Sunday, September 17, 2006

Wikipedia:Sandbox/Poetry

There's a page on Wikipedia, called Wikpedia:Sandbox/Poetry, where people can write poems. What's cool about it is that it's 100% non-official. It's obscure, and just kinda nestling there in the armpit of the behemoth that is WP. A few days ago I decided to add a poem to the page, it's near the bottom.

(meta)physics

when you suck the air out of a
thin glass vessel, it's not the vacuum
that makes it smash, it's the air
on the outside pushing in



I just noticed that some anonymous person, somewhere in the world, added another one right after it:

(meta)(meta)physics

every time a soul fails in a
human being, it's not old age
that makes it die, it's the people
on the outside pushing in



How cool!

Here is a link to said page: Wikpedia:Sandbox/Poetry

4 comments:

Unknown said...

I would like to say that I very much appreciate these two poems, both individually and for their wonderfully complementary nature.
However, I was a bit knarked at all the hijacking of the wiki-page by the pro/anti-war faithful. Especially the American Mums who I found particularly annoying.
On the plus side, I did rather enjoy..
Ode to Bacon
Bacon - salty, fatty meat,
You make swoon me in the street.
Tasty, smokey, breaky treat,
I dream of you whilst in bed,
Then I eat you on my bread,
Eat too much! - Soon I'll be dead.

Unknown said...

On the subject of entertaining links, I was looking over the blogs of the lads here in Durham and came across the liquid-stacking World Championships:
Astroshack
I thought you might appreciate this Mr Moore!

Anonymous said...

Quite wonderful! The quote "The density of the Soy sauce was pretty surprising" stands out. Did you know, here in germanz, the blogger comments screen sazs:

"2 Kommentare -Ursprüngliche Post anzeigen

Kommentare minimieren

RichB Hat gesagt…"
s
and so on, rather than the usual. Makes you think. Also the z and y kezs are transposed hence the tzpos.

I also have some verz interesting news for wolds wazers which I will share on mz return.

Unknown said...

Ah, intriguing Mr Moore. I wonder what news you have for us!!