X - X, the Unknown
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.
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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.
Jamie here. Blogger has not been allowing me to sign to comment, hence why I have not been commenting lately.
ReplyDeleteI like this use of the letter X. Very clever. Also, XXX is used to mean "liquor" in cartoons.
I've been having problems too. They were asking me to approve my own comments! Now, I have to be Anonymous too.
DeleteI 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!
ReplyDeleteIn 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!
DeleteThis is a great poem! Love how you used the letter in so many ways.
ReplyDeleteJ Lenni Dorner (he/him 👨🏽 or 🧑🏽 they/them) ~ Co-host of the #AtoZchallenge, OperationAwesome6 Debut Author Interviewer, Reference& Speculative Fiction Author
Lots of interesting meanings of X.
ReplyDeleteX is for Variables