Reason A. Poteet Poet Verse

Anticipation

pleiades

Adeste Fideles!
Angels visit the earth
Announcing joyful news -
Arrival of the Child.
As shepherds leave their flock
Anticipation mounts.
Awestruck, the faithful come.

written December 25, 2016
for Andrea's 2nd Pleiades contest



(Adeste Fideles) reads as five on
the syllable counter here but only four on
how many syllables.com 
However, we sing it with six syllable in Latin.

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Connie Marcum Wong January 6, 2017 at 1:19 PM A really beautiful Pleiades Reason. Congratulations on your win! : ) 7 Reason A. Poteet January 7, 2017 at 6:37 PM Thanks, Connie, for the 7 and the sweet comment. Enjoyed your Noel one (Nowell is a family name in my genealogy). I liked your explanation of namaste, which I was not familiar with. Have a great New Year.

Andrea Dietrich January 5, 2017 at 9:11 PM Reason, I was reading that first word the way I would read it in Spanish, so I did not worry about its count at all. Saying it with five syllables would sound AWFUL. This was great how you chose a word like Anticipation. Something nobody else did, using an abstraction like this to convey the feeling of the shepherds. congrats. Reason A. Poteet January 5, 2017 at 11:00 PM Thank you, Andrea. I appreciate your thorough comment which is proof that you really read the entry and took the time to leave a positive remark.