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kayjay
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since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

0 posted 2003-04-18 11:56 AM

All I read is chic.
Challengingly I
Reach for clever wit;
Opting Erato's
Sufferance, but no.
Too hard, I mutter.
I've no work ethic.
Can I buy an A?

Bridget Shenachie
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since 2002-01-23

Posts 1056
Kansas USA

1 posted 2003-04-18 11:59 AM

This is too good! Save your money. I think that you just EARNED your 'A'.

Shenachie

JP
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since 1999-05-25

Posts 1343
Loomis, CA

2 posted 2003-04-18 12:56 PM

well done

Yesterday is ash, tomorrow is smoke; only today does the fire burn.
Nil Desperandum, Fata viem invenient

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

3 posted 2003-04-18 04:03 PM

KayJay~
As the teach would say (if she was here) ....
KEWL~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
noles1@totcon.com

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

4 posted 2003-04-19 09:29 AM

Love this Ken...excellent!

SmartChick
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since 2001-09-23

Posts 7081
On A Journey To The Unknown

5 posted 2003-04-20 07:33 AM

You did this very well.

Dr.Moose1
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since 1999-09-05

Posts 3448
Bewilderment , USA

6 posted 2003-04-21 04:00 PM

Ken,
I'd say you aced this one. It would take a full house to beat this pair.
Doc

Nan

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-20

Posts 21191
Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

7 posted 2003-05-01 09:38 AM

Assonance
Is
Never
Outdated
Tautology
For
Outstanding
Rhyming
Syllables
Assuredly
Lend
Enlightenment

kayjay
Member Elite

since 2002-06-24

Posts 2015
Oregon

8 posted 2003-05-01 10:59 AM

Thank you, Nan, for your ever quick wit in your response.
As to my thoughts on a May challenge, I offer Beltane, as defined from www.merriam-webster.com)See below) (my daily first peek at a web site..yes, even before pip).  If acrostic are not used up by now, I would offer an acoustic sonnet, that is BBEELLTTAANNEE, which must be in meter and foot, the choice of both up to the author? Another option is a May sonnet without rhyme, but each couplet maintains assonance?  Hope these at least give you a chuckle or headache...your choice.  Ken
The Word of the Day for May 1 is:

Beltane • \BEL-tayn\  • noun
: the Celtic May Day festival

Example sentence:
Aunt Kat vividly described the huge bonfires and colorful rituals she had witnessed at the Beltane festival in Edinburgh as a girl.

Did you know?
To the ancient Celts, May Day was a critical time when the boundaries between the human and supernatural worlds were removed and people needed to take special measures to protect themselves against enchantments. The Beltane fire festival originated in a spring ritual in which cattle were herded between two huge bonfires to protect them from evil and disease. Perhaps the earliest mention of Beltane (then spelled "belltaine") appears in an Old Irish dictionary commonly attributed to Cormac, a king and bishop who lived in Cashel, Ireland, toward the end of the first millennium. The "Beltane" spelling entered English in the 15th century by way of Scottish Gaelic.

Through rubble and trouble and dark of night
The yawn of a dawn will hasten the light

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