I have never entered a poetry contest before, so first time for everything . . .
churn
churning, burning, learning
fumbling, bumbling, stumbling
further up . . . further in
churnOn my wayward friend
fumbling, bumbling, stumbling
further up . . . further in
churnOn my wayward friend
Inspired by Marcus Goodyear and his post Random Acts of Poetry: What's In A Word? Inspired by Keith Jackson, ABC Sports, 'Whoa Nellie!' Inspired by C.S. Lewis, Chapter 15, The Last Battle titled 'Further Up and Further In'.
3 comments:
I like the way you change initial sounds, but continue to hold the poem together with the "ing."
Somehow, it works like a churn then, a sense of twisting, working. :)
Thanks L.L. It was a quick attempt to capture the 'ups and downs' of my recent social media activation efforts.
Glad you participated! It is most exciting to me that this is your first time.
The use of "-ing" is a classic rhyming tool by the way. Other languages rhyme in exactly this way, using patterns of the word form to generate the lines along the bent of the language itself.
(English isn't a rhyming language except in a few instances like this.)
So. I apologize for putting on my old English teacher hat, but I thought it was interesting that your first poem for us understands poetry on this very basic level.
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