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Call and Response Poetry Verse

Following Suzette's lead and going with 5 senses: Hearing: midnight drums / blood rushing through your ears Taste: the tingle tongue from too many kiwis / anticipation Smell: lipstick / 1985 Touch: a handful of grated cheese / falling down a hill having grabbed grass that snapped Sight: people sat in parked cars / brains in formaldehyde Oh and... Proprioception: knowing where your toe is / waiting expectantly for someone to arrive home

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Di11y Da11y

Date: 3/28/2023 2:43:00 AM

Here's some more (if you still want to play?) 1. A curtain caught on furniture 2. Coins on the couch (fallen from pocket) 3. Wet roof tiles

Suzette Richards
Date: 3/29/2023 12:52:00 AM

Abantu vs Imagism:- Abantu: Lambs on a hillside / Woolly jumpers. Imagism: LAMBS Soft fleece of lambs / in a pen. / Our religious believes / going up in smoke. (This can be interpreted as sacrificial lambs, or the fact that shorn wool, when wet, often self-combusts.) Now I will give it a rest. :))

Suzette Richards
Date: 3/29/2023 12:07:00 AM

This fun two-line verse game is call and response (as we have been doing here). Hense me not seeing any connection with the imagism poetry by the association of a few poets (per your poetry label here) which calls for a single image to be focused on and the intellectual (subjective) response to it, but still in line with poetic discourse. A fine example is H.D.'s 'Oread'. In other words, I can't see a game of Abantu calling out some long stylistic line, and a high brow response in some corn field in Africa. :))

Suzette Richards
Date: 3/28/2023 11:47:00 PM

1. A curtain caught on furniture / A much needed makeover; 2. Coins on the couch (fallen from pocket) / The wind of change; 3. Wet roof tiles / Skit row.

Suzette Richards
Date: 3/28/2023 11:05:00 AM

Let's give someone else a chance. You might think of who you would like to invite. I will look at it tomorrow morning after my coffee - no viable brain function before my first cup.

Suzette Richards

Date: 3/27/2023 9:24:00 PM

Here are the 3 prompts for you (or anyone else who cares to join in the fun): 1. The first daffodil(s) of spring. 2. A gutting candle. 3. Finches at the bird feeder.

Suzette Richards
Date: 3/29/2023 12:09:00 AM

I Love your pithy responses :)

Di11y Da11y
Date: 3/28/2023 2:41:00 AM

1. A surprise visit from an old friend 2. The beginning of a long story, settling into your seat and knowing it will be good. 3. Black spots on blinking

Di11y Da11y
Date: 3/27/2023 11:04:00 PM

I'll think about these and report back later :)

Suzette Richards

Date: 3/27/2023 9:20:00 PM

Answers to the prompts on my Abuntu verses: 1. The glint on the windscreen. / Reflector sunglasses hiding someone's eyes. 2. Trees growing through the railings. / Nosy neighbours. 3. A fallen flower. / Housework done and dusted.

Suzette Richards
Date: 3/28/2023 12:11:00 AM

Thanks .... Big smile from me. Thanks for the challenge.

Di11y Da11y
Date: 3/27/2023 11:04:00 PM

Hurray! They are good!

Suzette Richards

Date: 3/27/2023 7:18:00 AM

I love this humorous string of Abantu. The footnote (pun intended) had me stumped with that 'big word' ... Lol

Suzette Richards
Date: 3/27/2023 7:57:00 AM

Comment updated: title. Check. I'm still chuckling at these.

Di11y Da11y
Date: 3/27/2023 7:52:00 AM

Haha spelling fixed and I'm not sure I'll ever remember that word but if I can I'll slide into conversation soon :) I was actually thinking of umami at first then realised that was another taste :)