Posted in Poetry, tagged language, life, Love, personal, Poems, Poetry, Reflection, Rhyming, self-reflection, Slang, thoughts, Vernacular, words, Writing on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
This is a poem that I wrote with some slang. You can call it slang poem #1 or It’s Begun.
It’s Begun
The night’s dank
Water hanging in the air
A cool breeze pushes my hair
Into my eyes, blank
My heart thuds quietly
At the rate of self-reflection
It wants out of my body
My mind goes the opposite direction
Searching into my core
I [...]
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Posted in Across the Pond, Poetry, tagged Art, Cockney, English Slang, Jail, language, Poems, Poetry, Reflection, Rhyming, Slang, Slanguage, thoughts, Vernacular, words, Writing on October 17, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This poem written in Cockney Slang comes from a contest at allpoetry.com The original can be found here It is a simple poem written in the style of swap quatrain. You will notice that the first and last line of each stanza are the same but flipped.
In Ginger Ale (Swap Quatrain)
In ginger ale, for quite [...]
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Posted in Poetry, Poets, tagged Authors, Classics, history, Italian, Italy, language, life, personal, Poets, random, Reflection, Rome, Slang, Slanguage, Speech, thoughts, Vernacular, words, Writing on October 9, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
For six years, in secret, Giuseppe Gioachino Belli wrote almost a sonnet a day. As a native Italian, he had resolved to write poetry in the tongue of the common Roman. He held nothing back as he imposed vulgar speech upon the sonnet form.
Eric Ormsby of The New York Sun wrote an excellent [...]
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Posted in The Gauntlet, tagged Humor, language, life, personal, random, Reflection, Slang, Slanguage, Speech, thoughts, Vernacular, words, Writing on October 8, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
1. Oatified – the act of coming down with a severe stomach ache
2. ubered – to kick the crap out of something using your computer
3. f00b – the combination of noob and foolish, a foolish noob
4. lack off – get out, go away, i don’t like you
5. eans – hold up there, simmer down, cool [...]
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Posted in Slanguage, tagged blogging, Business, Humor, language, life, personal, Poetry, random, Reflection, self-reflection, Slang, Slanguage, Speech, thoughts, Vernacular, words, Writing on October 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Have you ever had a friend point something out to you that you had never seen before and all of a sudden you see it everywhere? It seems like there is so much in life that we don’t notice until someone points it out, or until we take the [...]
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