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1. Always aspiring to authentic answers 2. Belief begins, only to end 3. Calls the crow, 'never, to' 4. Drifting like October leaves 5. Falling upwards, death is alive 6. Gargling, bleating, cawing birth 7. Haul the young into the hall 8. Jaded cribs reluctantly nurse 9. Lemon-sour hope gently sweetened 10. May's pastel caress heals yesterday's recall 11. Once, seasons ... now regrown faith 12. Promises to breach, ideas to rebuild 13. Returning the world not unreal, the 14. White Witch of Amherst guiding through 15. Young hearts revive again. for A Litany of Poetry Devices contest 1. alliteration 2. internal rhyme 3. allusion 4. simile 5. oxymoron 6. onomatopoeia 7. homphone 8. personification 9. metaphor 10. assonance 11. ellipsis 12. antithesis 13. litote 14. metonymy 15. synecdoche also written in ABC form.

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Date: 9/13/2018 2:57:00 PM
Congrats on your well deserved podium finish, Michelle. A lovely poem with vivid imagery, especially the "lemon-sour hope". Thanks for entering this challenging contest. Well done.
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Michelle Faulkner
Date: 9/15/2018 12:27:00 PM
Thank you, Line - I learned a lot from this!
Date: 9/1/2018 3:20:00 PM
Wow! I don't know what 3/4 of those "poetry devices" are but I can imagine it wasn't easy to come up with. Very well done my friend!!....80)
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Michelle Faulkner
Date: 9/2/2018 3:23:00 PM
I actually had to look up the definitions to those terms before I could even use them, good learning experience, though-
Date: 8/30/2018 7:45:00 PM
Excellent display, Michelle. Good luck in contest.
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Michelle Faulkner
Date: 8/31/2018 3:07:00 PM
Thank you, Susan, this was quite challenging!
Date: 8/30/2018 12:39:00 PM
I don't think I would ever attempt such a piece, but you've done it quite well. Brilliant!
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Michelle Faulkner
Date: 8/31/2018 3:07:00 PM
Thank you so much, this was not easy!

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