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Printed from https://web1.writing.com/main/books/item_id/2227002-Random-Acts-of-Poetry/day/3-16-2025
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Rated: 13+ · Book · Emotional · #2227002

A poem a day keeps the cobwebs off my keyboard.

A place for the poetry that I will need to write now that I made a special book for it.
March 16, 2025 at 9:57am
March 16, 2025 at 9:57am
#1085506
I am someone who watches the tube
(even though it doesn’t have one anymore).
I put things in the ice box
and am careful to close the door.
Busy hands make short the work
and put the bread on the table,
for all the hungry mouths I'll feed
as long as I am able.
But when the day is done
the evening hours are mine.
I open up the Windows
and enjoy my blue screen time.


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Task Prompt:
Write a poem using synecdoche,
a literary device that allows for a smaller component of something to stand in for the larger whole in a rhetorical manner.
March 16, 2025 at 9:49am
March 16, 2025 at 9:49am
#1085504
The last I saw of the cat
she had that look in her eye -
her good one I mean
the one with which she spies.

The last I saw of the cat
her taste buds set to mousie,
she stalked and sniffed and hunted
in dark corners of the housie.

The last I saw of the cat
was just about one o’clock,
just before the chimes,
just after the tick and tock.

Suddenly the mousie appeared!
At the top of the clock he sat.
At the gong he ran down and hid,
and that’s the last I saw of the cat.


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Prize Prompt:
The thing you’d most likely lose in a nursery rhyme (like little bo peep lost her sheep).



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