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Oct 31 17, 23:22
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Friendship
“Too much to show?”, it doesn’t take but moments to discover how a whisper soothes the soulful ache of friends in need and will endow them with a smile where laughter wraps their heart and loosens sadness’ clutch to fall like dreams. Is this, perhaps, too much?
Daniel, I combined the answer to your short rondeau with the X10 Oct 31 challenge.
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Nov 1 17, 14:51
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snow big deal
To fall like dreams, a snowflake drifts on high amid opposing streams of air that bring the autumn's gifts and spread them 'til the landscape gleams.
A glimpse of winter after heat that's baffled all our football teams, the crystal-white blows 'neath their cleats to fall like dreams.
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Nov 4 17, 22:33
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salty advice
The crystal white beneath the snow is melted and refrozen ice that’s covered up and you don’t know so you may slip and pay the price of ambulance and doctor bills. Mind every step or face your plight if you don’t use the salt that spills; the crystal white.
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Nov 9 17, 13:35
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Ready to Eat
The salt that spills beneath your feet prevents your falling on your arse or slipping on the ice and sleet. Be sure the spreading isn't sparse. The weather's gotten cold and wet Dress warm so you won't get the chills then lay before your luncheonette the salt that spills.
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Nov 10 17, 19:16
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diss 'em in ate
Before your luncheonette you lay a menu out upon the walk and glue it there so it will stay with arrows drawn in colored chalk which may attract folks to your place but offer Wi-Fi while they munch to bring them down from outer space before your lunch
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Nov 14 17, 13:06
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Time to Eat Crow
To bring them down to dinner, you must tell them that it's supper-time. Communication is askew when you don't face the daily grime. When you act like you're better than your guests, like you have great renown, you must become a humble man to bring them down.
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Nov 15 17, 14:16
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effort less
You must become a better man to be successful in your life and not a simple also-ran; if not for you then for your wife. Be purposeful and do your best for second place eats lots of dust. Try to be better than the rest; you must.
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Nov 16 17, 23:17
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A Wood-be Brute
A two-by-four's among the best offensive weapons you could use to club someone with joy and zest and mutilate with blood and bruise... if you're a brutal man, of course. Since you'd not have your friend so sore, you probably would not endorse a two-by-four.
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Nov 18 17, 15:13
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dance card
You probably would not endorse a game of cards in some back room or off-track bet placed on a horse unless you were friends with the groom because they’re all a game of chance and lady luck can’t hear your plea so folks don’t take her to that dance. You? Probably!
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Nov 19 17, 13:49
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You Think I'm Kind?
I'm not that kind who'd do the dance in some casino, at the track. I seldom play a game of chance and never bet; I've not the knack for taking money in the fray. But someone hits, I'll hit 'em back. I'm not that kind!
P.S. I really am kind; I don't hit back
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Nov 20 17, 23:12
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good sport
I’ll hit them back if they land in the singles court. Those bouncing balls will be returned with lots of spin regardless of the linesman’s calls. I hope you’ll hit them back in turn, but only if you have the knack to play the game and you will learn I’ll hit them back.
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Feb 1 18, 12:32
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the game
To play the game, one practices each move it takes to have success and as time passes you’re a whiz; at least you’ll stop making a mess but if you think you’ve no more need for repetitions in your fame the rust will show. You won’t succeed to play the game.
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Mar 9 18, 15:50
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To play the game of short rondeau one must be quick of hand and mind in your retort. The poem’s flow should be the tetrameter kind with alternating witty rhyme. Pen thought within its tiny frame that doesn’t have to be sublime to play the game.
L6 did read: thoughts within a brief essay
Thanks Daniel!
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Apr 28 18, 10:02
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One doesn't have to follow on with all the words to make a verse; the whole thing's one extended con and sometimes we all end up worse than when we started on the trek. What you must do is somewhere halve line number one then cash the check one doesn't have.
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Apr 29 18, 22:26
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Gent-ly
One doesn’t have to be told twice of a mistake made in a form so your reminder was quite nice in nudging me back to the norm. Both short and sweet, no cuts or jabs that needed antiseptic salve and didn’t leave slow healing scabs one doesn’t have.
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Jun 14 18, 18:47
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Your fragile thong will never burst for front and back are near the same unless you put it on reversed then something might hang out. For shame that it should look like you are nude but look once more; they’ll find they’re wrong and it was not what they construed… your fragile thong.
Couldn't help myself!
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Jun 15 18, 05:48
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I think I'm missing something here, Larry. I don't think I get it!
always sLightly dull, Daniel
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Jun 15 18, 22:46
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Hi Daniel,
If you will remember, in the “Ode to a Lily” string in Karnak, I said something about your quip of refraining from comment because it would burst your “fragile thong” and I wrote back a note about the start of a short rondeau. I posted the same thing in that string as well as in this “Short Rondeau” string. I tried my best to not step on the posting standard’s toes with a slightly bawdy post. Sorry for the confusion.
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