What are you doing today?

[Lanpenn]

First time my Betta will "celebrate" New Year with me... last picture of this year:

My brine shrimp culture's not good, so I gave him my tiny BSFL as live food...

 

[jaylach]

Watching college football playoff games, semi finals.

 

[jaylach]

Tried my hand at poetry tonight. Turned out pretty well I think

Still looking for a poem sample.

 

[JuiceBox52]

Still looking for a poem sample.

Ill DM it to you

 

[jaylach]

Ill DM it to you

Read and commented. Mayhaps you should make it public to help others better understand.....

And why do terms always have to change? I assume that 'DM' stands for 'Direct message' but why was not 'PM' for private message not good enough?

 

[Fishmanic]

Tried my hand at poetry tonight. Turned out pretty well I think

Post your poem for all to see

 

[jaylach]

Post your poem for all to see

While I think she should don't push. Some such things can of a private nature, not for public sharing.

 

[Jacob the tank keeper]

What I'm doing today is laughing at my brother who took my frozen bloodworms thinking it was chocolate

 

[jaylach]

What I'm doing today is laughing at my brother who took my frozen bloodworms thinking it was chocolate

LOL! Hey, people eat ants and grasshoppers so why not???

 

[Jacob the tank keeper]

LOL! Hey, people eat ants and grasshoppers so why not???

Fair. Thinking about it, it's pretty much pure protein, so it might be healthy?

 

[WhistlingBadger]

LOL! Hey, people eat ants and grasshoppers so why not???

I'd have to be pretty hungry to eat a grasshopper. I hear the key is to pull the legs off first. I have eaten an ant, but not on purpose.

 

[Lanpenn]

I'm also curious about this poetry... since I have not fallen in love with anyone in the last months (I think much more about the project involving entering a Master's program in the United States), I still haven't written any new poetry.

Waiting for my new equipment for the brine shrimp culture (sponge filter and air pump), also, I am trying to figure out if is possible to culture the bloodworms in a plastic bottle, given that the mommies are laying eggs in my aquarium...

 

[WhistlingBadger]

Well, since Juice seems to be rather shy, I will share possibly my favorite poem I have ever written. A long time ago, Mrs. Badger and I were doing a marriage-enrichment book which had the rather odd assignment of writing the epitaph we would like to have engraved on our tombstones. A way of clarifying what is important to us and what kind of people we wish to be. Mine went something like this. Apologies if it brings a tear; I think it is quite touching, if I may say so.

Here lie the bones of a guy named Tom
who blew himself up with a home-made bomb.
Some days you win, and some days you lose
and some days you just need a bit longer fuse.
But Tom always loved the 4th of July,
and he always wanted to learn how to fly.
He got what he wanted. No reason to cry.

 

[connorlindeman]

I hope this doesn't count as religious stuff against the rules. It's a little poem I wrote over the weekend.
Trying to put it to music.

When my days are over, and the trial of life is past
Will I have made God my counselor? Did I hold Jesus fast?
Did I walk with God like Enoch? Did I sing in Jail like Paul?
Will I have made Christ my Pilot? Did I surrender all?

When my days are over, and I look back to yesterday
Did I treat others as I should have? Did I walk the narrow way?
Did I give the Lord all glory? Did I pass on the truths he gave?
Did I teach others the way to heaven? Was it his presence that I craved?

The day is fast approaching when my glorified Lord shall come
To take his faithful watchmen and say to them, ‘Well done.’
Will I then greet my Lord as one I long have sought?
Or will I cower in fear, and my life's work be for naught?

 

[Fishmanic]

Here's my attempt at poetry:
There once was a man from Nantucket

never mind ​