excersize #1

[Lylie]

Your list for this excersize is:

scout
local
mouse
light
dell

Lets see what you can come up with.

[Dyne]

I decided to do one of my favorite forms of poetry on this first excessive. Haiku is an awesome form of poetry that I feel can be inspiring.

The mouse scouts for food
with local mice in the dell.
The light melts white snow


p.s. If I am posting it in the wrong place please don't hesitate to let me know so I can correct myself.

[gryphonpoet]

He is this mouse, I say
to fill the townsfolk eyes with light.
He creeps from the dells in the west
as far as the hilly east. All night long,
he scouts us out for this enemy
who waits at our door step. Watch him!
Don't trust him! Don't speak with him!
He is the local rat who waits to bite
whether this threat is real or not.

[curulambe]

I've had the Anabasis on my mind
of late, and so I offer up this verse,
telling of joy the like I never knew:

I stand upon a hill. My men, below,
have marched a year and more for Cyrus' pride,
then for their own survival. Scouts report
the news that we have longed for since his death.
Swift Rumor does her work. The cry is raised,
"Thalatta! Thalatta!" The sea! The sea!
The wine-dark Euxine lies within our grasp!
Mouse-like we slipped from out dread Persia's clutch,
while Artaxerxes fumed as he looked north,
to know that Greeks still sullied Persian soil.
The local men, the Asiatics, knew
that we were Greeks, the heirs of Achilleus,
but still they came against us - and they fell.
Now they need fall no longer. Fires are left,
their faint light drowned by rosy-fingered dawn,
all care forgotten; from this shallow dell
spill forth the Ten Thousand north to the sea,
to march upon the whale-road. Greece, and Home!

[celest]

wow, I wish my muse worked that way. Maybe someday I'll come up with a poem for these games.

btw: thanks Dyne. I needed to write a poem for an art class of mine. We had to do a piece either inspired by a poem or to inspire a poem. I needed to write a poem for my piece and your Haiku reminded me of what a wonderful form it is and finnaly got my muse creating one for my art piece. Thanks again.