Using the word example
Write a story or poem of 5 Lines or Less
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My lines:
When they were kids she was the perfect example of a wild child. Everyone thought she would come to a bad end and die young. They have all grown old and grey and are set in their ways and simply bored to death. These days they call the wild child a crazy old woman and shake their heads in wonder wishing they were just like her. They can see now that she is the only one of them who has always really been alive and happy.
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I love this. Sounds like a younger you. I also saw Teddy and Jack standing guard like 4-legged footmen. Pawmen? 🙂
Don’t know if you could call me a wild child but I was a rebel…a quiet one. 🐱
I believe that. 🙂
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Okay… so that cat made me crack up! And the sentiment in the writing is awesome. Funny how life changes our perspectives, eh? Thank you for sharing this!
Stephen
Patrica is a wonderful writer.
Agree!
I love her brevity. She says so much using so few words. I try to emulate her, and see, what an art it is. The economy of words. She’s right up there with Hemingway and E.B White. 🙂
An economy of words can be such a powerful way to write and an effective use of the art of words.
Agreed.
Thank you for visiting, Stephen. You will usually find a cat here along with whatever I am thinking in some form or another.
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I was that wild child and I’m happy about it. What a wonderful life I’m living.
Aw on that kitty. So cute.
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Hmmm, a wild child who became a cop. Bet your youth helped you understand many who you interacted with during your career days.
In trying to set an example
He drank from son’s medicine a sample;
Then he pulled an awful face
And was sick all over the place,
Then exclaimed, ‘That stuff is downright harmful!’
Good reason not to sample other people’s meds. Thanks for sharing your lines.
Friday 5 Lines or Less
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O stately throne so stuffed of self see now the steely worm
whose coiling writhes throughout your deep, cold as night passages
has found the heel and bit upon those secrets dark, and Lo
its joy discovered now has they sabbatical undone
to example aplomb plumbing skills and tools thus used with haste
[this is something I hope to pursue for a future collection of humorous takeoffs of lines from famous poets. I’m hoping to get back into writing poetry again, and even compiling Cantos. This attempt at a poem stems from Wm. Blake’s The Sick Rose. I dwelt a bit on even a sick rose may still smell like a rose, then thought an outhouse ever smells like an outhouse, and then to a stopped-up toilet needing an auger after the plunger failed to produce results. Hence the dawning of a sick tongue-in-cheek writing exploration. hahaha]
Garlan, you are too funny. Loved your lines, thanks for sharing them. I look forward to reading your poetry.