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#1: Teresa K (fasstar) on Dec 30, 2008

¤~¤~¤ Ode to a Pixel ¤~¤~¤

Oh tiny little square
How innocent you stare
At me as I strive to make sense
Of your very existence.

Oh pixel, thee I adore,
Oh pixel, thee I implore,
What shall I do with thee?
How shall I solveth thee?

Shall I filleth thee with color?
Or dot thee like thy brother?
Make thee black as the night?
Make thee shine oh so bright?

What have they done to thee?
Did they try to tame thee?
Run thee through a checker?
Analyzer, solver, helper?

And there in the corner, the only one,
On thy bed of white, all alone,
They attack thy right to be there,
And call you a WOT – how they dare!

Numbered rows with tiny dots
All arranged inside the box
Black and white or red-green-blue?
I fill the blanks, now reveal the clue.

Loved ones watch me as I solve,
Blobs and lines as they evolve.
“It looks like a helicopter!”
They all think I’m off my rocker.

Thou defiest all logic – what a mess!
I have no recourse, but to guess.
What to do with thee, I know naught.
Oh no! A red dot! Out damn spot!

Undo! Undo! Again! Again!
(Thank God I didn’t use a pen.)
There, I’ve done it, I’ve set thee right!
Aha! Now I see! The end is in sight!

When I try the line/edge logic
Your image doth appear like magic!
This one done, now on to the next one.
On a quest to find the best one.

Thou keepest me awake all hours.
So small, yet with amazing powers!
I can think of naught but thee,
Perchance dost thou e’er think of me?

Dear pixel, my craving thou hast sated.
Thy puzzle is solved, but my brain’s pixilated!
This should really be an Ode to Jan.
Now he is one amazing man!

wow :D

Thank you thank you thank you thank you.

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I'm hearing some Blake in there. Might be seeing some soon, perhaps? Thanks for gracing us with your creativity.

Wow you are multi-talented! Great picture and very funny poem-i totally get it!

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Such a flower as May never wore...

There once was a pixel so fair
I wondered, be dot or a square?
I began with a dot
But, then again, not
For it looks like it's one of a pair.

wow! such talent! What a treat to stumble upon this tonight! Thank you!

There once was a pixel from Nantucket
Whose owner left the rest in a bucket
When they're 20 to a row
That's 400, I'll let you know!
And if anyone disagrees, well they can disagree.

I can surely rhyme but I can’t count
Codenumerator has thusly found me out!

Jodeen denies any adulation.
But her shauts belie her protestations!

M2 gave us just a TY4.
Mayhaps she will share a lytle more?

Thou art granted all poetic license.
Hasten now to grace us with thine two pence.

Wow, that was amazing.

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I'm truly amazed at not only the pixel artists in our midst, but now the poets! Creativity abounds in this place....

I am stuck speechless with speechlessness.

Hey Teresa, your puzzle is famous!! :)

OMG at all these "poems."

congratukation to all the poem writter its amazing

a special bravo to my friend Jusy to start this up

very good, captivating idea

Jusy? ???

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I figured that out, a wee bit too late.
Immediately did my ego deflate.

Codenumerator was the first to tell:
(Read comment 11, then comment 12)

Let this be a lesson for what happens when
Thou spend too much time on webpbn.

My brain turned to mush after puzzling all night.
On the positive side, my number's half right.

Wowowow!

Barbarann's poem makes me a little sad-- I recognize my own addiction in it!

Thanks for directing us here from the forum, Jan!

Oh, and Teresa (and any other Blake fans), search for "Fearful Symmetry."

"What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?"

None other than our Rebelcat
In number ten of Zodiac!

http://webpbn.com/index.cgi?id=2468

Oh, yeah! I realize now that my comment doesn't make sense. There's an earlier tiger puzzle with the title of Fearful Symmetry.

Aha! Thou meaneth a search on this site.
Perhaps I shall give it a try tonight!

http://webpbn.com/index.cgi?id=428

Oh God how possible it is
that even when they come from here and there
the same insanity they all appear to share?

Odes to pixels flow here same as rain
what is it that here we obtain?

Some people from creating should refrain
we beg them and we beg them but in vain

Oh God let us know if we are insane
or just different enough to love the pain

My eyes are red, my brain a mess
And let’s not speak of my hair or dress
Another night spent engrossed in this site
And though I’ve tried with all my might
A prisoner I am to these pixels galore
Perhaps I will solve just one puzzle more

Amanda, you're caught in pbn mode!
Thanks for contributing to this ode. :-)

brilliant Teresa :-)

Blake may turneth in his grave,
But Shakespeare would applaud our stage.

"I like this place and willingly
Could waste my time in it," sayeth he.

I see how widespread this affliction -
It's a full-fledged pbn addiction!
Solving puzzles while the world sleeps
All you who puzz here are my peeps!

(Thanks Teresa for starting this particular insanity!) ;-)

:-D

All puzzle presented should always do tell,
what we could accomplish or else land in hell.
Our minds are amazing, when we find the key,
the pixels just go, where they're needed to be.
So trust in your feelings and try to let go,
and we who do solve them, will smile with that glow!

It was a sundae with drizzle
With my appetite about to fizzle
For I was stopping
For a fly in the topping
But wait, it;s just a misplaced pixel.

:-)

Holy Cow such talent I see,
One in particular reminds me of ME.
Call me simple, Call me plain.
I can't stop solving again and again!
Nice poems all.:)

Janis would be pleased.
Take another little piece
Of my heart, baby.

(haiku inspired by the image)

:-)

The Ode to a Pixel is very clever indeed,
Thank you, Teresa, for taking the lead.

Great poems everybody! Thanks for starting this, Teresa.

Upon Teresa's Request

Ode To Pixel -- A Poem:

Pixel.
- had no idea that
-- she said, so then I
--- laughed. Suddenly, it's
---- wore off so I applied more of
----- systematic failure of the respiratory
------ reply to my request as soon as possible
----- having too many warts under my armpit
---- great day? Perfect! Hey can I
--- minding my own business
-- helped her with the
- last day of work
Empty.

Hope you liked it.

:-)

I am amazed at all the talent on this site. Artistic, creative, mind-boggling, poetic, . . . and the list goes on.

A long time ago in memory deep
I would wash dishes, sort laundry, housekeep.
I worked for a living, my nice lifestyle to keep,
And when I went to bed, I counted the sheep.

Now my dishes are dirty and I never sweep,
My lawn's overgrown, my laundry knee-deep.
I'm at the computer and my house is a (bleep)
So I'm logging off now to count pixels in my sleep.

lollipop ...come here my dear
can bleep till we sleep

or... i can just pout
and just do without

now pixels come damn
i'm only a man

i'm sure I could be
that puzzle for thee.

Rofl, Tom. I have tears running down my face. Not a good look for me, as I suspect pouting isn't a good look for you.

A PBN tether has bound us together
Your wit I admire so we can conspire
To drink some caffeine as we stare at the screen
And stay up all night till we get it just right.

at my age, my dear
it would take all damn night
so caffeine won't work, only your grand delight

Now pixels can help when time can be strife
but rather you unwrap your lolipop life.
AMEN

Dreaming of pixels, nights without end,
What did we do before WebPBN?

Sorry, but my German is much better than my English. For the German speaking members of WEBPBN:

Was wäre die Welt,
die viel auf sich hält,
ohne die Macht des Spiels.

Sie wäre verloren,
nie neu geboren,
ohne den Kuss des Gefühls.

Die Lust und die Last,
es stets zu versuchen,
Mit Weile oder Hast,
das Feld der Felder zu buchen.

So entstehen die Bilder,
immer schneller, immer wilder
Der Trieb,
er blieb,
mal Lust,
mal Frust.

Solange bleibt die Kraft,
bis auch das letzte Puzzle geschafft.

and to you also Kai

My German is really poor, much worse than Kai's English, but I thought I'd attempt to translate Kai's poem, at least as far as getting the meaning if not the rhyme and grace of expression. I started with Google Translate's version which was, as usual, a mixture of the brilliant and ridiculous, and tried to filter out as much of the ridiculous as I could:
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What would be the world,
Which has so much on it,
Without the power of the game?

You'd be lost,
Never born again,
Without the kiss of feeling.

The joy and curse,
Is always to try
With haste or hurry
To tally the field of fields.

So the images evolve
Ever faster, ever wilder.
The drive
It remains
Sometimes joy,
Sometimes frustration.

The strength lasts long enough,
Til the last puzzle is completed.
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The "field of fields" bit could have been "array of squares" but the cool bit was that he used the same word twice, "Feld der Felder", so I stayed literal. Google Translate turned "immer schneller, immer wilder" into "faster and faster, wilder and wilder" instead of the more obvious "ever faster, ever wilder". I thought that was remarkably clever of it, but decided again to stick to the literal translation.

Very cool.
Jan, you rule!

Wow, Jan! Thanks a lot. I'm very proud!

Good on you both, conzick and jan!

I just read this and my head explodes
WebPBN my brain decodes

(I am so uncreative, but I had to add comment.) Cool thread.

You are definitely not uncreative.
Oh no, was that a double negative?

Thanks for contributing to the thread.
I hope you can soon reassemble your head.

OMG! This was so much fun. (Sorry. Not a poem)

I just discovered this recommendation.
I solved it with no hesitation.
And then I read some poetry;
I'm sure that you all will agree,
That pixels deserve appreciation.

Limericks are one of my favorite types of poetry. Although this one doesn't have the humor to be classified as such, I did want to use the same rhyme scheme.

:-)

Oh my goodness, this was such fun!
But my husband is calling, "come to bed, hun!"
One more puzzle do I dare even start?
One leads to more and then impossible to part!
So for now, I will go with a smile on my face.
And thank you all for your wit and your grace.
These comments are exactly what I needed to hear.
For I was feeling sad but am now in good cheer!

Brava!

The end is in sight,
the battle almost fought.
At this time of night,
I'll settle for a dot.

Good one, David. (✬‿✬)

We need a rating box for comments!

i wanted to write more, inspired by all of the wonderful contributions in this thread, but it really was getting late :P

Ohmygoodness!!!!!

How did I never see this before?
Amazing!

Wow! Just...WOW!

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