpet

you would screech too

and if you were a guitar

i would play you.

[Tarantism]

there aint nothin'

like life

when i close my eyes

i can see where im going

[Tarantism]

blurring my vision

makes it clear that

tiny, moving parts

make up the whole.

[Tarantism]

and thats why i love science

we set about explaining those parts

a long time ago

and the earth is yet old

[Tarantism]

jay omba

jamba

jamba way

jamba JUICE!

[Tarantism]

someone jive!

i mean its cool

youre cool

were cool.

[Tarantism]

godspeed you! black emperor,

why do you cry?

do your temples fall?

do your people die?

[Tarantism]

is it this rising roofline

that makes me feel so swallowed whole?

or is it the fact that

my body barely touches the sky?

[Loricybin]

commence your confusion

start it back up

bring it on this way

so i can suck on it

[Loricybin]

somethingoverthere!

somethingoverwhere?

somethingunderthere!

somethingunderwhere?

[Loricybin]

this

quatrain

is

awful

 

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ah but this one,

balanced in timing,

seems much better,

even, and rhyming.

[Loricybin]

string of blabber,

seemingly set

what's that song?

malcontent?

[Tarantism]

i tiptoe

like a jester

careful with his

dung.

[Loricybin]

a bouncing steed

across canvases wet

and staining visions

of chemi-questions

[Loricybin]

where did he why did he when did he

go

how did he who did he when did he

know