Celebrating Dreamwidth One Syllable At a Time

congratulations
Dreamwidth--you're an alpha now
you've graduated

oh! the places you'll go with
your code in your programs and

your users online
you can steer yourself any
direction you choose

and we'll be here in the Slumps
and the prickly perches

we'll be here when the
Waiting Places hit and you
hear the Tax-Men howl

Site, today's the day! It's time
you rose and danced on your way

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such energy here!
people connecting left-right
asking, answering

making Dreamwidth a center
for words wonderful and life

three weeks just enough
for relaunching this grand dream
of community

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come one and come all
wordsmiths and dreamers, yes you
let's celebrate us

let's write of the culture here
why we came, what we hope for

what Dreamwidth means now
in stanzas five seven five
and seven seven

each day a new seed: comment
with a follow-up stanza

and you'll be entered
into a lottery for
two months of paid time

just once is enough, but best
beware: you might just get hooked!

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Banner credit goes to the talented viridian_magpie, with brush credit to darciana and original 'three weeks for dreamwidth' typography to angelikitten.

in haikai haiku
alternates with stanzas of
seven and seven

I find that these longer lines
offer opportunity

to luxuriate
in loquaciousness and fall
in love with wordplay

but enough of poetry
proselytizing; I'm glad

that you shaped words here
that you are finding a place
that you let me know

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Here there be Dreamwidth:
a small island in a sea
of words and passions

a place on a map of the
world wide web of planet Earth

itself in a sea
of stars, a tiny island
singing home home home

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those weekly updates
like letters from fictitious
Aunt Edna, the one

who circumnavigated
the world for a cup of tea

you never know when
she might drop by, but always
she brings some tidbits

something personal, something
marvelous, some business too

she's the CEO
of our dream ark, directing
the volunteer crews

singing praise song for coders
and latest in home design

showing us the maps
of what's to come, the places
being created

the embassies to
nations big and small, and the
history-writers

who chart our course in hindsight
who make us real in telling

she reminds us once
a week that community
is a joint effort

that people are there to help
that there's twitter when stuff breaks

that our suggestions
are wanted, and that we can
always unsubscribe

such letters are a pleasure
in an age of hidden news


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a cut is a link
to hidden text: a layer
beneath casual

a choice: step in or skim by.
why this bold arrow pointing?

like a child we click
like magic the text appears
click again: it's gone!

words like ladders tumbling down
click again and they fall up

click again: step in
take off your shoes, settle in;
open yourself: expand


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each invitation
has a person attached
unique: just for you

this string of numbers, letters
a secret code saying yes


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