The meeting

Well, our last meeting had low attendance. Not a problem, though. We did end up staring at each other a couple of times but our little metaphor/simile game worked out better than the naysayers expected. Matthew came up with a couple of nice ones although he wouldn't admit it. Mine were spectacular and the room hushed in awe.

We will be meeting again in June and I'll be sure to send out an email reminder in the middle of the month.

Here's something I came across that you might be interested in. Science fiction writer James Patrick Kelly is offering free audio versions of a bunch of his writing here. If like literate SF you will like this guy, trust me.

Speaking of figurative language

Metaphor has always been a tough one for me to get my brain around. Wikipedia has a good article on metaphor.

Thursday

Here's an early reminder that this Thursday we are meeting again. Come one, come all.

Think about what you would like to do this week. Another contest of some kind? An exercise of some sort? Just sit around and read stuff? Riot? Let me know.

Rainbows at the library

I went downstairs to buy a soda in the breakroom about 7:45 tonight. When I got back upstairs the downpour from earlier was now a steady rain. Looking out the windows behind the reference desk there was no rain, just dark steady-moving clouds. Sitting at the reference desk and looking across, out the windows opposite, I could see a golden rain lit by the sunset. I thought that there must be a rainbow in these conditions. I looked back out the windows behind the reference desk and, sure enough, a half rainbow arcing out of the trees and to the left out of sight. It's nice to have windows at work.

It 's time to....POST RANDOM POEMS!!! DUN-DUN-DUN-DUUUUN!!
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Haiku Ode to Meghan and Maggi

Meghan and Maggi
do you really care that much
if Lupin is gay? -----> alternate names: Harry, Wormtail, Charlie, Hagrid, etc......


Random Randomness from the CUPBOARD OF INSPIRATION

Dappled light on my face
springy moss under my head
my feet submerged in crunchy leaves
my elbow on a tree root
a spider on my nose

Random Stuff written directly after the Writer's Meeting

Head rush
bend it down, choke, swallow if you can,
don't let your limbs out of control,
keep running.
Don't let up--you can win
it's inevitable if you try.
Flashing legs, pummeling fists, aching ribs
and an echo of pounding feet in your ears.
It is pain, but it is joy.
It limits, but it is freedom.
Keep it up, only two more in front of you.
Your body is at the maximum,
draining your reserves of energy.
No one wins a marathon,
but you are someone.
You will win.
You will be.
You, the winner, the sprinter, the fastest, fly across the pavement as though your feet had wings.
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Yeah, yeah, none are that great, but I feel the need to post (cause no one else is) and I happened to have a couple halfway decent poems lying around, so why not?

Ode to our Token Adult
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Ed.

Ed said

Ed said, "I'm dead."

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There are some things you just have to do. This IS writing, even if it's short...and it...rhymes?

Haiku Contest

Yesterday we had our exciting haiku contest in which I was completely shut out in the voting. It was a conspiracy, I know it.

The Winner

Crisp Twilight sunrise
shards of water-colored mist
rolling up a hill

- Meghan

Runners Up

Doodles on paper
margins filled with my drawings
sketches of day dreams

- Grace

Silver drops fall
tears from the sky above
pure from heaven, rain

- Erica

The Rest

A blackened shadow
he stands, his mind wandering
filled of time and space

- Kelly

Ripping bleeding dead
S&M play gone too far
an accident...right?

- Maggi

Caged, he sits stagnant
forgetting what freedom is
how can he find hope?

- Matthew

The mall's many stores
the parking lot's pile of cars
the ants are marching

- Ed

Care Bears are scary
similar to mimes or clowns
Ahh! Run! Run away!

- Clare

Next meeting is this Thursday

Remember to not forget that at 6 pm this Thursday (May 11th) we will be meeting.

Don't forget we are having a big and special haiku contest with a super secret and very special grand prize. Runners up get squat. All spoils go to the victor.

ARRRRGH! NOOOO! *choke, gasp* WHY??????????????! Bad, bad, bad! Bad Grace! I completely forgot earlier that I have to keep all my school writing in my folder at school, so apparently you all won't be able to read my creative writing story until summer! Now I have nothing to put up! I must root around my room to see if I can find anything.

An idea for the Mediocres

How about an RSS feed? That would be fun. That way the new Mediocres would show up in my news reader.

Speaking of newsreaders and comics. You guys should check out Unshelved if you haven't. It's a comic that documents the daily life of a small library branch. It's been embraced by library people all over the country.