Yay! I found a new LJ community playground!

The other day, I added "Iambic pentameter" to my interest list, and this morning, I found iambic_5meter, where you can post about any topic, as long as it's in, well, iambic pentameter, and it's your own words (comments can be prosaic, though). So I sat down and compsed this on the fly as an explaination of why I'm glad I found them, and thought I'd share:

Quite oft, I've heard the Philistines complain:
"Iambic verse is diffecult to learn--
Its fancy language taxes my poor brain!
Prosaic speach is best, when it's your turn."

Their puzzlement is hard to understand.
Iambic rhythm pulses through the heart,
And if they'd count the fingers on one hand,
They'd feel the language clicking, part by part.

It's prose that is a random, clutterd, mess.
How many words to choose from? What's the count?
(Reminds me of this office, I confess)--
A shifting heap that's harder to surmount.

I'll versify my speeches all the time
(Though if for business, I will skip the rhyme).

It's not very active (the most recent post before mine was May 15), but it's amusing.

I've been playing that dugeon thing for a few days now

And really, I wish you could drop things, or trade them. And I really wish I could team up with the beings I meet (After all, they are all generated from my friends list. I feel bad attacking them all).

Anyway, my latest results are behind the cut. Maybe one of these days, I'll make a map as I go along.

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