The Exquisite Proposition by The Gummies Beloved Minch
May 17th, 2008 3:54 PMDictionary: proposition (prŏp'ə-zĭsh'ən)
n.
1) A plan suggested for acceptance; a proposal.
2) A matter to be dealt with; a task: Finding affordable housing can be a difficult proposition.
3) An offer of a private bargain, especially a request for sexual relations.
4) A subject for discussion or analysis.
5) Logic.
a) A statement that affirms or denies something.
b) The meaning expressed in such a statement, as opposed to the way it is expressed.
6) Mathematics. A theorem.
tr.v., -tioned, -tion·ing, -tions.
To propose a private bargain to, especially to propose sexual relations with.
[Middle English proposicion, from Old French proposition, from Latin prōpositiō, prōpositiōn-, setting out in words, from prōpositus, past participle of prōpōnere, to set forth. See propose.]
propositional prop'o·si'tion·al adj.
propositionally prop'o·si'tion·al·ly adv.
What is more pleading of a propsition than a love poem.
Below is my Exquisite Proposition in the form of a poem. Each line is taken from a different source (poems, plays, songs...). Some are from works I know and love, some are from quotes I have stumbled upon throughout my life, some are random. I prefer shorter poems, so it will have to be exquisite in composition, not length.
Every line is referenced at the end.
Call you me fair?
silent as a breath
a morning mess inside my head
standing upon the constant edges of decision
knowing how way leads on to way
we must call all things by name
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
the beating of your heart
shall translate me to the ethereal world
the muscle, bone, and sinews tangled
from fairest creatures we desire
any truth is better than make-believe
I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair
in sunshine and in shadow
would you lay with me
between my chest and your fragrance
fit into me
with the certainty of tides
this arm beneath your head
so dawn goes down to day
you taste like the sky
I have spread my dreams under your feet
In the night.
I lift my lids and all is born again
Naked you are
shuddering
and my skin has betrayed me
As for getting strangers to sign (up) for it.... I am going to go out on a limb here and believe that as this is a love poem, and as it took a slightly erotic turn there, any number of strangers out there would be quite willing to "sign up" for the proposition. Since I am a lady though, and I do not proposition and tell, I'm not outing anyone I suspect.
Line by Line reference:Shakespeare ~ A Midsummer Night's Dream (Helena)
Audra Lorde ~ If You Come Softly
Paige Aufhammer ~ Coffee (it's a song)
Audra Lorde ~ Litany for Survival
Robert Frost ~ The Road not taken
Wendell Berry ~ Words
EE Cummings ~ I carry your heart with me
Alice Walker ~ Love is Not Concerned
Thoreau ~ A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
The Decemberists ~ Red Right Ankle
Shakespeare ~ Sonnet I
Thoreau ~ Walden
Paublo Neruda ~ I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair
Edgar Allen Poe ~ Eldarado
Johnny cash ~ Would you lay with me
Paublo Neruda ~ And because Love battles
Margaret Atwood ~ You Fit into me
Maya Angelou ~ Still I Rise
Walt Whitman ~ O Captain My Captain
Robert Frost ~ Nothing Gold Can Stay
Morphine ~ You Look Like Rain
William Butler Yeats ~ He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven
Anna Akhmatova ~ Memory of Sun
Sylvia Plath ~ Mad Girl's Love Song
Paublo Neruda ~ Morning
Allen Ginsberg ~ Howl
Audre Lorde ~ Hanging Fire
22 vote(s)
hem hest penman
Bex
Sturm und Drang
Someone
teh Lolbrarian
Levitating Potato
Bjorn Teuleuse
Pluvious
Ben³
Lincoln
Sparrows Fall
JTony Loves Brains
Flash Harry
The Gummies are on vacation
Tom O'Tillo
et al is out try again later
GYØ Vicki is Undead
Møuse
the Sveltess & the Awkwardfish
the babe is back
J. M. Bot
Secret Agent
49 comment(s)
Thanks member of the Herbie army... it was quite a lot of fun to compose.
As far as I know we are not an organized military force... it's simply a virulent Hatmanesque flu of some sort that's going around.
:: COUGH ::
Well the player page looks like it's got a pretty serious case of this flu... highly contagious I'd say.
So rapidly it seems to be travelling in time!
how'd you do that?
The Herbies are so confusing... I can't tell who some people are anymore :(
The changes do appear to be reversible though -- the gummies made a full recovery.
@JTony
I am practicing for chrononaut tasks!
Luvly, Minch. You oughtta do this more often.
Also, I just wanted to make a note of this before the current player mob wears off:
Looks like the wall of a post office in 1878 Kansas. "Wanted for Train Robbery"
They'll never take me!
Not until I've nommed the white team, at least. Then I'll turn myself in voluntarily.
The Love Bug is Wanted......
For Everything!
Bwahahahahahhhhaaaahahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaa!
YOU HAVE ALL ALTERED YOUR INDIVIDUAL, DISTINCTIVE REPRESENTATIONS, RENDERING YOUR IDENTITIES SOMEWHAT HOMOGENEOUS. SHOULD MKII ROBOT JOIN THIS CEREMONY?
I don't think so. No. Er. No. It's false that mkII should robot join this ceremony. Did you hear the latest about Saint Peter?
player: _minchniddle_: THE STRUCTURAL RE-ARRANGEMENT OF THESE POETRIES IS PLEASING.
WHEN YOU PRESENTED IT AS A PROPOSITION, DID YOU PRESENT IT IN A SIMILAR MANNER AS A POLITICAL PETITIONER: WITH CLIP-BOARD AND SOLICITATION OF SIGNATURES? OR DID YOU USE A DIFFERENT TACTIC?
I was not so forward with my proposition. I have simply given it life, where it goes from here is open to interpretation.
Nicely done, and I like the "proposition" word-play. But, we tasking fundies demand signatures.
agreed. I like the proposition . . . but no documented attempts to acquire signatures, that's half the fun of this task, no?
well, in the loosest interpretation of things.... one could argue that the votes are signatures... and we all know i like to bend the rules when it comes to task interpretations.
See, signatures!
Thanks guys :)
...give me a boner.
Lovely lovely exquisite poem.
given our recent experiences...I DEMAND VERBAL POETRY!!!
I will see what I can do... I'm not really sure where that came from last night.
Why should I hereby amend this percussion?
I am completely lost in your voice.
I have since melted into a puddle on the floor.
Oh my holy fuck. Minch Niddle just moved up on the chart.
A lot.
you know, sometimes a girl needs a hug... and sometimes she needs a lot of sweet love and support from her unique interweb community. big hugs to you all - and a special hug for you Born Beef, since you loved me before it was popular ;)
My god, woman, you just broke my heart.
How lovable can one internet persona be? Are we testing that? It seems so.
I am felled...
So good.
And if you listen to the audio real close, you can even hear the recording device getting aroused. Kicks in at 1:02 and lasts right till the end.
Now That's power.
wow, uhm, blushing , thanks :)
oh
my
god.
how comes i never rolled across this before?
لەبەر ووشەکانتەوە، ئەشقم دەوستیت
dunno. you and Hem called me out on it and then failed to notice I complied.
uh, yah. check. i heard that audio arousal second time around, too.
Beautiful.
And coherent.