Omega19x: ~*~
Ryou was sitting down at the desk in the spare room, scribbling on a piece of notebook paper.
ph33r my rod: Malik wandered into the room, carrying a notepad of his own. "Hey~ Whatcha doing?"
Omega19x: "Trying to work on the poem for the open mic night..." he nibbled on his pen. "I... I think I want to write something about... well... the shadow disease... and how it felt..."
ph33r my rod: "Eep." Malik shuddered at the thought, then sat down on the small couch in the room. "I don't know what I want to write about yet...
Omega19x: "... Seto said inspiration just comes... but I haven't found mine yet."
ph33r my rod: "Hmm..." Malik tapped his chin in thought. "Back when the clouds were here, I distinctly remember you calling me a muse... whatever that means."
Omega19x: "A muse is... someone that inspires you."
ph33r my rod: "Ohhh."
Omega19x: "you... always inspire me... though not usually for writing anything..." he doodled a few lines on an otherwise very blank page.
ph33r my rod: Malik laid down on his side, tapping at the notepad with his pencil. "...hmm.
Omega19x: "... maybe I'll write about us too."
ph33r my rod: "Now there's a good subject." Malik grinned. "I think I might write something about my old home. Like when we went there during that race."
Omega19x: "... oh, I bet that has a lot of memories."
ph33r my rod: "Yeah... so it might make good poem material."
Omega19x: "... I think so. I... checked out a book of poetry from the library. The poems all seem to... make you feel something."
ph33r my rod: "...hmm. That sounds like the whole point of poetry, really. Is to make you feel things..."
Omega19x: "It's not just like telling a story."
ph33r my rod: "Nope. If you wanted to tell a story, you could just write a story. But the way I see it, this is kinda intended to... I dunno, drag you into it, maybe."
Omega19x: "most of the poems I read had a lot of metaphors and things..."
ph33r my rod: "I read a bit of ancient Egyptian poetry when I was little. And that seems to be common..."
Omega19x: "ancient Egyptian poetry?"
ph33r my rod: Malik shrugged. "It may or may not have been authentic, but yeah. Mostly about the gods and stuff."
Omega19x: "maybe you could write about the gods too..."
ph33r my rod: "Maybe. Gah, there's a lot of stuff to choose from."
Omega19x: "yeah. There really is!" Ryou thought about it. "It's hard to think of what to pick..."
ph33r my rod: Malik tapped his chin with the end of his pencil. "...I think I know what I'm doing." He smiled and started scribbling in his notepad.
Omega19x: Ryou looked up. "What?"
Omega19x: "... or is it a surprise."
ph33r my rod: "It's a surprise~"
Omega19x: "... okay. I like your surprises."
Omega19x: Ryou smiled, thinking of ones that involved puffs.
ph33r my rod: (( ... XD Two-track mind. ))
Omega19x: (OMG, I saw a commercial for a pancake puff making pan when I was all doped up. They showed how it could make all sorts of puffs!)
ph33r my rod: (( ...dude. 8DDD ))
Omega19x: (I know!! I want one now.)
Omega19x: "I wonder if I could write a poem about cream puffs..."
ph33r my rod: Malik grinned. "I wouldn't doubt it. You and cream puffs are like... uh... me and Pocky."
Omega19x: "teehee. And PockyWorld." Ryou smiled.
ph33r my rod: "Yep. If only there were a Cream Puff World, huh."
Omega19x: "... that... would be amazing."
ph33r my rod: "Maybe you could write a poem about that. What you think a world of cream puffs would be like.
ph33r my rod: "
Omega19x: "...hmmm... A great idea... but I guess I want my poem to have the kind of emotions that are in the book I checked out. There aren't any pastry poems there."
ph33r my rod: "Ahhh. That makes sense."
ph33r my rod: Malik was still scribbling in his note pad, occasionlly stopping to erase. "...this is hard if you're trying to rhyme."
Omega19x: "... I think some poems rhyme. But others don't."
ph33r my rod: "I guess it depends on the style you use, huh."
Omega19x: "or if you can think of something to rhyme with orange... I guess..."
ph33r my rod: "... ... I can't think of anything that rhymes with that."
Omega19x: "... That's because in English, there isn't one..."
Omega19x: (not sure about Japanese...)
ph33r my rod: (( There might be, but I don't think there's a word that ends in a 'nj' sound. XD The Japanese word for it, 'orenji', there are probably a few words that rhyme with that... ))
ph33r my rod: "Oh."
Omega19x: "There are several English words like that... I think the color purple doesn't rhyme with anything either."
ph33r my rod: "Awww. Those words are so neglected."