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NaPoWriMo says ‘…for our (optional) prompt. Anaphora is a literary term for the practice of repeating certain words or phrases at the beginning of multiple clauses or, in the case of a poem, multiple lines … I challenge you to write a poem that uses anaphora. Find a phrase, and stick with it …’
Then, just to complicate my life, vivinfrance had to throw down this gauntlet: ‘Can I issue a challenge – write a poem to whatever is tomorrow’s prompt, with NO rhyme and NO puns?’
I can’t write blank verse poems:
If there’s a country scene,
I can’t put the grass is verdant;
I can’t write blank verse poems:
Mountains that are really high
Do not stretch up to the heavens;
I can’t write blank verse poems:
Looking to the moon above
Does not bring on dreams of adoration;
I can’t write blank verse poems,
Or to claim that some sad rat
Has been devoured by a domestic feline;
I can’t write blank verse poems
Which would indicate a gale
Rages over hill and a lower-lying area;
I can’t write blank verse poems,
Thereby claiming that the corn
Ripples in the early daytime;
I can’t write blank verse poems
And include therein a boast
That one night I viewed an apparition;
I can’t write blank verse poems
In which one gets into debt,
Placing an ill-founded wager;
I can’t write blank verse poems
Wherein not a trace of rhyme
Will appear at any stage –
I also can’t write blank verse poems
In which there’s not even one
Really Awful kind of word with a double meaning –
I can’t write blank verse poems!
Bravo, Col, for a very clever response. Viv is just wicked doing that to you 🙂
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She was being a bit unkind, for absolutely no rhyme reason! heehee
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I started to get tongue-tied after several I can’t write blank verse poems . . . LOL!
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That proves I can’t write them!
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I’m no poet and I know it, so this poem was lost on me.
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*soothingly* Don’t worry, it was lost on poets, too!
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😀
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LOL! You and your punny and awful rhymes Col! Brilliant as usual. 😀
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PS: Ana is adorable! Such a beautiful shot of her there on the beach. 😀
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Bee-Rilliant! There are not enough stars for rating this one! 😀
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Oh yes you can – you just have! Thank you for responding to my challenge. It certainly made you search for synonyms, which can only enrich your poetry.
Don’t get me wrong – I love rhyme, but in moderation, with subtlety and not always at the end of a line! I’m always being told off for putting the occasional rhyme in my poems and then not keeping to a pattern. I like surprises.
Love,
ViV
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I think this is admirable, Col.
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A poem is a prose disjointed into shorter lines. It need not even rhyme! You’ve done it very well here. Gets a lot of meanings into different levels. Great write colonialist!
Hank
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This made me smile. I was dubious about this challenge but quite enjoyed it and have enjoyed reading everyone elses take on it!
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You did a seriously good job on it. Mine wasn’t done seriously!
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Oh but it was such a lot of fun. I think it takes a lot of skill to turn around such a flippant poem that scans so well.
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Bwahaha! You rock, Col.
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I have an idea that the way in which I met the challenge will not meet with approval …
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Ahh, this is a poem after my own heart! Such a deliciously clever piece!
P.S. Do you realise that you’ve actually just proven your anaphoric statement incorrect…?! 😉
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Very kind of you to say so, but actually all this consists of is doggerel with substitutions!
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Perhaps (although I think that’s a little harsh), but it works!
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larded with wit
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Lard is said to be an unhealthy substance, isn’t it? 🙂
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That’s as may be. Your poem is a healthy change! Thank you for rising so well to my taunts.
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One day I WILL try to write something poetic without my usual levity – but it’s dreadfully hard work!
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Don’t I know it! About one in twenty of mine is anything like a real poem.
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It is a highly subjective thing. Ones you regard as failures might well be lauded in some esteemed circles.
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Shakes head, blankly. 😕
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At least the pic and caption should appeal! 🙂
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Oh yes, of course. Anna is gorgeous. By the time I’d got to the bottom of your post, I’d completely forgotten what was at the top. 😀
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This is actually great and you should stop saying you can’t do it (then again, that would mean you wouldn’t have been able to write this)! I mostly write in rhyme myself, and whenever I attempt blank word it just throws off my rhythm, somehow, which leaves me with something I rarely like. But anyhow, I like this one!
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Quite honestly, I think a great deal of the blank unscanned stuff isn’t really poetry at all. To bring that off, every word has to be weighed, but most of them just sling down some disjointed sentences, throw a few breaks in here and there, and call it a poem.
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I so very much agree!!!
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you done really well for someone who can’t write blank verse poems
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It was a struggle all the way, as you see!
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I think instead of awful – we can right “Pawful” ha!
but you wrote a very fun poem. 🙂
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So it’s true that you don’t actually have poetic talent 😛
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That is what I have always maintained! As somebody who likes rhyme and meter, I am really unsuitable material.
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