Denmark, Kangaroo, Orange - A challenge

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:25:54 GMT

Denmark, Kangaroo, Orange

Pick a number from one to ten. Okay, now multiply that number
by nine. You will have a two-digit number. Add those two digits.
Now subtract five from that number. Take that number and find
its corresponding letter in the alphabet (1=A, 2=B, etc.). Now
think of a country that begins with that letter. Now name an
animal that begins with the last letter of the country. Finally, name
a fruit that...

Young me / Now me - A Challenge

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:44:00 GMT

July 9 2008 Summer Challenge

feeds@yuku.com (RGarfield) — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:02:37 GMT

This challenge is two part.

Part 1: write a poem in 4 verses using the "heroic" pattern, standard or modified (no rhyme), describing a favorite memory from a summer activity when you were a child.

Part 2: write a second poem using the same pattern, from an adult who may have been watching that child at the time. The adult doen't not necessarily have to be a relative.

Double acrostic challenge. June 8, 2008.

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:15:24 GMT

Perhaps the most amazing double acrostic of all time,
Lewis Carroll's dedication in The Hunting of the Snark.

He wrote the poem for one of his child friends, Gertrude Chataway.
The dedicatory poem describes the seaside where he met her and
composed the Snark. It not only spells her name in the first letter of each line,
but also produces is phonetically through the first words of each stanza.

The poem is as follows:

INSCRIBED TO A...

Quadrapanelle - the toughest challenge ever?

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:48:06 GMT

Quadrapanelle

Invented in 1787 by disgraced German-French poet Yelleau Pantzstanes,
the "Quadrapanelle" is a difficult form of verse typified by the following
strict rules:

1) four stanzas

2) each stanza must have four lines

3) each line must have four words

4) each word must have four syllables

5) the fourth word of each forth line must rhyme with the word "four"

6) each stanza must...

Acrophobia 3

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Thu, 29 May 2008 11:38:12 GMT
I saw this game on another forum and thought it might be fun to play it here too.
What happens is, you get a set of letters and then you have to make a sentence from them
(there can be anything from between 3 to 7 letters)

For instance, if the letters were H G F O M you'd have to make a sentence using those letters -

H G F O M

his giraffe fell over me

It doesn't have to be anything astute as the above example shows *cough* It's...

Hamburger haiku competition

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Sun, 25 May 2008 08:26:37 GMT

A Hamburger Today have a contest to give away some copies of George Mot'z seminal burger
book titled Hamburger America.

All you have to do is have one of the five chosen Hamburger Haiku...

New Challenge - May 9, 2008 Mother's Revenge

feeds@yuku.com (RGarfield) — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:12:35 GMT
With Mother's day just around the corner, I thought it would be interesting to have a challenge about Mother's

For our situation, our mother is 3 years into Empty Nest Syndrone and rather upset about the lack of contact from her Children.

Your Task? Tell us what she plans to do about it.

Rhyme or not, no limit on word count or lines

A Musing Challenge - May 2, 2008

feeds@yuku.com (RGarfield) — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:12:04 GMT

The ancients claimed all writing was muse inspired.

Use your muse to tell us what this muse is thinking.

maximum 4 verses, max 6 lines per verse , rhyme or not at your pleasure

Tigger challenge - May 1st, 2008

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:43:32 GMT

All you have to do for this challenge is write a poem about Tigger, or a poem mentioning
Tigger. It can be any style, any length, whatever suits.

Have fun and keep creative�

City scape - Picture challenge, 24th April, 2008

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:03:53 GMT

The challenge is to write a city poem, any style, any length. The only stipulation is that it must
be about a taxi ride, and have a starting and and ending destination.

Good luck

Trickle Trickle Challenge April 17, 2008

feeds@yuku.com (RGarfield) — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:08:59 GMT

Trickle Trickle little stream
so much stronger than you seem
what portion of ancient history
have you slowly stolen from me

Have you erased a Ceasar' path
or just a White Rabbits trail
ever working at your mission
with nature's help, you'll not fail

The perhaps I have been wrong
and missed the message of your song...

Acrophobia 2

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:48:34 GMT
I saw this game on another forum and thought it might be fun to play it here too.
What happens is, you get a set of letters and then you have to make a sentence from them
(there can be anything from between 3 to 7 letters)

For instance, if the letters were H G F O M you'd have to make a sentence using those letters -

H G F O M

his giraffe fell over me

It doesn't have to be anything astute as the above example shows *cough* It's...

What is a villain? - Challenge

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:45:01 GMT

Okay, here's a new challenge for you. The idea came to me after replying to a post that
mentioned the notorious Moriarty, as created by Conan Doyle.

Writer PG Wodehouse once referenced the character Moriarty by saying "A villain should be like a force,
a power (like a force of nature) and we are supposed to wonder 'my God, who can stand up to this person?'
Moriarty is like that. He is crime itself."

What you have to do is write...

Spring Fayre Challenge - April 3, 2008

feeds@yuku.com (RGarfield) — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 07:12:30 GMT
In olden times, Spring was the time when village fairs abounded.... May Poles, Baking Contests, the judging of best in herd, etc.
These fairs drew city and country folk alike.

This weeks challenge is to write two poems, not more that ten words per line and not more than twenty lines,
rhyme or not as you see fit.

Pick a real or imagined event. Write one poem from a city person's view point and one from a country person's view point on that event.
Try...

Picture challenge for Matt and friends

feeds@yuku.com (Sugarmuser) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:26:03 GMT

Odilon Redon, Ophelia

New challenge, write a 'Beech'

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:23:23 GMT

A Beech - a form of poetry created by poet Beecher Smith.

It is a 5 line poem with the syllables of each line corresponding to the number of the
letter of the alphabet.

B= 2 so your first line must have 2 syllables
E= 5 therefore the next two lines have 5 syllables,
E= (5 again)
C= 3 so three syllables
H= 8th letter, so the last line has 8 syllables.

** The first and fifth lines...

Acrophobia

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 10:23:48 GMT
I saw this game on another forum and thought it might be fun to play it here too.
What happens is, you get a set of letters and then you have to make a sentence from them
(there can be anything from between 3 to 7 letters)

For instance, if the letters were H G F O M you'd have to make a sentence using those letters -

H G F O M

his giraffe fell over me

It doesn't have to be anything astute as the above example shows *cough* It's...

Final point

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:22:07 GMT
Bow................................bow.

Serve!

Pa ta ping........................plup pong.
Pa ta ping........................plup pong.
Pu po ping.......................plup pong.
Pow da ping.....................plup pong.
Pa ta ping.........................plup pong.
Pu paw ping!!...................plup, yawn, pong.
Power pu ping!!................plup, distant................................pong.
Spin di Ping......................pong...

Landscape Of Patches Challenge

feeds@yuku.com (Sabresun) — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:07:58 GMT

Write a poem about the picture above, it can be any style, any length, but needs to mention a different colour in each stanza.

Good luck.

All in a challenge!

Denmark, Kangaroo, Orange - A challenge