Monday, March 17, 2008

"ABC" LEXIGRAM CHALLENGE GAME!

Monday, March 17, 2008

"ABC" LEXIGRAM CHALLENGE GAME!

Create a Lexigram of any length, on any topic, from only the letters of the complete alphabet!
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

The latest challenge I put out was for folks to create a Lexigram on any topic they wish, by using only the singular letters of the COMPLETE ALPHABET!
Heh heh; not as easy as it sounds!
For example; if you wanted to actually write about the alphabet you would find yourself quite hobbled!
You cannot get for example these words:
LETTER LETTERS ALPHABET CONSONANTS PRINTING WRITING and many more relevant terms;
from ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
ENJOY!


My invite to play the Lexigram ABC game!

My Lexigram based on the 26 singular letters of the English Alphabet.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

MY SHORT LEXIGRAM ASKING
YOU LINDA LANDER FOLKS TO PLAY THIS GAME!
COME PLAY WITH ME YOU FOLKS
COME PLAY ALONG WITH US!
IT CAN BE A WHOLE LOT OF FUN!
IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE BLAND OR DRY
AND LOGIC BASED.
IT CAN BE SO VERY AMUSING!
IT CAN BE VERY CALMING.
PLAYING IT CAN OPEN YOUR MIND
TO NEW WAYS AND NOVEL IDEAS!
AS IT WAS FOR UNMOVED,
AND THE LADY WITH SKY AND HAWK
FOUND IN HER USER NAME,
AND THE LADY WITH GOAT AND GIRL
IN HER USER NAME, AND OTHERS!
JOIN ME NOW ON A NEW WILD QUEST INTO
A DISCOVERY OF JUST WHAT CAN BE FOUND
TO HIDE QUIETLY
IN THE OVER TWO DOZEN ICONS
OF THE ENGLISH SYMBOL ICONS
WE USE TO WRITE WITH!
OH WHAT MAGIC,
WHAT GREAT CODES HIDE BURIED
LYING IN WAIT FOR US TO FIND
IN THE SYMBOL ICONS WE USE
EACH DAY IN AND OUT
AND FROM TIME TO TIME
TO WRITE OUT OUR WORDS WITH!
AND OUR NIGHTLY DREAMS
AND NIGHTMARES ALSO!
WHAT CRAZY TALES? WHAT FAIRY TALES?
WHAT LOVE SONG? WHAT SAD POEMS?
WHAT WISDOM ARE ABLE TO COME FORTH IN TIME
AS MORE FOLKS BEGIN TO PLAY?
COME IN EACH ONE OF YOU WE
KNOW AT LINDA LAND
AND AS YOU PLAY
YOU MAY FIND SO MANY NEW WAYS
TO THINK OUTSIDE YOUR BOXES!
HAVE A NICE TIME AND
AND I HOPE FOR A NICE DAY
TO EACH OF YOU I KNOW
AS BEING A LINDA LAND PERSON!

POST SCRIPT:
OH DEAR! I JUST NOTICED!
IT IS NOT SO SHORT A LEXIGRAM AFTER I GOT DONE CREATING IT ABOVE!
I THINK I SIMPLY JUST FOUND MYSELF
GONE A BIT FRISKY AND ON A SPIRAL ABOUT DOING ONE.
OH DEAR! STOP ME!
THIS IS HARD TO STOP DOING LEXIGRAMS THIS WAY!
I AM DOING ANOTHER ONE NOW AS I WRITE!
HA HA! OKAY! I AM LEAVING NOW!
LATER! EACH OF YOU DEAR ONES
I KNOW AS A BEING OTHER LINDA LANDERS WHO LOVE TO DO LEXIGRAM CREATIONS!

POST SCRIPT:
I will BE DOING error checks!
IF THE IDEA OF HAVING YOUR LEXIGRAM SUBJECT TO ANY MISTAKE BEING FOUND AND SHOWN IS A THING YOU HATE...
THEN SIMPLY DO NOT PLAY THE GAME!

Some great ones done by others who took the challenge are:
The Phoenix Code of the Watchers

The Phoenix Code of the Watchers (based on the Alphabet)

August 20, 2007 on 12:16 pm | In Lexigrams | No Comments

This Lexigram of the alphabet (ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ) was written by a self-proclaimed novice discovered on a lexigramming forum in August 2007. The imagery was astounding and its theme provacative, showing one possibility for how humanity learned writing, science, and philosophy. Amazingly, English is not the author’s native language! Yet, the original piece lacked a prosaic structure, proper punctuation, and thematic cohesion. It was edited, removing about 13% of the original and restructuring each paragraph. Now, this Masterwork Lexigram is being posted here, with blessings and appreciation to a wonderful rising star in the field of lexigramming!

Capitalized words appear in the source phrase.



THE PHOENIX CODE OF THE WATCHERS
by Veronnica, edited by Steve Miller, Intrinsic Development

ONCE UPON A TIME, IN THE OLDEN DAYS LOST IN TIME, EARTHLINGS LIVED LIKE CHILDREN, LOST AND NOT SURE OF THEIR WAYS, NOR ABLE TO WIELD THEIR OWN POWERS.

FROM A CRUSHED HOME CAME AN ALIEN RACE OF MENTAL WIZARDS TO TEACH HUMANITY GIFTS OF WISDOM FROM THEIR LONG-GONE GOLDEN AGE. THEY HAD THE GREAT MAGIC OF ANU, A WISDOM-CRAFT ECHOING THE POWER OF THEIR “LORD OF WAVES.”

HUMANS NAMED THE BEINGS “ELOHIM,” “ANGELS,” “MEN OF LIGHT,” OR, MORE SIMPLY, “GODS.”

THE CLAN IS SAID TO HAVE MATED WITH HUMANS, SOME SAY DUE TO LUST, OTHERS THINK IT FOR THE CREATION OF A NEW RACE TO IMPROVE A DIRE WORLD AND TO MAKE A NOVEL EARTH AND, THEY HOPED, TO GUARD THEIR OWN LORE IN THIS NEW LAND.

SOME SAY THE HUMANS AND THE ELOHIM, THE “LIGHT ONES,” MATED AND SPAWNED GIANTS OR OGRES, WHO TODAY’S FANS OF CHRIST NAME “EVIL.” COULD THEIR GIANT-SIZE BE A METAPHOR OF THEIR GREAT POWER? ONLY OUR HEARTS CAN SAY.

THIS TRIBE SPREAD OUT UPON THE EARTH WITH THE AID OF THEIR OWN SPECIAL GEOMANCY, AND MADE THEIR HOME IN THE NORTH, IN THE EAST, IN THE SOUTH, AND IN THE WEST. THUS IN PLACES OF POWER, THEY BEGAN TO TRAIN THEIR CHILDREN TO TEACH THE SACRED LORE TO THEIR HOST HUMANS.

AND THUS BEGAN THE NAMES OF GODS LIKE ENKI OF THE ABZU, ISHTAR, EA, GREAT ANU, RA, HORUS AND OTHERS SUCH AS THE “BUILDER GODS,” WHO BUILT IN A SACRED PLACE ROSTAU (NOW NAMED GIZA). (ARE THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA BUILT, AS A REPLICA, DIRECTLY BELOW THE BELT OF A CERTAIN STAR CLUSTER?)

COULD THIS BE THE TRIBE OF DANU WHO, AT ONE PERIOD, CLAIMED A “DAN-EL” AS ITS ORACLE? YES, THIS MAY BE THE SAME DANIEL OF THE TOME OF CHRIST. IF, IN FACT THIS IS SO, WOULD IT MEAN THE OLD TOMES OF GOD OMITS THE FACT “DANIEL WAS A GIANT OR AN OGRE, IN A DEN OF HUMANS, NOT OF LIONS”?

THEIR TEACHINGS PUT A STOP TO NOMADS, TO TEACH US, INSTEAD, OF THE AKHU, THE RECITAL OF MAGIC FORMULAE. THUS THEIR THE TEACHINGS MAY HAVE BEGUN EACH WORD AND EACH NUMBER, SHOWING HUMANS HOW TO WRITE CODES UPON A STONE, TEACHING US TO READ WORDS OF THE SKY, TO SPEAK THINGS OF THE HEART, AND TO WRITE OUR LIFE UPON THE EARTH WITH THE PYRAMIDS, THE MOUNDS, AND MANY TOWERS OF STONE.

THEIR TEACHINGS INFUSED RITUALS FROM CYPHER-DANCES TO SIMPLY SAYING “AMEN,” TO MAKING MACHINES, AND TO STEWARD, WITH LOVE, THE EARTH.

THEY SHOWED US HOW TO USE THE EARTH BY WAKING THE “LEY” (OR “DRAGON LINES,” AS NAMED IN THE ORIENT) TO ROUSE POWER. THIS MAY BE HOW WE CAUSED JERICHO TO DROP.

THE “LIGHT ONES” ONCE MADE THEIR HOMES ON POINTS OF GREAT POWER UPON THE EARTH; IRELAND, PERU, EGYPT AND OTHER SACRED REGIONS.

THEY STAYED A QUIET SHADOW BEHIND EACH PRIEST-KING - MAGI ARE THE POWER BEHIND THE POWERS, WHO GUIDE THE LAW MAKERS WHEN THEY ASK FOR HELP.

TODAY LIVE ONLY THEIR CHILDREN, THE FIRST-BORN. THE ANCESTOR “LIGHT ONES” ARE GONE. THE ELOHIM LEFT US FOR OTHER PLACES, BE THEY PLANETS OR REALMS, TO FIND OTHERS WHO LACK THEIR LORE. THEY DO COME BY EACH THOUSAND YEARS OR SO, TO REMIND US WHO WE ARE, TO DISCOVER HOW WE GROW.

FEW ARE THE MARKINGS OF THEIR LORE. THIS WAS TO WARD IT FROM EVIL ONES, WHO COULD ABUSE THE GIFT. ALSO, IT WAS NOT MEANT TO BE IMPOSED UPON US ? IT WAS ONLY TO BE IN VIEW WHEN WE ARE READY, FOR THE THRONGS DESTROY GRAILS OF THE CHOSEN-ONES, IN FEAR OF THEIR MIRACLES, LIKE CHRIST AND VISHNU KRISHNA HAD DONE. NOW, WE VIEW ONLY TEMPLAR, ALCHEMIST, DRUSE, GNOSTIC, MASON, OPUS DEI - THEY ARE NOW JUST SILVER, TARNISHED, LOST OF LUSTRE; A SHADOW OF THE REAL ELOHIM.

THEY ARE GONE, BUT THEY ARE NOT FAR. THEY LIVE IN OUR BODY, NEAR OUR MIND, AND ON OUR SOUL. YET, THEY SPEAK TO US IN SNAKED LINES OF THE SPINE, IN TRANCE AND IN DREAMS. WE VIEW THEIR MARK IN SOME THINGS NAMED EVIL. WE HAVE THEIR GLYPHS AS A SYMBOL IN OUR MONEY, IN AN EGYPTIAN PYRAMID, OR IN ROD-LIKE SHAPED STONE; A MEDICAL SYMBOL OF SNAKE ON A SWORD, OR A PYRAMID WITH SIGHT OR A WINGED DISC, A GRIM DEATH WITH ITS SCYTHIAN BLADE, OR THIS (MORE MODERN) THING NAMED “THE DEVIL.”

THE SYMBOL MEANS MUCH TO THE SOUL WHO HEARS THE MELODY, BUT IT IS NAUGHT TO THOSE NOT YET READY TO BE SPOKEN TO, FOR ONCE OPEN TO THIS CODE, YOUR HEART IMPLODES WITH LOVE AS IT WAS A GIFT, SO PRECIOUS, TO REMIND YOU HOW OF GODLY YOU ARE.

ASK YOURSELF, WHY DO YOU BOW YOUR HEAD AND MAKE YOUR PALMS TOUCH FOR PRAYING? WHY DO YOU SAY “AMEN”, “OM” OR “AUM” WHEN YOU ARE NOT SURE? COULD THIS BE A CLUE TO HOW THE OTHER RACE SHOWED US WAYS TO LINK WITH LOVE?

THE ONE-GOD’S CHILDREN LEFT CLUES TO REMIND US OF WHAT IS TRUE IN MUSIC, IN PLANETS, IN DREAMS, AND IN WORDS; IN GENIUS MINDS, IN SIMPLE IMAGES, IN A CHILDREN’S STORY AND ON MASONIC ROCK.

RIGHT NOW, IN SOME PLACE UPON THE EARTH, A MAN OR WOMAN, OF THE TYPE WE NAME A MASTER OR A YOGI, IS BEING TRAINED BY WORD-OF-MOUTH FOR HIS OR HER OWN SAFETY, THIS PRECIOUS CHOSEN ONE TO HELP HANDLE THE LOAD.

WHY DO YOU THINK IT IS WORTH OUR TIME IN TODAY’S WORLD? THE ANSWER IS: TO QUESTION WHAT WE ARE TOLD, TO LEARN, TO GROW.

THEIR KIN ARE HELPING US, BELOW, HELPING US WITH THIS CODE, ABOVE, AND THEY WAIT TO RISE ONCE MORE?

THUS, THE PHOENIX CODE.

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PATH OF THE SOUL
by Amanda (reposted by permission)

TONAL MUSIC IN A ROUND
MURALS OF ORBIT
PLANE ALIGNED TO PLANE
ONE RHYME
ONCE UPON A TIME, IN A LAND LONG AGO
TIME MEANT A GREAT DEAL AND NO DEAL
IT HAD NOT CRUMBLED INTO CHAOS
DREAMS MANIFEST MIND
THOSE GODS MADE MUSIC WIELD POWER
A TONAL SWORD IS LIKE A VORPAL SWORD ALICE?
A WONDER TO BEHOLD IN SIGHT
DRAGONS THEY ARE NAMED
PLACES TO STAND UP AND SING
CRYSTAL WINGS TO FLY
THOSE CHANGED INTO MYTHOS
A TALE OF THE ORACLES
WILT THOU LIVE?
THY DIE IS CAST
THEY CHARMED THE WIND, THE FIRE, THE WATER, THE EARTH
A BODY GIVEN TO THE MIND AND HEART AND SOUL
TAKE HEART FROM THE EARTH AND THE SKY
THE FIELD AND PLANTS
UPLIFT YOUR SOUL TO THE REALM OF NO TIMES
THE CHILDREN SHOW YOU THE WAY TO BECOMING A WHOLE BEING
THE TOWER POINTS REACH UP INTO THE STAR FIELDS OF WATER IN THE SKY
AS ABOVE SO BELOW
LET THE OCEAN BE YOUR GUIDE ON THE EARTH
THE OCEAN IS A TWIN OF THE EARTH
THE EARTH IS A TWIN OF THE SKY
THE SKY HAS NO END

AN OLD TRIAD OF EARTH, SEA, AND SKY
THE MELDING OF WAND, CUP, SWORD AND MAGIC STAR
THE OLD WISE ONES SOUGHT TO HONE THEIR PACT WITH THE EARTH, SEA, AND SKY TRIAD
BLIND POWER CAN HARM THE SOUL
RIGHT USE CAN TEACH THE SOUL
SAGE MINDS OF YORE, TOLD TALES OF UNITY
AMONGST MAN, AND THE EARTH, SEA, SKY, PLANT AND BEAST
FLIGHTS OF JOY GAVE RISE TO WISDOM
THE FRUITS BORN OF UNITY ARE UNTOLD AS THE GEMS IN THE SKY
HARMONY REIGNS
AGES HAVE GONE PAST BY MEN
UNITY TURNS TO CHEAP POWER TRIPS OF UGLY COVETING TO REIGN OVER ONE ANOTHER
A FEW DENY THE HATE AND INSTEAD HUG THE LOVING UNITY OF LIFE AND THE BLEST TRIAD
THEY SING ANYHOW IN CASE SOME MAY HEAR THE UNITY ANEW
OLD TONES MUTED
BIRTHED INTO NEW TUNES TO SHINE
WISDOM LOVE AND UNITY
FOR MAN AND THE EARTH, SEA, SKY, PLANT, AND BEAST ONCE MORE
THE TALE ENDS
OR DOES IT?
A HINT IS ~ IT GOES ON FOR AGES YET TO BE BORN
OM


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Edited by Fayte
SkyHawk created the following.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

READ=DEAR
WORDS, NUMBERS AND READING ARE SO DEAR TO ME.

NOTE=TONE
MUSICAL NOTES CAN RING TONES OF SUCH BEAUTY,
THEY CAN MOVE ME TO TEARS.

WHY ARE WORDS AND NUMBERS AND NOTES ALIKE?
THEY EACH VIBRATE AT THEIR OWN RATE.
EACH CAN STAND ALONE.
BUT WHEN THEY JOIN TO WORK AND PLAY,
MIRACLES COME ABOUT.

LET US SAY EACH PERSON IS A NUMBER.
EACH CAN STAND ALONE.
EACH IS OF EQUAL IMPORTANCE.
IF ONE NUMBER GETS LOST,
MATH AS A WHOLE IS LOST.
IF ONE SOUL GETS LOST,
HUMANITY AS A WHOLE IS LOST.

THE SAME CAN BE SAID OF MUSICAL NOTES.
IF ONE NOTE OF THE SCALE IN ANY OCTAVE GOT LOST,
HOW MANY A MELODY COULD LIVE ON?

EACH WORD IS ALSO VITAL.
AS I WRITE THIS LEXIGRAM,
I LEARN HOW TOUGH IT IS TO PUT IDEAS INTO WORDS
WHEN I AM UNABLE TO USE EACH WORD
AS IT COMES TO MIND.
THE FLOW OF IDEAS GETS JERKY.
CHI GETS BLOCKED.

THIS BRINGS SOMETHING TO MIND.
THINK OF THE BRAIN TRYING TO SEND A SIGNAL
TO ANOTHER BODY PART.
BUT A BUNDLE OF NEURAL FIBERS IS PINCHED.
THE SIGNAL IS UNABLE TO GO FORTH.
IT MUST FIND A NEW PATH.
THIS CAN BE PAINFUL AND TAKE MUCH TIME
IF ANOTHER PATH IS NOT EASILY LOCATED.

AS EACH NUMBER (OR NOTE OR WORD)
MAKES A STAND ALONE,
WHAT CAN IT DO?
NOT MUCH.

STAND UP.
BE PROUD.
VIBRATE.
HUM A TUNE.
YAWN.

YET WHEN TWO OR MORE NUMBERS JOIN FORCES,
THEY CAN DANCE AND SING!
THEY CAN BEAT A DRUM!
THEY CAN FIND A SUM.
THEY CAN TAKE FROM.
THEY CAN GO INTO.
THEY CAN BE PRODUCTIVE AND EXPAND.
THEY CAN COUNT, CIPHER, COMPUTE.
THEY CAN GIVE US A STORY ABOUT WHO WE ARE
IF WE STUDY OUR DATE OF BIRTH.
I CAN VIEW NO END TO WHAT THEY CAN DO!

IS IT NOT THE SAME FOR HUMANS?
WHAT WE CAN DO ALONE DOES NOT HOLD A CANDLE TO
WHAT WE CAN DO WHEN WE HOLD HANDS
AND JOIN FORCES.
MIRACLES ABOUND.
HEARTS ARE LIGHT AND BEAT STRONG.
EACH SMILE JOINS IN TO SHINE BRIGHTLY
AND CAUSE SHADOW TO VANISH.

EACH LOST
NUMBER
NOTE/TONE
WORD
SOUL
MUST BE FOUND!

RELAX. FORGIVE.
LOVE IT/HIM/HER HOME.
OPEN YOUR ARMS/HEART/MIND.
BRING THE PRODIGAL BACK.
HAVE A FESTIVAL!
PARTY DOWN!

THUS CAN WE
ONCE MORE BE

ONE.


THANK YOU, SOURCE.

AND MAY I JUST SAY: THANK YOU ROGET!

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I have several MORE GAMES AND CHALLENGES in mind! ;\) One thing I found interesting is WORD is there, but Not DRUID or DRUIDS.
WE, US, OUR, OURS, MY, MINE, THEY, THEM, are there also. So is SPIRAL,
SPIN, MUSE, and The phrase.....

YOU MUST TRY TO GET ALOT OF THE WORDS TO DO YOUR LEXIGRAMS!
ONCE YOU HAVE ACQUIRED ALOT OF YOUR WORDS, AS IN, AT THE VERY LEAST,
MOST OF THEM, THEN THE MAGIC SPIRAL AND SPIN CAN BEGIN!

LINDA is there, but Not GOODMAN. MARY ALICE is there, but Not KEMERY.
STAR is there, but Not SIGNS.
SUN but Not SIGNS.
LOVE but Not SIGNS.
No GOOBERZ or OOBER or GALAXY either.
ZODIAC is there, but Not ASTROLOGY.

And this is there!
SO FOLKS....ARE YOU READY TO MAKE YOUR LEXIGRAMS NOW? GET CRAZY! GO WILD!
HAVE FUN!
quote:
I won't post mine because you already have it, and it has been revised and corrected, so I'll leave it for the rest, right?
Please Have fun! Do it as often as you wish!!!!!
quote:
I wonder what they come up with. It should be interesting.
Indeed! I hope folks do this! I was playing with it seeing what I could get from either "Fibonacci spiral",
"Fibonacci sequence" etcetera; or "The Golden Mean".
quote:
BTW: This challenge was very interesting for me because it took me somewhere I did not think I would go.
Ah yes....Lexigrams can definitely do that!
quote:
Naturally you would think that the words that come up would be about communication, media, writing, publishing, talking, books, letters, etc, but NOPE...
They have double letters so some cannot. However....MEDIA, TALKING, & WRITE can be found there!


quote:
OMG! I am terrofied! I don't know where to start LOL
breath in...breath out....breath in...breath out...

Just remember...only singular letters in words, no duplicates!
Have fun!
One thing I found interesting is WORD is there, but Not DRUID or DRUIDS.Isn't that odd?
WE, US, OUR, OURS, MY, MINE, THEY, THEM, are there also. So is SPIRAL, SPIN, MUSE, and The phrase.....YOU MUST TRY TO GET ALOT OF THE WORDS TO DO YOUR LEXIGRAMS! ONCE YOU HAVE ACQUIRED ALOT OF YOUR WORDS, AS IN, AT THE VERY LEAST, MOST OF THEM, THEN THE MAGIC SPIRAL AND SPIN CAN BEGIN!

LINDA is there,
but Not GOODMAN.
MARY ALICE is there,
but Not KEMERY.
STAR is there,
but Not SIGNS.
SUN
but Not SIGNS.
LOVE
but Not SIGNS.
No GOOBERZ or OOBER or GALAXY either.
ZODIAC is there,
but Not ASTROLOGY.

And this is there!
SO FOLKS....ARE YOU READY TO MAKE YOUR LEXIGRAMS NOW? GET CRAZY! GO WILD!
HAVE FUN!

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