Benny - an American Sentence
photo prompt:
Benny gazes in the mirror and sees himself as a white Persian.
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Benny
Untitled Golden Shovel
Writers' Pantry #52 https://poetsandstorytellersunited.blogspot.com/2021/01/writers-pantry-52-years-beginning.html I've been playing with some new, to me, poetry forms. April is the Blogging from A to Z Challenge, and my plans are A-Z of poetry forms. I like to get a head start, especially since I also participate on my other blog. This is a Golden Shovel. It was created by Terrance Hayes, an award-winning poet and professor in New York. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/terrance-hayes The "rules" are: take lines, or one line, from an existing poem take each word and use it, in order, as an end word in your new poem give credit My poem uses the words from the last line of Edna St. Vincent Millay's Time Does Not Bring Relief (Sonnet II), "and so stand stricken so remembering him." I had told him “yes” already, and it’s too late to change that now, so I let my words stand though I am stricken at the thought. I am so cr
Benny needs to get out more
ReplyDeleteI am cat sitting a few days while our granddaughter, daughter, and Mrs. Jim are in NYC cat sitting our next youngest cat for about ten days. The cat here is our daughter's, a Russian Grey named Dutch. He is a rescue cat from a elderly lady who couldn't care for him anymore.
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I'm glad to hear your daughter took in the cat. It was probably a great relief to the older woman.
DeleteOur cat turned into an outside cat when she wouldn't stay off the shears.
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Yours is a delightful American Sentence!! Cheers.
ReplyDeleteI love the whimsy in your American sentence.
ReplyDeleteBenny looks as if he is deep in thought pondering the universe. So glad you joined in at the Muse Lisa!
ReplyDeleteYeah, he does that a lot! Plotting something I think. He's pretty much that way!
DeleteAw, let Benny dream on!
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