poem_without_nouns z can you? 040517 ... smurfus rex Laugh hysterically Dance fantastically Love unconditionally and Live uncharacteristically. does that count? 040517 ... * ? 040518 ... z i am not counting 040518 ... zeke was beautiful in passing beyond and destined for explosion in silent strength the watching was and lost quickly the winding was followed by waft and drift and shown to be hollow seen from black into greyness distant so light in running and stopped 040518 ... skinny become more reptilian refuse coldness and cling to warm dancing but i dont know about grammar :( 040529 ... skinny goddammit i used like 3 040529 ... z dancing is a verb used here as a noun because it is being modified by an adjective. you have raised an interesting question: does a verb modified by and adjective instead of an adverb become a noun? i think the poetic intent here implies that it does, but technically there is no noun used. nice. i like ambiguousness. 040529 ... .nom can i? 050202 ... () you can 050203 ... dreamer zeke, not to mean, but you used like seven nouns explosion, strength, watching, waft, drift, black, distant 050301 ... dreamer swiftly falling, but rising again broken and battered, and sorely amend blighted completely, but slowly ascend pathetically crawling, but no longer aground 050301 ... dreamer or for rhyming's sake, replace aground with pinned 050301 ... () (no nouns) 050301 ... () was beautiful in passing beyond and destined for explosion (action) in silent strength (condition) the watching was (activity) and lost quickly the winding was followed by waft and drift (activity) and shown to be hollow seen from black (condition) into greyness distant (condition) so light in running and stopped (no nouns) (it is true, however that i am misusing language. it is what poets do) 050301 ... pSyche in icy pallidness she rests- not living- she runs cannot fly without she falls crashing below she sits up from her sleeping i must wake up too i stop and imagine the without (hmm... maybe that's right. too tired to tell. pronouns don't count, do they?) 050301 what's it to you? who go blather from