Making Believable What is Imaginable by Aesthete2000 at All poetry

i
Listening
or mysteriously spy-licious
casting wishes to stars in hiding
heaven, as you envision

ii
Near and Far
beyond each door a surprise
brilliant, bursting full
amongst the gardens

iii
Angelic Vagabond
to inspire, to motivate, to teach
conception of the mind
distance to ponder

iv
Weird Sagacity
making believable what is imaginable
to enter upon or merely surmise
surreptitously listening

Author notes

Familiar?
"Scrambled lines" per directives.

Graphics by Aesthete2000

In a list

A contest entry

Poem Scramble – Fun and Easy by Paloszoo. 900 points, ended August 27, 31 entries
Silver trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest

Words come alive when answered in kind.

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Rick Weston
September 20

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so i guess good lines are good lines in any context, and you certainly have several to share and scramble.

congrats on the silver.
- Aesthete2000
  September 21
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  I found it so interesting, reading the other entries,
  how each piece was a synopsis of the author
  and did flow imaginatively. Paloszoo gave
  speicific numbered directions for the
  piece and the particular lines, with
  just a liitle element of choice
  in some of the lines, where
  one could select from
  several options. But
  most were zeroed
  in and we had to
  stick to them!!!
  Very revealing.
  Thanks, Rick.
  M-C
Blushfulmoon
August 28

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excellent
Congrats on the Silver Trophy sis
Loved the poem
I entered this one too but mine was way off LOL
Do come by....I have up a few new ones you haven't read
Hugs
Your sis
Susan~~~
- Aesthete2000
  August 29
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  Those "natural cures" threw a real twist in yours!!!
  
  Thank you, Susan,
  on my way...
  
  M-C
Yemassee
August 28
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So I guess this means your poems when dissected and the pieces are sewed back together make more sense than the rest of ours when doing the same.

Silver is nice. I still need to get Ima the three basic trophy groups. He's lacking in gold, silver and bronze. He's looking rather gaunt.

Congratulations on the silver. Notice I typed out the whole world while Pix just typed out "congrats" that means I'm better than her, lol
- Aesthete2000
  August 28
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  Tsk, tsk! competitive always with the winged one!
  
  You were born for contests!
  
  Surely Ima would like an environmental "green " contest,
  or one where his vast reading experience could come to play!!
  
  If you hadn't thrown them all away you would have a closetful!
  
  Still wish you would have tried it--a mix of horror, fun and sentiment!
  But then you take yours out of chronological order, don't you, when
  you move them around?
- - Yemassee
    August 28
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    Competitive? No, not at all. Just being silly. As far as Ima, I just want one color of each. I didn't try that contest because it seemed too hard and chaotic. I don't do well wiith chaos that wasn't created by me. When I decided I might enter, it was just too darn hot to do anything that required real thinking.
  - - Aesthete2000
      August 28
      
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      A/C cools brains as well as bods.
      Oh, you would be even more prolific.
      And that's a good thing!
    - - Yemassee
        August 28
        
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        My days of proliferation are behind me. The stockpile has been dwindling. Me and Ima have a non-proliferation pact. We have also agreed to destroy the bulk of our poetic warheads.
      - Aesthete2000
        August 28
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        Now that is clever! but pacts can be broken!1
        One swath with the cane!!
        
        Take care today!
pixiestix
August 27

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Congrats on the shiny silver.
- Aesthete2000
  August 28
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  Thank you, creature of golden wings!!!
Paloszoo
August 27

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i
Listening
or mysteriously spy-licious
casting wishes to stars in hiding
heaven, as you envision

ii
Near and Far
beyond each door a surprise
brilliant, bursting full
amongst the gardens

Wow. Did you cheat? This is outstanding! Thanks for entering. I really enjoyed your work! Good luck in the contest!
- Aesthete2000
  August 28
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  No, no cheating!
  I was careful to count down to find the right line.
  Thought I was thrown by "spy-licious"--a coined word
  that invited readers to solve the mystery of how
  our dear angelica had become a "Fallen Angel."
  
  I had been on a jaunt with angels, perspective
  and container gardens---and of course it showed.
  
  Your efforts to set up the contest netted amazing reasults,
  as the pieces did have a coherance and a cohesion,
  the assemblng of the lines actually creating
  a portrait of sorts of each writer---an intro to read more!!
  
  Thank you for your creativity and patience in developing the contest--
  and for the silver, too!!
  
  M-C
Aesthete2000
August 20
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Here is a link to another of Paloszoo's contests.
A zillion musical prompts!
http://allpoetry.com/contest/2457657
Yemassee
August 20
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I wonder how many people will actually be honest and follow the rules, especially since...THIS PART DELETED TO PROTECT ME. No, if it were me I would cheat and alter my poems to make a perfect sounding poem, lol. I can admit it since I won't be entering.

Well, the tone is familiar, if not any specific lines. Did you actually use spy-licious in a poem?

I have to go see what Pix did. I bet hers is a mess, she wouldn't cheat like I would!
- Aesthete2000
  August 20
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  Actually, it only took a little over half an hour to find all the pieces and the lines.
  If you read the directives you will notice there are several lines where
  one is given a choice, so that allows some coherence.(Took as much or more
  time in bucket finding the right sized version of my drawings to use!)
  
  You would not have to cheat!!! the selected lines would reveal your broad
  range of topics and the intellect spurring the words.
  
  In "Fallen Angel," the play on words about Angelica---there it was,
  a coined word! I did wish I could cheat on that , but didn't. One could
  set it up better by just writing another new poem to push the numbering
  to a piece with a better line.
  
  It's numbers! You like numbers!
  
  Check out joy's---for after she read mine she went to work to create her own,
  but put us all to shame, for she listed her sources, line by line, with links!!!!
  I was seeing triple by then, so had not the energy to record all that!!
  (Bows to waydownuponjoy!)
- pixiestix
  August 20
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  Now that's a backhanded compliment if I ever heard one. It was the Pirate and Sock poems that were my downfall. lol
- - Aesthete2000
    August 20
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    Hey---still here?
    Yeah, it's the whacky ones that throw a curve---
    but actually, reveal the imaginative soul inside the lines!
  - - pixiestix
      August 20
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      I'll have to remember that one. lol I just thought writing them showed I'm whacky.
    - - Aesthete2000
        August 20
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        The versatility, really!
        To fly from the moon
        to swim in the current,
        to confess to the sock
        mystery!
        
        That, too, is why Yem's would
        be so interesting---from
        "shocking tales of horror"
        to the classics to depth of
        feeling!!
      - pixiestix
        August 20
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        Ah, he'd never do it.
        
        He's a self professed *Hans and Franz accent* "lazy mahn"
        
        Aesthete2000
        August 20
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        Maybe we could dare him into it!
        
        pixiestix
        August 21
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        He'd try to weasel out of it with some cockamaymie excuse. lol I double dog dared him to do something once and he didn't do it. Alas, I'm afraid it will never happen.
        
        Aesthete2000
        August 21
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        Hmmmmm---he'd probably want us to do it for him--
        no----that wouldn't be any fun for him. To do work
        there must be fun involved!!
    - pixiestix
      August 20
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      Still here. Got home not too long ago from NYC.
      
      Great exhibit...OMG!
    - - Aesthete2000
        August 20
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        Oh---tell me more---I should have asked for a ....well, couldn't be
        a cellcert---a cellshare---firsthand account as you saw the items
        on display! When you mentioned taking a note pad I first thought
        of making sketches of some of the items, but, of course, you meant
        words!!!!!!
        Tell, tell!
      - pixiestix
        August 20
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        I was under the impression there was going to be more of Lennon's art than there was. Mostly pen and ink drawings...doodles of a sort...some from the Bed In that he and Yoko hung on the hotel room walls.
        
        Lots of artifacts from many musical greats...guitars of course and clothing...Elvis Peacock jumpsuit, Johnny Cash's boots, Buddy Holly's shoes and suit just to name a few.
        
        What I enjoyed the most, were the handwritten notes, the lyrics composed, torn out notebook pages from Lennon, Springsteen, Simon and Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Michael Jackson just to name some.
        
        Museum experience was amazing. Headsets programmed so when you were viewing an artist's artifacts, their music was playing in your ears.
        
        Aesthete2000
        August 20
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        Ah, the sound with the sight,
        a treat for the senses.
        
        The notebooks---so relateable,
        so personal, thinking of one's own
        past pages. And that's from where
        your "Meager Words" was born, right?
        
        That initial point of creation---a treasure
        to see. Goose bump moments!!
        
        Thanks for the "I-report," pix,
        as instant as CNN!!1!!
        
        pixiestix
        August 20
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        Goose bump and misty moments. So much more. We all want to go back again except not in August. lol Dreadfully hot today.
        
        This is Pix E. Stix for AP news...back to you Aesthete. lol
        
        Aesthete2000
        August 21
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        There is quite a communication system
        in place here---world wide news coverage.
        
        And who's to say that some of those just created
        identities are not of alien nature---thus,
        inter-plasnetary communication!!!
        
        pixiestix
        August 21
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        Don't tell me there are crop circles! I'm making new tinfoil hats just to be on the safe side. lol
        
        Aesthete2000
        August 21
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        Yikes---you may still be under the influence
        of Yoko-John doodles, post Beatle hypnotic powers!
        
        pixiestix
        August 21
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        I was hypnotized by Bruce's Yellow 57 Chevy convertible driving down Thunder Road.
        
        Aesthete2000
        August 21
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        Who wouldn't be?????
        
        If the time line would have worked
        I should have used the "57 yellow
        in "Quest." instead of the "55,
        but it would have thrown off
        Moxie history.
        
        pixiestix
        August 21
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        So much time and effort to keep it all historically correct, down to the smallest details. Quite an impressive saga.
        
        Aesthete2000
        August 21
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        How appropriate we are chatting about this in a piece called " Making
        Believable What is Imaginable!"
        
        Thanks, pix, I appreciate your
        observations.
        
        Aesthete2000
        August 21
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        And they are still hanging in time---awaiting the crossover---hmmmm---need to start training program again---build the stamina to continue!!!!!
        the yellow '55 chev is supposed to show up at a car show in 2009 Maine!
        
        pixiestix
        August 21
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        Suspended animation or frozen like Walt Disney? lol
        
        When the time is right the creative spirit will start the program.
        
        They better have that car show soon before it starts snowing again. lol
        
        My 3000th comment is in here somewhere. lol *throws confetti*
        
        Aesthete2000
        August 21
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        Mem'ries!
        
        Aesthete2000
        August 21
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        YAY! YAY! YAY!
        Will go look for bucket confetti to throw!
Olivias Violin
August 20

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I was just showing my husband, this morning, a drawing you once made that I'd printed. A tulip with a pink face and green eyes
- Aesthete2000
  August 20
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  I remember---walk like a tulip--or something like that!!!
  
  Thinking about the glass flower garden!
pixiestix
August 20
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Yours came together beautifully. I especially like the second verse envisioning the surprises found in the garden bursting with life.

True of yours that it could be a brief intro to the poet and artist behind the words. I don't know if I feel the same of mine. lol
- Aesthete2000
  August 20
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  Just from the few I had read already of the other entries
  that seemed so evident--a cosmic book blurb!!1
  
  And stanza ii didn't have any choices, just played from the directives---
  
  Yours not coming together?
  
  Thanks, pix.
- - pixiestix
    August 20
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    Mine is okay. I like the way yours worked much better.
  - - Aesthete2000
      August 20
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      Luck plays a large part---of the right words landing
      on the right direction line!!!
      
      Your key words read winged one when linked together!!!
      The moonlight, the current!!!
      We need to get Yem and Ima to give it a try!
Denerica
August 20

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Clever write once again, I love the title, and a way of explaining dreamscaping. Wonderful, enlightening. Blessings.
- Aesthete2000
  August 20
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  Hi, Denise.
  It was quite interesting reading some of the entries,
  for rather than being just a mix-up of lines,
  I found that each seemed to be a brief
  intro to each writer's works showing
  recuring themes, moods, et al.
  
  Thank you!
  
  M-C
Summer52
August 20

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Your imagination can create something believable...through your work of art.
Very brilliant, Mumsy!

Good luck !
- Aesthete2000
  August 20
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  Hi, summer!!!
  
  Had the art ready,
  followed the directions
  to put the lines together!
  Makes a litle sense---
  perhaps because I have
  recurring themes!!!
  Directions started with
  first line being title of first piece
  posted on AP---actually my first at
  SFF---haven't been to poems in ages--
  just go to the site to check up on Jack,
  Hoeftra here.
  
  Take care!
  
  Mumsy
waydownuponjoy
August 20

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How interesting ...
this contest is and to see what continuity comes out of your production.
Well shared poem that forces one to ponder between the lines and to see that thread of unspoken that speaks through it all! I liked how yours turned out and as always the drawings that enhance it. Thanks for posting. joy
- Aesthete2000
  August 20
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  The art was already created
  as were the words, just had
  to follow the directions and
  find the designated lines!
  The recent garden and angel
  pieces tended to pop up!
  
  Nice to see you, joy.
  
  M-C