From ragnarok@pobox.com Fri Jun 08 08:33:10 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: raganok@intrex.net X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_3); 8 Jun 2001 15:33:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 38840 invoked from network); 8 Jun 2001 15:33:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.27) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 8 Jun 2001 15:33:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO intrex.net) (209.42.192.246) by mta2 with SMTP; 8 Jun 2001 15:33:07 -0000 Received: from Craig [209.42.200.34] by intrex.net (SMTPD32-5.05) id A0295490074; Fri, 08 Jun 2001 11:32:57 -0400 Reply-To: To: Subject: Poetry Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:33:04 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 X-eGroups-From: "Craig" From: "Craig" coi rodo I had an idea for a lojban poetic verseform which is unique among poetic styles I have seen so far, both in that it cannot be translated to English and in that it uses no gismu. A sample poem: .ua.u'a.ua.u'a .u'e.u'e.ui.u'a .oinai.ua.ui.u'a The rule is this: three lines of roughly the same length, containing only attitudinals and all ending with the same one, and a total of between 15 and 20 syllables, placing heavy stress on the first syllable of any multisyllabic attitudinals (.u'a, .u'e, .oinai, etc.) --la kreig.daniyl 'Through all of the islands and all of the highlands, if we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.' -la djimi.BYFyt (STILL haven't figured out the best transliteration. Oh well.) pgp public key ID: 0x5C3A1E74