From Scattered Seeds of Thought

Hard Luck Story

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The Writer's Cramp  (13+) Write the best story or poem in 24 hours or less and win 10K GPs! #333655 by Sophy

prompt: Write a Monotetra: a poem having a mono rhyme, four lines in each stanza, eight syllables in each line, and a refrain in the last line of the four, where the first four syllables (in a mono rhyme pattern) are repeated.

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A Hard Luck Story

I was working as a cashier
In a restaurant down in Yorkshire
When the pointy glass chandelier
Became a spear, became a spear.

Of course I hid myself in fear
But the tip of it came so near,
It almost hit my rounded rear.
Twas’ most severe, twas’ most severe.

I thought the owner insincere
When he jeered, “Hey, you’re safe; it’s clear.”
I cried, “’Twas almost a rear shear.
Pass me a beer, pass me a beer.”

He grumbled, looking cavalier,
“Get back to work or disappear.”
I moaned, “Guess then, I’ll persevere,
Wiping a tear, wiping a tear.”

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