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Another entry to Poetigress's Thursday Prompt
this time on the keywords 'the room.'
So which room might we be talking about here?
And who might be in it waiting for her lover to arrive?
Ping! Oh yah, instant sonnet. Wait, weren't these
things supposed to be hard?
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this time on the keywords 'the room.'
So which room might we be talking about here?
And who might be in it waiting for her lover to arrive?
Ping! Oh yah, instant sonnet. Wait, weren't these
things supposed to be hard?
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>>>>> On Relationships (#2)-- Spoken Word <<<<<
By Fred Brown, July 14/2011
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/fwbrown61/
Copyright 2011 All rights reserved, all commercial
infringements prosecuted, website display permission
available upon request. Non-personal distro is infringement.
Recorded on Mar 4/2022
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Bingo. We must give a grateful dip 'o the ears to several high school English teachers, who succeeded in making Mr. Bill stick to me. And has never left me. Evidence: The whole Act Four of The Cupid Effect.
More credit as well to my Mom's copy of his Complete Works, which I used in class instead of the school-issue textbooks. Hello: All these sonnets tucked in the back...?
These are interesting, mucho craftstmanship here. Not all of 'em very readable to a contemporary Canadian teenager, mind you, but still.
Big bonus: Study the sonnets, and you have an easy entry point into understanding the Shakespearean style of language, how and why the text of the plays work the way they do. Small bites to nom, jumps off the page, y' know?
Esp. when you read the sonnets out loud. Now that paid off in Krugerrands, yup-per. Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Hamlet, Richard III, The Taming of the Shrew: Grokked 'em all without breathing hard while everyone else just flailed.
Memorized a batch of sonnets too, then performed them at student drama festival. To profoundly tepid response, as I recall, muffed it badly.
Helpful acting tip: Don't go on stage nearly cross-eyed with a monster hangover [due to student drama festival parties the night before]. Got at least some positive feedback from some people, though, for the attempting.
I've gotten better. :- )
fwbrown61
PS: Observe Midsummer's Night, wherein Mr. Bill gives us a hilarious anthro-oriented note in Act III, scene I.
As in, thanks to Puck, the character of Bottom ends up with the head of an ass. Then Titania falls in passionate, total love with him. Audience falls off chairs.
And we think we're inventing something new? In the immortal words of John Belushi, but nooo... :- )
(And I'm closely scrutinizin' Midsummer's, yes indeed I am. Gots me some fun ideas here; wait for it).
More credit as well to my Mom's copy of his Complete Works, which I used in class instead of the school-issue textbooks. Hello: All these sonnets tucked in the back...?
These are interesting, mucho craftstmanship here. Not all of 'em very readable to a contemporary Canadian teenager, mind you, but still.
Big bonus: Study the sonnets, and you have an easy entry point into understanding the Shakespearean style of language, how and why the text of the plays work the way they do. Small bites to nom, jumps off the page, y' know?
Esp. when you read the sonnets out loud. Now that paid off in Krugerrands, yup-per. Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Hamlet, Richard III, The Taming of the Shrew: Grokked 'em all without breathing hard while everyone else just flailed.
Memorized a batch of sonnets too, then performed them at student drama festival. To profoundly tepid response, as I recall, muffed it badly.
Helpful acting tip: Don't go on stage nearly cross-eyed with a monster hangover [due to student drama festival parties the night before]. Got at least some positive feedback from some people, though, for the attempting.
I've gotten better. :- )
fwbrown61PS: Observe Midsummer's Night, wherein Mr. Bill gives us a hilarious anthro-oriented note in Act III, scene I.
As in, thanks to Puck, the character of Bottom ends up with the head of an ass. Then Titania falls in passionate, total love with him. Audience falls off chairs.
And we think we're inventing something new? In the immortal words of John Belushi, but nooo... :- )
(And I'm closely scrutinizin' Midsummer's, yes indeed I am. Gots me some fun ideas here; wait for it).
Did you ever see Shakespeare in Love? It was a fabulous movie!
As to my own meager endeavors, I was the sword fight choreographer for a cheap production of Romeo and Juliet where I watched the lady director almost cream herself during a reading. Most proudly, I was the sword fight choreographer for the Miami Grand Opera's Romeo and Juliet. Now those people were totally professional and wonderful, and they accepted me as one of their own which was totally mind bending. The director had me use full broadswords, and Tybalt almost lost an eye. He took two stitches just above the right eyelid when Mercutio froze for a mere second.
Now go watch that movie - it's probably on youtube. and no drinking!
V.
As to my own meager endeavors, I was the sword fight choreographer for a cheap production of Romeo and Juliet where I watched the lady director almost cream herself during a reading. Most proudly, I was the sword fight choreographer for the Miami Grand Opera's Romeo and Juliet. Now those people were totally professional and wonderful, and they accepted me as one of their own which was totally mind bending. The director had me use full broadswords, and Tybalt almost lost an eye. He took two stitches just above the right eyelid when Mercutio froze for a mere second.
Now go watch that movie - it's probably on youtube. and no drinking!
V.
Yup, know about, and saw, Shakespeare In Love. Paltrow: Superb. Ditto everyone else, and the whole [sophisticated] story.
Which can't be read as super-accurate re. what we know about Shakespeare's history and career, but still. Gives us a fair take on the chap, you can hear the ring of plausibility. Was Romeo and Juliet actually written this way? Never mind; one of his best works regardless.
(Of *course* R & J influenced The Cupid Effect, and darn near every other romance I've done, which would be all of them. :- ) )
And did you say sword fighting choreo coach? Well, gobsmack and impress me on that one, 'cause do know some things about the Society for Creative Anachronism.
An interest of a long-ago girlfriend in Toronto. Who looked good in her [short-skirted] battledress, it must be said. As for everyone else in their [authentic] battledress and armour, yes, significant sword skills were on display at one big feast-event we got to.
Ergo I can appreciate. Stories to tell there, about how you got into that field, I'll suspect, which may/may not pertain to a spot of military experience?
(I've perhaps fortunately missed that in my life. But ferdamnsure know a lot about it. Perhaps too much for my peace of mind. :- / )
fwbrown61
Which can't be read as super-accurate re. what we know about Shakespeare's history and career, but still. Gives us a fair take on the chap, you can hear the ring of plausibility. Was Romeo and Juliet actually written this way? Never mind; one of his best works regardless.
(Of *course* R & J influenced The Cupid Effect, and darn near every other romance I've done, which would be all of them. :- ) )
And did you say sword fighting choreo coach? Well, gobsmack and impress me on that one, 'cause do know some things about the Society for Creative Anachronism.
An interest of a long-ago girlfriend in Toronto. Who looked good in her [short-skirted] battledress, it must be said. As for everyone else in their [authentic] battledress and armour, yes, significant sword skills were on display at one big feast-event we got to.
Ergo I can appreciate. Stories to tell there, about how you got into that field, I'll suspect, which may/may not pertain to a spot of military experience?
(I've perhaps fortunately missed that in my life. But ferdamnsure know a lot about it. Perhaps too much for my peace of mind. :- / )
fwbrown61
*chuckles... https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28202660/
written some time ago but it was a fun write... note coming...
V.
written some time ago but it was a fun write... note coming...
V.
Ohhh, well done, insert admiring purrs here. "...A half baked custard pie waiting to spew your guts all over the table." Hee hee hee.
Where and how the words and the scenes and characters come from, thence to assemble on the page into something great: Who 'da fug knows why it happens?
S' just great--and fun--when it does happen. Here's to 'mo where that came from. .
fwbrown61
Where and how the words and the scenes and characters come from, thence to assemble on the page into something great: Who 'da fug knows why it happens?
S' just great--and fun--when it does happen. Here's to 'mo where that came from. .
fwbrown61 
Awesome! Another poet working in the sonnet form! You seem to have a competent grasp of it, so congrats on the piece!
Also, thank
vixyyfox for pointing me in your direction. Here, have a +Watch! :)
Also, thank
vixyyfox for pointing me in your direction. Here, have a +Watch! :)
TY tha watch and the kudos. Pleased yer pleased at the sonnets, which is what I looked like every time one 'em came together properly after much muzzle-bashing-inna-keyboard.
Say writer, not poet per se, but with enough poet installed to be able to do these puppies. Truthy to tell, I've had a lot of practice going back a looong time, there's a good [non-furry] stockpile.
And done typical to how Mr. Bill did his: Due to some sort of romantic impulse towards someone. Sufficient to go considerably spicy in a few instances, nudge, nudge, but then again, in a few instances I had plenty of cause.
Ditto for the Wolf and Bunny sonnets, saving that it's not my romantic impulses at work but their's towards each other. Well now, we can work with this.
Got 40 done. Would like to hit at least a hundred. We shall see.
Or to match Shakespeare, 150? Mmmm, I'm gonna have to figure out how to live longer. :- )
fwbrown61
Say writer, not poet per se, but with enough poet installed to be able to do these puppies. Truthy to tell, I've had a lot of practice going back a looong time, there's a good [non-furry] stockpile.
And done typical to how Mr. Bill did his: Due to some sort of romantic impulse towards someone. Sufficient to go considerably spicy in a few instances, nudge, nudge, but then again, in a few instances I had plenty of cause.
Ditto for the Wolf and Bunny sonnets, saving that it's not my romantic impulses at work but their's towards each other. Well now, we can work with this.
Got 40 done. Would like to hit at least a hundred. We shall see.
Or to match Shakespeare, 150? Mmmm, I'm gonna have to figure out how to live longer. :- )
fwbrown61 
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