Poignant Points

Point the way to Provincetown
Pretty Penny says
The point is that we don’t run round
The circle at Buzzard’s Bay!

It’s pointless pretty Penny preens
To go another way
For what’s the point she screams
That way, there’s always a delay!

Pointing west toward the sea
Across the channel’s quay
Pretty bossy Penny
Piloted that day…

And she arrived under the sky
at the point of PTown, fey
though she was not guy
and in no way, was she gay!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2011



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Date: 1/15/2011 8:42:00 PM
Soup Mail.. see again please... as changed again..luv..
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Date: 1/12/2011 10:30:00 PM
A very clever use of alliteration throughout this piece, well done!
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Date: 1/12/2011 6:10:00 PM
so from that last line, am I to infer that one should be either a man or a gay to live in Provincetown? hahahaha. I remember what you said in soupmail. Yes, I agree about this!! LUv, Andrea
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Date: 1/12/2011 4:26:00 AM
Intellectually you have used the word point, deb. Good luck in the contest.
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Date: 1/11/2011 8:32:00 PM
Very good poem. Goodluck in the contest...Jimmy
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Date: 1/11/2011 7:12:00 PM
Super write Debbie .. a great contest entry Paula will luv... a very well presented tale and alliteration is cool too..luv.. good luck...
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Date: 1/11/2011 5:01:00 PM
Good one ..Sara
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Date: 1/11/2011 3:42:00 PM
Cute poem, Deb. If it's for the contest, it's supposed to be 20 lines. If not, it's just a pleasure to read. Best wishes, Carolyn
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