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The Ballad of Ceres

Munda
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since 1999-10-08

Posts 3544
The Hague, The Netherlands

0 posted 2000-07-19 07:24 PM

I decided to go for the iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter, with the last words of the second and fourth lines rhyming. LOL Just one of the "rules" I found for ballads.

The Ballad of Ceres

Upon a day, a while ago
A sweet Ceres was born
A man named Ron created her
He called her his "firstborn"

Computer Techno Poetry
Became their passion one
To sleep they hardly ever go
Not 'til all jobs are done

At first she had some growing pains
With master CD-Ron
But quickly learned how to back-up
And problems soon were gone

She doesn't fish for compliments
She rather has a worm
A good wild race with "Trojan horse"
She loves to make them squirm

A cold, it doesn't bother her
Ceres is virus proof
Whatever virus does approach
She finds them all a spoof

From time to time she bytes a bit
But that's just puberty
She wants to lose her heart disk drive
Feel software ecstasy

To surf the world of cyberspace
The world she most admires
Linked to computers lost in space
A Giga great desire

To surf where none have surfed before
Seek for the hackers nest
And bug them in their secret home
Would give her mem'ry rest

But when time comes to do the job
She's like a sorceress
She's always there where she belongs
She's just a sweet Ceres

Munda

Not A Poet
Member Elite

since 1999-11-03

Posts 3885
Oklahoma, USA

1 posted 2000-07-20 11:43 AM

Well done, Munda. Looks exactly like a ballad to me and one which touch ole Ron's heart at that.

Pete

Sudhir Iyer
Member Ascendant

since 2000-04-26

Posts 6943
Mumbai, India : now in Belgium

2 posted 2000-07-20 11:46 AM

Munda,

I am travelling to your friendly Netherlands for the weekend... will come back and catch up on this one...

there is still a lot to learn about ballads by the way and nice digging you did recently...

regards,
sudhir.

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