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Post by laughter on Nov 4, 2019 10:20:04 GMT -5
grey tail swirling yellow orange crackles snout, bobbing .. nuts! A most appropriate self portrait.
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Post by justlikeyou on Nov 24, 2019 9:20:19 GMT -5
posting a haiku the way the words roll off my fingertips
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Post by someNOTHING! on Nov 25, 2019 9:54:17 GMT -5
real chimera but
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Post by justlikeyou on Nov 27, 2019 17:04:00 GMT -5
Interesting poem. It seems though, that your but is dangling. :-)
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Post by someNOTHING! on Nov 28, 2019 9:38:06 GMT -5
Interesting poem. It seems though, that your but is dangling. :-) 😒 real chimera buns of steel 😝
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Post by justlikeyou on Nov 28, 2019 10:33:56 GMT -5
Interesting poem. It seems though, that your but is dangling. :-) 😒 real chimera buns of steel 😝
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Post by justlikeyou on Nov 28, 2019 10:34:53 GMT -5
bittersweet berries out of the shrub out of the rock
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Post by someNOTHING! on Nov 28, 2019 10:54:00 GMT -5
Now THAT is a practice to 🔥 by! 🤘
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Post by laughter on Nov 28, 2019 11:00:18 GMT -5
tap the turning tool on the side of the gas valve do it tomorrow
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Post by justlikeyou on Nov 28, 2019 19:10:36 GMT -5
tap the turning tool on the side of the gas valve do it tomorrow Hmmm. I can't get a clear picture of your intent here, but it does make me think of the song Candida by Tony Orlando. :-(
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Post by laughter on Nov 29, 2019 6:53:37 GMT -5
tap the turning tool on the side of the gas valve do it tomorrow Hmmm. I can't get a clear picture of your intent here, but it does make me think of the song Candida by Tony Orlando. :-( First I had to clean out 5 years of brick dust from the chimney well, and then it still needed a new damper. After that, it got stuck on the cycle where the pilot lit but the burners didn't ignite. So the only thing I burned that day was a fee to get someone out to tell me the valve was bad: all he did was cycle it a few times, and it came on. He said he didn't have a replacement and left it all ambiguous, so I went out and got the valve myself. I'm all set up to replace it now (got the tools, the pipe dope and a new union), but I got the old one to turn on yesterday by tapping on it with my pipe wrench as it was cycling/opening. I'll use the wrench(s) to remove it .. tomorrow ..
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Post by justlikeyou on Nov 29, 2019 18:03:53 GMT -5
First I had to clean out 5 years of brick dust from the chimney well, and then it still needed a new damper. After that, it got stuck on the cycle where the pilot lit but the burners didn't ignite. So the only thing I burned that day was a fee to get someone out to tell me the valve was bad: all he did was cycle it a few times, and it came on. He said he didn't have a replacement and left it all ambiguous, so I went out and got the valve myself. I'm all set up to replace it now (got the tools, the pipe dope and a new union), but I got the old one to turn on yesterday by tapping on it with my pipe wrench as it was cycling/opening. I'll use the wrench(s) to remove it .. tomorrow You speak plumberese. Luckily my Dad was a Master Plumber and I know the lingo. :-) Anywho, without your prose account, I'm not sure how I would have ever guessed at the scene/image you were attempting to convey. Maybe your intent is something other than presenting an image others can enter into?
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Post by laughter on Nov 29, 2019 18:27:48 GMT -5
First I had to clean out 5 years of brick dust from the chimney well, and then it still needed a new damper. After that, it got stuck on the cycle where the pilot lit but the burners didn't ignite. So the only thing I burned that day was a fee to get someone out to tell me the valve was bad: all he did was cycle it a few times, and it came on. He said he didn't have a replacement and left it all ambiguous, so I went out and got the valve myself. I'm all set up to replace it now (got the tools, the pipe dope and a new union), but I got the old one to turn on yesterday by tapping on it with my pipe wrench as it was cycling/opening. I'll use the wrench(s) to remove it .. tomorrow You speak plumberese. Luckily my Dad was a Master Plumber and I know the lingo. :-) Anywho, without your prose account, I'm not sure how I would have ever guessed at the scene/image you were attempting to convey. Maybe your intent is something other than presenting an image others can enter into? heh heh, well, I admit up front that it was an inside haiku. .. the yawning was ambiguous, yes, so it was sort of like a riddle wrapped up in the rhyme, and now I'm curious as to whether ZD or E', farmer, the 'pilgrim or any other dude with dirt under his fingernails would have got it. .. the key clue is that the it was a "turning tool" used to "tap" the valve: the fact that I had a wrench was the indicator that "do it tomorrow" was about changing the valve. Do you see the comedy in the laziness now?
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Post by justlikeyou on Nov 29, 2019 20:27:25 GMT -5
You speak plumberese. Luckily my Dad was a Master Plumber and I know the lingo. :-) Anywho, without your prose account, I'm not sure how I would have ever guessed at the scene/image you were attempting to convey. Maybe your intent is something other than presenting an image others can enter into? heh heh, well, I admit up front that it was an inside haiku. .. the yawning was ambiguous, yes, so it was sort of like a riddle wrapped up in the rhyme, and now I'm curious as to whether ZD or E', farmer, the 'pilgrim or any other dude with dirt under his fingernails would have got it. .. the key clue is that the it was a "turning tool" used to "tap" the valve: the fact that I had a wrench was the indicator that "do it tomorrow" was about changing the valve. Do you see the comedy in the laziness now? turning tool, yes, a wrench. Gathered at least that it could be that. :-) But the language here is not direct or what is commonly used, mainly because you are constrained in your word usage by adhering to a certain number of syllables per line which forces you to be more subjective than you might be if not so constrained.
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Post by glimmer on Nov 30, 2019 3:15:57 GMT -5
First I had to clean out 5 years of brick dust from the chimney well, and then it still needed a new damper. After that, it got stuck on the cycle where the pilot lit but the burners didn't ignite. So the only thing I burned that day was a fee to get someone out to tell me the valve was bad: all he did was cycle it a few times, and it came on. He said he didn't have a replacement and left it all ambiguous, so I went out and got the valve myself. I'm all set up to replace it now (got the tools, the pipe dope and a new union), but I got the old one to turn on yesterday by tapping on it with my pipe wrench as it was cycling/opening. I'll use the wrench(s) to remove it .. tomorrow You speak plumberese. Luckily my Dad was a Master Plumber and I know the lingo. :-) Anywho, without your prose account, I'm not sure how I would have ever guessed at the scene/image you were attempting to convey. Maybe your intent is something other than presenting an image others can enter into? The answer is a Haiga. Most of the above would do with the slightest edit, followed by the haiku. Perfect.
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