"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
Eckhart Tolle

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

"Alicia loves to count" we write poems #30 numbers game

Seven times I ran with a rabbit,
and landed in his hole.
Two times seven they couldn’t
catch my trail.
Fourteen plus five
I rounded into a snare,
and was carried to a palace.
One plus nineteen, 
I meet with twenty Queens’ mothers.
We had herbal tea.
It was two forty-five …
(two plus forty-five)
We danced round in our pedal-pushers,
singing forty-seven giddy tunes.
As we ate 20 cupcakes,
frosted with purple moons.
When I sat to write all about it,
sixty-seven minus sixty …
Seven has forever
been a favourite,
indivisible by any.

22 comments:

  1. This is enormous fun, zany excellence!
    Proofreader's hat on (scusi): pedal-pushers - the origin being trousers made for bicycling!

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  2. Oh I love this! Enormous fun and a great way to interpret the prompt. I wish you had a like button!

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  3. love it,
    Glad to see you write number game poem.
    smart take.
    keep it up.

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  4. (aussshh) Noted and corrected Viv, Thanks.
    Glad you liked it.
    Pamela

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  5. Tilly, thanks and just you saying so in good enough. This was my third poem written to the prompt the first two I trashed.
    Pamela

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  6. Oh, I envy you. You found magic in the numbers and so much fun. And all the smiles come shining through. Love it,

    Elizabeth

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  7. Thanks Elizabeth, my first two attempts were dry and kind of depressing. And I thought why not have fun with this. I've never been much of a mathematics scholar, but I know the basics. :)
    Pamela

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  8. We can always COUNT on you for a great One Shot!

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  9. Thanks Eric but this is submitted for we write poems. But I appreciate the nice comment.
    Pamela

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  10. This is such a delightful poem Pamela. I like it!

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  11. Thanks so much Irene. I had fun writing it.
    Pamela

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  12. Okay then...
    We can always count on you for a great We Write!

    (Sorry, I get confused after reading so many!)

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  13. Happens sometimes, I know!
    Pamela

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  14. A very delightful poem, Pamela. Numbers in abudance!

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  15. Thanks Mary, I had fun writing this poem.
    Pamela

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  16. Seems like a good numbers game you played there! LOL :)

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  17. Thanks Jinksy I had fun doing it :)
    Pamela

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  18. I *love* this. I am a big fan of Alice in Wonderland anyway, but the imagery and the way you weaved the numbers into the poem was magical.

    -Nicole

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  19. Nicole I had loads of fun writing this. I had written two others before this. They were a bit dark and I decided to go in another direction.
    Pamela

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