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Poet deVine

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Hurricane Alley

0 posted 2002-04-26 11:02 PM

Can you guess what I am? (see Poetry Challenge Forum for a clue)

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There is no smile at thought of me
No tender thoughts in poetry
No odes are sung to my guise
I’m not compared to stars or skies

Ancestral deeds are left unsaid
No words will issue from covered dead
But what of all those tales of old
When with my help, young men found gold?

You seek me out in mantle of winter
Gloved, you hope for naught of splinter
In spring you use me at your will
But I see not, bloom of daffodil

Hidden away in darkened space
Used, then left in that common place
Awaiting whim or dirty task
Quietly I do all you ask.

I am…..

Martie

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California

1 posted 2002-04-26 11:04 PM

Me thinks you are a shovel...What a fun challange..enjoyed your poem, Sharon.

Mistletoe Angel

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Portland, Oregon

2 posted 2002-04-26 11:07 PM

BRAVO!!! Yes, yes, I agree with Martie so so uch, I think it is a shovel indeed! (BIG HUGGGSSSSS) This is so much fun, sweet friend, I love it, this is a wonderful challenge reply, we all love you so much! You have such a beautiful heart, sweet Sharon, thank you for sharing!

May love and light always shine upon you!

Love,
Noah Eaton

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Canada eh.

3 posted 2002-04-26 11:14 PM

Yup, me thinks it's a shovel!
This is such fun!

SmartChick
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On A Journey To The Unknown

4 posted 2002-04-26 11:17 PM

You did this challenge, very well, Sharon. Maybe I better change my name from SmartChick to something else. I can't even get started on mine. I think it is a shovel, too.

Poet deVine

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Hurricane Alley

5 posted 2002-04-26 11:57 PM

Thank you!!! I'm going back for another challenge!!! My muse is being very fussy lately...sigh...I need someone to 'kickstart' it.

RSEvans
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since 1999-10-23

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Tulsa, OK, USA

6 posted 2002-04-27 10:38 AM

*gives your muse a kick in the arse*
A shovel or pick for digging earth
  Tell me poetess what's its worth?
Metal for digging, a shaft of raw wood
  Perhaps without metal cap or hood.
How many rhymes has a shovel seen?
  How many times has it come clean
After digging a poet's grave in the ground
  And gently covering him when he lay down?
An implement for planting souls
  And righting gravestones over holes.

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

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South Carolina, USA

7 posted 2002-04-27 11:09 AM

Attack the toil of drivel
upon the land of grovel
I'll turn and quietly swivel
in search of rusty shovel...

Yep...me thinks is a shovel too....

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

8 posted 2002-04-27 11:39 AM

Poet deVine,
A lost soul. Excellent write.

WhtDove
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Illinois

9 posted 2002-04-27 07:32 PM

Water??

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I don't question YOUR existance- GOD

serenity blaze
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10 posted 2002-04-27 11:01 PM

Grinning here, Sharon...the way things are going, you'd think I would have been given the shovel!!!! ROFLMAO... Very well done, m'friend...I'm so glad you went first, I had no idea how to go about this!!!

paladin

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Pensacola,Fl.

11 posted 2002-04-27 11:09 PM

Down south we call a shovel a ditch key.

paladin

ThisDiamond
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since 2002-02-22

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Michigan, USA

12 posted 2002-04-27 11:10 PM

Hmmmm...Lets see

From my hand a match light
For my friend a fast flight
On one foot jump the gun
On a kick to have fun

Great write! Burn out! ThisDiamond

Honeybee
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since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

13 posted 2002-04-28 02:23 PM

Umm, yep, what they said!

Sharon, you make even the most mundane and simplest objectd wonderful! Well expressed.
My muse is being moody lately, maybe I'll try this challenge too.

Take care,
Melissa~

"Poetry is not an opinion expressed...
it is a song that rises from a bleeding
wound...or a smiling mouth"

~Kahlil Gibran~

Sven

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since 1999-11-23

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East Lansing, MI USA

14 posted 2002-04-29 03:24 PM

hey, you know that I love this one. . . and I'm amazed that Martie got it so quickly!!

glutton for punishment eh?? well, ok. . . I'll have another one for you soon. . . perhaps one that's a little harder. . . hmmmmmmmmm. . .

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bsquirrel

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15 posted 2002-04-29 03:43 PM

That was some good Sphinx-ian verse.

Interloper

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Deep in the heart

16 posted 2002-04-29 03:57 PM

Gee, I thought it was a spade...

NapalmsConstantlyConfused

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17 posted 2002-04-30 12:55 PM

now that's calling a spade a....
now wait a minute!

heh.
-Dave

passing shadows
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displaced

18 posted 2002-04-30 04:04 AM

that's very cool! I like these riddles of yours...course, everyone else gets the answer before I get a chance to read it..(you know I can't stand for there to be replies and not be able to read them)

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