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Drat That Drought --Contest: Acrostic

DRAT THAT DROUGHT Relinquish water's recipe and rain from sky. All rain dances done left California dry. Ignited fires baked us like a Scottish mutton pie. Now let us wash it down with RAIN and not with rye. -Edlynn Nau © November 9, 2015 Contest: Wind, Snow, or RAIN [AcrostRain] Sponsor: Jan Allison PLACED: SECOND PLACE

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Nayda Ivette Negron Flores

Date: 12/11/2015 9:47:00 AM

Congratulations Edlynn.

Edlynn Nau
Date: 12/11/2015 8:01:00 PM

How kind of you to stop in and wish me so! I'm buried in work but just heard. I owe all of you a lot of good reads. Cannot wait! Waiting for everything to settle!

Skat A

Date: 12/10/2015 1:20:00 PM

EDLYNN, Congratulations with your wonderful win! *SKAT*

Edlynn Nau
Date: 12/11/2015 8:00:00 PM

Sweet of you to drop in Skat and thank you for your thoughtfulness. I hope to get out from under soon? I have a lot of catching up to do.

Dr. Upma A. Sharma

Date: 12/9/2015 10:58:00 PM

Very wonderful write Edlynn.. congrats on great win!

Edlynn Nau
Date: 12/11/2015 7:57:00 PM

Thank you so much! Very nice surprise! I think must have had so many of these little verses to judge. Hard job!

Ralph Sergi

Date: 11/14/2015 11:35:00 AM

Hi Edlynn: Beautiful acrostic of the rain and I love the rain!

Edlynn Nau
Date: 12/7/2015 3:18:00 PM

Hi Ralph! I just got this! I'm very behind in my reads and haven't had time to write since November. Life can be a tangle sometimes! Thank you for your comments and I hope to catch up soon & stop in to have a read of your work.

Edlynn Nau
Date: 11/14/2015 5:06:00 PM

Thank you Ralph. The rain is our planet's blood and our life! Adore it seasonally. Hated it every day for 9 mos while living in WA. We need to pipeline this liquid gold (like we did oil) from them that's got to them that doesn't ! Ha.

Paul Callus

Date: 11/12/2015 12:57:00 PM

A delightful and clever Acrostrain, Edlynn. I would love to see this one on the winners' list! Regards // paul

Edlynn Nau
Date: 12/7/2015 3:16:00 PM

Jan still hasn't judged this or it just isn't showing up on my listing. This was due in before Thanksgiving. I bet the poor dear got a million of these! Ha!

Edlynn Nau
Date: 11/12/2015 1:15:00 PM

Ha ha ha ha! ME TOO! I would love that don't you know! Thank you for stopping in...I'm loving your visits!

Hannington Mumo

Date: 11/12/2015 12:07:00 PM

Your rhyme scheme is enviable. You are such a brilliant writer. #7.

Edlynn Nau
Date: 12/7/2015 3:13:00 PM

Thank you so much! What a huge compliment. I never feel brilliant, just possessed. Ha! I'm sorry to take SO LONG to reply. I'm terribly behind on all my reading. I'm docking down writing ideas but no time for art just now. Bothersome!

Edlynn Nau
Date: 11/12/2015 1:11:00 PM

Why thank you for your thoughtful comment! I am pleased to meet you and will be reading more of your work! It is always so nice when someone leaves a note as you know) we get so many more readers than those that drop in! Thank you for your high rating too!

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 11/11/2015 8:06:00 PM

Oh, I just also noticed that you wrote AcrostRain, focusing on rain inside the word. Clever idea as clever as your cute poem. You need to make the title (at the very top) be Rain Acrostrain; otherwise it might be eliminated. Hope not though. This is so nice.

Edlynn Nau
Date: 11/11/2015 9:27:00 PM

Got the title changed AND STILL working on new tiles for Sleep with This Sky. Have several ideas but there has been some debate on the change. Too funny!

Edlynn Nau
Date: 11/11/2015 9:21:00 PM

Thanks for the tip! You are ALWAYS SO HELPFUL and I love that about you. Will fix that. Didn't see that the contest "required" name of contest be the title of the poem. Most will say that! Must have missed it! Glad for those good eyes!

Michael Tor

Date: 11/10/2015 1:41:00 PM

I enjoyed this Edlynn. You can relate to this too well. Darn those fires.

Michael Tor
Date: 11/10/2015 4:40:00 PM

I sent you a message on your inbox on your latest writes.

Edlynn Nau
Date: 11/10/2015 3:17:00 PM

Well now we are possibly going to need canoes if we get the El Niño rains! Thanks for coming by and I will stop in for a read at your cup of Soup!

Caycay Jennings

Date: 11/10/2015 11:59:00 AM

Very clever and enjoyable ... CayCay

Edlynn Nau
Date: 11/11/2015 1:58:00 AM

Ha...well we only get four lines & CA hasn't had Snow, Wind, or Rain. Thus the drought idea. I'm stopping by your porridge by the weeks end.

Olive Eloisa Guillermo - Fraser

Date: 11/10/2015 1:39:00 AM

Edlynn, like the third line best.. =`) great descriptions!!~Olive Eloisa

Edlynn Nau
Date: 11/11/2015 1:55:00 AM

Thank you Olive! Just got back from driving with my 85 year old dad to the VA in another city. I've planned to get to your menu of Poetry this week! I just love a good read! :-p

Mark Woods

Date: 11/9/2015 10:23:00 PM

We're heading for another drought in my part of the world, so I can feel this poem. I hope we both get the rain we need.

Edlynn Nau
Date: 11/10/2015 12:07:00 AM

. . . And some TRULY think our planet isn't in trouble or that global warming is a lie...a denial of the deadly kind.

Mark Woods
Date: 11/9/2015 11:51:00 PM

New Zealand is home for me, we had a very hard drought last year and we are heading down the same road again this year. Hardly anything through the winter, and while it is a spring green at the moment the dust is starting to billow. Yuck

Edlynn Nau
Date: 11/9/2015 11:27:00 PM

Me too Mak? Where are you so dry? We've had three rains now in NorCal. Great! It is THE AREA of the THREE MAJOR CA Fires. So now do we Evac for falling trees & landslides after an entire season where our entire county was outnumbered by firemen? Sigh! Thanks SO MUCH for stopping in & I ALWAYS return the grace.