Jilted
My expectant hands
Cannot absolve the trespass
Of your absence
*
Rival
Bellicose in loss
You animate my language
With your savage frown
*
Crush
My ribs crack open
Entrails invading the den
Of an unstrung heart
*
Jaded
I fear stagnation
The compression of regrets
Into despotic whims
*
Delicacy
My heart is tender
A delicacy suited
To anomalous tastes
*
Optimist
Your eyes seek the stars
Despite burden, endeavor
Doggedly to dream
*
Transience
Truth is a phantom
Interred within the chambers
Of a nascent heart
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Does anyone know of a good free word program? I am using Open Office and it is worse than wordpress about messing with the formatting.
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no clue about the software… I write using word and then cut and paste to WP once I’ve finished, but I don’t really format things…
I don’t format things either but in open office if you hit backspace, if you type a new line, if you do anything at all even sometimes if you do nothing it changes formatting it is very very glitchy
Fabulous – can’t pick a favourite this time, they are all wonderful! 🙂
Awwww thank you Helen =)
These are fabulous senryus. I love the way you write. Sorry I can’t help with the formatting either as I use notepad mostly to cut and paste.
Awwww thank you so much =) I love the way you write as well!
Wonderful…I think Crush has inspired something. Unfortunately I am not sure I can write it down this morning before work. Loved this and thank you for the inspiration.
Thank you Anja! I hope you will get a chance to write it down at some point because I would love to read it =)
I wrote down the skeletons of it 🙂 Also sketched what I could see to remind me of the feel. I will let you know.
Awesome please do =)
I use Notepad for formatting. I write stuff in Word first, then copy it there. If I copy directly from Word or just write straight here to WP, the spacing is horrid if you do not mess with code.
I can’t code and I don’t have Word it costs way more than I could afford even for a Christmas gift haha I might look at Notepad =)
Yes,the prices of programs are outrageous if you ask me, thankfully,those I have have been necessery for education,so I was given money to buy them.
Notepad is pritty ok,it is all in all,about the words and about you. I have also been informed that with self-publishing,it is hard to pull of any complicated and intricate formating anyways.
Trust me I want everything simple! Sam can just look at a broken computer and will spontaneously function (it freaks his co-workers out) but me and anything electronic it is a disaster. I think my open office is possessed by something there is really nothing natural about the problems I am having lol
I like all the senryus, but my favorite is “Jaded”. 🙂
I still don’t quite get it, M. You need a good program that will support any formats you want for your poetry, right? I think Word or Notepad are good enough because poetry formats are pretty simple. I use Word all the time or sometimes just write directly here on WP…
I don’t format the problem is Open Office does even when you don’t touch anything lol It will randomly change the spacing between your lines. I never touch that stuff I just type but all of a sudden I will end up with a differently spaced line and once it does that you can’t reset it to default. Sometimes it changes the size of your letters (by itself I always keep it on 12 and never touch it). It just does not work. Even if it appears to work when you copy and paste it to wordpress it will be right back to looking ridiculous.
Thank you so much Elia =)
I just downloaded and installed Apache Open Office 4.0.0. Haven’t encountered any problems so far. If I later encounter one or two just like you said, I’ll try to figure out how it happened & maybe I can help you.
If you wanna try the program yourself (4.0.0 is the laterst), here’s the link: http://www.openoffice.org/download/
Oh wow! I wonder if I have an old version I have to go check, who knows when I installed this thing lol
I have 3.3 maybe I need to update lol
I have 3.3 maybe I need to update lol
Haha yeah, try the latest one. It’s not possessed like the 3.3 version lol
I will thanks lol I always forget to update programs 😛
first and the last are my favs….the truth one at the end is really strong…the trespass of your absence though is one of those lines i wish i had written…smiles….
Thanks so much Brian! That makes me ridiculously happy to hear =)