Quest for the longest poetry meme: A chance to make history
I came across a blog with a challenge I couldn't ignore. Gary R. Hess at the PoemofQuotes Blog posted this:
I need your help fellow bloggers! Lets create the longest poem ever known to the meme. What we need to do: Copy and paste the previous persons poem, then write the next line. It can be a new stanza, new rhyme, etc. But the poem must make sense! To keep the poem going, please place a link to Gary's original post Quest for the longest poetry meme (nofollow it if you have to) and the previous person's page (in this case, it's Lucky Girl Trading Co.). Next, drop by PoemofQuotes and comment telling us the URL of your poem if you want us to continue it. If you don’t like the previous line, you can start the meme over, just don’t confuse everyone. Please state in the comment if you started a new poem. Lets try to make each poem as long as possible! Here is the poem so far, including my line:
The forest sang of moans from years past,
while crumbling leaves of sorrow the blackbirds pecked for morsels--what luck!
Hidden among the knots and gnarls of bygone woes,
Give it a try. Its fun.
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The Silver Surfer (Norrin Radd) is a fictional character, a Marvel Comics superhero created by Jack Kirby. The character first appears in the comic book Fantastic Four #48 (March 1966), the first of a three-issue arc fans and historians call "The Galactus Trilogy".
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Stan Lee enjoyed the character and decided to feature him in his own individual title in 1968. John Buscema was penciller for the first 17 issues of the series, with Kirby returning for the eighteenth and final issue. The first seven issues, which included anthological "Tales of the Watcher" backup stories, were 72-page (with advertising), 25-cent "giants", as opposed to typical 36-page, 12-cent comics of the time. Thematically, the stories dealt with the Surfer's exile on Earth and the inhumanity of man as observed by this noble yet fallen hero. The Silver Surfer comic book series became known as one of Lee's most thoughtful and introspective works. Englehart writes that Buscema and Lee were "pouring their souls into the series".
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