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SUPPLICATION by TD Euwaite As I flip through the faces in my chifferobe, cleft chins, chiseled features… fissures furrowed by tears that flowed like rainwater over lips hung low as Yorick’s, I look for the one with the throbbing sobs, vibrato as no cello could mimic!. The one that moans… Plu plu plu please! ***** Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I was feeling uninspired!. Now I am inspired again!. Detailed descriptions, alliteration, middle rhymes, all the goodies that make an awesome poem!. I'm off to do that editing I've so been meaning to do!. I keep reading this over and over!. This is becoming one of my favorites of yours!.Www@QuestionHome@Com PP: Do you know why I pulled you over, Mr Euwaite!? T: No, Sir, Officer!. PP: I've pulled you over because you failed to signal anything!. Your poem is incomplete!. T: Huh!? PP: You did not take us anywhere!. You only showed us a funny face!. I let you off with a warning last time!. This time, I am throwing the book at you, and I've chosen "Jane's Fighting Ships!." The thing must weigh 40 kilos!. T: Huh!? WHUMP!Www@QuestionHome@Com Using me wits of chicanery, I would chiffonade it with chickpea, pour it over a baked chickeree, wrap it in chiffon, and stuff it in your chiffonier!.!.!. or I could just flip it with a chiasmus!. Nonsense you say!. so say I!.Www@QuestionHome@Com the muses embers flicker and as the light grows colder you hear the click of the door you know it's time to put down the quill and be at peace and one with the still!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Jane didn't mean for anyone to use her BOOK as a weapon!. But how would a poetry cop know that the pen is mightier than a book used to whump someone over the head!?Www@QuestionHome@Com You'll never know when you're finished eating tongue!.Www@QuestionHome@Com You're not finished!. You need one more line!.Www@QuestionHome@Com When you get to the end of the last line, I would've thought!. (To answer your question under strict Community guidelines!.)Www@QuestionHome@Com This is pretty good!. Better than I expected!. I will see what else is going in here!.Www@QuestionHome@Com It is over when you sigh !.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Men/Women/ Pets in arms!.!.!. I'd never TOINK, Joink or YOINK my fellow man or woman!. JINKEES SHAGGY!!Www@QuestionHome@Com |