Comments on: Coffee triolet. Café-au-lait? http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/08/10/coffee-triolet-cafe-au-lait/ I write, therefore I drink tea Fri, 10 Dec 2010 21:11:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: healingmagichands http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/08/10/coffee-triolet-cafe-au-lait/comment-page-1/#comment-195 healingmagichands Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:39:01 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=44#comment-195 Yay! I love learning new things, and today, thanks to you, Reed, I learned something. I bet I'll retain it better than I did college calculus, as well. I liked both the poems. Must go to Teuchter's place to visit. Ta. Yay! I love learning new things, and today, thanks to you, Reed, I learned something. I bet I’ll retain it better than I did college calculus, as well.

I liked both the poems. Must go to Teuchter’s place to visit.

Ta.

]]> By: Hypatia http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/08/10/coffee-triolet-cafe-au-lait/comment-page-1/#comment-193 Hypatia Tue, 15 Aug 2006 19:17:24 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=44#comment-193 I've never written a triolet. I keep thinking I should give it a try. I liked both Reed and Teuchter's. Bravo. I’ve never written a triolet. I keep thinking I should give it a try.

I liked both Reed and Teuchter’s. Bravo.

]]> By: Singing Librarian http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/08/10/coffee-triolet-cafe-au-lait/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Singing Librarian Mon, 14 Aug 2006 15:37:08 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=44#comment-191 Do you know, actually reading a triolet is a hundred times better as a way of understanding what a triolet is than reading about a triolet... Personally, I don't do coffee, and share Reed's puzzlement about the origins of the drink. It's not quite as perplexing as the origins of smoking tobacco or injecting strange substance, but still a puzzle. Do you know, actually reading a triolet is a hundred times better as a way of understanding what a triolet is than reading about a triolet… Personally, I don’t do coffee, and share Reed’s puzzlement about the origins of the drink. It’s not quite as perplexing as the origins of smoking tobacco or injecting strange substance, but still a puzzle.

]]> By: Teuchter http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/08/10/coffee-triolet-cafe-au-lait/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Teuchter Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:51:14 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=44#comment-190 :beams: 'Twas a poor thing, but mine own........ :beams:

‘Twas a poor thing, but mine own……..

]]> By: Reed http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/08/10/coffee-triolet-cafe-au-lait/comment-page-1/#comment-189 Reed Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:48:10 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=44#comment-189 Teuchter - I am absolutely pink to the ears with delight. Apart from the immense dose of flattery (thank you!), you wrote a poem! Aha! We shall conquer them all, one couplet at a time! I must now go and run around in small circles and jump up and down a bit with pleased excitement. Teuchter – I am absolutely pink to the ears with delight. Apart from the immense dose of flattery (thank you!), you wrote a poem! Aha! We shall conquer them all, one couplet at a time!

I must now go and run around in small circles and jump up and down a bit with pleased excitement.

]]> By: Lilian http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/08/10/coffee-triolet-cafe-au-lait/comment-page-1/#comment-188 Lilian Sun, 13 Aug 2006 15:57:55 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=44#comment-188 What a pleasing form! I like pattern and, as Teuchter puts it, 'almost-symmetry'. Nice poetry from both Reed and Teuchter. I don't really know much about poetry, and hadn't come across this form before, so I've learned something new today! What a pleasing form! I like pattern and, as Teuchter puts it, ‘almost-symmetry’. Nice poetry from both Reed and Teuchter. I don’t really know much about poetry, and hadn’t come across this form before, so I’ve learned something new today!

]]> By: Teuchter http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/08/10/coffee-triolet-cafe-au-lait/comment-page-1/#comment-187 Teuchter Sun, 13 Aug 2006 11:17:06 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=44#comment-187 Not sure if you'll enjoy reading this - but I enjoyed the exercise of writing it. If one could write a triolet As elegant as Reed's One would surely be en fete If one could write a triolet To shift one's very own mind set Would be the very best of deeds If one could write a triolet As elegant as Reed's (Don't see it being tucked into candy or flowers - the cheeseboard's a far more appropriate venue :grin:) Not sure if you’ll enjoy reading this – but I enjoyed the exercise of writing it.

If one could write a triolet
As elegant as Reed’s
One would surely be en fete
If one could write a triolet
To shift one’s very own mind set
Would be the very best of deeds
If one could write a triolet
As elegant as Reed’s

(Don’t see it being tucked into candy or flowers – the cheeseboard’s a far more appropriate venue :grin: )

]]> By: Teuchter http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/08/10/coffee-triolet-cafe-au-lait/comment-page-1/#comment-186 Teuchter Sun, 13 Aug 2006 10:58:13 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=44#comment-186 Nice pun in the title, I thought. Clicking on the explanation link taught me something I didn't know, though in truth I know very little about poetry of any kind. What an interesting form - lovely balance and almost-symmetry. Might be tempted to play around with it myself, though it's doubtful I'll come up with anything as good as Reed's elegance. Nice pun in the title, I thought.

Clicking on the explanation link taught me something I didn’t know, though in truth I know very little about poetry of any kind.
What an interesting form – lovely balance and almost-symmetry. Might be tempted to play around with it myself, though it’s doubtful I’ll come up with anything as good as Reed’s elegance.

]]> By: Reed http://www.out-of-ideas.com/2006/08/10/coffee-triolet-cafe-au-lait/comment-page-1/#comment-185 Reed Fri, 11 Aug 2006 23:20:37 +0000 http://www.out-of-ideas.com/?p=44#comment-185 I think you've lost them, Editor. <em>['When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.' Shakespeare, As You Like It, III ii.]</em> I think you’ve lost them, Editor.

['When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child Understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.' Shakespeare, As You Like It, III ii.]

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