Can you count the letter h in:
I haven’t quit but my internet connection did, for two days. Hence I am posting Day 3 now. Rather then inundate you with 3 poetry days all at one I will still post one per day. For the Day 3 acrostic challenge I wrote two poems. The first in praise of my writing group and a preface to a blog entry that I will soon post about the value and workings of a good writing critique group. The second is a rather childish offering but a good excuse to post a picture of my constant companion – the distractordog.
Pleasure to be with you.
She’s never grumpy or glib.
You look good in that.
It goes with this hat.
Are you paying cash or with card?
Sign up to our convenient club.
She’ll keep the smile pleasantly pasted.
Humans for these mindless machines?
I am mad and I’m real.
and I don’t give a damn that you don’t care for that colour.
It doesn’t come in ANY OTHER.
Poet, I am not, but I take heart in knowing that the only path leads upwards as far as my knowledge and appreciation of verse and all its forms. I promised in this blog that I would push myself out of my comfort zone. Well, writing poetry for a ten day challenge is out of my zone and into outer space. So here goes.
Day One of the Intro to Poetry WordPress challenge.
The Nepean River near Douglas Park, a once clear river. Polluted as result of longwall mining. Large bubbles can be seen rising to the surface from the fractured river bed.
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I found 45 "h"s in the provided passage.
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