Saturday, August 15, 2009

Two Tweets and a Twitt from very long ago

Tweet Tweet Twitt




Yonder she sits at table spoon poised over her hot broth's froth
listening to church bells knoll. Serenity amidst bustle. I think I love her.




Now a knave hitches his sagging hose and approaches his features
coarse his smile salacious. I fling myself at the brazen-faced varlet.




Willie, if you slack your duties I'll clip your tweeter. O woe is me to
have a son who takes up time to rant such foolishness.


Wanda McCollar




The prompt is found here http://readwritepoem.org/blog/2009/08/14/read-write-prompt88-fresh-from-the-wordle-word-bank/

13 comments:

  1. Great work - I love the word "varlet" thank you for introducing me to it!

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  2. Anyone who likes Will and uses
    varlet'a pox upon thee oh, thy rotund varlet'gets full marks from this personally prejudiced teacher.

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  3. Joanne - Thank Willie! I swiped "varlet" from him.

    Rall - Thanks for the full marks!

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  4. Hello Wanda,

    This is fun, methinks!

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  5. Wonderful! Your use of language and this week's words is masterful.

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  6. I love the format - the short "tweets," which are very modern, conveying an old story.

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  7. wanda i thought this a lovely piece this morning. really like the sass of the narrator, and your use of the challenge words play well with the scene, nothing out of place and conveying a fine story. -lawrence

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  8. Thank you all. I really appreciate your comments.

    I had an idea of writing poetical tweets 140 characters each using those words. But as I worked with it - it turned itself into Tweets by Shakespeare and his long-suffering Mom - and the total absurdity of that was really fun. Then, I realized I had to change the language to match his times! Thanks RWP. This was fun.

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  9. from Therese B. at RWP -- Wanda, no, I have no trouble leaving a comment on your site. I'm still a newbie at RWP, so I'm trying to figure out the protocol. When I left a comment about your poem on the RWP site, I hadn't yet figured out that most RWP commments go directly to the poet's own website. From now on, I'll do that.

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