X - X, the Unknown

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Here we are at X, the letter everyone, including me, dreads in the A to Z Challenge!  

 I discarded this idea!  Although it does illustrate how vexing X is!

Xerxes

Irks mes

After the poem below, X, the Unknown, I have explained what the X meant in some of the lines. 

 

X marks the spot.

X signs your name,

or a mystery number

to find.

 

X looks inside.

X half who we are.

Lovers know what it means,

for X is what is signed.

 

X can be ten,

X can be Christ.

X can be ratings

for movies or sugar.

 

X, The Unpopular,

X, the Unknown.

However you put it,

X is a booger.

 ©2022 Lisa Smith Nelson. All Rights Reserved

 

3 – algebra, solve for X

5 – X-ray

6 – Sex chromosome X (XX and XY)

8 – X as a kiss symbol

9 – X = 10 In Roman numbers

10 – X as in Xmas for Christmas

11 - 12 – X rated movies are “adult only” and sugar’s degree of grinding is indicated by X’s.  X is grainy, XX is finer.  What I know as “powdered sugar,” or “icing sugar” is 10X.  

 

 

Comments

  1. AnonymousApril 28, 2022 at 7:18 AM

    Jamie here. Blogger has not been allowing me to sign to comment, hence why I have not been commenting lately.
    I like this use of the letter X. Very clever. Also, XXX is used to mean "liquor" in cartoons.

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    1. AnonymousApril 28, 2022 at 9:50 AM

      I've been having problems too. They were asking me to approve my own comments! Now, I have to be Anonymous too.

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  2. Cheryl WrightApril 28, 2022 at 3:07 PM

    I remember dreading this letter the first time I participated in this challenge. My theme was emotions. I was ready to give up....and then it came to me, XOXO. You did a great job with the letter! Well, we are almost to the finish line!

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    1. AnonymousApril 29, 2022 at 5:28 PM

      In 2019 I used X for Kisses! Yes, almost there. I wish Blogger wouldn't be acting up and putting me as Anonymous and requiring me to approve my own comments on my own blogs!

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  3. J Lenni DornerApril 30, 2022 at 1:24 AM

    This is a great poem! Love how you used the letter in so many ways.

    J Lenni Dorner (he/him 👨🏽 or 🧑🏽 they/them) ~ Co-host of the #AtoZchallenge, OperationAwesome6 Debut Author Interviewer, Reference& Speculative Fiction Author

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  4. Anne E.G. NydamApril 30, 2022 at 12:47 PM

    Lots of interesting meanings of X.
    X is for Variables

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