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Cpat Hair

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0 posted 2002-09-30 08:37 AM

I've written of Iambe for anumber of years now, but little to nothing of whether she had a family or relatives. If Iambe had a sister, what would she be like? Can you create a sister for Iambe that you could write more than one poem about, telling her life through your eyes? What's an apprpriate name for her...remembering that family names tend to be consistantly odd or normal.....

Should be great fun for me to see what you come up with if interested...if not...guess I'll have to go find her and see if I can't give her away to someone that needs a muse...

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1 posted 2002-09-30 08:43 AM

hmmm...munch munch in me head. grinning...problem is, having sisters I KNOW how different we all are. And I'm having to tame this drunken monkey of my mind here from going off into the absurd...and BESIDES, you've got enough info on me for a complete psychological profile NOW...

I feel nekkid when I know yer around!

Cpat Hair

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2 posted 2002-09-30 09:06 AM

Ser... yes they can be different indeed, as was the case in my own family with all of us being quite different yet still...there are often underlying fine points in common.
Go to the absurd if you like...the whole idea was to see what came out of YOUR minds if you created the character. She can be anything you wish....and can act anyway you want... she would after all be yours...

as for the psycholigical profile...heck you know I ain't that smart. I do good just to figure out if people are talking to me or about me... the idea of figuring out someone else well.... that is just way beyond my puny brain.

as for nekkid... (laughing) Put some clothes on girl.... you'll be making Mikey blush!!

bsquirrel

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3 posted 2002-09-30 02:38 PM

I'm not blushing.

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4 posted 2002-09-30 06:21 PM

Here ya go
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Cpat Hair

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5 posted 2002-09-30 06:28 PM

Ah... I see Martie was up to the challenge..and well met indeed it was!!
Now we'll see if anyone else has the intestinal fortitude to follow her...

(chuckling)

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6 posted 2002-10-01 06:53 AM

I heard tell
Iambe had a brother, or
at least, he resembled a brother...

perhaps, just perhaps...
the family tree
and apples
are in Iambe's future...

Cpat Hair

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7 posted 2002-10-01 11:54 AM

What? no other takers? Darn!!! I did so look forward to reading the creative ways Iambes family was fleshed out.

[This message has been edited by Cpat Hair (10-01-2002 12:04 PM).]

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8 posted 2002-10-01 02:45 PM

Give me a few weeks. Iambe didn't tell you about this one...

Cpat Hair

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9 posted 2002-10-01 03:18 PM

look forward to see what it is you come up with that I won't expect...( chuckling) if it takes a few weeks..it takes a few weeks... I can wait.

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10 posted 2002-10-01 03:47 PM

Ron...only one question.

Where did Iambe and her sisters grow up? You mentioned Iambe left home early, but I never found out where home was.

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11 posted 2002-10-01 03:48 PM

and it probably won't be a few weeks. If I'm going at it the whole time like I'm going at it now, it might only be a few days.

Cpat Hair

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12 posted 2002-10-01 04:13 PM

never said where she grew up.... so guess it is up to you to make that what you will. Could have been anywhere I guess, but I have always sort of pegged her to OK or TX since I wrote about her. I did a poem once about her leaving home..but not sure I ever posted it and know I didn't specify where home was..

nice part of this is you get to pick it... and all the layers you guys add to the person I get to use in Iambe poems....unless I run off with one of her sisters after you guys write them into creation..

(chuckling) Go for it!

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13 posted 2002-10-01 04:35 PM

*grins* Yeah, you posted it. But if you run off with this sister I might get a touch jealous. I wouldn't think Iambe would stay in the same state that she grew up in; I can't picture that. And since I've read that she's a current Oklahoma resident, I might go with the other choice. Thanks, that'll work out nicely.

Cpat Hair

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14 posted 2002-10-01 04:45 PM

(chuckling) well now you all know jealousy is one of the things that anyone around Iambe long has to deal with, so's I'll put it this way...if'n the sister strikes my fancy...I'd be willing to trade Iambe for her... Heck..Iambe cost me two worn out old poems when I got her...so what's a sister compared to that??

LMAO

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15 posted 2002-10-01 09:54 PM

*ahem*

Just ask a sister who married her sister's ex.

OR, just ask the ex of the current brother in law.

I'd better shaddup or Jerry Springer will come searching me out!

tch.

Will give you a snippet of conversation between the two sisters BEFORE the wedding:

"Is it going to bother you if I marry him?"

Sigh. (guess who) "Remember those black pumps I gave you? They were beautiful shoes, but the arch was kind of severe for my feet--they fit YOU tho, and looked great. So? There ya go."

"Are you SURE it's not going to bother you?"

"In the long run? I suspect it will bother YOU more."

It does. *chuckle*?

And now ex boyfriend brother in law says, in explanation to those who dare to ask:

"I was NOT fired. I just got a lateral transfer."

[This message has been edited by serenity blaze (10-01-2002 10:19 PM).]

Janet Marie
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16 posted 2002-10-02 01:31 AM

Oh yeah....this one I have to shake me muse down for.....
how can I resist this...
I'll be back...
Ive been gone for a bit...so I'll have to catch up in here..see what the moth missed.

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17 posted 2002-10-02 08:15 AM

Snake Charmer
for Ron's challenge

I'll never forget the first
time I laid eyes on Jake,
Iambe and Dillion's older brother.

He blew in unexpectedly
on a sultry summers breeze.
Tanned and tattooed ...
cowboy hat, blue jeans and boots.
He gave off an intensity like a
Texas tire fire.

He rarely wore more than jeans,
that tan and those tattoos.
He broke in his Levis like he did
the broncs and the women.

He never left the rodeo without the prize ...
never left the bar without skinned knuckles
and the girl on his arm.

He was one of the few men I'd ever seen
who could look Iambe in the eye and see
respect returned.

I'll never forget the last time I saw Jake either.
Iambe and I walked up on him swimming in
the lake, nothing on but that tan.

He just stood, strolled up the bank to his clothes,
smiling like the rattlesnake tattoo on his backside.
He pulled on his boots and jeans, tipped his hat,
winked at us and sauntered on down the dirt road.

As I watched him walk away,
I remember wishing with a vengeance ...
to be a tattoo in my next life.

JM

thank you Ron...for the inspiration ...
most of all for your Iambe series... and the way it makes this moth feel.

[This message has been edited by Janet Marie (10-02-2002 08:21 AM).]

Cpat Hair

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18 posted 2002-10-02 08:31 AM

Ser... with all that having been said..where is your contribution to this challenge?? Huh??? HUH???? you know you can create a sibling for Iambe.and I for one would like to see your take on this...so GET WRITING!!!! (chuckling)

JM... Post this in Open!!! What you doing hiding it back here? LOve the character... and can see him in my minds eye... not sure I can write about him as well as you have, but I am sure he'll end up in Iambe somewhere ( chuckling) NOW!!! POST THIS IN OPEN!!!!!! ( do I sound demanding this morning?)

Thanks to both of you for taking the time....and SER..... GET TO WRITING!!!!

bsquirrel

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19 posted 2002-10-02 12:17 PM

Yes, Janet. You HAVE to post that in Open! Too good not to.

Cpat Hair

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20 posted 2002-10-02 12:34 PM

OK Squirrel.... where the heck is yours?
you mean to tell me that with all your creative juices you can't imagine a relative of Iambe worth writing about?
(chuckling).... you my friend need indeed to spend a bit of your talent and let us see what and who is your contribution...

bsquirrel

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21 posted 2002-10-02 12:58 PM

It is autumn. It is cold out. I am in hunker-down and quite-tired mode.

I'll see what I can work up -- but it might be a few days.

(despite the sleepiness, autumn is my favorite time of year, so that might help with the energy levels as the season progresses)

Anyway, I have already said too much.

Cpat Hair

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22 posted 2002-10-02 01:43 PM

Mike... I too find the change of seasons to be a time the energy ebbs.... you do as you do.... my teasing is just that...and what one writes or does not write should come from your soul...not from an ego driven desire or from a demand from some other..

go gather nuts for winter and let Iambe and her family do the disfunctional things they do...

damn.... i'm tired too...

bsquirrel

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23 posted 2002-10-02 02:09 PM

I'm just worried of turning Iambe & Co. from fundamental to absurd. I mean, what if, aside from a sister who's a chef, it also suddenly turns out she has an artist, a pianist, a business-owner and a retired Vet in her family?

I'd rather not sully the flames by entitling her whole family tree to the worth of a poem.

I'm afraid my range is limited when it comes to fiction.

Cpat Hair

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24 posted 2002-10-02 02:22 PM

Mike...tell me a family that is not filled with just the things ( or some combination of others) you mentioned. I respect the thoughts you have..and as I said... I too am tired...so would not see in any way a need to write a family tree just for the sake of writing it...

Long story about Iambe...and in truth she is not all fiction. She is a compilation of people I have known and or met, making her real to me. More real than the words I write as she has been the essence of those things either missing in my own life or the things that were a part of my life. Because she has become all those things to me, and because I have known some greatly disfunctional people and family members...it is the weaving of the how and the why that drives the challenge. Creating fiction....yes... ut fiction from reality only to illustrate and explain the things perhaps that are too close to our own psyche to write or read, unless they exist in someone or something that has no flesh we have endure meeting in the mirror.

strange mood today my friend... so my rambles are perhaps best ket to myself, except now that I have typed it, I am compelled to post it...

bsquirrel

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25 posted 2002-10-02 02:58 PM

Thank you for sharing those thoughts with me, Ron. In that case, I will attempt to do justice to her family sometime soon for ya.

And not for you;
for me.

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26 posted 2002-10-02 03:36 PM

Ohhh, good, Konrad has a brother Jake, too! Dang near forgot about him! Sometimes we're too busy looking inward to realize what is just within our grasp. Janet Marie, get your mothy wings in open and post JAKE...

or I'll have to go complain to an administrator!

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27 posted 2002-10-03 03:00 PM

Ron, I am in midst of writing two or three of her (Iambe). But, am concerned that she'll become.....dilute in the wash of familys' wave.

So, I wait

Ed

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28 posted 2002-10-03 04:28 PM

Ed...
You write her as you see her. She will not get lost in any wash of family, as the family all represent different characters, different lives, different pasts. Iambe by the way never much cared if anyone thought her lost...she lived in spite of attention or lack there of. You can rest assured I would be reading her... kind of like that old love you can't quite forget... see the name, or catch a glimpse of someone that looks like you remember her..and your mind has to know...and your heart...well it does what hearts do, even if the rest of us don't admit it.

look forward to reading your Iambe... and letting her go.... she weighs heavy on me these days for some reason...

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29 posted 2002-10-07 10:48 PM

Well, I've got the first one all written up. But you're just gonna have to wait til I finish two more before I post the first one. I don't want to have to go through and make revisions after I post.

Just thought I'd let you know where I was at.

Cpat Hair

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30 posted 2002-10-08 10:20 AM

Great! Look forward to reading them!! I have gotten pretty tied up with work again, so can only drop by now and then to read, but will for sure be looking for your postings!!!

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31 posted 2002-10-08 11:22 AM

C'mon, MI - quit 'cher teasing! POST!

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32 posted 2002-10-08 01:51 PM

*grins* maybe tonight. maybe tonight.

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33 posted 2002-10-14 02:37 AM

Okay, I said I might post it five days ago. Well, I'm sorry, I got busy. I'll post it tomorrow night, promise. Actually, I'll post two tomorrow night, promise.

Sorry, I'm slow.

Cpat Hair

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34 posted 2002-10-14 08:46 AM

Nothing wrong with being slow... I been accused of it all my life and look at me...NO wait.. don't look at me! I'm a bad example. ( chuckling)

Looking forward to reading them MI!

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35 posted 2002-10-15 04:31 PM

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There's the first one. I'll post number two after I retouch it at work.

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36 posted 2002-10-16 07:16 AM

Number two, at last. That took me all night, y'know.
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Cpat Hair

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37 posted 2002-10-16 08:35 AM

MI... have read both and do think the effort well worth the results!I look forward to seeing where this goes next, for you have set a stage and introduced us to the players... now where do they fit one in each others lives?

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38 posted 2002-10-22 04:33 AM

Number three. Sorry, can't help advertising. *Grins*
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Cpat Hair

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39 posted 2002-10-22 09:09 AM

(chuckling) Read it before I saw this..and have to say have truly enjoyed your take on this whole challenge.... good stuff MI.. keep it up!!!

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40 posted 2003-09-02 11:03 PM

LOL well, she bit me.

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41 posted 2003-09-03 08:44 PM

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Cpat Hair

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42 posted 2003-09-04 01:34 PM

LOL.. wind.. I think perhaps you need to get that eye checked... certainly no reason for a confused look on your part... so if it is a physical issue, by all means get it checked out and fixed...

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