Trouble n’ow
a’brewin’
midst the broad moonl’ght
if ‘ is for a letter
let the letter be sp’te
if ‘ is for nothing particular
let the nothing fill what’s left of your inbox
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8 responses to “Trouble”
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Very clever little verse…enjoyed it.
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Sounds like a hoodoo conjure!
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I know, Tel! Foreign and mysterious!
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I know, right? I feel hexed for reading it. 😉
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Someone has an accent. 🙂 Or two.
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Val, if we all got together, there’s no way you could get away without developing a Southern accent yourself, shoog.
And M’lady, I have revisisted and reread this several times. I love the way you have to pause when you get to the `and how you still also sort of progress along with the poem, letting the verse, rhythm, and rhyme fill in the `blanks for you. I also trip on the ` vs the ‘. Would love to know what inspired this.
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using the hint of vernacular really does make me stop and read the poem multiple times. i especially liked broad moonlight
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OMG Tel, you have made my day because someone has finally called me Shoog! I love it and I can hear Nancy Gribble and it just tickles the cartoonists heart in me no end. When I lived in the US, I knew a few ladies form the south, one from Atlanta, one from South Carolina and one from Alabama and they were the most wonderful people I’ve ever had the pleasure of calling my friends. It looks as if I have some sort of addiction to you southerners..wait for it…EH? lol
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