The exercise:
Write something in the style of: Dr. Seuss.
Greg, I trust that you've had time to do your homework since the last time the good doctor was mentioned here on the blog?
The lightning last night set off a number of fires in the hills around us - that we can see, at least. I would not be surprised to learn that there are more which are out of our sight lines, as there were a whole lot of strikes during that storm.
Anyway. The closest cluster is on our side of the lake, maybe (and I hesitate to throw this out there as I am a horrible judge of distance) five kilometers away. We had a pretty good view of the water bombers doing their work this evening, at any rate.
Max was... let me just say excited for now. I will provide more details tomorrow, if I remember.
Mine:
On our farm we farm without harm. Except of course for weeds and other necessary dirty deeds.
Indeed those weeds simply have to go. Go where? Go here, go there, I don't know! Just, please, do not grow around my plants, or even in the rows!
When I see a weed I stop! Then I hop! Then I pull and yank and chop until that weed goes plop!
Then I feel very good, just like I should! Do I wish to do it again? I would!
When I see another weed has gone astray my happiness goes away. So I carry on without delay, saving play for another day, as I pull and yank and chop and slay until... okay... I can say...
Nope! Another weedy dope! Time to act, don't give them hope!
So it goes, day after day after day... and I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Monday March 2nd, 2009
The exercise:
In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday, use the title of one of his works as the first line of your poem.
Mine:
The cat in the hat
Was really quite fat;
With each step he took
The ground moaned and shook!
His hat was so big
It held eighty figs;
And when he would sit
Birds nested in it!
His end was so sad:
He tried a new fad
To lose all that weight
To find a new mate -
But the diet lied,
And soon his insides
Grew so far apart
They stopped his poor heart!
In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday, use the title of one of his works as the first line of your poem.
Mine:
The cat in the hat
Was really quite fat;
With each step he took
The ground moaned and shook!
His hat was so big
It held eighty figs;
And when he would sit
Birds nested in it!
His end was so sad:
He tried a new fad
To lose all that weight
To find a new mate -
But the diet lied,
And soon his insides
Grew so far apart
They stopped his poor heart!
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