Thursday, August 11, 2022

The Monster Comments

Rating: 5.0

It whispers in my ear.
It rustles through the grass.
It brushes at my skirt
in such a rush to pass.
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Loretta Shively
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Bri Edwards 26 August 2022

Today I plen to add this to my usually-monthly collection 'PH poems', which I call my 'showcase', found, as if it is a single poem by me, in my list of poems on pH.

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Bri Edwards 22 August 2022

(cont.) Your telling me the Monster's tale, with your rhyming, causes me, your poem, to keep. : ) bri

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Bri Edwards 22 August 2022

Like a wind, your poem grabbed ahold of me, shaking me from my near-sleep.

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Bri Edwards 20 August 2022

Like the wind, your poem took ahold of me, shaking me from near-sleep.

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Bri Edwards 20 August 2022

Before finding you poem I was reading weather-related stories on a weather site! : ) bri

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Bri Edwards 20 August 2022

5 stars, Loretta. I like consistent rhyming, and usually use it, but it took an effort for me and my aging body to verify your consistency/constanc in rhyming. .

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Loretta Shively 23 August 2022

Thank you for reading and rating! Also appreciate the suggestion… amid does fit better than among : )

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Bri Edwards 20 August 2022

'it played among the grass.' I think among may not be as appropriate as 'amid'. I found this in my search: 'Among is usually used with plural, countable nouns whereas amid is used with uncountable, mass nouns' : )

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