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Running Rampant

When words are running rampant You just have to rein them in. By lassoing a few of them, At least you can begin. They’ll buck and kick and race around, Defiantly at first, Especially the adjectives – You know that they’re the worst. But once you calm them down and let The verbs and adverbs mix, The nouns and pronouns may decide To use their bag of tricks… Releasing prepositions And conjunctions by the score. You want some interjections? Hey! You couldn’t ask for more. If all the parts of speech are caught You don’t have an excuse. Without a poem resulting, You should go and let them loose. So string them all together And you’ll possibly succeed In creating, from these random words, Some poetry to read.

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Date: 2/7/2023 5:34:00 PM
spoken like a true english teacher... love it!
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Date: 2/6/2023 7:04:00 PM
This is DE-Light-FUL, Ilene. A fave for me. Thanks! ~ Gershon
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Date: 2/6/2023 6:24:00 PM
Chuckled and enjoyed and thoroughly identified with your poem Ilene.
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Date: 2/6/2023 8:34:00 AM
An excellent poem and I can always use help with the various parts of speech. If you take requests a piece on punctuation would be good as well. John
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Date: 2/6/2023 7:59:00 AM
Fun one
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Date: 2/5/2023 4:54:00 PM
Oh its so true Ilene, I woke up the other morning reciting in my mind, some thing I must have concocted in my sleep. I stumbled to the computer and began to type, but I couldn't keep up with myself. Words were bouncing around. Your poem is amazing, its like you had ESP and saw what happened to me. Great writing !
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Date: 2/5/2023 4:27:00 PM
You could very well be the first square-verse rapper. =]
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