Okay, who's up for this? In honor of Master Will's Birthday, I'm starting a sonnet, in the Shakespearean fashion, and I will write the first line of this fourteen line sonnet.

Now the rules of the sonnet are thus:

Rhyme scheme: ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, with each letter representing a rhyme, so in each stanza, every other line rhymes.

Meter: As you may know, it is ALWAYS iambic pentameter. Here's first line from one of his sonnets: "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes." Think of the 'red' words as being the ones emphasized.

Content: Usually love, this time its love of William Shakespeare's work.

Now, here's the first line:

WHEN OFT I READ WILL SHAKESPEARE'S WONDROUS WORK

Okay, now you guys send me your ideas for the next line, I'll pick the best, and we'll go line by line from there in this blog.

Any questions? Leave me a note. If you wish to see a copy of a sonnet, let me know that too!

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omg, it's another birthday!
Happy Birthday (and deathday, as he died on his b'day, too!), Sweet William!
Thanks for everything, gentle poet!

William Shakespeare Picture Gallery at Absolute Shakespeare

HAPPY BIRTHDAY,

CHARLOTTE BRONTE!

(and thanks ever so much for JANE EYRE!)

FOURTH AND FINAL CLUE:

Today is her birthday!

CLUE THE THIRD:

Along with her two writer sisters,

whose pseudonyms were Ellis Bell and Acton Bell,

these noble women crafted literature still esteemed today.

My second clue:

She wrote at least

one book

that should be

on everyone's

'life reading list'!

Can you guess this lovely lady's name?
(My first hint: her pseudonym was CURRER BELL!)

If you were not there last night to hear the latest written creations by Wyckoff teens, boy, did you miss something great! We heard fantastic poetry and prose, some that made us laugh, some that made us want to cry, and some that made us scratch our heads and wonder why. We also heard the first chapter of a book, a novel, in progress. How cool is that! Lucky for you, this happens monthly, the first Thursday of the month, in the Monroe Room from 6:30 to 8:00 pm. A good time is always had by all (I think, at least!)

April Fools!

Now that's out of the way, check out Google's April Fools Joke for 2009...it is a splendid thing (there's that word again!)...

http://cadiesingularity.blogspot.com/

GOOGLE is very well known for their April Fools jokes, and they do take them to great extremes...Regarding this one, we've all been pwn'd, I'm thinkin'!