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New Form Serpent's Tail Let Us Start a Life Cycle

Let us start a life cycle, look I’m down on my knees, she looked, and gasped yes, I will, I will marry thee. We, now together 49 years, one year courting, heaven, still is, though now matured like vintage, sparkling wine. Time to crack a bottle, a little bird has told us that our eldest, heard proposing, using my, “Let us start a life cycle” ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Serpent’s Tail poetry, a new form created by Jane Dougherty Rules: Any line length, no set number of lines and no meter. To make the serpent, the last word of each line rhymes with the first word of the following line with the last line being the same as the first, so the serpent eats its own tail. The last part is the tricky bit.

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Date: 10/26/2017 1:28:00 PM
I enjoyed Mick
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Mick Talbot
Date: 10/29/2017 1:59:00 AM
Thank you, raw thinker :)
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Mick Talbot
Date: 10/26/2017 5:49:00 PM
This is how the 'Serpent's Tail' should be written, and it is about the rule I didn't get right. No, I am going to post it as a correctly formed 'Serpent's Tail'. All explained in the poem 'Serpent' Tail'. Many thanks for your appreciation, Mick
Date: 10/26/2017 12:19:00 PM
So, so sorry, my first Serpent's Tail poem a misunderstanding... Landing me in bother with the inventor of the serpent's tail... Mail, O I got plenty, reprimanding me, but very gently... Mentally I thought what wrote was right, she too, thought it nice... Thrice my attempts were wrong, so this time I have got it right... Might seem a strange way to reply to any comment, but I often do... Phew! The last word of every line, with the first of the next, must rhyme... Time has helped me, and Catie's nudge has got me through my woe... So, so sorry, my first Serpent's Tail poem a misunderstanding...
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