About A Word

This is a poem about my favourite word: quinquennium, which means a period of five years. This is fresh from the Incubbator! Track its history there.

Not sure how much literary value it has; there is no theme as such, just some facts in verse. But if you are here for the wordplay, this is it.

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ABOUT A WORD
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English words starting with 'Q'
Are, queerly, but a quiescent few.
Query anyone, "Not many in queue".

A quixotic five-year quest (quite untrue),
Cupid's arrow struck me, a random lexicon view;
I had found the one most q-true-blue!

Quinquennium: It's quite my word favourite.
Quin-quenni-yum: Say it aloud and savour it.
Take my cue: over "half a decade", favour it.

Indeed the Queen Of Words. Aye aye, so true!
Not only does it start with a 'Q',
But it has one to spare too: two!

-Thomas Jay Cubb

Beauty And The Beast Holder

Wise men and philosophers through the ages have disagreed on many things, but most seem to agree on one - "We become what we think about".

A man is what he thinks about all day long. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man's life is what his thoughts make of it. - Marcus Aurelius
As a man thinks in his heart, so is he. - The Bible

It is when we fill our minds with negativism that the world becomes evil. (The beast is within.) Everything we experience and everybody we encounter will carry the scent we hold in our mind.

Everything is a matter of perception; everything is relative, to you. You can choose to see a diamond or a rock. You choose the spectacles you wear - choose blue ones and the world is blue, choose green ones and the world is green.

Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder... Cliche! Cliche! ... If you don't have beautiful eyes, everything is ugly!

The Lime Sublime

Here is an excerpt from my poem "Free Verse I - The Anthem", the first part in my Free Verse trilogy. The first four lines here are to set the background. The snippet, I suppose, can stand on its own.

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ORANGE TROUBLE
(From Free Verse - I )
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It is the poet’s struggle
To find the words to juggle
To make it a decent rhyme
On lines, each and every time.
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If capture the poet’s heart does an orange
(Oh,that lime sublime!)
But alas, which has no rhyme!
How his feelings can he messenge?
Is his to be a still-born rime
For his hapless subject’s ‘crime’?
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- Thomas Jay Cubb


PS Other words with no rhymes include : month, nothing, purple. Also check out the limerick by Jim Farrand at http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~henkm/english/rhyme.html

Spin-Offs

I need to get more organized as I realize that all of me may not be for all of you. CubbSpace is multidimensional, you see. Such arrogance! I hear you mutter. I was trying to put too many eggs in one basket.

Only stuff with some literary value will come in here from now on - snippets of prose or verse.

It's horses for courses, and so I've started different blogs for different topics.

CubbSpace
- http://cubbspace.blogspot.com/ -
My literary blog - expect funny stuff (I hope!)

oOzone
- http://oozone.blogspot.com/ -
My programming and OO design tech blog.

InCubbator
- http://incubbator.blogspot.com/ -
Watch my ideas get cooked here!

Oraclique
- http://oraclique.blogspot.com/ -
A trivia-oriented quizzing blog.

Choose your poison! Choose all of them if you will!

Twisted Beauty

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- Thomas Jay Cubb

Written in 2003. Very nearly landed me a job! The dashes are forced because without them, the page doesn't get displayed properly.

Introduction (Declaration Of Intent)

This blog
Will be a log
Of my brainwaves
And self-raves
As and when
They ripen!

- Thomas Jay Cubb

Every Dog Has His Blog

Publishing's gone to the dogs
Nowadays everybody just blogs.
Words and ideas the blogger bleeds
Nonsense spewing out at insane speeds
Who cares? Anyway, nobody reads!

- Thomas Jay Cubb