Simply Hilarious!

So I checked my mail today, paper mail to you youngins, and what did I see in there? a mail from poetry.com!

a while ago I was arguing with Jumpman or EThugg or Docwiz, TheOGodlyThing, or someone else and all he did as a reply was say "sigh" I responded with:

A mere sigh
as a reply
is not as fly
than if you imply
that if you tried
your reply
would nigh stop their argument in it\'s tracks!

So I looked at my post. I thought it was quite clever so I decided to send it to poetry.com. Guess what? it is getting published in the International Library of Poetry\'s next book, The Silence Within.

With me getting published, also means that I am entered into a drawing for either 1000 dollars, one of 24 silver medals, or one of 79 bronze medals! They also sent me a letter saying how amazing it was that I got published on my first entry when thousands of people enter poems to the site and only a fraction of them they accept.

That is rather freaking hilarious! Their are also letting me write an author\'s profile and I mention this great board of ours. I will scan part of the book when I get it.

Hooray for me


Eric Jacob

"hopefully laughing all the way to the bank"

Vot eta da! ("Will ya look at that!")

That\'s awesome!  I found the link to your poem on the website!

((edit: the link doesn\'t work, it\'s an asp thing)
Just go to http://www.poetry.com and search for "Eric Jacob"  When you get there, click on the Poetry in Motion button, it\'s fun!)

It looks all professional and all!  Congradulations!

Congratulations.  You\'re quite lucky to be awarded like that.

I\'ve always looked at poetry as being a strange art.  Sometimes even the most innocent of words can mean the greatest of things.

yeah this couldnt have happened to a nicer guy

Wow! That\'s amazing, you should now change your name to Eric the Bard!

Have you ever dabbled in poetry before?

I was having fun with the poetry site!  I went to the poem and clicked on the "poetry in motion" button.
I rearranged all the words in your poem to say:

If a fly tried nigh
as a reply
your tracks would not stop.
It\'s in that reply
you imply sigh,
than as if their mere argument
is you.

Don\'t worry, I\'m not claiming rights or anything, just having fun!  (I don\'t think mine has quite the balance, or pizzazz, or anything as good as yours!)

that mixed up version of mine is awesome!



thanks Bozco, I know you mean well!

hopefully I can think of some other things floating around in my head to get published?


Eric Jacob

never done any poetry or anything before, outside of some quite loony ones in school. I was quite proud of my goofy poems in school, but none of those are even good, much less funny anymore


You guys should enter. You got a chance to win some money and it is pretty easy. Just look out for things that go in motion. the last line of mine took me like 20 minutes to think of. I didn\'t want it to rhyme or anything, just give it, closure

Eric Jacob

You know, you should try to get published in the "New Yorker."  I have friends here at UGA that are always sending poetry.  Even if they don\'t put it in, they send this really nice "rejection letter," it\'s on nice letterhead and all professional and sighned and all.  My friends tend to like the rejection letters just as much as they liked it on two rare occasions when they made it in!  I\'m considering sending in something I wrote a while ago just to get the rejection letter!

I have never really thought about being a poetry writer. I have always had the ambition of being a political writer. I have been published several times in the Omaha World Herald, one of the largest circulated papers in the country. Also, I have been featured on many of the local news channels for my commentary and in my school paper, which, incidentally won best high school paper in the nation this year.

Crazy

Eric Jacob

I entered their little contest.  I used the poem that is in my AIM profile (I\'m not going to bother posting it here).  It took me a full evening\'s time to think up and create. Unfortunately, I had to edit the full poem to 20 lines or less in order to fit on the form.  It really ticks me off when I have to do that...

Originally posted by 182Ways
. . .  Unfortunately, I had to edit the full poem to 20 lines or less in order to fit on the form.  It really ticks me off when I have to do that...

In a way, that must be how PS2 programmers feel.

hopefully, your poem does not lose any of it\'s impact or feeling as a result of that. I felt kind of limited too based on the 20 line limit thing, even though mine was much shorter.

Eric Jacob

Ha!

That was me you said it to. ddaryl said something stupid (again) and I responded with a  *sigh* to show him his own lack of intelligence and you came out with that.

A thank you is wanted.

yea well jumpman i want my reward for helping with your science deal but i never got that  j/k i could care less

congrats on your poem AlteredBeast