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Its My Own Invention

What Is it Called? ▼

Study the poem 'Haddock's Eyes' or is it 'The Aged, Aged Man' or perhaps it was actually 'Ways and Means' or ah yes! 'A-Sitting on a Gate'! Whatever the case, write your own stanza in the same style. (minimum three stanzas).

I frowned and gasped and took a pill,
Wanting more but fearing less.
I waited for answers sweet and full of thrill,
but expecting quite a mess.
"Please come tell me just how you live!"
I shouted in his face.
I waited for his answer to give.
And stared off into space.

The old man nodded with quite a smile.
I have many gifts to use.
He paused speaking for a short while.
Of my many skills I choose,
To paint the shells of abalone,
and decorate a moose,
but alas it comes out looking phony.

I choose instead to paint the sky,
for two pence and dental floss,
I paint till my pen runs dry.
The result is sold at a loss,
for nature doesn't pay well.
I get two fish for all my toil,
and ten leaves to sell.
To purify the soil.

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Capture! ▼

White pawn to 7th rank/row - Visit a total of 20 notebooks – both new and veteran members; leave either welcome messages or respond to a topic with the phrase “one step closer to White/Red Queen/King” written in there somewhere (be creative!) - Provide links to all the notebooks/responses given.

I also left reviews for some of them.

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