I dithered for a while before launching this blog about whether to start each post with some context or a note about what led me to write the poem. Eventually, I decided the poems should stand on their own. But after a couple of months, I published one that I really wanted to explain. For a while I managed to put up a new liner note for every poem on Geektastic Pentameter.
But then I didn’t. I started to fall into a pattern of writing poems that seemed only to have very obvious liner notes, like “Everything’s fine now” or “I’ve been playing a lot of Minecraft.” Those aren’t particularly interesting notes to read or to write. There’s some level of self-critcism going on, too, because part of me thinks a poem that has only an obvious liner note isn’t a very good poem.
So I’m not really trying to write a liner note for every poem anymore. Apart from a couple of attempts to go back and get caught up on them, I haven’t written one in a while. I’ll write one if I feel like doing it, but if I don’t, that’s OK, too.
The ones that exist are in chronological order. I haven’t found another way to order them that doesn’t require effort.
This page has the following sub pages.
- The Experiment – In More Ways than One
- On the Song on the Astronauts on the Ship on the Swell – A Love Song to Sea Monkeys & John Roderick
- Soon, the Future – With Love to Jonathan Coulton
- The Airplane – Me and My Phobia
- New Vegas – A Great Game But For the Crashing
- Love Song to Joshua Bell – The Geek Violinist
- Love Song to Donna Noble – The Best (New) Companion (So Far)
- Love Song to Gravity On the Falling of Leaves – Unexpected Beauty
- Double-blind – In Which the Secret Is Not a Crush
- Long Past Gone – Hiding in the Vines
- Sonnet for Madmartigan – Kind of Like a Dare
- Not Exactly Loneliness – It’s About My Feelings, but Please Read it Anyway
- Lemmings – Escapism in Purple
- Kentucky Saddler – Non-thoroughbred of Win
- Haiku: Museum of Science and Industry – Phone for You, Ma’am
- Superhero (Drum Corps, 1992) – I Was Badass Once
- Limerick for GLaDOS – Magic Borne from Twitter
- Delight, Delirium, Delight – Not Exactly About Reading ‘Sandman’
- Sarah Jane – Sadly, Just What It Sounds Like
- Desiderate. Desiderate. – The Saddest Punch Line
- An Ear of Corn to Make You Better – Context in Four Parts
- I Love You, You Monster – GLaDOS, Again
- Carry-out Line, May 2011 — The Egret Stalks, The Window Closes
- A Short Cut to Mushrooms – I So Meant to Be Happy
- Kermit Hands – YAAAAAAAY!
- The Road to Lake Arrowhead — Unfair Comparisons
- Lyranne, Two Years Later — I Accidentally a Blind Rage
- Moose and Squirrel — Rewards and Bribes
- The Trainer and the Bride — Be Careful What You Wish For
- State – Push Facebook to Open Old Wounds
- Bootstrapping – The First Joyful Poem
- Come-alongs — I Stole This from Myself
- Already There – Another Line
- Dawn on the Disc – The Other Books and the Other Shoe
- Obsolescence – Other Than Intended
- Later – Famous Tracy’s OK Cupid Adventure
- Alprazolam – Taking the Leap
- Sackboy – Voiceover by Stephen Fry Would Be Appreciated
- Concrete – Who’s old?
- Fear Me Again – Feared Into the Whelps
- Jump (I) – Part One of … (and Jump (II))
- Rather Not – Pete and Repeat Sat on a Wall
- After the Havens – Revelations on First Avenue
- Embraces – A Little Too Close to Home
- Breathing – Deflecting
- 50k – Why I Do NaNoWriMo
- Fishing – Electric Nostalgia
- Colossus – On the Other Side
- Introvert – According to Type
- Schrödinger – Not About a Cat
- Love Letter to Arithmetic – Still On my Fingers
- Wind Like Edoras – Flattery of Autumn
- Fog – Wandering
- You See a Yellow Gingko in a Field – The Joy of Autumn
- Challenge – Rereading
- Dual Boot – The Things I Do for Friendship
- Kaliyo – Constant Confusion
- Star Tours – The Biggest Disappointment of the Year (So Far)
- Mansplanations to Susan – Or to Me
- Teldrassil – Phoning Old Territory
- Trebuchet – Under Siege
- Tilting – What’s Underneath
- A Poem Listing All the Things We Know – Which Isn’t Much
- Red – Choosing a Shade
- Longitude – In Which the World Feels About as Big as Douglas Adams Describes Space
- Treadmill – Breaking the Streak
- Kira at Bashi – Tell it Again
- Ladyhawke – Brief Greetings from Manila
- The Lost iMessages – And One Panic
- Side – On Video Game Time
- First Night – A View from the World of Minecraft
- Obsidian – Another Other View on the World of Minecraft
- Spire – An Actual View in the World of Minecraft
- Dividing the Alar – And My Mind
- Not a Gun – And Not ‘The Iron Giant’
- Today’s Lucky 10,000 – With Thanks to xkcd
- After the Assembly – And a Feeling I Don’t Remember
- The Same Ship Twice – ‘Different’ Doesn’t Mean ‘Bad’
- Resurrections – Please Just Let Dead Characters Be Dead
- Platform – A Metaphor for … Something
- Colossus (II) – Another Side of the Story
- And Rohan Will Answer – Or Someone Else
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