DAFFODILS
I
am
the
gent
whose
garden
merrily
displays
daffodils
throughout
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Author:
Michael Edwards (
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- Comment from author about the poem: An edone. There are 10 lines. Each line contains only one word – the first word contains one or more letters and each word increases by one letter to word No10.
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Good write and pic M. Was you 56 minutes into the day, picking a bunch of those daffodils?
Ooh, I might do one. I could use 'incrementally' if I got up to 13 letters! Long word, but very difficult to fit in to an edone. Have to work out 1 to 12 first! lol.
I was looking for them but couldn't find any - Forgot it's September.
You could try increments.
Doh! I forgot. But then I water weeds in the garden too. It was a comment suitable for March really - daffodils. Ahh increments is 10.
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Then again, starting at 13 would be extremely difficult!
Clever stuff, but it looks like a christmas tree.
You could one about a Christmas tree - go on Dusk
Clever write Michael, I will have to give it a go.
Look forward to it Andy.
You guys are incredible with all these math oriented poems. Never like math that much, even though I now do engineering work. I have no idea how you do it, and how you do it so well!!!! I just cannot seem to think of words and numbers at the same time!
And, oh, Michael, see that Santita beat you this time! You just gotta get up earlier!
She stays up late to beat me and I get up early to beat her - she won today !!
Thanks MICHAEL for a lovely EDONE (it should really be called ADD~ONE !) and a lovely TOPIC ~ Daffodils ~ National Flower of Wales and a real harbinger of Spring in England too ! love the shape very HOLLYHOCK ! As a Classical Poet I am so pleased that MPS is becoming A UNIVERSITY of VERSE and we are all learning from each other ~ Thanks Professor ~ Yours BRIAN
As you've probably guessed it's an Edwards One = Edone.
Unless anyone knows any better I don't think it's been done before.
Yes I love the DaffyDownDilly in all its it's cultivated forms - git quite a striking pink one in the garden but the blooms tend to look down which is a shame.
YES INDEED "ED" ~ I guessed it was a play on words ED~ONE = ADD~ONE ! Poetic forms based in LETTERS are much less common than ones based on SYLLABLES ~ also POETRY is a lot older than "standardised spelling" which only arrived with SAMUEL JOHNSON and his dictionary ! Also METER is syllabicate not governed by letters ~ we live and we learn ! Of course by using letters you should get a perfect El Greco Cone ~ I will post one manana ~ OK ~ BRIAN
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Oooh a challenge of a form methinks and you pen it so well Michael - daffodils throughout eh ? Yours must be an "edone" of a garden my friend.
Cheers Fay - actually I do have quite a few varieties from miniatures to standard, doubles, split coronas, jonquils species etc - they really are harbingers of spring.
This seems really hard to do , way to go good work
Thanks Bill - can be hard but fun.
Not only it is a beautiful poem, but also hard to write.
Today, I post the real etheree piece. Welcome to stop by.
Yes I've seen it and commented - so well done - want to try one of these?
Oh, MG. Another hard mission. OK. It sure will take me a while. Be patient.
Like Fred said, it is fantastic how you guys can write and count at the same time. I can not. I can barely deposit my words there. Beautiful poem and form Michael.
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