Tanka challenge 11/17/09

The first impression
Is all dash and elegance
That delights the eye.
But can he write a poem
That reveals his true merit? ;-D

EDIT: Game on!

Ah, Gracious Beauty
Had not your attention caught
On dye or bearing
Would you wonder if poem
Could issue forth from one? - Takeda Sanjuichiro Akimasa

A waving banner
Is no man, yet it catches
The eye by design.
A man either has true worth
Or merely flaps in the breeze.

Isn't it ironic?

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/11/17/unfriend.word/index.html

"Unfriend" is announced as the Oxford New American Dictionary's word of the year on the same morning I wake up to find a comment in my journal and a "You've been friended!" message from someone who has not yet introduced herself, hint, hint, hint.

A polite rebuttal on the subject of female empowerment

To barone_antonio 's post of this evening.

You are too kind sir. Truly.

I have no problems owning up to the fact that I am a bitch. It took years of practice, of resisting my natural inclination to be pathologically shy and quiet, decades of developing a backbone of titanium alloy. I have reached an age where I need not suffer fools lightly. I say what I mean, I mean what I say, and I never, EVER apologize unless I mean that too. If that makes me a cast-iron pain in the ass, so be it. Anybody who does not like that and accept me for who I am can step out of my way, thank you.

Gaius called me a bitch once, during some argument I don't even remember. I recall retorting something to the effect of "What, the howling wasn't your first clue?" (Which is probably why the argument went out the window and I can't even remember what it was about.)

If you place me on a pedestal, I'm gonna jump right off it, I swear it. It's boringly distant up there, and drafty, and people just try to peer up one's skirt under the pretense of admiring one.

Ladies, on three.

One.

Two.

ARRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!