Heroes

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A2Z Raucous

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Easter Sunday’s family gathering included a delicious dinner as always, made by my daughter. We were thankful to join together after missing the last couple of years. The raucous part was playing a game named “Taco, Cat, Goat, Cheese, Pizza”. It is similar to Spoons where you throw out a card and then everyone tries not to be the last one slamming your hand on the card. The funniest part was when a narwhal card landed. And it certainly got loud and dangerous😂.

“Each player places a card from their hand (like snap and dobble) face up in a community pile while saying taco/cat/goat/cheese/pizza in player sequence – when the card matches the mantra – boom – everyone slaps their hand on the deck – the last one picks up the cards – the winner is the player to lose all their cards first. For extra fun, there are special action cards – the gorilla, narwhal, and groundhog, which players have to make gestures before racing to slap the deck!”

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dVerse Poets Quadrille

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Scribbled message fervently scribed
Sticky lollipop residue beside
First a giggle and then a sigh
Uttered by the passers by

Kindergarten love not so shy
Wonders discovered in a high
Feeling felt and now described
In a chalk written sign

“I love Julie Jones”

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https://dversepoets.com/2022/04/18/quadrille-150-chalk-it-up-to-poetry/?like_actor=102337606&like_hmac=0308e64b6368584c0055063fad602845&postid=24154&like=1&source=sub_email

Simply 6 Minutes

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“Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god! Do you see her? She looks like a queen! Look at her wings all petally smoothed to perfection and the color! Couldn’t you just eat her up? Such a lucious, juicy looking orange? And the velvet brown spots on her—of course part of her protection, but oh my, I can just feel how soft they are! Look! She’s coming our way…oh my god, I think she’s going to land on you! I can feel her wings she’s so close, oh my god!

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91 words

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Ronovanwrites Sijo – Grace

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You should use the word in the title of this post as your inspiration as either a theme of the Sijo or in the poem itself.

There are:Three Lines,14-16 syllables per line. A total of 44-46 syllables for the entire poem.

  • The first line of the Sijo usually sets the theme.
  • The second line elaborates on the first line.
  • The third line brings the poem matter to a close.

The setting can be nature, a favorite season, or some event of your day. Something, as I mentioned above that can be contemplative in nature. Within each of the three lines there is usually a pause.

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The Concert of Aging

Grace was fading as if a dream, once being a symphony

Now a cacophony of mixed noise, hurtled in space surround

Brittle bones and awkward movements, complete a life’s orchestra.

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