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Go Jo, Our Neighborhood Nun

Sister Josephine, our neighborhood nun. No longer fit for ministry; although she’s quit the nunnery, she sits at our day camp nursery. Go Jo uses every amp of energy so as to champion or otherwise dampen the spirit of grit in our scamps. Sister Josephine, power shavers couldn’t stun. Noise is born in my son. Enjoying his horn on the run from morn till night with the sun, Boy Roy is fun, delightfully won. Toys are Sprite cans, squiggly egg whites, old cobs of corn and badly worn kites. Sister Josephine, our savior you’d want. Nursing their aches and their sprains, reversing the stakes in their games, she takes on blessing their brains. Interspersed with pain, her tests will train, coerce and arrest their thoughts with some stress. Her heart makes and breaks their quests. Sister Josephine showers favors - on good done. Rhyming Words: Stanza one: no, although, Go, Jo, so fit, quit, sits, spirit, grit ministry, nunnery, nursery, every, energy camp, amp, champion, dampen, scamps Stanza two: noise, enjoying, Boy, Roy, toys born, horn, morn, corn, worn son, run, sun, fun, won night, delight, Sprite, whites, kites Stanza three: nursing, reversing, inter/spersed, coerce aches, stakes, takes, makes, breaks sprains, games, brains, pain, train blessing, tests, arrest, stress, quests Random rhymes in the the single lines: our, power, showers (neighborhood), (shavers could), (savior you'd), (favors/good) nun, stun, want, done

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Date: 7/14/2014 1:22:00 AM
Reason, Congratulations, on your awesome win. Love Linda
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Date: 7/11/2014 1:16:00 PM
Congratulations, Reason...I enjoyed meeting your nun Josephine.
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Date: 7/11/2014 12:27:00 PM
Impressive indeed, Reason! Congrats on a great win! Hugs.. Arlene
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Date: 7/10/2014 7:23:00 AM
After reading your poem I have a better understanding of what Verlena was asking for. Well done.
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Date: 7/10/2014 10:35:00 PM
Thank you, Richard, the schema part was the hardest...have edited it somewhat since your read, but it fits the specs, Verlena provided. And I had to change that title.
Date: 7/10/2014 6:55:00 AM
Very impressive take Reason! Congrats on big win!
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Date: 7/10/2014 10:41:00 PM
Thanks, Dr. Upma, I welcome your comment.
Date: 7/10/2014 5:03:00 AM
A wonderful take on the contest... Congrats Tim
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Date: 7/10/2014 3:13:00 AM
Congrats on a well written poem ...Seren
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Date: 7/9/2014 11:21:00 PM
Reasons, well done... You did this very well. You shine! Verlena
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Date: 7/10/2014 10:42:00 PM
Thank you, Verlena...and I had to edit the title as soon as the contest was judged. Hope you don't mind. I appreciate the placement but I truly enjoyed the contest as a challenge like no other.

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