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    Blue
    Curtains
    Defy air
    Even as wind blows
    Fleeting wisps of dreams
    Grow and fall before you
    .
    ...the smell of flowers through metal labyrinths.

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    Quote Originally Posted by symphony View Post
    I dont know if i understand the form yet? Are we to add a syllable more to each line as we go, along with going with the consequent letters? So the next line should start with F and have 6 syllables?
    Yes, but some don't always follow the rules...
    Les Miserables,
    Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
    Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BienvenuJDC View Post
    Yes, but some don't always follow the rules...
    and who might that be...

    "But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
    "Oh, yes, I do."
    "In flames and torment?"
    "Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
    "That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said.
    "Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.

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    I'm not saying another word...
    Les Miserables,
    Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
    Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

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    Blue
    Curtains
    Defy air
    Even as wind blows
    Fleeting wisps of dreams
    Grow and fall before you
    Hallowed billows of dreams waft
    Les Miserables,
    Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
    Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

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    Blue
    Curtains
    Defy air
    Even as wind blows
    Fleeting wisps of dreams
    Grow and fall before you
    Hallowed billows of dreams waft
    In little concentric circles at your feet

    "But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
    "Oh, yes, I do."
    "In flames and torment?"
    "Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
    "That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said.
    "Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.

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    Blue
    Curtains
    Defy air
    Even as wind blows
    Fleeting wisps of dreams
    Grow and fall before you
    Hallowed billows of thought waft
    In little concentric circles at your feet
    Just as confusion deafens the sky
    Les Miserables,
    Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
    Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

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    Blue
    Curtains
    Defy air
    Even as wind blows
    Fleeting wisps of dreams
    Grow and fall before you
    Hallowed billows of thought waft
    In little concentric circles at your feet
    Just as confusion deafens the sky
    kelp like clouds swirl through the maze of thought

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    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Blue
    Curtains
    Defy air
    Even as wind blows
    Fleeting wisps of dreams
    Grow and fall before you
    Hallowed billows of thought waft
    In little concentric circles at your feet
    Just as confusion deafens the sky
    Kelp like clouds swirl through the maze of thought
    Little fishes swim through the breeze of the mind

    M
    Les Miserables,
    Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
    Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

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    Blue
    Curtains
    Defy air
    Even as wind blows
    Fleeting wisps of dreams
    Grow and fall before you
    Hallowed billows of thought waft
    In little concentric circles at your feet
    Just as confusion deafens the sky
    Kelp like clouds swirl through the maze of thought
    Little fishes swim through the breeze of the mind
    More winds, more waves, in my sea, in the blue curtains.
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    ...the smell of flowers through metal labyrinths.

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    "But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
    "Oh, yes, I do."
    "In flames and torment?"
    "Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
    "That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said.
    "Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.

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    Les Miserables,
    Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
    Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

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    Just currious why do you always start a new one when you get to the letter m?

    Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Muse View Post
    Just currious why do you always start a new one when you get to the letter m?
    I never noticed....maybe coincidence?
    Les Miserables,
    Volume 1, Fifth Book, Chapter 3
    Remember this, my friends: there are no such things as bad plants or bad men. There are only bad cultivators.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dark Muse View Post
    Just currious why do you always start a new one when you get to the letter m?
    I did it because the last one seems to have completed itself — starting and ending with curtains. But the real reason is I'm just too fried to come up with another long line

    "But do you really, seriously, Major Scobie," Dr. Sykes asked, "believe in hell?"
    "Oh, yes, I do."
    "In flames and torment?"
    "Perhaps not quite that. They tell us it may be a permanent sense of loss."
    "That sort of hell wouldn't worry me," Fellowes said.
    "Perhaps you've never lost anything of importance," Scobie said.

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