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poetree2013-01-17 10:50 am
untonuggan) wrote in poetree2013-01-17 10:50 am
LizJJ Jam: "that time you nicked my penny for your plots"
Apologies for the service delay! Those of you who guessed that I started the last poem, sacrificia, were correct!
This next poem was started from the last line first, switching off lines. I *may* have added two lines here and there as I got overwhelmed by the creative impulse, but it sorted itself out. If you've never written a poem backwards, I highly recommend it as a format. If you've never written a poem backwards with another person, I recommend that as well.
You are welcome to steal our first/last line: "and all that for a ha'penny" - or come up with something of your own. We'd love to see the output of your creative endeavors sometime, particularly at the Sunday Picnic! I dare you...
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that time you nicked my penny for your plots
at first the day ballooned with sharp words, but
I couldn't win against your mock solemnity
we laughed through the ferris wheel
circling around each others' hands,
until the sun's last cheerful hurrah saw us
finished at the fair, exhausted and spent
fingers sticky with cotton candy --
and all that for a ha'penny.
===
This next poem was started from the last line first, switching off lines. I *may* have added two lines here and there as I got overwhelmed by the creative impulse, but it sorted itself out. If you've never written a poem backwards, I highly recommend it as a format. If you've never written a poem backwards with another person, I recommend that as well.
You are welcome to steal our first/last line: "and all that for a ha'penny" - or come up with something of your own. We'd love to see the output of your creative endeavors sometime, particularly at the Sunday Picnic! I dare you...
===
that time you nicked my penny for your plots
at first the day ballooned with sharp words, but
I couldn't win against your mock solemnity
we laughed through the ferris wheel
circling around each others' hands,
until the sun's last cheerful hurrah saw us
finished at the fair, exhausted and spent
fingers sticky with cotton candy --
and all that for a ha'penny.
===
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