Lorentizio Arts Festival 2012

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Last year things went so well, I thought we would try again (a little earlier this time!)

Welcome Benitians! (and others too, I suppose)

This year the festival will run from 1 May until 1 July. PLENTY of time to get some work together. If you have your stuff together already, please feel free to post it before the opening date.

I will lay a few general guidelines for the festival. Post as much of your work as possible for us to enjoy, but please, restrict your work to one post within this thread so we can keep track of everything. (You can always modify your post to add additional works)

To make this an enjoyable experience for all, we shall also abide by the following rules:

1. No sexually explicit work

2. No work which advocates, supports, condones (or provides directions in how to achieve) any violent or criminal act, either under Talossan or U.S.
Law.

3. No bashing of ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations or anything else that would put you in the category of "being a jerk."

4. Please post only your own work. If you have a friend who wants their work on display, please post it only with their permission and with clear attribution.

5. No spitting, and keep dogs and sailors off of the grass


Also, after posting, please PM me the following information (if you want your letter of participation):

1. Name you want on the letter (i.e. Talossan name)
2. Name you want on the envelope
3. Mailing address

[Owen Edwards]

Awesome stuff!

[Eðo Grischun]

Having participated in last year's festival (and having the spiffing letter from Tim) I am happy to see this event return. Last year I entered some works of digital art, this year I'm going with something completely different. I found a folder with the title "kids poems" on my computer while looking for something else for S:r Owen Edwards' recent request for essays. I must have penned these around about last November and absolutely forgot about them but I think the Lorentizio Arts Festival is the perfect place for 1 or 2 of them. I know children's poetry is not the norm around here but I hope the audience will still appreciate the entry. Before going on, I might add, I am not a poet. I have not studied poetry on or in any level past high school. I will post a few notes before each work and I do hope someone with literary knowledge will judge them with comment. I enjoy the humbling experience of having critics poke holes in my paper. I do not remember why I wrote these and what made me do it in the first place. However, with nothing else screaming out at me and still wanting to take part, I now present to you this small selection:

• Firstly, just for fun, a little bit of nursery rhyme play:
  

Humpty dumpty sat in the pot,
Humpty dumpty got very hot.
all the king's cooks and the rest of the bunch,
scrambled poor Humpty and ate him for lunch.

• This next one is, for sure, incomplete, not having got past this 'first verse'.
  (It might not actually be a poem for children, per se).

There is a world within another plain
with nude eyes it can't be seen,
But with orbs closed and breathing slowed
I can visit there when I dream.

• I love this next one.
  

Instead of a helmet I wear a pot on my head
and over my shoulders, a shawl that is red.
Wrapped round my waist is a telephone cord
and tucked into that, my toilet brush sword.

I head into battle against dragons and more,
I'm like a legend from tales of ancient folklore,
I swish and I swoosh in a great forward run,
a brush to the face and then they are done.

• And finally, this particular poem, which is an attempt at a list poem, is from a collection I tentatively titled "Gross Poems for Young Boys". I like the idea behind this poem, but, again, I'm not sure if it's finished. I remember spending about 3 weeks with this one to the point that it's at now. It may even have been the poem I started and finished with during this time period.

The dentist with a gap between his teeth


I went to the dentist the other day,
don't make me go back there, please, I pray,
I was not afraid of the noise of the drill,
nor did I mind the size of the bill.

No, my dentist is horrible with a gap in his teeth,
and when he smiles I can see chicken and beef,
it is jammed tight into that awfully big space,
and it makes smelly green smoke come out from his face.

Leeks and Potatoes and stains from soup,
Liver and fish and baked bean gloop,
There were insects, spiders and even some flies,
Stuck in the gap along with some pies.

Haggis and cheese and a rack of lamb,
onions and garlic and three tins of spam!
It held oysters, coffee, feathers and hair,
churning like butter in his cavernous lair.

posh pasta, runny caviar and ladle scoops of brine,
half a rat and a third of cat with a nasty whiff of wine,
His gums ooze puss but his tongue looks worse, like leather off a shoe,
Dentist? Ha, don't make me laugh, His lips are black and blue!

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Excellent! I really like these rhymes. I hope future generations remember they were seen here first!