Who Am I?
by Clairesbest (Member) - published: September 7, 2004
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WHO AM I?, a thread, requires no shout out...come as you will and describe a person, place or thing in a verse (even a member :)) of NO MORE than four lines. An exercise in brevity, imagery, metaphor, cleverness, and poetic prowess to get it all in.

The "guessing" thread is being posted simultaneously. Do NOT guess here, this is for the stumpers in verse only. Submit your piece by part number (i.e., Who Am I, 2) so that guessers may identify the part they are guessing on. Everyone come and dazzle your fellows with your clever poetic description.

If by unlikely happenstance, two members hit the submit button at the same time with the same number, don't worry...guessers will just identify with the number and the member name when they guess!

An easy one to start and give you the idea :) I know all of yours will be much more clever and difficult...and the guessing will be half the fun!

My face shines incandescent
My hat two thirds my height
My quarter voice sings out in "F"
And I'm always, always right.

Who Am I, Part 1

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by Clairesbest

Who am I? Part 2
My son is a delinquent,
my husband causes me woe.
I once was a cartoon tribute
to Edgar Allan Poe.

( Posted by: windchime [Member] On: September 7, 2004 )

Who Am I ?... Part 3
Partly stated in my name
An area dry but not tame
Beginning is a view so sheer
Ending is a place near here.

( Posted by: daprdan [Member] On: September 7, 2004 )

Who am I.....part 4
I hid him under a blanket
I told him not to fear
Gave him milk and as he slept
I drove a tent peg through his ear

( Posted by: Nitz Kitty [Member] On: September 7, 2004 )

Who Am I....Part 5
towering over the very first film made
testament to national pride
on four legs I doth parade
and sway in the gentle breeze

( Posted by: londongrey [Member] On: September 7, 2004 )

Who Am I, Part 6
I lie between two not very big
with 12 miles of nautical sea
My resources once stood tall and proud
And they changed the name of me!

( Posted by: clairesbest [Member] On: September 7, 2004 )

Who am I, part 7
Oh, my aching back
I'm going to pieces
I rank up there with...
The Red Hibiscus

( Posted by: Nitz Kitty [Member] On: September 7, 2004 )

Who am I - part 8
In every city and town.
My meals are scoffed down.
I'm dressed like a clown.

( Posted by: Penelope [Member] On: September 7, 2004 )

Who am I? - part 9
I experimented on twins.
Some were very small.
I left before the fall
and never paid for my sins.

( Posted by: Penelope [Member] On: September 7, 2004 )

Who am I, 10
I loved a man with aspirations
And made them come to pass
On film my love went out in song
Good thing the masses loved my ass!

( Posted by: clairesbest [Member] On: September 7, 2004 )

Who Am I ?... Part 11
Born in Ulm so long ago
I died in the US of A
I failed the class I had in math
Then later I paved the way...

( Posted by: daprdan [Member] On: September 7, 2004 )

Who am I? - part 12
I gallop through dark skies
never losing any race.
It should come as no surprise
there's no horn upon my face.

( Posted by: Penelope [Member] On: September 7, 2004 )

Part 13
He's thought of as an intellectual
And his name will soon be collectible
He tells it like it is
At truth telling he 's a whiz

( Posted by: Beatrice Boyle [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Part 14
Woke up in a strange state
An existentialist's view askew
Rotted fruit still embedded
If it happened to me, it could happen to you

( Posted by: eleutheromaniac [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Part 15
Though it's art is peace
It's founder not then grand
Without true emptiness
You will never understand.

( Posted by: Clairesbest [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Part 16
It would take a long march
to traverse it all
and it wasn't where
Humpty Dumpty had his fall.

( Posted by: Penelope [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Who Am I Part 16
Surrounding a gem is a checkerboard of green
Abode to boys who are chasing a sphere of white
Three seasons of the year and pride of the east
Orb targets an emerald barrier and takes flight

( Posted by: cjherlihy [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Who Am I........Part 17
I was a friend of Isaac Newton
I publised his 'Principia'
I got no thanks nor no money
but my name is just as familiar

( Posted by: londongrey [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Who Am I - Part 18
A Purple Heart
Seems awfully fair
For six grains of rice
In my derriere

( Posted by: cjmiller [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Who Am I - Part 19
It wasn't meant
To go very far
But then she asked
How do you wet your cigar

( Posted by: cjmiller [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Who Am I, 20
I learned Greek and Latin at an early age
And I put my thoughts down on a page
My father disapproved my choice
And my 44 were my finest voice.

( Posted by: clairesbest [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Who Am I.....Part 21
I play with both sides
but my veils never slip
I improvise beautifully
but then, I was hip

( Posted by: londongrey [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Who am I? - part 22
Fitzpatrick even gaoled my mom.
The shootout wasn't much fun.
and on Remembrance Day I was hung.

( Posted by: Penelope [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Who Am I.....Part 22
I was born in Engand
and expanded my horizons
stiff with expectations
snail trail on my lapel

( Posted by: londongrey [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Who Am I... Part 23
(Think of Aaliyah)
More than poet
more than a haiku
he said he'd be
more than a poet
more than a haiku

( Posted by: londongrey [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Part 24, Who Am I
The desert's my home
I'm a nocturnal creature
When I'm done with the rodents
I might be the feature.

( Posted by: arc [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Who am I, Part 25
Dusted limbs keep me on high
I seek the light of existance
Yet when found, faint I become
And fall to the ground, no resistance

( Posted by: xitwound117 [Member] On: September 8, 2004 )

Part 26
Because these are hard times
Often, my tale told with evergreen
Zillions of lives exist within me

( Posted by: eleutheromaniac [Member] On: September 9, 2004 )

Who Am I? Part 28
Beneath the Scales I sit
Waiting for feed due to judgements made
Fed by he who has the head of the chacal
I am how the wicked paid

( Posted by: xitwound117 [Member] On: September 9, 2004 )

correction on 28, sorry
Beneath the Scales I sit
Waiting for feed due to judgements made
Fed by he who has the head of the chacal
I am how the wicked are paid

( Posted by: xitwound117 [Member] On: September 9, 2004 )

Who am I? - part 29
I caught a lung wracking disease
and survived for what it is worth.
Well known to the Chinese
but obscure in my country of birth.

( Posted by: Penelope [Member] On: September 9, 2004 )

Who Am I Part 30
I originate from the valleys
but am often mistaken for a neighbour
I never sung in a fair voice
but my proteges are none the wiser

( Posted by: londongrey [Member] On: September 10, 2004 )

Who Am I Part 31
In this they travelled far...
...seeking hope and escape.
Found upon a different shore...
...they embarked in their own way

( Posted by: CJHerlihy [Member] On: September 10, 2004 )

Who Am I Part 32
Born in the USA and father to five
Teaching and travelling made of his life
Always drawn home again to his passions
Of which lay in the fields and on pages

( Posted by: CJHerlihy [Member] On: September 11, 2004 )

Who am I..part 33
My heritage left in one line
My empire lost in sands of time
By body gone my visage broke
New meaning to the words I spoke

( Posted by: ivordavies [Member] On: September 11, 2004 )

Who Am I, 34

I expect to live to a ripe old age and probably go to mass
I likely work a service job, and my stripes have a rocky past
We harbor little ill on the planet's checkered stage,
And some of our best accomplishment is written on a page.

( Posted by: Clairesbest [Member] On: September 11, 2004 )

Who Am I, Part 35
I figured ya'll deserved an easy one with all the hard ones left unguessed...:)

you think you know me by my actions,
A beer or lights up all year long
But you don't, because I am so much more
Than is sung in every song.

( Posted by: Clairesbest [Member] On: September 11, 2004 )

Who am I part 36
My friends will never carry wings,
My company, decaying things.
I'll see you all when rain does fall,
Or else I'll not be here at all!

( Posted by: ivordavies [Member] On: September 11, 2004 )

What am I part...37
I am the only pregnant male,
That you may ever sea
My lovers leave me on my own
To raise their family

( Posted by: ivordavies [Member] On: September 11, 2004 )

What Am I PART 38
Sometime in 1926
Where buildings meet skies
I gave them their fix
As metro had no yard that size

( Posted by: CJHerlihy [Member] On: September 13, 2004 )

Who am I ?
I am a woman halfway through my life
Twice I've been a widowed wife
Roll with the punches I always says
Wish me luck...I got married today.

( Posted by: ncgem [Member] On: May 7, 2005 )

Who Am I?
I am a tall stranger,
ramrod straight. The
sight of me you could
hate.

( Posted by: Dfortyseven [Member] On: May 9, 2005 )

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