I am too tired to say anything...except

[CaliforniaPeggy]

I'm glad to be sitting down here, with all of you ....

I love you all...


:grouphug: :loveya: :grouphug:

[fizzgig]

1. it is good to see you, peggy

i hope your first day of class went well :hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear kagehime...

Oh, thank you, sweetie...

It went well, even though I had trouble parking, got lost, and walked in a couple of minutes late!

But she was understanding...

And I already have homework!

:hug:

[The Straight Story]

2. My friend peggy

Glad to be here with ya as well.

Can ya send some cooler weather down Bakersfield way please? :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Straight Story!

Thanks!

I wish I could send you some of my cool weather...

But it's only cool at night...

The days are still quite hot and muggy as well...

:hug:

[bridgit]

3. evening, Peg, how goes it...

:hi: :kick:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear bridgit...

It's going well, now, sweetie...

I can actually sit down here with you and pass the time of day...

A lot of running around today...

But now I'm home, and in for the night, thank goodness...:hug:

[bridgit]

12. girl, do i hear that, hubby did the running around today while i got...

to chase FedEx shipments on the phone GOOD GRIEF!! what happened to customer service in this country!? won't bore you with ad infinati details, but we have a fill-in driver and he hasn't been able to figure out that it takes TWO HANDS to get past our security gate so he...just leaves, omg! two days in a row!! stuff we need for our bizz

eh...but you're right = ta'heck with it, we're here, it could be worse, let's just be friends :pals:

here's a pic from the state fair last Sunday, hope you enjoy :)

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Oh that is a lovely picture, my dear bridgit!

And I wish you luck with the FedEx guy...

Hope he gets through your security gate ASAP...:hug:

Friends are the best!:pals:

[GoddessOfGuinness]

4. How was your class?

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

8. My dear GoddessOfGuiness...

It was good!

Would you believe there are forty students?

I was amazed!

It's going to be work...

My first poem is due next Tuesday......:scared:


:hug:

[The Straight Story]

9. Do you have to do the poem on a particular subject?

A lot of great poems floating around on DU, and I have some poems as well if it helps to get the mind churning any.

Maybe ya could write one about the lounge :rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

13. LOL!

You made this tired lady laugh out loud, sweetie!

I have to write a lyric poem (one that expresses the emotion of a speaker) and I have to use both abstract and concrete imagery...

I have no ideas as yet......but they will come!

But I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your very kind offer!:rofl:

:hug:

[The Straight Story]

15. Never taken a poetry class before, got to be really interesting

I looked it up because I am not familiar with poetry terms:

Much lyric poetry depends on regular meter based either on number of syllables or on stress. The most common meters are as follows:

* Iambic - two syllables, with the long or stressed syllable following the short or unstressed syllable.
* Trochaic - two syllables, with the short or unstressed syllable following the long or stressed syllable.
* Anapestic - three syllables, with the first two short or unstressed and the last long or stressed.
* Dactylic - three syllables, with the first one long or stressed and the other two short or unstressed.

Some forms have a combination of meters, often using a different meter for the refrain.

Each meter can have any number of elements, called feet. The most common meter in English is iambic pentameter, with five iambs per line. The most common in French is the alexandrin, with twelve syllables. In English, the alexandrine is iambic hexameter.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

17. Wow, thank you!

I'm sure we will talk about all that......but we didn't today!

But now I have a head start!

You are a sweetheart...:hug:

[The Straight Story]

19. When you figure out what it means, please explain it to me

:rofl:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

20. Oh, I thought you already knew!

And don't you really mean:

If I figure it out?

:rofl:

:hug:

[The Straight Story]

21. Hell, I am a high school drop out, I don't know jack about it :)

I just write it free form and from the heart. Sometimes it works, sometimes not.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

10. Have fun writing it!

And make sure we all get to read it, too!

:hug:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I will have fun, be sure of that!

And yes, I will share it with all you good people here in my home, the Lounge...:hug: :loveya:

[The Straight Story]

11. A quickie poem for the lounge: There once was a poster from Nantucket

Who posted in a GD Flamewar
Then said fuck it

He left after being called a scrounge
and starting looking around
And finally settled in
and found his new home, the lounge

[CaliforniaPeggy]

18. Omigod, you're cooking tonight!

That is funny!

Thanks, sweetie! :hug:

[Parche]

22. My Dear CaliforniaPeggy

I feel your pain!! :rofl: :rofl:



"The curious mind cannot be chained. It is a free mind, endlessly searching for the greater freedom that must eventually make every living being joyfully complete within himself therefore at peace with himself and his neighbors."



:hi: :hi: :hi:

:hug: :hug:
:yourock: :pals:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

23. My dear Parche!

Ah, I'm sure you do, sweetie!

Thanks...

:hug: