Help me write a Geocaching Poem!

[+Pepper]

Ok here goes. Tomorrow I am attending a friends 73rd birthday party and his wife has invited a few of his fellow caching partners to attend. The inventation asks that we bring a photo, poem or personal message for his Birthday Scrapbook. I wanted to do a photo with a poem except I am not a poet.

Here are some thoughts I have and cannot figure out how to put them together. Anybody that wants to help please do so.

This is what I have so far (thoughts)

We've gone by boat, car and by foot to find those little boxes int he woods.

We've walked a lot of miles and shared alot of smile.

We've found these caches micro small we have also taken a few falls.

We've suffered in the rocks with stickers in our socks.

We've shared the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.

We bring these stories home to share with our mates, hoping tomorrow will be another cache date.

 

Please help me put this together if your interested. He is a wonderful man and a dear friend I have made through geocahcing.

Pepper

 

Horizontals where it's at!

[+Planet]

I'm super duper!

 

Here's your poem:

 

 

Dear Friend,

We're gathered here for your birthday.

And I have one or two words to say.

Lo, we have walked for many a mile,

Shared many a laugh and many a smile

Taken a tumble, taken a fall,

As we searched out caches, large and small,

We've taken boat, car and foot to find the goods,

Hidden in boxes, deep in the woods.

We've suffered through sickers and rocks in our socks.

All for the sake of finding that Box!

We've shared the thrill of victory, agony of the feet,

Told caching stories to all that we meet.

We share these stories with all of our mates.

And look forward to many more caching dates!

Happy Birthday Dear Friend.

 

By Planet (aka Pollyanna)

 

Cache you later,

Planet

 

"It doesn't matter whether you're going somewhere or nowhere, whether you're doing something or nothing. If you're doing it in a boat it's the best time ever!" -Water Rat from "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame (a book I picked up in a cache)

[+Pepper]

You are Super Duper! I cannot thank you enough. Now I can print out my latest pic of Hotfoot and myself from out last Bay Area Picnic with the poem printed at the bottem of it.

THANK YOU

THANK YOU

THANK YOU

You did an excellent job on the poem I feel sure my idea will now be presentable.

 

Pepper

 

Horizontals where it's at!

[+Planet]

I just have this talent for coming up wtih these things in a hurry, jsut ask my friends. Of course the entire poem is yours, I just rearranged the words a little. Have a great time at the party.

 

Cache you later,

Planet

 

"It doesn't matter whether you're going somewhere or nowhere, whether you're doing something or nothing. If you're doing it in a boat it's the best time ever!" -Water Rat from "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame (a book I picked up in a cache)

[+Marky]

Very nicely done, you have quite a talent.

 

--Marky

"Everyone spends time in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr"

[+Ttepee]

Planet...very good.. and you made it look so easy

[+opey one]

WAY TO GO PLANET!!! Instead of super duper, I believe Barney...You're Super-De-Duper!!

[tatoeba]

Yes Planet you are the Eminem of poetry

 

Legendeo is still in Beta!

[targetdrone]

If the girlfriend knew I went

to hunt another cache,

she'd grab my Etrex

and toss it in the trash.

 

She'd hide the keys

for the truck and car,

for caching on foot

I couldn't hunt far.

 

But I'd already left

and took the dog, Rover.

There's caches to find,

our relationship's over.

 

Now I'm hiking up hills

and crossing over streams,

once I find every cache

I'll have pleasant dreams.

 

targetdrone

 

Hey, what do you expect at 2 am?

 

"A good compromise leaves everybody mad." - Calvin

[+Geo Boltz]

Roses are red,

My batteries are dead,

What did it say,

was it this or that way?

[+Firefishe]

Caching, Caching, find that box!

Zoom past brambles, outrun that fox!

 

Caching, Caching, zoom zoom zoom!

Fast like Harry Potter's broom!

 

You're a Cacher, quick and nimble!

Endowed with $5,000 dollar Trimble!

 

You can find a cache in record time!

Better still, you can cache and rhyme!

 

So now we're done, all caches found!

Upload new waypoints for another round!

 

--Firefishe

 

[+briansnat]

Sung to the tune of Starway to Heaven

 

Geo-Caching is so much fun

you don't even have to bring a gun

 

You find some things inside a box

but hopefully not bagels and lox

Becuse the bagels would be stale and the lox

will stink

Smellier than a dirty kitchen sink

 

Hmmmm, I seem to have writers block...I'll have to finish this one later...

 

"You can't make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs, but by standing a flock of sheep in that position, you can make a crowd of men" -Max Beerbohm

[+Jamie Z]

Great poems, all! I'm not creative like that, but I enjoyed reading them.

 

quote:

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Originally posted by tatoeba:

Yes Planet you are the Eminem of poetry

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Heh, this comment reminds me of an article I read a few days ago that included a quote from a hip-hop DJ who was trying to downplay the influence of Eminem. He said, "He's just the Elvis Presley of hip-hop, and that's it."

 

Uh. Dude. I think you picked a bad comparison.

 

Jamie

[+TeamJiffy]

But I wrote this take-off on Amazing Grace one time during a long boring meeting at work...

 

-Joel

 

Ge-o-ca-ching...

how sweet the link...

that led me to find you.

A cache was placed...

and now is found...

by its lat-and-lon-gi-tude.

 

T'was caches that caused...

my heart to beat...

at more than sluggard's pace.

How precious did that McToy appear...

when I found its hiding place

 

Through many bushes, trails and snares...

to log books I have come.

T'was a G-P-S-er that took me there...

and it will lead me home.

 

Jeremy built the site for us...

he moderates our posts.

He will my cache count and find log store...

on Groundspeak's Linux hosts.

 

In case my double-A cells do fail...

and my G-P-S-er cease.

I do posess spare batteries...

to get home in one piece.

 

When we've each logged a thousand finds...

bright smileys on each one.

We'll have more caches to find in those days...

then when we've first begun!

[+Geo-Johnson's]

Since the rest of you are sharing, I might as well share too...........We put these on magnets then put our Geo-Johnson's name on it as our signature items.....

 

Hold all my calls,

I'm calling in sick

I'm grabbing my GPS

and my walking stick

I've got to keep up

with what folks are stashing

forget work today!

I'M GEOCACHING!!

 

and here's my second one............

 

It's raining and windy

and bitterly cold

it's dark and I'm hungry

by bladder won't hold

mosquitos are irritating

my ivy rash

but these things won't stop me

cause I GEOCACHE!

 

This is fun.........what else has everyone come up with?

[Broncoholics]

My wife Candie writes a poem with every cache we hide. We think it adds a little more excitement.

 

She also wrote this poem a while back in a geotrasher post.

 

To all of you geotrashers out there,

here is a message for you.

We're sick and tired of your "existence",

and the awful things you do.

We will find out who you are

see, our members stick together.

You'll never know when we'll pop up,

in any type of weather.

So, please leave our caches alone;

don't be an S.O.B.!

No one knows who you are

or what your point might be.

It might be that you like the box,

or you just might like the stuff;

But remember, one thing is for sure,

carma can sure be tough!

 

 

Our feet go where the caches are!

[+The Leprechauns]

There once was a cacher named Mopar

Who dreamed that Mitsuko would go far.

Oh boy, was he hosed

when the troll was exposed

But it's still the best sex he's had, so far.

 

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Please attend our seminar, "Geocaching for Time Travelers," which will be held two weeks ago.

[+Planet]

quote:

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Originally posted by tatoeba:

Yes Planet you are the Eminem of poetry

 

http://www.Legendeo.org is still in Beta!

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I know you meant that as a compliment, but I did not encourage violence, or make any disparaging comments about women, or anything like that so could you pick some else to compare me to, please? And thank you! Or make me the M&M or something. Or Planet is to poetry like Ben & Jerry's is to ice cream. You see, I have this Pollyanna thing going right now and I'd like to keep it that way.

 

Cache you later,

Planet

 

"It doesn't matter whether you're going somewhere or nowhere, whether you're doing something or nothing. If you're doing it in a boat it's the best time ever!" -Water Rat from "The Wind in the Willows" by Kenneth Grahame (a book I picked up in a cache)

[+SD Rowdies]

The poem has already been written. Try Robert Frost's "Tuft of Flowers."

 

By the way "Tuft of Floers" is not about mowing hay and finding flowers beside a stream.

 

More its about useful and interesting things left for us by others from the past. As in Geocaching we work (search) " ... together but apart" in time.