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I found Zoe who's doing haiku-a-day
...and bad-gateway who has limericks in their gemlog
...but I always like pantoums because they're peculiar.
So I wrote this pantoum. Status: first draft.
The Gemini protocol recalls simple times Without opportunity for commercial transaction We just write our gemlogs (in prose or in rhymes) Ease of implementation is developers' attraction Without opportunity for commercial transaction The quality of content comes right to the fore Ease of implementation is developers' attraction With a flowering of clients and servers galore The quality of content comes right to the fore When we don't have to have to deal with the bloat on the net With a flowering of clients and servers galore Mean we do what we want, and we like what we get When we don't have to have to deal with the bloat on the net The Gemini protocol recalls simple times When we do what we want, and we like what we get We just write our gemlogs (in prose or in rhymes)
I think that poetry can be a write-only medium (like code in APL, Perl, regex, etc). I can cope with a few lines, but it's hard to pay attention if it goes on a bit. So well done if you got all the way through.