FAWMku
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@carleybaer Jan 2022
The site's now open
We've been waiting for so long
Time for a FAWMku -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
FAWMku is quiet
Crickets chirping in the grass
Wait, it's still winter... -
@kenmattsson Jan 2022
The site is open
I can't hold my excitement
Where's my recorder? -
@wrenarcher Jan 2022
Could it be?... finally?
The FAWM site awake again
Friends trickling in -
@aflinner Jan 2022
At long last it’s here!
String guitars and tune up drums—
Time to make new tunes! -
@erbaer Jan 2022
push on the closed door
wonder why it's not open
guess I'll wait some more -
@erbaer Jan 2022
push on the closed door
the whole thing just disappears
falling into FAWM -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Site opened. I was absent.
I plead "teenagers".
And travel. And currawongs. -
@scottlake Jan 2022
A resurrection
A return to history
A new beginning -
@scottlake Jan 2022
My marriage, children,
These alone predate FAWMku
Of my creation -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
All hail to @scottlake
Without whom, nothing,
No FAWMku! (shudder) -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
FAWMku thread expands,
But so far, so little here.
Must wake up brain cells. -
@abudabard12514 Jan 2022
I don't understand
why everyone seems to be
doing two of these. -
@davi3blu3 Jan 2022
ideas, gears churning
tuning old neglected bass
the albums are nigh -
@abudabard12514 Jan 2022
that said, might as well
I will help bulk up the thread
could use some padding. -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
I thought I could love
Recorders until I found
My ocarina -
@barbara Jan 2022
time to prime the pump
return to the murky pools
and fish out a song! -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
So, @carleybaer:
You're fickle with the fipple?
Whistling in the wind... -
@scottlake Jan 2022
My melodica
Sold it 2020
Bought a cool guitar
Now it’s sprit lives
Burr’s choice for my avatar
Blow steady my friend -
@scottlake Jan 2022
Made a big mistake
Only six syllables there
Should have been seven -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
Fret not, @timfatchen
(Cuz recorders don’t have frets!)
That was a bad joke -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
I love recorders
But love ocarinas more
Warm and softer sound -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Cigar box guitars:
slide versions have high actions,
But mine is fretful. -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Warm and soft? Here's why.
Ocarinas are cradled.
Recorders poke out. -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
My goal was just to
Create rivalry between
The two. Why, you ask?
Soon I will become
A classroom music teacher
We fear recorders -
@mahtowin Jan 2022
Being back
I‘m a green saxophone
discovering new sounds -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Poor music teacher!
Class recorders are weapons
Of maths destruction.
(To be clear, I used
"poor" meaning unfortunate
Teacher, not music) -
@elainedimasi Jan 2022
Used ocarinas
Dad supplied the ethnic name:
Sweet-potato flutes!
Lovely eggplant glaze
Chipped and flaked at mouthpiece clay
Poisonous to play
Love-craft for my guests:
Encounter music, here, now!
You can guess the rest -
@erbaer Jan 2022
trees lining roadside
fencing vast blank canvases
blue shadows on snow -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
Sweet potato flute!
If I didn't already
Now I love them more -
@metalfoot Jan 2022
Sitting in a cold
Office - it is frigid out
Winter coat is on -
@tinear Jan 2022
I want to rebel!
Crush syllabic tyranny!
...but “Neighbours” is on -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
Class in an hour
There's still homework to finish
...meh, write a FAWMku -
@tinear Jan 2022
one two three four five
one two three four five six sev...
Grr! foiled again! -
@erbaer Jan 2022
a type of pasta?
..made out of sweet potatoes?
..this ocarina? -
@tootoobee Jan 2022
FAWM haiku spider
gleefully stretches her legs
starts spinning her net -
@tinear Jan 2022
Surely you mean web?
Nets are what fishermen use
To keep their hair neat -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Lovecraftian death.
"Ocarina eats the guests."
Dinner party fail.
@elainedimasi -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
When caught by a net,
Arachnophobes learn it hard:
Spider crabs exist. -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
Mmmmm... Spider crab legs.
I assume they are fancy?
Taste good with butter? -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
Hah. Silly question.
Gourmands can safely say that
all's good with butter. -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
"All's good with butter"
When you live in Wisconsin
Nothing is more true -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
That includes pasta
Ocarina pasta? Sure
Put some butter on -
@scottlake Jan 2022
Recorders get gross
Dip into sterilizer
Then use tomorrow
The fluid was grey
Thousands of recorders dipped
Illegal today! -
@barbara Jan 2022
There’s a sweet cafe
just past The Oak Arena—
best pasta in town! -
@barbara Jan 2022
Just fact checked my pun:
I’ve been mispronouncing it
with a long “o” - Oops! -
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@timfatchen Jan 2022
Naughty @barbara!
Oh! Careening down the road?
How impunitent. -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
Wine wine wine wine wine.
Wine wine, wine wine wine wine wine.
Wine wine wine wine. Wine. -
@itoarazi Jan 2022
I wonder how much
Time I'll spend writing versus
Time messing around? -
@erbaer Jan 2022
writing verses in
all cursive is subversive
the cursor is worse -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
@dasbinky doth whine
Too much, methinks, But now, now...
It's me needs a drink! -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
The so-called cursor?
It's not called that for nothing!
It's cursorial. -
@bradbrubaker Jan 2022
Twenty twenty two
Cold, COVID, self-quarantine
Diff'rent year, same poo -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Page 3? This can't be!
And indeed, it's now page 4!
So...back to the front! -
@judypie Jan 2022
I searched for Fawmku
And to my delight I found
All this awesome shit. -
@toms Jan 2022
It's confession time:
FAWMku, I have resisted
But the flesh is weak... -
@scottlake Jan 2022
I wordle wordle
My speed is like a turtle
My best score is 3 -
@judypie Jan 2022
Same here for wordle!
My best score is also three..
Two can’t be done, right? -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
I just ran five miles
So that I could eat pizza
For the Packer game -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
Well, the Packers lost
Pizza hasn’t let me down
So at least there’s that -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Bin chicken and crows,
Lined up and looking guilty.
Garbage extractors.
Ibis pulls bags out,
And the crows open them up.
Co-operation! -
@erbaer Jan 2022
there's the sun again
right when my eyes pop open
funny how that works -
@judypie Jan 2022
Sachertorte sighted
Its the pinnacle of cakes
I order one slice.. -
@tinear Jan 2022
Classification
Compartmentalisation
Organisation -
@itoarazi Jan 2022
I wanted to write
Something rather erudite
Nope - pee pee poo poo -
@scottlake Jan 2022
My face covering,
Feels like I’m suffocating
Just glasses fogging -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Procrastinatior
Reads forums, writes more FAWMku.
Procrastination. -
@roddy Jan 2022
I will not delay
I will get through my list now
Or maybe later -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
After-dinner drinks.
There is always a "later".
Now, call the waiter. -
@roddy Jan 2022
French philosophy
It certainly makes you think
Unlike those French fries -
@roddy Jan 2022
German sausages
Sometimes they're the very best
Or the very wurst -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
Procrastinators?
I am checking FAWM in class.
You are my people. -
@roddy Jan 2022
Spanish wines are good
I'm not against them at all
I'm just pro-secco -
@scottlake Jan 2022
Wife tests positive
She’s now in self quarantine
Symptoms not so bad -
@erbaer Jan 2022
Wait for the moment
When I get around to it
it never arrives -
@erbaer Jan 2022
If I get going
doing things without pause
I’d be done by now -
@itoarazi Jan 2022
Who do you have to
Screw around here to get some
Damn serotonin? -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Can't screw. Wrists play up.
Ibuprofen is my friend.
(It's seroton-out.) -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
We will all get it.
Some sooner and some later.
(Best wishes, Scott's wife.) -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Cleaning the freezer.
Nineteen years past use-by date.
Lost my appetite. -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
Silly @erbaer
You can’t do things without paws
Because you’re a bear -
@crisp1 Jan 2022
When I was a child
I dreamt I flew over trees
Now music lifts me -
@kable Jan 2022
Cannot wait to start
Already named the album
Project Hexagon
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@erbaer Jan 2022
makes one paws to think
are we manipulated
by some hidden claws? -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
It's wise to assume
Somewhere lies a hidden clause
Go check the fine print -
@erbaer Jan 2022
The finer the print
The sharper our eyes should be
A pointed statement -
@erbaer Jan 2022
But not too pointed
Sharp eyes can be so piercing
Scratch that idea -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Are they related?
Are Carley and Er linked up??
It's too much to Baer. -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Beware of FAWMku!
It's hard to explain to wives
How you found soulmates. -
@roddy Jan 2022
Once there were two Baers
All they needed was one more
For a Fairy Tale -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
11PM
Hot and super humidity.
Not what I ordered. -
@roddy Jan 2022
Note 1: it's Burn's Night tonight
Scots and Italian
Two cultures baked together
In haggis pizza
Note2: haggis pizzas really are on sale now!
Scottish poetic farming
Up on Ben Nevis
Flora saw one of the herd
It was the high coo -
@ayehahmur Jan 2022
Fair fa' yer honest
Sonsie face? Better idea:
Get in ma belly -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Burns' Night might have passed,
But its damage lingers on,
Leaves us all haggard. -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Fallen so far down!
Page 3 is not good enough.
Rise up! Seize the day!
[Although one admits
We recognise the problem:
Haggis hangover.) -
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@crisp1 Jan 2022
I spot a merging
Of limerick silliness
And haiku meter -
@roddy Jan 2022
There once was a girl
Who entertained all the world
Counting silly-bles -
@ayehahmur Jan 2022
But haikus are pure!
One must resist pollution
Stern faces, not "fun"! -
@roddy Jan 2022
'Stern' faces, always
Looking backwards and never
Seeing what's coming -
@erbaer Jan 2022
perhaps it is time
for a chuckle-less limerick
to even things out -
@roddy Jan 2022
A smoothing iron
Heating puns and allusions
And flattening them -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
"Running away with
The smoothing ir'n, she stole my
Heart away, away." -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
That was uncalled-for.
I plead misbegotten youth.
Once upon a time. -
@barbara Jan 2022
Whence a pun on time
That steals away the hours,
Comes back for seconds. -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
@barbara waving!
(I forbore to steal her name
For a FAWMerick!)
(How did she know that,
Only ten minutes ago?
Serendipity?) -
@barbara Jan 2022
I knew not your deed.
Coincidence, then? Perhaps.
Or psychic summons? -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
I did not the deed.
A barb'd limerick,it's true,
But not naming names.
A cruel world indeed:
"I am innocent!" I cry!
"Of what?" they shout back. -
@popmythology Jan 2022
Missed you all so much
Adulting kept me away
I hate adulting -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
Just bought a new toy.
Velcroed it to my keyboard.
Made sense at the time. -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
MIDI controller.
With sliders and buttons and
Lots of knobs and such. -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
MIDI Thunderbolt!
It's the SLIDERS meant to slide???
[Note: Must Buy Velcro] -
@roddy Jan 2022
MIDI controller!
The very thing to restrain
Uncontrolled MIDI -
@mishykatz Jan 2022
Late to the party
Have to get my fawmku fix
Its a ritual -
@roddy Jan 2022
'Go for it,' they urged
I went as fast as I could
But it was long gone -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
"Gofer It!" they urged
But when I failed to find It
They "had to" let me go. -
@mishykatz Jan 2022
Go! Four! It! Said Three
Not sure about one and two
Five is right behind -
@roddy Jan 2022
The suspects were placed
All along the number line
Pick One they told me -
@roddy Jan 2022
Today's episode
Was brought by the number Four
Said Bert and Ernie -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
I know that suspect...
Wait, was that Keyser Soze?
And like that, he's gone. -
@roddy Jan 2022
K Soze (so it goes)
Was played by Kevin Spacey
Where did HE go to? -
@roddy Jan 2022
I meet an Imperial Detective ......
'Allo, what's afoot?'
I said, 'twelve inches.' He said
'Go to Scotland Yard.' -
@mishykatz Jan 2022
Phew got my rock hands
Now I can post without shame
I felt so naked -
@roddy Jan 2022
And now you are clothed
We look forward to your posts
That will be shameless -
@bradbrubaker Jan 2022
New single out now
Maybe some FAWMers listen
(Self promotion post) -
@mishykatz Jan 2022
Shameless promotion
This FAWMer will lend an ear
New music welcome -
@scottlake Jan 2022
She’s now a freshman.
Fort Collins Colorado
Empty nest now here -
@roddy Jan 2022
Congratulations!
But sympathy for you too
Life is bittersweet -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
Half empty nest here.
Throws off the rhythm a lot.
4/4 to 3/4. -
@nancyrost Jan 2022
Must be a weird dance.
February, more prog rock?
You've had some practice. -
@itoarazi Jan 2022
Snowed in something fierce.
Does this mean new music made?
Not if power's lost. -
@roddy Jan 2022
It’s recycling time!
I’ve a few old jokes ready
To become haikus
Yes? asked the doctor
I think I’m invisible
I can’t see you now!
The gardening priest
Grew spiritual salads
‘Lettuce pray,’ he’d say
I’m living the dream
That’s why I’m asleep in bed
For most of the day
If you fail at first
Try this sensible advice
Pay for an expert
An Imperial arrest ......
‘What’s afoot?’ he asked
I said 'twelve inches’. He said
‘Come to Scotland Yard’
So if you’re disposed
Not to dispose of old jokes
Recycle them here -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Old jokes are the best!
I'm an old joke recycler:
I turn up each FAWM... -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
Self deprecation.
The shield we all hide behind.
We all love ya, Tim. -
@mishykatz Jan 2022
Antenna aloft
Signal reception in place
Bring on the new flow -
@scottlake Jan 2022
Uncontrollably.
Lyrics flow with melody.
Do not memorize. -
@barbara Jan 2022
Do so as a child:
Discovery as you go.
Muses eat that up! -
@mishykatz Jan 2022
Like rushing water
Try to capture what you can
Full to overflow -
@crisp1 Jan 2022
The music's out there
You are about to make it
Come alive in song -
@mishykatz Jan 2022
Tricky bus-i-ness
Turning feelings inside out
To share with music -
@roddy Jan 2022
Torturing a nerve
That's what Orwell said about
Writing poetry -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Self-deprecating
Works in a personal sense..
But NOT to your songs! -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
No need for my help.
My songs deprecate themselves.
Three chords and sadness. -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Do. Not. Trash. Your. Songs.
Stop it NOW or you'll go blind.
And punctuated. -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
Whether dimestore hooch
Or non-stop Onanism,
Blindness is my curse.
But at least I will
stop blaming my songs. Really,
they're very catchy.
I, IV, vi then V.
The only chords you might need
To make a hit song. -
@scottlake Jan 2022
My mic is setup
Gain stages all in order.
I will catch the muse. -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Temperatures vary.
Guitars all go out of tune
Morning and ev'ning -
@crisp1 Jan 2022
Climb uphill, uphill
Sweating your way to the top
Now, tears for the view -
@mishykatz Jan 2022
chomping at the bit
typically on this day
Ready Set and Go -
@carleybaer Jan 2022
Studio is clean
Then I do something like blink
It’s a mess again -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
Seriously... how
did this cable get tangled?
I JUST plugged it in. -
@csteckel Jan 2022
Excuses be damned
Enough endless voice memos
Entire tunes to love -
@erbaer Jan 2022
all systems are 'go'
prepare for final countdown
T-minus something -
@roddy Jan 2022
Can you hear knocking
Or the sound of tick-tocking?
February's here! -
@dasbinky Jan 2022
That knocking might be
the souls of my murdered songs.
It's the Tell-tale FAWM. -
@scottlake Jan 2022
Dog’s back from groomer.
No longer the furry beast.
Before and after:
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@mishykatz Jan 2022
Tangled webs woven
Lyrics, Cables, Melodies
Songs on the fast track -
@davi3blu3 Jan 2022
Static wool socks slide
Charged, like melodies waiting
To flow on FAWM eve -
@mishykatz Jan 2022
Desert Sun shines warm
Wool socks unnecessary
Writing songs barefoot -
@mishykatz Jan 2022
Five A.M. my time
Sleep then Musical Magic
Dreams will become sound -
@timfatchen Jan 2022
Studio is clean...
Brain gone down the septic tank.
Blank Screen Syndrome time! -
@barbara Jan 2022
Seven point five, now,
hours until the kickoff -
FAWMku numerals! -
@dasbinky Feb 2022
Songwriting starts and
No one has time for FAWMku?
Syllables matter. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
All the listening!
I'm flailing down on the job.
Must try harder. Must. -
@dasbinky Feb 2022
I sneak in writing.
I sneak in comments. Listens.
Very sneaky FAWM. -
@scottlake Feb 2022
Lyrics done for one.
Bunch of titles for others.
I’m falling behind! -
@francesriley Feb 2022
Two songs in the bag!
My first in eight or so years.
It’s good to be back. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
I need to breathe now.
My head's gone under the wave
Drowning in music -
@dasbinky Feb 2022
Trying a new scale.
Lydian does not seem very
conducive to pop.
I have a feeling
this could generate a list:
Lydian pop songs. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Phrygid responses?
Or puns on Dorian Gray?
Locrian outed! -
@dasbinky Feb 2022
Mixolydian.
Wow, that is five syllables.
Mixolydian. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
An Aeolian!
No, wait, just a rabbit with
Myxomatosis. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Week 1 and collapse?
Sail away for a short while,
Feed the pelicans -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
I've just realised
The pelicans all rushed off
Chasing rain up north -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
How do the birds know
Of the new, great inland sea?
It's a mystery. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Come spring I will sail
On a sea below the sea
As long long ago. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Nineteen eighty-nine
Two thousand and twenty two
A long time between
Shield shrimps and seagulls
Puddling the muddy shoreline
Once in a lifetime
On the mudstone rocks
Cretaceous long gone creatures
Relatives still here. -
@karan Feb 2022
On the seventh day
of FAWM, I finally come
here. Oh radiant joy! -
@toms Feb 2022
Olympics, writing,
There's something I'm forgetting...
FAWMku, neglected! -
@scottlake Feb 2022
Big Air plus Style
Shaun White drops in one more time
3-5 on Half Pipe -
@dasbinky Feb 2022
Seven songs written.
A little ahead of pace.
It's time for a nap. -
@ayehahmur Feb 2022
Mother's big birthday
Celeberation, but no songs
I'll get FAWMing soon
Three day training course
Was the next obstacle, but
I'll get FAWMing soon
Only, now there's men
Building us a new bathroom
Which is great...but, well....
I've all this music
Backed up in my head, waiting
Just to be undammed
I'll get FAWMing soon
That's what I'm telling myself
In case I explode -
@leepat Feb 2022
planning a trip to
this side of emptiness or
that side of trouble -
@karan Feb 2022
Far too much to do!
FAWM has to take a backseat.
This is not nice, argh! -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Too much in my head
Need to get the music out!
Then I can listen. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
The dog needs walking.
And i need to feed my wife,
Keyboards wait in vain! -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
All of life's demands.
So what am I doing here?
Waiting till midnight!! -
@karan Feb 2022
It's raining again.
I need to go to work now.
Would rather stay here! -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
The worms! They've returned!
Cute little mouths all open!
Darkness descending....
@karan @fuzzy @yam655 @arthurossi -
@gordon Feb 2022
Waiting for the storm
All the trains have been cancelled
Time to write a song -
@karan Feb 2022
The storm has lured worms
out on the pavement. Oh woe!
I shall rescue them! -
@fuzzy Feb 2022
Watch out for those worms!!!
Protect the spice harvesters!
Here comes Shai Hulud!! -
@toms Feb 2022
Row or sow worms, so
Rows o' worms worm so. Ow! Ow!
Wo o' the worm row! -
@fuzzy Feb 2022
Yikes, it's a worm row!
Worms fighting in the garden!
Worms should live in peace. -
@toms Feb 2022
Worms live in pieces
Those times they are "divided"
Humans, not so much. -
@fuzzy Feb 2022
Divided by hooks
In order to catch those fish.
Death leads to more death. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
No safety in death
The worms claim us whatever
Ashes in their mouths. -
@fuzzy Feb 2022
Ashes in their mouths?
I think only for those worms
Who live in Pompeii. -
@nobodyofficial Feb 2022
I am new to this
February Album Month
Writing month, dang it! -
@nobodyofficial Feb 2022
Only worm haikus?
Sorry I f*cked this all up
How about them worms?! -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Explanation plea
From @nobodyofficial ?
The Worms have returned
FAWM two oh one five
A wake of devastation
Marauding worms left
We thought they had gone.
We were wrong. #wormcore is back.
Wormdoom rides the wind. -
@scottlake Feb 2022
Named Dennis Rodman
Shot blocker beyond compare
Jersey number 10 -
@karan Feb 2022
Found some worms today,
dessicated and stone-dead,
casualties of storms. -
@fuzzy Feb 2022
Wrote a song 'bout worms;
It's called "Puppy Dewormer".
More noise than worms, though. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Helpful worms: "My Friends"
(I wrote a new worm song too!
Mine's homicidal!) -
@dasbinky Feb 2022
Nematode collab?
Inspiration has run dry...
Man, now I want worms. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Luminous music?
I know a worm can help you!
Search "parchment tube worm". -
@fuzzy Feb 2022
Intestinal worms.
That's it; I just said it cos
It's five syllables. -
@kenmattsson Feb 2022
Oh my heavens worms
Eating in front, pooping back
like every new song -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
I'm not fixated!
My worms run free, for now. Why?
I can't find a hook. -
@crisp1 Feb 2022
Sorry, no worms here
Oops, I totally blew it
Back to listening -
@dasbinky Feb 2022
Worms: Armageddon.
That's an old video game.
Nothing else to add. -
@br0th3rh00d Feb 2022
Time for a Haiku:
Limericks are much harder.
Poet Spring not sprung! -
@br0th3rh00d Feb 2022
"Revenge" cries the worm!
<Prepares an airstrike attack>
"I'll get you for that!" -
@br0th3rh00d Feb 2022
Ass-blasters are worms!
Not Cylons, but not like worms:
Tremor me confused! -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
@br0th3rh00d ! Give up!
Your backbone will not save you!
The worms have you taped! -
@scottlake Feb 2022
Worm worm worm worm worm
Worm worm worm worm worm worm worm
Worm worm worm worm worm -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Hey, FAWMku father!
You can't worm out of this one!
YOUR creation, Scott!!! -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Perhaps you will say
"Not my doing!", but that's false:
No FAWMku, no worms. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
Why am I here, now?
Earworms are afflicting me.
Share the pain, sez I. -
@br0th3rh00d Feb 2022
Psychidae are moths,
Their larvae are the bagworms:
Art from wood and silk!
The Fall Web Worm from
The family erebidae
Harms no hardwood home.
Malacosoma
(Eastern Tent Caterpillar)
americanum:
Those Tent guys are pests!
Makes one big tent then eats leaves!
They're very social! -
@br0th3rh00d Feb 2022
John Brown's days are gone,
His legend marching on today:
Black lives still matter!
Black black-champions call,
A long list, an honour roll:
Research them yourself!
Firebrand socialist
More dangerous than thousands
Was Lucy Parsons.
Angela Davies,
She made her mark on history:
A voice strong and true!
Kimberle Crenshaw:
Black women's intersection;
An expert on law.
Frederick Douglass:
Elegant voice from the past,
An advocate too.
I could go on yet,
Memory trying to impress,
But it's time for bed!
But what goes on in
The minds of the christian right?
Fireside trash talk.
Who gets to anoint
The love of money and hate
With prayer and blessing!?
Equity with God
Not something Jesus grasped at:
Tent Grahams are worms.
I shiver then pause,
Made them into bogeymen.
It's time for bed, then! -
@br0th3rh00d Feb 2022
But shh, shh, shh, shh;
Shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh, shh,
Shh, shush: they're still worms. -
@br0th3rh00d Feb 2022
Too serious!? Ooo!
Please show me what you can do!
Play pinball: play Worm-Fu. -
@scottlake Feb 2022
Tim mentioned Ed Lear.
His book of nonsense I hold dear.
Limericks and all. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
"hear! hear!" for Ed Lear.
"In a sieve they went to sea"
Romance! Genius!
Empathy and love!
The owl and the pussycat
Married together.
Honour and pathos
Of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bo
They are ALL "must reads" -
@karan Feb 2022
In German, earthworms
are called "rainworms" - well, I thought
I'd just let you know. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
It's Megascolex
Living in our old garden
Coping with Lumbricus. -
@dasbinky Feb 2022
Are we writing songs
covering the worm issue?
IS it an issue?
Perhaps the larger
question is whether we are
really writing songs. -
@wrenarcher Feb 2022
We're three quarters through
Creative well is near dry
And Muse had to leave
Emotionally
and mentally, I feel spent
Might raise white flag soon -
@fuzzy Feb 2022
Here is a question;
I must know, do worms write songs
Sung in worm voices? -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
The birds in the sky
Sang "Worms singing: 'Wormsong Sung' "
The worms' Song Sung Blue. -
@fuzzy Feb 2022
A capella worms.
They can't play instruments cos
They have no hands, right? -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
The Gippsland earthworms
Can be heard loudly eating.
Amplified gutting. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
FAWMku languishing?
But we can worm out of this!
Wriggle to the top! -
@karan Feb 2022
FAWMku fell asleep!
No wonder - so much trouble.
But we still write songs! -
@karan Feb 2022
Even some wormcore!
Worms worm their way in the brain,
churning out music! -
@karan Feb 2022
In worrying times
music is the soul's anchor,
the mind's great haven. -
@timfatchen Feb 2022
We are worms turning.
However our own world ends,
We go down singing. -
@karan Feb 2022
Before this, let's rise!
Bringing new songs to the world
is so uplifting. -
@dasbinky Feb 2022
I finished early.
I'll sit on the hill and watch
y'all post your last songs. -
@dasbinky Feb 2022
There's still time to write.
But Imma have some wine and
watch more Ted Lasso. -
@scottlake Mar 2022
Found it on page 5.
Shivering, lonely FAWMku
Worms almost killed you -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
But They* came when called.
Who are we to deny Them?
They win in the end.
*(Let us not name Them.
Let FAWMku become serene!
No morticians here!) -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
It's midnight again.
Witching and bewitching hour.
What a song title! -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
But FAWM is over
And I'm surfeited with song.
The ears! The ears! Rest.... -
@fuzzy Mar 2022
Yes sir, ear burnout!
Haven't listened to music
Since the end of FAWM. -
@roddy Mar 2022
I'm going backwards
Away from songs and comments
Back here to haikus -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Not just backwards us.
Haikus going backwards too!
Lurking on page four. -
@roddy Mar 2022
The hands on the clock
Move round and round and show us
February's gone -
@dasbinky Mar 2022
February is
Nothing but a state of mind.
And a month, I guess. -
@roddy Mar 2022
A month that leads us
Marching to a Northern Spring
Or Southern Winter -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
And Autumn is here.
Belated repairs to glass.
(raindrops keep falling)
I tell a whopper
Raindrops keep falling eastward,
But here it is drought...
On the other hand
I need to get the glass fixed
To keep the dust out -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Vampire residence
Now needs its human blood boost!
(Held off during FAWM) -
@fuzzy Mar 2022
Mosquito terror,
If you speak of vampires,
Will be here quite soon. -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Mosquitoes' summer,
Now brings our latest panic:
Encephalitis!
(As if one hundred
Venomous snakes weren't enough.
The mozzies arrive.) -
@nancycunning Mar 2022
Summertime panic
Swimming around in a state
Summertime picnic -
@fuzzy Mar 2022
And the blackflies too!
Emerging from the forest
To take bites from me. -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Cleaning out the shed,
All the stuff stored for "One Day".
And this too will pass -
@dasbinky Mar 2022
March begins to wane.
Time to start archiving stuff.
Now, hibernation. -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Archiving stuff, yes.
But enough of laziness!
Hibernation, no! -
@roddy Mar 2022
Is it time to sleep?
'Hell no!' shouts my Inner Wayne
You've just woken up -
@scottlake Mar 2022
This year I fizzed out
Too much time with computers,
Olympics watching. -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Motivation gone.
Is it age creeping up? No!
Voila! Arthritis! -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
To sleep and to dream
It sounds good. But when I do?
The dreams are all bad. -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Today's happy thought:
Amidst all this disaster
We are yet alive. -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
I'll die when I do
And not a moment before.
So there, Grim Reaper! -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
The Indipac Ride
Cycling across Austraya!
A divine madness! -
@elainedimasi Mar 2022
when the site beds down,
what haiku will be the last?
do we race backwards? -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Life's philosophy:
"Ev'ry moment is your last"
(Doesn't work for me!) -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Why am I here now?
Ev'ry now and then I get...
Weary of spammers. -
@elainedimasi Mar 2022
ev'ry now and then
I fall apart like tacos.
corn tortilla meme. -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Turn around, taco!
Total eclipse of the tort.
For whom the Bell tolls... -
@br0th3rh00d Mar 2022
Always is immense
And in the mind it shimmers.
In German: immer. -
@br0th3rh00d Mar 2022
We're all continent;
A part of the main: a sod
Washed away is lost.
But see, contingent:
Our wee or whether we're odd
Should not diminish
Should not diminish
Nor should it separate us
Nor jail forever
Kiss the butterfly
If she grants it and you can
And if you want to
Don't winged life destroy,
But eternity's not ours:
Let's protect what is. -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Butterfly of storms
Flitting north and south of us.
Our garden needs rain! -
@leepat Mar 2022
scavenging for scraps
got up just before the dawn
it was way too late -
@roddy Mar 2022
slow moving river
sleeps in its watery bed
it runs deep they say -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Shallow sentiment!
I'm always running aground:
Shallow sediment. -
@roddy Mar 2022
slivers of silver
gold powder and diamond dust
they were precious once -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Out of fashion then.
But they are precious once more.
Try cashing bitcoin! -
@roddy Mar 2022
'I'll pay with bitcoin
That will cover this spot fine'
And now I'm in jail -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Worse places than jail.
They might well have sanctioned you
To Siberia... -
@roddy Mar 2022
.... Or made me listen
To every single one of ...
... Ed Sheeran's albums -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
My one exposure?
Ed Sheeran on G O T
Arya! Kill it, quick!. -
@nancycunning Mar 2022
Ed has that red hair
Like all my favorite cousins
He can’t be all bad -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
No one is all bad,
But music banality?
Leads to homicide! -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
A hard-learned warning:
Beware, beware of cousins,
Lest they you ensnare! -
@roddy Mar 2022
What is a cousin?
The preferred choice in marriage
For some queens and kings -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
A lack of partners?
First cousins in my background!
A quest for incest?
(I admit, back then,
Few available partners:
Colonial times) -
@roddy Mar 2022
A sign of ageing?
When it comes to the Oscars
I no longer care -
@timfatchen Mar 2022
Don't care for Oscar??
Another slap in the face!
Breach of statued law! -
@roddy Mar 2022
Haiku blues
My baby left me
Now I stay home on my own
Counting syllables -
@roddy Mar 2022
Old English folk song haiku
Hey nonny nonny!
Canst thou say, nonny nonny?
Nonny, nonny, no -
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
Demos slowly pour
To the demos: a Thermos
Of soup to judged -
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
Y'know - I like Folk!
People, not always: but hey!
That's like Mother Goose!
I like nurs'ry rhymes:
That's not to infantilise
Mother Goose and Folk
English language deeps:
Its history & humour
Are the things such keeps -
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
Hey nonny nonny
Let's hail a golden glass year
Barleycorn Jonny! -
-
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
Haikus at battle
YouTube gameshow for poets
Black (poetic) Joy
https://youtu.be/4bURu72iB-U -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
The spammers flock in
And hang, as in "suspended".
Virtual blood sport -
@fuzzy Apr 2022
Spam Spam eggs and Spam.
Vikings drop from the ceiling
Singing about Spam. -
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
Meat the pretenders
The well meaning defenders
Might be the latter -
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
Hope I'm not counted
Amongst the wrong
Syllables lost in translation! -
@roddy Apr 2022
And lost consonants
Can cause so much division
Like Resident Trump
@br0th3rh00d your lost syllables reminded me of the series of 'Lost Consonants' cartoons in the Guardian by Graham Rawle. http://www.grahamrawle.com/lost-consonants.html -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
The Vikings while hung
Find the defenders are Danes.
"Dane with you!" they cry! -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
Guillotining spam?
It tarnishes one's soul, but...
One's got to do it. -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
But we are not THE
Public Safety Committee!
No Madame Defarge... -
@roddy Apr 2022
It's the worst of times
What the Dickens does she knit?
A Reign of Terror ..... -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
Ignorant question!
She knits wool beanies, of course,
To keep the heads warm!
(My brain is cooling.
I thought I'd answered before,
But windows says "no".) -
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
lost in threads of time
syntax order line
Hey! Anyone for crochet!? -
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
@roddy sorry at it again! I remember Lost Consonants with affection! My parents got the Guardian very regularly when i was young. Not been bothered or able to afford the paper copy now but it's something I read online a fair bit.
-
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
roddy F Y I
the sly-ball count was normal
Ev'ry single time -
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
Count up the total
Get 17 syllables
I think you will find
It's not off at all -
Unless I am - it's just lines.
I've played with your mind! -
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
I miss nothing except the bit about being unrhymed
And arranging them in 575
Or (in disrespect!?) revised!
Haiku, that was not!
Help me Yoda, stop the rot!
Keep on keeping on! -
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
No bad plan, oh man.
Disrespect not intended.
Acknowledge the risk! -
@fuzzy Apr 2022
Count the syllables.
This monkey business must stop.
Just five seven five. -
@roddy Apr 2022
If I could design
My own three-line poem style
I'd call it 'Myku' -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
A name for haiku
Writ under the influence?
Let's call it "Mahcup" -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
Join for thirty mins.
Then spam all the FAWM forums.
A new past member... -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
Cleansing? It's messy
But someone has to do it.
(wipes blood from hard edge) -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
I'm getting tired
Shooting down the spam deluge.
It's no longer fun. -
@roddy Apr 2022
Thanks Spam Warrior
You are fighting a good fight
Keeping this site safe -
@br0th3rh00d Apr 2022
Praise to the spam cop
Giving the bad guys the chop
Taking *their* rot off -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
Bad guys slowing up.
Lately it's been the bad girls
From my old home town. -
@beacon Apr 2022
FAWM slowing down
Fewer posts to look at
Time for 50/90? -
@roddy Apr 2022
Time to look ahead
The 50/90 prequel
Beckons to us all
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1338432256355382 -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
The days drip away
And the meeting pool dries up.
The FAWM drought is here. -
@roddy Apr 2022
Musical nomads
We pack up and take the road
To fifty ninety -
@roddy Apr 2022
We make tracks alone
Pass time (compound and simple)
In lonely measures -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
A sad dark statement...
But in our deep loneliness
There's always banjos! :D -
@roddy Apr 2022
Poco a poco
(Ma non troppo) we go on
To new arrangements -
@roddy Apr 2022
From Alabama
I carried it on my knee
What was I thinking? -
@roddy Apr 2022
Banjo Paterson
Co-wrote Waltzing Matilda
'Banjo' was his horse -
@roddy Apr 2022
Of course you knew that
I only found out today
Thanks Wiki-Peedja -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
My banjo's lonely.
I buy a banjolele...
My wife wants silence. -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
It's banjo bingo!
A canonical joke list!
I'm ticking them off... -
@roddy Apr 2022
Ticking off cannons
Is an explosive hobby
Tick tock, tick tock, boom! -
@roddy Apr 2022
So no Susannah
You don't have to cry for me
It's just a banjo -
@roddy Apr 2022
A membrane with strings
Resonating so brightly
So what's not to like? -
@roddy Apr 2022
How was I to know?
You have sensitive hearing
And musical taste -
@roddy Apr 2022
Oh my Susannah
You have banjaxed my banjo
Sawing it in two -
@roddy Apr 2022
Maybe you were right
I'm going to make amends
And buy some bagpipes -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
A split banjo neck?
Nothing that Titebond can't fix:
Look! rescue banjo! -
@roddy Apr 2022
Just what the world needs
In these times of such despair
A rescued banjo -
@roddy Apr 2022
Titebond might do it
But oh why would you want to
Repair a banjo? -
@roddy Apr 2022
How much does the world
Need to hear all that plinking
And plonking, banjo? -
@roddy Apr 2022
I need to confess
The wonder of the banjo?
It has passed me by -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
Rescuing banjos?
Only done it once: blame my
Personality:
Sadomasochist.
Schizoid paranoiac.
Thank you for asking! -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
How could I forget!
There is a second rescue:
The banjolele. -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
For my instruments,
Bagpipes not necessary.
Next door plays a set. -
@roddy Apr 2022
Old haiku humour
What should you give to
Someone with everything?
Antibiotics! -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
What should you give to
Anyone with a banjo?
Antipsychotics! -
@roddy Apr 2022
If they were playing
Then I'd probably give them
A very wide berth -
@roddy Apr 2022
Forgive me banjos!
You are noble instruments
And deserve respect -
@headfirstonly Apr 2022
When asked how you play
a banjo, Tony Levin
said "With a pen knife." -
@roddy Apr 2022
A cutting remark!
The original banjos
Had skin in the game -
@roddy Apr 2022
Joseph played badly
The coffee bars had strict rules
Set up to ban Joe -
@roddy Apr 2022
A banjo played well
Beats a chamber orchestra
That is out of tune -
@roddy Apr 2022
No more banjo jokes
Cease this senseless derision
Try violas next -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
I need my teacher!
No way will I upset her!
She plays viola. -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
Piano teacher
Told me "Learn viola too.
Always in demand" -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
Concert pianist?
One. But the viola desks??
Four. Five. Even six! -
@roddy Apr 2022
Alas string players
Are always tense and nervous
Being highly strung -
@roddy Apr 2022
Better to have fun
With the really wild players
In the brass section -
@roddy Apr 2022
Gain some confidence
By blowing your own trumpet
Bowing to no-one -
@timfatchen Apr 2022
Violin teacher:
A super French Horn player.
But no income there....
Horn was her major.
Viola was her second
Paid for her food. -
@timfatchen May 2022
We depart lightly.
Indeed, we leave no traces
Only some FAWMku -
@headfirstonly May 2022
And with that, spammers
Depart to find fresh pastures
for their slot machines
As do the dentists,
the air-conditioning firms,
and search-engine geeks
Questioning motives
of each new arrival here;
that's their legacy -
@timfatchen May 2022
Latest spam offers
Something that's fundamental:
How to fit butt plugs. -
@timfatchen May 2022
This is not a drill (!)
I grew up with The Goon Show
Knew the Fresh Fruit Song. -
@timfatchen May 2022
(That's it's P C name.
But for the reality:
Search "Raspberry Song".) -
@headfirstonly May 2022
Spike Milligan loved
the music of Jack Hodges
(The Raspberry King) -
@headfirstonly May 2022
I have an album
called "Songs the Bonzos Taught Us"
and it's on that, too -
@headfirstonly May 2022
"I'm going to bring a
watermelon to my girl
tonight" a fave, too... -
@timfatchen May 2022
Goon Shows and the like
Would never be permitted
In current milieu -
@headfirstonly May 2022
I would note, though, that
quite a lot of their content
was very dodgy
Atrocious German
and Pakistani accents,
veiled racism
Mister Singes Things
and Sellers' Jewish judges
best left in the past -
@mandolinda May 2022
My five string banjo
Sits alone in the corner
Eyeing my mando. -
@mandolinda May 2022
Never saw Goon Shows
But I googled them just now
Right! Off with their heads! -
@headfirstonly May 2022
If not for the Goons
There'd be no Monty Python
and no Mighty Boosh -
@headfirstonly May 2022
The Knights Who Say Ni
Successors to Bluebottle
owe him a great debt -
@headfirstonly May 2022
Bluebottle was real;
'He says I'm a genius!"
said Ruxton Hayward -
@roddy May 2022
Bluebottle's last words?
I've fallen in the water
You have deaded me! -
@timfatchen May 2022
My five spring banjo
Slept with my ukulele.
Banjolele spawned...
Thus, @mandolinda,
Allow them some privacy
For a banjolin -
@mandolinda May 2022
Ha! The joke’s on you
With instruments so horny
More inventory -
@mandolinda May 2022
To play them all well
Needs better fingers than mine
50/90 waits. -
@timfatchen May 2022
Things meant to be played.
Played well, played sick, no matter.
Just play them, okay? -
@timfatchen May 2022
At the end of things,
Megalomaniac me:
I want the last word! -
@fuzzy May 2022
Too bad, @timfatchen!
The last word goes to me, yeah!
A race against time! -
@metalfoot May 2022
This is the way that
The FAWMku comes to its end
With a quiet 'ah.' -
@headfirstonly May 2022
A sign of the times?
When writing haikus, mind that
you don't run out of -
@mandolinda May 2022
What ho! Time to go
Time to go outdoors and play
FAWMkus aloha. -
@fuzzy May 2022
Is this the last one?
It's like a game show 'round here;
Who's the last player??? -
@timfatchen May 2022
We will never know.
The curtain will fall and we...
We will never see.
