FAWMku
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@scubed Jan 10
FAWM is almost here
Time once again to open
This beloved thread -
@metalfoot Jan 10
Hard to believe that
FAWM is nearly here again
I can hardly wait! -
@aflinner Jan 10
Welcome back, FAWMku!
Many more will add to you,
But mine will stay third. -
@timfatchen Jan 10
And I too stand, fourth.
(In the beginning was Scott-
As-You-Lake-It, yes?) -
@wrenarcher Jan 10
Fifth of the FAWMers
To write on the FAWMku thread
Feb 1st almost here! -
@toms Jan 10
6th means: no mirror!
Creativity allows
No dust to alight! -
@timfatchen Jan 10
Exclamation marks!!
Such a useful emphasis!!!
Sign of madness?!!!! No!!!!! -
@fuzzy Jan 10
I'm eighth on this thread.
FAWM's the highlight of my year!
(My life is boring) -
@fuzzy Jan 10
Not "boring" with drills,
I mean "not much going on".
I am no miner. -
@fuzzy Jan 10
No "minor", either;
I passed that age long ago.
Almost an old man. -
@toms Jan 10
Friend Tim, I've been mad
or half mad for years, in truth.
Damn those screwy genes!!! 😀 -
@wrenarcher Jan 11
Calliope please!
I pray your lyre sings out
Blessing this FAWMling -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 11
Lyricist checks in
Think of me as nummy pie
You may have a slice -
@elainedimasi Jan 11
cut the stream of thought:
that which seeks perfection slants,
a sunset's last rays. -
@timfatchen Jan 11
Something's loose in here
A definite screw shortage--
And @toms has nailed it. -
@toms Jan 11
Computers: all down!
No work! Go home! I'll hang here
With my fellow mads. 😀 -
@scubed Jan 11
Creative madness?
Perhaps I’ll be creative
I have madness nailed -
@bradbrubaker Jan 11
Twenty twenty one.
Please let it be better than
Twenty twenty none. -
@timfatchen Jan 11
Going sailing now
Hope you will all still be here
On my wet return...
(2021
Started badly, getting worse
Take refuge in FAWM) -
@darcistrutt Jan 12
May we begin well
As in beginning okay
Not in a wet well -
@darcistrutt Jan 12
A paypal visit
I now await my rock hands
I feel quite naked -
@adnama17 Jan 12
Yo @stephenwordsmith
I may challenge you to a...
Lyrical standoff! -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 12
Challenge accepted
I will orphan your children
(Verbally speaking) -
@oddbod Jan 12
Verbally speaking?
I accuse you of flagrant
Tautology sir -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 12
I ran out of space!
It takes a whole line to write
'Figuratively' -
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@ayehahmur Jan 12
I promised myself
This FAWM, zero distractions
Just Music. That's all. -
@ayehahmur Jan 12
Now I've blotted my
Page with comic irony.
Sheesh! Not even Feb -
@bradbrubaker Jan 13
FAWM FAWM FAWM FAWM FAWM.
FAWM, FAWM FAWM FAWM FAWM FAWM FAWM.
FAWM FAWM FAWM FAWM FAWM? -
@adnama17 Jan 13
zero distractions?
do tell! Share your recipe!
I hope it's vegan! -
@karan Jan 13
I am so relieved
that FAWMku resurrected!
No FAWM without it! -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 14
Zero songs written
Two and sixty forum posts
Brain power well spent -
@timfatchen Jan 14
In writing of planes,
Best not to get specific
Or some will spit fire. -
@timfatchen Jan 14
@bradbrubaker calls.
Not really repetitive:
Just FAWM all over. -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 14
Is FAWM all over?
Time flies (Musca Temporis)
I hadn't started! -
@timfatchen Jan 14
Agéd and fearful,
I start at the least surprise,
Even Muscidae. -
@timfatchen Jan 14
Another failure.
Another moral collapse.
(FAWMku on page 2) -
@barbara Jan 14
I started to fly
(It was either fight or flight
And I’ve got no moves)
Miserable flight!
Lacking any loft at all!
Playing possum now. -
@judypie Jan 14
Midnight approaches
What will tomorrow bring us?
More of the same shit. -
@jharms Jan 14
It warms my heart that
This website is still online!
Haven't wrote in years -
@dasbinky Jan 15
I need something new
A pattern I've never seen
G C G C D -
@toms Jan 15
A pricing mistake
I alerted them to it
It is my bass now -
@timfatchen Jan 15
@toms' the bass saviour.
Alerting the price mistake,
Not base behaviour. -
@aesthetic72 Jan 15
FAWM oh so welcome
Save me from my Facebook feed.
Today? Monkey beards. -
@ayehahmur Jan 15
I saw monkey beards!
Dumbest ever facial style
But still, I'm tempted... -
@timfatchen Jan 15
Ancestors angry!
Why the hell have monkey beards?
We're apes, remember! -
@ayehahmur Jan 15
Infinite monkey!
Looks like a tail at both ends
Ape* ouroboros
*(I know, but...syllables) -
@erbaer Jan 15
he’s got arms like legs
he’s got hands on his feet...hey!
Hey! it's the Monkees! -
@aesthetic72 Jan 15
No hair narc here but
Face crimes and misdemeanors
Seems a likely charge -
@fuzzy Jan 15
Glad I quit Facebook.
I don't need no monkey beards
Infecting my mind. -
@toms Jan 15
My only question:
Why did it take so long for
These to be a thing? -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 16
The beards are one thing
We proposed it as _our flag_
Made the final five
http://i.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/12567509/Why-the-Koru-flag-is-the... -
@dasbinky Jan 16
Once I wrote a song
I forgot to record it
And now it is gone -
@timfatchen Jan 16
Got a song? Flag it!
Pencil. Paper. or MIDI.
Even recording.
You don't get it down,
Like koru, it flies...away.
Lost in ferny grots. -
@timfatchen Jan 16
Grot, grot, grot...grotto!
THERE'S a drinking song for you!
Blot, blot, blot..blotto! -
@timfatchen Jan 17
All good things must end,
At least temporarily:
Into the desert... -
@andygetch Jan 17
Just fifteen more days
Precipitation again
Aimless wandering -
@toms Jan 17
The old amp was sad
Too much overtime mojo
Now: resurrected! -
@elainedimasi Jan 17
four lonely guitars
traveled down the interstates
to languish unplayed -
@ayehahmur Jan 17
Many things to do
In busy January
But FAWM calls. Yearning... -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 17
In terms of quick wins,
There's nothing like a FAWMku
(Easier than songs) -
@kristi Jan 18
Where is my notebook
Lined pages waiting for words
Sharpen the pencils -
@barbara Jan 18
Sharpening the mind
Loosing the keen observer
Onto the white page -
@siebass Jan 18
The white page cuts deep
emotions bleed out dripping
where's my first aid kit? -
@lowhum Jan 18
sharp on the edges
ready for love
beetles sing on a floating leaf -
@kable Jan 18
2020 parts
to make way for a new start
2021 -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 18
Story of our lives:
We fought 2020, and
2021 -
@scubed Jan 19
It’s not starting well
But too soon to surrender
Let’s not be hasty -
@dasbinky Jan 19
I tuned my guitar
In some weird alternate key
All the chords are wrong -
@mishykatz Jan 19
Hello sweet FAWMku
I have looked forward to you
I have words to spew -
@mishykatz Jan 19
@darcistrutt thank you
Reminder to get rock hands
FAWMiliar hat -
@mishykatz Jan 19
Every year this time
Haiku and FAWM come to mind
this year's seem to rhyme!? -
@timfatchen Jan 20
quick thousand kloms up
yes, the desert is blooming
quick thousand kloms back -
@timfatchen Jan 20
why is life a string
of urgent thousand klom drives
east, west, north, south, home... -
@scubed Jan 20
Fresh breeze is blowing
New beginning comes today
Time to celebrate! -
@jeff9 Jan 20
First time FAWMer here
Can I really pull this off?
Oh, well, what the hell -
@dasbinky Jan 20
“You" rhymes with "Shampoo"
I'm sure this will be useful
In my hit single -
@andygetch Jan 21
Oh to write fourteen
As winter dives into bleak
The search continues -
@mishykatz Jan 22
Don't have fourteen fear
One good song better than none
The ride is the thing -
@timfatchen Jan 22
Spammers fall like rain
"I am not a violent man"
[Hits Mr Fawlty] -
@timfatchen Jan 22
45 Degrees
That's Fahrenheit one-one-three
Enjoy your winter! -
@timfatchen Jan 22
Never wish too hard
You may get what you wish for
But not what you need -
@timfatchen Jan 22
Why do we do this?
Obsessive-compulsive, us.
At least, with FAWMku -
@ayehahmur Jan 22
The dreaded question.
Why...compose so many songs
Or FAWMku? WHY NOT!? -
@ayehahmur Jan 22
Or another way
Creation, its own reward
Every act treasured. -
@erbaer Jan 22
A moment arrives
full of wild birds and promise
what could the next bring? -
@darcistrutt Jan 22
A day or two pass
Soon I will begin to live here
The time is not yet -
@timfatchen Jan 22
Promise on promise
First wild birds will come to you.
Vultures come later. -
@barbara Jan 23
Creepy as it is,
What lies in a vulture’s heart
but the will to live? -
@scubed Jan 23
Embracing the day
Sandhill cranes take flight at dawn
Elegance on wings -
@scubed Jan 23
Flowing from the sky
White-feathered pilgrims alight
The snow geese are here -
@timfatchen Jan 23
Seen from the slow train
The Tower of Silence vultures.
(the recycling squad) -
@scubed Jan 23
Seen from a distance
Vultures soar beautifully
But don’t get too close -
@timfatchen Jan 23
Their surgical skin
Is enough to put one off.
But in the air....wow! -
@timfatchen Jan 23
I seem besotted
With the feathered dinosaurs.
They've got me pinioned. -
@timfatchen Jan 23
Blue Wrens at water
Bouncing and chirping away
Modern dinosaurs... -
@timfatchen Jan 23
1970
I knew birds were dinosaurs
No-one believed me
Then in '96
Finally the proof arrived.
Feathers, beak and TEETH
Seems a waste of time.
If only they had listened!
How famous I'd be. -
@timfatchen Jan 23
I've birds on the brain
Our birds get too much sugar.
(It's where song began) -
@mishykatz Jan 23
Birds are pretty cool
But have you researched trees yet?
Tree stuff blows my mind -
@mishykatz Jan 23
Trees grow so slowly
We are passing blurs to them
Not discernable -
@mishykatz Jan 23
One hundredth comment
My last haiku it would seem
One Hundred and One -
@mishykatz Jan 23
Thinking about beats
Getting lost in the music
stringing along words -
@toms Jan 23
I have talked to trees
A summer day in the park
Time did not exist. -
@mishykatz Jan 23
Have you sung to trees?
Heard them playing music back?
Leaving no silence -
@timfatchen Jan 24
In our locust trees,
Jewel-feathered flower thieves:
Rainbow Lorikeets. -
@kathym Jan 24
Lorikeets so bright
Too much nectar and they leave
Wet gifts on your arm -
@timfatchen Jan 24
No wet gifts left here!
Instead, a flower shower
And noisy wake-ups. -
@timfatchen Jan 24
Drippy silver gulls,
The brine streams from their nostrils!
Reverse osmosis. -
@kathym Jan 24
Gulls down by the shore
Dropped my popcorn in the sand
Soon came hundreds more -
@timfatchen Jan 24
Look at the gulls come!
Enthusiasm for life!
Or for dropped popcorn? -
@timfatchen Jan 24
Once upon a time
Watched gulls work for a living
On a filled Lake Eyre -
@mishykatz Jan 24
Desert birds aloft
In unusual wet sky
Much more used to dry -
@mishykatz Jan 24
Cactus more than trees
Here in the southwest desert
Fighters for moisture -
@judypie Jan 24
January still
February seems distant
Perpetuity -
@timfatchen Jan 24
Seagulls far inland
On a waveless Lake Eyre beach
Puddled for their food -
@timfatchen Jan 24
Mudstones washed open
Displaying dinosaur tracks.
(Did seagulls notice?) -
@timfatchen Jan 24
The Cretaceous sea
Inland water once hard sought
An era too late -
@timfatchen Jan 24
Obsessed with FAWMKU
When I should be practising.
Is this "mind practice"? -
@mishykatz Jan 24
This is practice time
Also calms this busy mind
Restless spirit balm -
@mishykatz Jan 24
Words inside stewing
Foaming, boiling and spewing
Soon be widely strewn -
@mishykatz Jan 24
Notes rhythms and beat
Give me peace and some relief
New tranquility -
@timfatchen Jan 24
Watch the birds a while.
It's dinosaur therapy
Minus the bloodshed. -
@timfatchen Jan 24
Midnight snacks don't work.
Now I have sticky quince jam
Over my keyboard -
@mishykatz Jan 24
Replace snacks with tracks
Midnight tracks on your keyboard
Good kind of sticky -
@kathym Jan 24
Choosing snacks v. tracks
Dreaming of the prize inside
Therefore Cracker Jacks -
@timfatchen Jan 25
Don't talk about jacks!
My grand piano might hear...
(It needs its jacks fixed) -
@mishykatz Jan 25
I won't say a thing
My piano isn't grand
It doesn't have jacks -
@timfatchen Jan 25
Grand or not so grand,
If it's acoustic it does!
Others? Input jacks!
😁 -
@mishykatz Jan 25
I stand corrected
Important jacks yes indeed
Might call them lifelines -
@timfatchen Jan 25
Glad you can stand it!
I stand with difficulty...
Bad news and vodka! -
@mishykatz Jan 25
My knees still working
Some days better than others
Shoulders not so good -
@mishykatz Jan 25
Rain in the desert
Its been a very dry spell
We're not used to Wet -
@mishykatz Jan 25
sorry bout bad news
Never a good time for that
Or vodka for me -
@ayehahmur Jan 25
So cold out today
Frost and ice everywhere
So still. Helps me chill. -
@mishykatz Jan 25
A bite of chili
Takes the bite out of chilly
Are you hungry yet -
@siebass Jan 25
I am hungry now
Door Dash dashed dreams of hot lunch
a cancelled order -
@mishykatz Jan 25
I am hungry too
Door Dash did good last night so
Leftovers it is -
@drivelmonk Jan 25
planning the album
a page fills with blueprints of
my houses unsung -
@carleybaer Jan 25
Still a few more days
I'm trying to justify
A new instrument -
@mishykatz Jan 25
A new instrument
needs no justification
In this crazy house -
@mishykatz Jan 25
My FAWM plan includes
A spreadsheet list of titles,
Studio cleanup -
@kathym Jan 25
FAWM always includes
Tracking mine and others songs
Tracking comments, too
Skirmish spreadsheet tracks
All who comment on my songs
I reciprocate -
@mishykatz Jan 25
Noble endeavor
One I share without spreadsheets
Reciprocation -
@kathym Jan 25
Lo! I miss the days
Of the Jukebox fawm once had
Song to song with ease -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 25
Let the song mountain
Come to listener Mohammed
Screw lyricists, though -
@mishykatz Jan 25
some lyricists bolt
Some maybe a little nuts
All together screwed -
@mishykatz Jan 25
Lowe's hardware aisle
Looking for socket head bolts
And Wingnuts to match -
@mishykatz Jan 25
Pottery wheel pins
To hold the bats on safely
No flying of clay -
@mishykatz Jan 25
Bats made of plastic
Flat trays to hold pottery
We call them bat pins -
@timfatchen Jan 25
The screw lyricists
Imprison us with their words
Because we're guilty -
@timfatchen Jan 25
Is that why fruit bats
Look unkindly on potters?
Pinned to the Great Wheel. -
@timfatchen Jan 25
Life is simpler here.
No need to search for wingnuts.
One in my mirror! -
@mishykatz Jan 26
Oh for your mirror
Reflecting me some crazy
I just can't see it -
@mishykatz Jan 26
Sometimes our bats fly
They are not supposed to, but
newbies lose control -
@mishykatz Jan 26
the Clay flies one way
Bat the other direction
Water in my boot -
@mishykatz Jan 26
It is possible
This is the year for Mishy
Rock op'ra in clay -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 26
It's just revolting
All my schedules overthrown
A FAWMku d'etat -
@scubed Jan 26
Emerging from dark
National and personal
Blinking in the light -
@mishykatz Jan 26
Taking a quick look
Is it safe to come out yet?
I don't think quite yet -
@mishykatz Jan 26
Glad to have FAWM here
To help with isolation
Connections I need -
@timfatchen Jan 26
Please do not unplug
(For fear of disconnecting)
No normal service. -
@mishykatz Jan 26
Yes no stopping plugs
Connection so the light shines
Illuminate me -
@mishykatz Jan 26
Obsessive haiku
Dusting off looper pedals
Possibly for use -
@mikehex Jan 26
I'm losing patience
as January lingers
One week until FAWM -
@mishykatz Jan 26
Five very long days
It is difficult to wait
So I write haiku -
@kathym Jan 26
Snacks, strings, paper, pen
Getting everything in place
Let the fawm begin! -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 26
How to keep your cool
In oppressive summer heat:
Live in Wellington -
@timfatchen Jan 27
Can't put pedals down
Until the floor is vacuumed
Else they disappear. -
@timfatchen Jan 27
It is not the cool
Responsible for the shakes
In Wobbly Welly. -
@timfatchen Jan 27
FAWM obsessions pierce!
Setting up my saline drip
Saves on eating time. -
@mishykatz Jan 27
That's what I can do
Meals for my February
Fix em in advance -
@mishykatz Jan 27
Thank you @timfatchen
for the saline idea
My own spin on it -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 27
Coffee? Powernap?
Meditate? Self-medicate?
Caffeine? Fever dream? -
@timfatchen Jan 27
There's another thread:
It's one one oh seven two
Please refer to first. -
@mishykatz Jan 27
Vague thread reference
oh what do these numbers mean
Refer to what where? -
@timfatchen Jan 27
Thread number to help
Those self-plagiarising
(Stephen* self-harming)
*@stephenwordsmith -
@timfatchen Jan 27
@mishykatz, go to
Fifty-ninety: look for song
Four five eight four four
(An explanation!)
Basic numerology:
All will be explained -
@mishykatz Jan 27
@timfatchen the site?
Looked through fawm forums can't see
fifty-ninety thread -
@timfatchen Jan 27
Yes, "The Site" is right!
But since I'm a nice person,
Here is a shortcut:
https://soundcloud.com/timfatchen/cannot-do-and-cannot-be -
@mishykatz Jan 27
ah yes, finally
Thank you for being so nice
To the Slow Mishy -
@mishykatz Jan 27
And now it would seem
New fifty ninety account
I am proud owner -
@mishykatz Jan 27
Numerology
Finally I understand
As clear as my clay -
@timfatchen Jan 27
Such a trail...but looK!
Another Fifty-Niner!
(All in a good cause) -
@scubed Jan 27
Waxing gibbous moon
Rising as the sun sinks low
Floats above mountains -
@timfatchen Jan 28
Septic tank pump out.
The suck truck plucks it all up.
A sh!t of a job. -
@scubed Jan 28
Shit is part of Life
With luck, though, just a small part
Wishing you flowers -
@timfatchen Jan 28
Suck Truck does its job.
It all goes to feed wetlands
Makes critters happy! -
@mishykatz Jan 28
Happy critters smile
Tummies full of something good
Happiness and shit -
@mishykatz Jan 28
Plumber here today
Pricing hookup for new place
Homebuilt tiny house -
@timfatchen Jan 28
Reeds and wormies too,
Converting to pure water.
Wetlands? Wonderful! -
@mishykatz Jan 28
Nature amazes
Water, Air, Fire, Earth Magic
To my human view -
@mishykatz Jan 28
Learning about trees
Little known society
Communication -
@mishykatz Jan 28
Plumbing woes released
Water can now flow again
Flushing so freely -
@timfatchen Jan 29
The leading forum:
"Fake Band A is for ABBA"!!!
Thus is FAWMku shamed. -
@timfatchen Jan 29
When at piano
I try not to play by ear
So white keys stay white. -
@dzdandcunfsd Jan 29
Greasy yellow keys
Lubrication for fast trills
Ears tend to get sore -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 29
NEW Haiku sealant!
Seamlessly plugs poem gaps:
It (squid) really works! -
@timfatchen Jan 29
Our squid live 8 months.
For them, the year means nothing.
Unlike cuttlefish. -
@dzdandcunfsd Jan 29
Squids terrify me
Maybe it's irrational
They just freak me out. -
@dzdandcunfsd Jan 29
Long forgotten fears
A genetic memory
Of being squid food? -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 29
Fish are sea kittens
Says PETA, which must make squid
A cat o'ten tails -
@dzdandcunfsd Jan 29
Can't trust tales from cats
Scratch my belly they will say
A cuddly trap laid -
@timfatchen Jan 29
Socks the Attack Cat
"Cuddly me! Scratch my belly!"
ICU for you! -
@kathym Jan 29
Buddrick winks and purrs
Curls his toes and rolls around
Beware! Mr. Hyde! -
@ayehahmur Jan 29
That's it all set up
Keys, check. Mic, check. Laptop, check.
Now what? Oh, right. Wait. -
@kathym Jan 29
Need to change my strings
If I ever strike it rich
I will hire help -
@dzdandcunfsd Jan 29
One dollar per string
I will happily change them
All day and night long -
@kathym Jan 29
If I strike it rich
With a grateful heart I will call
He who would change strings -
@kathym Jan 29
Such a thankless chore
So much do I loathe the task
I would pay much more -
@mishykatz Jan 30
Gotta love new strings
So fresh and bright and...well...new
I don't mind changing -
@dzdandcunfsd Jan 30
I prefer them old
New strings highlight my "technique"
Technical it isn't -
@mishykatz Jan 30
I prefer me old
Guitar strings don't reach old age
I change them out first -
@mishykatz Jan 30
Some instruments hang
Wall flowers with older strings
The ones I don't play -
@mishykatz Jan 30
Ukulele strings
I rarely ever have changed
Maybe only twice -
@kathym Jan 30
Lack of playing time
New strings dig and cut the skin
Callouses long gone -
@timfatchen Jan 30
When you neglect them
All instruments are callous
They'd rather be played! -
@dzdandcunfsd Jan 30
Mad at my strings now
Slipped one under fingernail
It did sound good though -
@dasbinky Jan 30
I have spilled some wine
in my acoustic guitar.
Now it is fancy. -
@dzdandcunfsd Jan 30
Wino guitar calls
Yearning into the calm night
I need more Pino! -
@dasbinky Jan 30
@dzdandcunfsd
Too many bottles
My guitar is in rehab
A dry FAWM for him -
@nancyrost Jan 30
Pino? Plays the bass
My piano has been drinking
Que Syrah, Syrah -
@nightwing521 Jan 30
Traditionally,
Haiku mentions nature. There!
Got it in on time!
Only my second
FAWM and my first two FAWMkus
Life really is great! -
@dzdandcunfsd Jan 30
Nature of human
A complicated nature
Prefer drunk guitars 😁 -
@dzdandcunfsd Jan 30
Have a great fawm two
Here's to many more fawmkus
Winged one of the night 😁 -
@nightwing521 Jan 30
Ev'ry body is
talking about alcohol
so, a booze haiku:
(Stealing joke from "Mom"
starring Allison Janney
and Anna Faris)
Sadly, I became
allergic to alcohol
break out in handcuffs
😀 -
@timfatchen Jan 30
Alcohol, coffee--
All the sweet natural things!
(Includes Arsenic!) -
@mishykatz Jan 30
no alcohol here
Caffeine and some THC
An Awake Stoner -
@mishykatz Jan 30
Two more sleeps til FAWM
The last two days feel like weeks
Open cyber gates -
@scubed Jan 30
It’s my coffee time
As I await the sunrise
I sip gratefully -
@scubed Jan 30
When the sun sinks low
And eastern mountains glow pink
The corkscrew comes out -
@aflinner Jan 30
Time for morning Joe
(Coffee, not a guy named Joe)
...No more talk of Joe -
@ianquiet1 Jan 30
Waiting for February
New music to write
Only a matter of days -
@zoetropeocelot Jan 30
Awkward, my first FAWM,
but, look! There's a haiku thread.
The new kid's at home. -
@timfatchen Jan 30
Many fail to see
The discipline in haiku.
New kid knows what's what! -
@dasbinky Jan 30
Waking up FAWMku
Still feeling a bit groggy
I ran out of syll- -
@dasbinky Jan 30
Need to do some chores
But really, I don't wanna
Imma get donuts -
@kathym Jan 30
@zoetropeocelot
Let me warn you now
fawmku and the fawmricks threads
very addicting -
@kathym Jan 30
Bedroom has been cleaned
Coffee come and gone and now
Must clean other rooms
If I clean them now
And I don't make too much mess
There's more time to fawm -
@zoetropeocelot Jan 30
@kathym
So each distraction
FAWM to fawmku to fawmricks
leads to another. -
@dzdandcunfsd Jan 30
Haiku discipline
Always sparks lyric ideas
Try to not 'til start
@kathym is right though
warning for addictiveness
Is verily apt -
@kathym Jan 30
I have fawmlash now
pop from fawmricks to fawmku
meter change hiccups -
@timfatchen Jan 30
I itch for haiku
To outline my song stories
Pens banned till midnight -
@timfatchen Jan 30
No, my date's NOT wrong:
Start and finish local time.
I'm east of Greenwich! -
@mishykatz Jan 30
haiku works for now
Dreaming music immersion
Welcome distraction -
@mishykatz Jan 30
I wake up early
I can write til FAWM opens
Maybe finish one -
@kathym Jan 31
One more day to go
Scribbling notes for song ideas
New and UFO's -
@stephenwordsmith Jan 31
Life is what happens
When one's busy making plans
To start writing songs -
@dasbinky Jan 31
Eh, write something now.
February is nothing
But a state of mind. -
@scubed Jan 31
May the stars align
And allow you* to write in
Spaces in between
*@stephenwordsmith -
@dasbinky Jan 31
Twas the night before
FAWMmas and all through the site
People wrote FAWMkus -
@dasbinky Jan 31
Adopt a FAWMling
Give a newbie some comments
Pay the love forward -
@kathym Jan 31
Fawmlings are the best
Everyone began somewhere
Rock hands make great gifts -
@timfatchen Jan 31
I'm still in the room.
Requiems like strokes of doom...
Not intended, gloom... -
@kathym Jan 31
Fawmlings - welcome, all!
Leave a note on my soundboard
I will hear your songs -
@evolvemysound Jan 31
My very first FAWM
What a treat
Posts and interacting
It's most definitely fun -
@dzdandcunfsd Feb 2
Down to page seven
Is so unacceptable
bump,bump,bump,bump,bump -
@dustymason Feb 2
Nerves shot, heart —hands, too
I wouldn't dance if I could
Me crazy. You drive. -
@dasbinky Feb 2
I have written songs.
None of them rhyme very well.
I need Autotune. -
@scottlake Feb 2
Twenty twenty one
Better than twenty nineteen,
The hope of the world. -
@timfatchen Feb 2
Welcome the return
Of @scottlake to the forums!
Father of FAWMku! -
@dustymason Feb 2
There once was a man
His legacy —limericks
"From where?" you might ask. -
@dzdandcunfsd Feb 2
Nantucket I think
Is all I know of such things
Mixed company frowns -
@karan Feb 2
Good night, sweet dreams, world!
@timfatchen has just got up.
Good morning to you! -
@nightwing521 Feb 3
first version first song
haiku: now writing "real" song
from that; very hard!
haiku version best
so far. I need a better
self editor tool -
@timfatchen Feb 3
@karan must be up
Halfway round the world, we join
For some music hours -
@timfatchen Feb 3
Writing opera
Haiku process worked so well
With doublings, repeats -
@dasbinky Feb 3
Catchy melody!
Ugh, I can't hit that low note...
I have a capo! -
@timfatchen Feb 3
Ran through the uke songs
Or rather strolled through each one
Smelling the roses
https://fawm.org/forums/topic/11308/ -
@timfatchen Feb 3
Melody too high
And I can't hit the high notes.
Pass the wire snips. -
@dasbinky Feb 3
@timfatchen I'll take the less extreme route
Melody too high
I might need some assistance
Kick me in the nards -
@dasbinky Feb 3
Some words make me laugh
Like I am 13 again
Nards is one of them -
@timfatchen Feb 3
Thought she was 16
Laughing at the lads in shorts
Said they had "squoze nads"
Twenty years ago
And I replied to her post
And now we're old friends -
@timfatchen Feb 3
To deal with tenors
Make sure you always carry
A very sharp stick -
@dzdandcunfsd Feb 4
Have heard of stories
Castrato it was by name
More than a sharp stick -
@dasbinky Feb 4
This thread has taken
an uncomfortably dark turn.
Let's discuss puppies.
Oh wait, nevermind.
If you're a good pet owner
puppies sing high too. -
@timfatchen Feb 5
Problem with puppies
They may get the C-word too
And don't mention cats... -
@wylddandelyon Feb 5
Oh, please, mention cats
They're so much better than bills
And laptop glitches! -
@timfatchen Feb 5
One must be careful
For cats rule the internet.
Universe masters -
@dasbinky Feb 6
Ugh, my cat has barfed
Right into my humbucker
I need to hang these.
I mean, they have hooks.
I am just a lazy man.
Guitars everywhere.
To prevent more barf,
Only one real solution:
Lock the studio. -
@timfatchen Feb 8
Page 5? What is this??
We even have CATS in here!
(see above FAWMku)
What more could you ask?
(okay, perhaps less barfing)
Back to page one! Now!! -
@karan Feb 8
Winter has returned.
Snow piling up on the street.
I must shovel now. -
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@karan Feb 8
My conscience is green -
and it wants to stay that way.
So shovel I must! 😀 -
@karan Feb 9
FAWMku fell asleep.
Awake, awake and arise!
Jump back to page one! -
@scottlake Feb 9
Time wasted away
Half a day expense report
Brain falls fast asleep -
@barbara Feb 10
Cats do not shovel
Their only chore is bathing
(A pretty light load) -
@karan Feb 10
Note to self: become
a cat in your next life, 'cause
it's so relaxing! -
@scottlake Feb 11
Cats are menacing.
Silently planning demise.
People, plants beware! -
@scottlake Feb 11
No one recollects.
My songs all unremembered
Thank God 4 FAWMku.
Come January,
Someone dusts off the FAWMku.
Makes my heart happy. -
@timfatchen Feb 11
Alas, time presses
A steamless iron set too hot
Leaves one flat and burnt -
@timfatchen Feb 11
Had I time enough
I would cheer @scottlake's FAWMku
Good heavens! I have! -
@timfatchen Feb 11
Father of FAWMku
Longest running and best thread:
All praise to @scottlake !! -
@timfatchen Feb 11
(Failing in duty,
I failed to extol the cats.
Blame the dinosaurs!) -
@karan Feb 11
I am allergic
to cats and to horses, too.
Alas, I love both. -
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@karan Feb 11
Oh yes, I agree!
However, thinking about
sneezing makes me sneeze ... -
@barbara Feb 11
Holding. And petting.
And loving. And then sneezing.
A sad love story. -
@scottlake Feb 12
Heute ein FAWMku
Auf Deutsch und such für Alles
Warum? Ich weiß nicht! -
@scottlake Feb 12
AAagghhh autocorrect!
My German FAWMku ruined!
Why did I try that? -
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@karan Feb 12
Why do we say "sneezed"?
"Snozed" would sound better for the
nasal aftermath! -
@scottlake Feb 13
Picking up pizza.
Our Friday night tradition.
In America. -
@timfatchen Feb 13
Happy crows outside
Pizza ready for pickup
Beats McDonalds bins! -
@timfatchen Feb 13
Crows are our allies
Moving the corellas on
So we keep our trees -
@apolez3 Feb 13
Enjoying Fawm'in!
Collab'ing is endearing;
Expressing jointly. -
@timfatchen Feb 13
My collab'ing's poor
Arthritis makes my joints ache
(Espresso coffee!) -
@arthurrossi Feb 13
A sunny morning
but frosty: minus seven
degree Celsius -
@scottlake Feb 14
Backyard bird count now.
Something I have done with dad.
Today all alone.
Dad is still alive.
Six states now lie between us.
Before just six miles. -
@arthurrossi Feb 14
Where are we going?
halfway away or halfway
near - I do not know -
@karan Feb 16
The snow is melting.
I almost slipped on the slush.
Where are the snowdrops? -
@dasbinky Feb 16
Our snow will not melt.
It is now minus fifteen
degrees. Fahrenheit. -
@arthurrossi Feb 16
Traces in the snow
may tell where you planned to go
and actually did -
@dasbinky Feb 19
The muse isn't here.
Instead I think I will watch
The Lord of the Rings. -
@scottlake Feb 19
A nightcap FAWMku
some Irish Cream and crushed ice.
Clinking in my glass -
@arthurrossi Feb 19
It`s day nineteen now
so much creativity
the show must go on -
@dasbinky Feb 19
I have the day off
from work. I will write a song
about not working. -
@karan Feb 20
Busy, busy bees,
all writing songs, day and night,
humming in their dreams. -
@dasbinky Feb 21
It is Saturday.
I feel kind of creative.
I've had too much wine.
Like, not a little
bit of wine. Far too much wine.
Can't find my guitar.
I'm sure it's somewhere.
Unless that goblin took it.
The room is spinning.
Creativity
is a fickle beast I think.
Well, time for more wine.
If I don't write a
song by tomorrow evening,
call a doctor, please. -
@karan Feb 22
FAWMku on page four.
@timfatchen has disappeared!
I hope all is well.
Also, I wonder:
Has @dasbinky sobered up?
Some muses like wine ... -
@dasbinky Feb 22
I suppose I am
temporarily sober.
Day ain't over yet. -
@timfatchen Feb 23
Five-thirty A. M.
Should not be allowed to be
Strike it from the clock -
@timfatchen Feb 23
Please do not worry.
Normal FAWMku will return
When the boat goes out. -
@timfatchen Feb 23
Master of dry rot
In a boatyard of nightmares
But MY ship will sail! -
@timfatchen Feb 23
E-mail and E-books
E-poxy trumps all E-words
A pox on all glues -
@karan Feb 26
The last week of FAWM
was chock-full of commitments.
Time to write songs now! -
@karan Feb 26
But I'm so tired!
When I go to sleep, will I
dream up some lyrics? -
@hornesgiftshop Feb 27
I've got one. https://fawm.org/songs/123203/
-
@timfatchen Mar 1
FAWMku on page 5!??
NOT the natural order.
We Must Try Harder. -
@timfatchen Mar 1
Amazed I made it
The last few songs just "happened".
Zoned in at the end! -
@karan Mar 1
Can't wait to listen!
There's so much to catch up with
after a good rest. -
@dasbinky Mar 1
*Sigh* It is now March.
I emerge from my Man Cave
and see my shadow.
Like a tall groundhog,
Maybe six more weeks of songs?
No. FAWM has been closed.
Can I still write songs?
No. That is against the law.
Time to go comment.
I will again find
Thirty ways to say "cool song".
You people write good.
What, now? How many?
Almost 14,000 songs?
Bring me some caffeine. -
@scottlake Mar 1
Fifteenth FAWM finished
Fourteen lyrics are complete
Fire up the DAW! -
@nightwing521 Mar 2
Second FAWM: fifteen
songs: last, started and finished
during final hour -
@ayehahmur Mar 2
Fingers all floppy
Throat is hoarse and I'm DAW blind
But FAWM is worth it. -
@timfatchen Mar 2
Wicked get no rest.
@frogspawn has me in his toils.
Blame @pointlessaccount -
@scubed Mar 2
Well, hello, FAWMku!
Sorry I’ve been a stranger
Muse kept me busy -
@dasbinky Mar 2
Well, if your Muse has
more than seven syllables
they have no place here.
Technically I guess
seventeen. Even in FAWM
I guess there are rules.
All is fair in love
and FAWM. But maybe not in
FAWMku? Life is strange.
No, I take it back.
We welcome your Muse. Even
if they allow too many syllables though breaking form may lead to the heat death of the universe -
-
@dzdandcunfsd Mar 2
If you speak fast 'nuf
sylabbles have no reglatin
if you can drawl nice 😉 -
@dasbinky Mar 2
Only by breaking
the rules can we begin to
understand them. Yeah. -
@dzdandcunfsd Mar 2
I like that much more
Than you must know rules to break
Makes a lot more sense. -
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@frogspawn Mar 3
Wretched lyricists!
Whip the words out so quickly.
Composers suffer. -
@frogspawn Mar 3
Once again I've proved
The time it takes don't matter.
It's the end product. -
@frogspawn Mar 3
To win FAWM in March
One does need a little help.
My friends get me by! -
@stephenwordsmith Mar 3
February? Bah.
Calendar, oppress me not.
I start, end, in March. -
@frogspawn Mar 3
Two days I'm awake.
More would seem a bit Pointless.
Time to hibernate -
@timfatchen Mar 3
The frog has freed me!
Is this a screen before me?
I should start list'ning -
@karan Mar 3
Pope Gregory changed
the calendar; it's likely
still February! -
@dasbinky Mar 3
I believe that there's
always a February
somewhere... in our hearts.
Autocorrect tried
to make me type "pants" above.
I guess that works too. -
@timfatchen Mar 3
And where the heart pants?
A deerskin, needle and thread:
And wear the hart pants. -
@nancyrost Mar 3
In the seventies
I had pants with hearts on them
Let's just say "oh dear" -
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@nightwing521 Mar 4
Rules are for other
people (like @dasbinky).
Not for me! -
@timfatchen Mar 5
Rulers and the ruled.
"You better keep straight. Or else:
Ruler on the calves." -
@andpow81 Mar 5
Calves are little cows,
They like to moo all the time,
But do not like clocks. -
@timfatchen Mar 7
Vanish without trace,
Like dry ice on desert sand
Where once there was life. -
@timfatchen Mar 7
The circus was great
But now the Big Top empties
Save for us tragics. -
@timfatchen Mar 7
End of time moment:
Even the spammers slow down,
Ghosts in a ghost town -
@scottlake Mar 9
Tim don’t be so down.
We all made many great songs.
Why not March also? -
@timfatchen Mar 9
'Twas just a down day.
Wife now safely through surg'ry
Cyborg coming home! -
@dasbinky Mar 9
Songwriting is done.
Wait, we can write in March too?
Feels like a bad plan.
Creative juices
have not been replenished yet.
I am a dry husk. -
@andpow81 Mar 9
Creation stops not,
Only your mind can stop you,
Write in March, my friend -
@timfatchen Mar 10
Unwarily trapped.
I come across good lyrics.
And...one MORE collab! -
@timfatchen Mar 10
Thus songs come in March
But still get counted in FAWM
Four written, two up.
(But ignore @frogspawn
He's just a trick time-bender
Proves the possible) -
@dasbinky 8 weeks
Douglas Adams taught
that time is an illusion.
Lunchtime doubly so. -
@timfatchen 8 weeks
Done. Finished. Kaput
Time runs out for all of us
Sooner or later -
@nightwing521 3 weeks
it's coming closer
the end, for eight more, long months
missing you, so soon -
@tesla3090 3 weeks
Goodbye friends of FAWM
Soon we will return again
To write songs anew -
@timfatchen 3 weeks
Doomsday it dawneth
Must resist the temptation
To archive FAWMku -
@berni1954 3 weeks
Dawn creeps towards me
The street lights are still burning
Soon FAWM will be dark -
@timfatchen 3 weeks
A ghostly twilight,
Not living but not yet dead:
FAWMerdammerung. -
@timfatchen 2 weeks
The abyss beckons
And we tremble on the brink...
Throw the haiku in! -
@dasbinky 2 weeks
Now the end is near
We faced it all and stood tall
And did it FAWM's way. -
@gm7 2 weeks
The blinds are closing
The room turns dark
FAWM 2022 will be our new bright light -
@timfatchen 1 week
A lingering death
Yet still the spammers flock in
After carrion. -
@berni1954 1 week
They said it was dead
Communication open
But will it last long? -
@timfatchen 1 week
Perhaps it is dead
Perhaps it's now a seance
With us as lost souls -
@dasbinky 1 week
The modern seance:
Can you hear us, Tim? His soul
may be stuck on mute. -
@timfatchen 1 week
Eh? What? Speak up lad!
Nothing wrong with _my_ hearing.
Can't you speak louder? -
@timfatchen 1 day
It must be Friday.
All the spammers rushing in
While most of you sleep!
