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The Circadian Addiction forum is our writing exercise forum geared to helping us
adapt the idea of writing everyday, even when the words won’t come.  Or better yet,...

Started Nov 21st, 2003 at 2:22am by YaBB-Developer
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New Run of Five-#01- Athena- Goddess of Wisdom and Intelligence
Athena- Goddess of Wisdom and Intelligence
This is an ancient tale, told many years ago,
Told with blunt sincerity, but the reader must deduce
If it be truth or fiction, who can really ...

Started Nov 28th, 2017 at 3:00am by Normpo
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April D12
[IMAGE]
Zurich
Every afternoon
I crossed the Limmat
wove my way through steep cobbled streets
of the Old City
resisting the lure attractive displays in shop windows
and the...

Started Apr 24th, 2012 at 5:53am by nas
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Just Ramblin' - Day 12
Black Birds in Gaza - December, 2001
Dark smoke of enemy 
fire rises to the heavens;
Palestinians run frantic circles.
Blood-red anger ……
Sheer white fear …..
Israel mans...

Started Apr 1st, 2012 at 10:53am by WildCityWoman
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Just Ramblin - Day 10 (or whatever)
This is the rictameter I came up with having followed one of Norm’s assignments back in 2k4. 
I still need to work on this rictameter; needs a couple of tweaks. I don’t like the way one of the li...

Started Mar 29th, 2012 at 2:35pm by WildCityWoman
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About Evelyn - Day 1
Sorry I've been gone so long - been sick - had a bad virus, blew out Christmas pretty well. Just getting up and at 'em these days.
I'm working on one of my characters from some stories I've been ...

Started Jan 25th, 2011 at 12:14pm by WildCityWoman
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Retypes - Day 29
Sorry, I'm behind on this . . . been sick. All through Christmas, a virus - mostly in the throat. No voice to 'speak of' or to 'speak with'.
But I have been working on my 'waterfalls' . . . here ...

Started Jan 6th, 2011 at 6:26pm by WildCityWoman
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Retypes - Day 8
The newborn
Truly
Closest to
Home
First breath
Standing t’ween
That last dream before
Mortality
For it is only that fleeting first breath
That stands betwe...

Started Nov 2nd, 2010 at 4:22pm by WildCityWoman
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Relationship Dreams #3 - As yet Un-struck 52-03
Relationship Dreams #3 - As yet Un-struck
Beneath the dreams,
somehow managed by a reckless muse, run amuck,
unable to defend silence, loud as it seems,
a “for whom the bell tolls,...

Started Jul 23rd, 2010 at 2:34am by Normpo
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h-2  And Soon
Love swelters.
Love feels bursting fat
on this given day,
dampening the sweet air
of an unbiased afternoon
and soon
makes me want to illuminate
my street and throw o...

Started Jun 29th, 2009 at 6:28pm by dandelionsndaffodi
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h-1   Maybe
Maybe
if I could see my heart as a 
temperature-controlled greenhouse
and maybe
if I could manage it
by plucking wrong thoughts
and thorns and weeding out the 
hurtf...

Started Jun 29th, 2009 at 5:35pm by dandelionsndaffodi
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ROUND 19 COMPLETE - CHOKAS
Noodling around with a single form this round…the choka. It is a form that features alternating 5 and 7 syllable lines that ends with an extra 7-syllable line. There is no rhyme requirement. 
1. [i]After hear

Started May 31st, 2009 at 4:21am by writer
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15-23   THE ANGLER  (Than Bauk)
Than Bauk, another form from Thailand is similar to the Ya Du, without the fifth line. The “stairway” rhyme pattern is maintained and succeeding stanzas would pick up the rhyme from the last word o...

Started Apr 18th, 2009 at 3:06am by writer
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15-22   LOVE COMES ALONG (Ya Du)
Another Ya Du. I woke up this morning with this runniing through my coffee-deprived braiin.
LOVE COMES ALONG 
Love comes along.
A new song plays,
not long for those
who dispos...

Started Apr 17th, 2009 at 1:49pm by writer
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15-21   OF COURSE!  (Ya Du)
This is a Ya Du, from Thailand. It is 4-four syllable lines and a fifth of 5,7,9, or 11 syllables. The fourth line and the fifth line must rhyme.  Notice the “stairway” effect of the rhyme pattern.<br...

Started Apr 17th, 2009 at 4:51am by writer
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15-20  THE BEAR FIGHT (Rhupunt)
This is a Welsh form…an Awdl or ode…and this particular version is called a rhupunt. It’s a four syllable line, with 3,4,or 5 lines making up a stanza with a…a…a…B rhyme. A second stanza would have...

Started Apr 16th, 2009 at 5:47am by writer
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16-13,14,15  ANNAGRAMMED QUATRAINS
13.   This one’s for Patrice
CHEEK TO CHEEK
Old notable charmers
and waltzing romancers,
they’re still arm-in-armers,
the ballroom dancers.
14.  SCHISMS
On theological discussions
there’s one thing you can’t doubt:
reason trails percussi...

Started Apr 11th, 2009 at 4:17am by writer
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16-10,11,12   ANNAGRAMMED QUATRAINS
10.  IRES RISE
Animosity 
is no amity

and usually makes
calamity.
11.  FUNNY BUT TRUE
Many a true word is spoken in jest
Many a man used humor to teach.
Men joke, and so win trusty praise
except when trust is out of reach.
12.  IT’S ALL IN HOW ...

Started Apr 10th, 2009 at 4:22am by writer
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16-7,8,9  ANAGRAMMED QUATRAINS
7.  WHICH WAY TO GO
A golden opportunity
is missed if you just schlup
along a downward path.
Lead option? Go try up!
8.  TO PRINT THE NEWS WE ALL SEE FITS
Without much thought
the monkeys write
The New York Times

by Liberal light.<...

Started Apr 9th, 2009 at 5:27am by writer
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15-12   NO HOPE?
NO HOPE?
Are you a grammarian?
English? Hungarian?
Serbo-Croatian?
Some Asian nation?
Usage evolving?
Head now revolving?
People just lazy?
Making you crazy?<br...

Started Apr 9th, 2009 at 5:22am by writer
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16-4,5,6  ANAGRAMMED QUATRAINS
4.  THE RED SCARE
Russian revolution 
guaranteed one thing:
no evil ruinous Tsar
to blame for everything.
5.  UNION
Yes, my wages are at prime.
Rome was not built in a day.
I do any labor that wants time.
Any time I get wants pay.
6.  HEEL AND TOE
Dance parties:
forms and faces
going through
trained paces.
writer

Started Apr 8th, 2009 at 5:26am by writer
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16-1,2,3  ANAGRAMMED QUATRAINS
These things keep popping up. This will be a round of five posts with three quatrains in each post...so it's sort of a round of fifteen. I've highlighted the anagrams
1.   SHIP RESHAPED
D...
and sh

Started Apr 7th, 2009 at 9:47pm by writer
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Daniel - links
Here are links to Rounds 11 and 12. It will take some time to track down links to earlier rounds.
Round 11   http://www.poemtrain2.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1229643695
Round 12    http://ww...
Wayne<

Started Mar 31st, 2009 at 6:36pm by writer
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14-3  CONTESTED
CONTESTED
Election results fall
in question, tensions mount.
From the mouths of runners
fall lies – let’s recount.
writer

Started Mar 25th, 2009 at 5:20am by writer
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Autumn Leaves - Part II - Day 13
There's the church
and there's the steeple
but these days? Not 
many people!
[IMAGE]

Started Nov 20th, 2008 at 12:01pm by WildCityWoman
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