Oct 7, 2015 Writing 201
I have, I confess, NEVER once tried a limerick. I know some people who’re very good at it, and are funny to boot. I tried to be funny, but alas, ’twas not to be! Still, I had a lot of fun making these up. I DO like a challenge. Today’s challenge was to write a limerick about a flaw, using enjambment. Well … I know I did not achieve all three in the first one, so, stubbornly, I went and tried it again. And again. And again. Now, I’m done. If I am to improve, I should read more limericks. I shall do so, but not forthwith!
This Limerick!
©Oct. 7th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
There’s a form of versing I know
Which doesn’t come quite in a flow
It’s, just as you guessed,
My lim’rick, depressed,
Sloth-like, it moves oh, so slow!
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Bad Boy
©Oct. 7th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
There are those who might call you a fool,
Say you’re wasting their time at school
It sure would be nice
If you took their advice
But that would mean being too cool.
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Imaginary Bear
©Oct. 7th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
There was a young puppy today
Who went to the woods to play
He saw a big bear who
Caused quite a scare; You-
Know-Who went yelping away.
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Rumpelstiltskin
©Oct. 7th, 2015
By Vijaya Sundaram
There once was a lovely young maiden
Whose king shut the door; she stayed in
With help, she spun straw
Into gold, but she saw
‘Twas but dross that she had been paid in.
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Tags: #Humor, #Limericks, puppies and bears, purple cows, rumpelstiltskin
Oct 7, 2015 Daily Life, Ramblings and Musings
Today, while walking The Hod in the woods, I came across:
1. A squashed garter snake in someone’s parking lot, before I reached the woods, and I was sad.
2. A robin, which hopped away.
3. A couple off-trail with a dog on a leash, which woo-woo-sang nervously at Holly, who was off-leash — so, I put Holly back on the leash, a courtesy, for a little while, until we were far from them.
4. A man aiming his camera to shoot autumn leaves on a tall tree, with sunlight filtering through — surely, the best kind of shooting to do in the woods.
5. A man sitting at his easel on a rock off-trail, painting the scene in front of him.
6. Lots and lots of dappled sunlight filtering through green, and gold, and red and brown leaves
7. Millions of cushiony pine needles on the forest floor.
It’s a beautiful fall day in New England, and the air sparkles. It’s a good day to be alive, as someone said, somewhere, I don’t recall where, or when.
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Tags: beauty and sunlight, Fall leaves, life and light, Walking in the Woods with my dog