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    like sparkling flames
    eyes flashing, sing'ed glances
    passion from within
    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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    "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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    a thousand pieces
    broken, scattered, strewn across
    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 mazHur View Post
    I think 'incendiary' is phonetically five syllabled ...
    No, 'incendiary'
    is four: so says my Oxford
    English dictionary.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blnk_vrz View Post
    No, 'incendiary'
    is four: so says my Oxford
    English dictionary.

    in-ˈsen-dē-ˌer-ē

    source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incendiary


    mazHur is correct
    it is five syllables in
    our dictionary
    Last edited by Haunted; 05-27-2009 at 11:33 AM.

    "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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    contents of our hearts

    "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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    Quote Originally Posted by Haunted View Post
    in-ˈsen-dē-ˌer-ē

    source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incendiary


    mazHur is correct
    it is five syllables in
    our dictionary
    I agree...but even if it isn't...we'll use our poetic license to make it work...

    BTW...what does your photo look like on YOUR poetic license?
    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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    OK: to-mar-to,
    to-may-to; as I would say
    'dictionary' is three.

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    Dudes, what is all the hubbub about bubb?

    This is a three-people haiku thread, so lets get haiku-ing already!! One line to a person please.

    If I could, I shall commence a new one:

    Sand alterations
    Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
    ~Albert Einstein

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    Sand alterations
    Fancy sculptures on the beach
    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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    Sand alterations
    Fancy sculptures on the beach
    succumb to the tide
    Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty
    ~Albert Einstein

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    Kiz, lovely! I love beach scenes...Bien, nice second line.

    Let me start another one....

    grains tip hour glass
    Last edited by Janine; 05-27-2009 at 05:38 PM.
    "It's so mysterious, the land of tears."

    Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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    grains shift hour glass
    there's nothing left to pass time
    'For sale: baby shoes, never worn'. Hemingway

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    grains shift hour glass
    there's nothing left to pass time
    gravity achieves
    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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    Haiku s are awesome
    but sometimes they don't make sense
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