I’ll tell you how – Viv in France is guilty of enticement!
Anyway, the idea is to use this prompt from The Sunday Whirl:
I wondered if I could use all the words as economically as possible in the order given, and add regular rhyme and meter. It was fun trying, and the result does seem to convey a message of high ideals inspired by a lady love …
Listen to the object of your affection,
Full her dream let flower in your mind,
Ease the present, let it shine in your reflection,
Like water dripping, words of wisdom find;
With these other thoughts, then banish all dejection,
Transform to being noble, wise and kind.
This is a great line “Like water dripping, words of wisdom find;”. Cool!
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It seemed the best way of watering down the words! 🙂
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Toe laat jy dit nog jouwarempel rym ook! Absoluut briljant.
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Bly dat jy so dink!
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nice.
I like the rhyming ,the compactness, the fun in reading it, and the message(s).
Randy
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Glad you found it fun – I always try and achieve that even when not writing my Really Awful Rhymes with their plays on words.
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i”ll have to check out some of your RAR’s 😉
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Fantastic! I love that you challenged yourself; your results are fantastic. AND I love that Viv talked you into joining. Welcome!
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Thanks for too-kind words, and for providing the incentive and Whirly words!
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In order, and rhyming yet! Nicely done … I’ll have to have a word with Viv … what is she thinking bringing someone so capable aboard? Doesn’t she remember how insecure we all are? Pffft.
Seriously, welcome. Great poem.
http://soundofthewordnight.blogspot.ca/2016/03/dont-you-just.html
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Thank you.
So far I am failing to find indications of anything which would warrant feelings of insecurity! In fact, far from.
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Great Post
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Thanks!
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welcome
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oh Viv will enjoy having a new player aboard! Great job. You could, of course, be a bit easier on yourself, ya know!
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I have this horrible compulsion to avoid free and blank rhyme, and to favour exact rhymes, which is rather limiting! I need to experiment more on variations. The trouble is that unless blank verse etc. is written by the genuinely talented, it comes out looking like ineptly dressed-up prose.
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heh heh. pretty much
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I love this. Honestly, this has Emily Dickinson written all over it.
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Nice of you to say so, but Emily fans would probably accuse you of uttering sacrilege!
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Ha. Let them do it; I don’t care. 🙂
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Viv makes it look so easy… and now you.
I may just have a go myself…
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I’m sure you’d find it entertaining!
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Welcome to the whirl. And you made it more difficult for yourself – there is no requirement to use the words in the same order. Yours has all the hallmarks of a grand master wordler!
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You are too kind – just as I was too unkind in setting myself the challenge of doing it that way!
I’m nasty to me sometimes, like when there was an alphabet poem challenge and each day I made EVERY LINE start with the designated letter. Z was not easy …
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