It is Friday and I am feeling frivolous. Word play on steroids for me.
I am dropping in to drop this playful poem.
I am writing as the mood of the morning suggests. Yesterday was a day of serious contemplation, but today is about having a little light amusement with words.
Poetry allows us that freedom, that latitude- so I'm taking it, right here. right now. Drop what you're doing and read this...
Drop Everything
It drops down
Drops in
Drops by
I am in the drop zone
A water droplet
Followed by a slight drop of rain
Merely a drop in the ocean
A drop in the bucket
But then the penny drops
My jaw drops
Everything drops into place
I can hear a pin drop
Today is drop dead gorgeous
So, drop the dead donkey!
Don't drop off a cliff
Drop off a gift
Goody-goody gum drops.
Alan j Wright
It is Poetry Friday and out host on this occasion is Karen Edmisten who is focusing on the poetry of Arthur Sze. She has welded words from a couple of Sze's poems with her own to create a poem that suggests a way to live a better life.
Alan, this is a mic drop! Bravo!
ReplyDeleteLike your style, Mona. Thank you.
DeleteHa! What Mona said! Yay for Friday frivolity. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Irene. Frivolity reigns!
DeleteParent reminder: Meet me at the drop off! Love the word play, Alan! Thanks for the big smiles!
ReplyDeleteAh yes, Linda, the drop off. Still doing that with grand-daughter. Word play is always welcome, Thanks for your comments.
DeleteGreat word play, Alan! Glad I dropped by!
ReplyDeleteLikes the way you dropped that in, Rose.
DeleteSo glad I dropped by and that I followed Ramona Quimby's and your advice to Drop Everything and Read! :D
ReplyDeleteGo Ramona! Thanks, Karen.
DeleteHow perfectly playful. This poem pairs well with Heidi's poem using the word becoming. I love it.
ReplyDeleteShall check out Heidi's post, Linda. Thanks for your comments.
DeleteFun word play! I didn't realize how many varied ways we use that word.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Cathy. There are so many 'drop' idioms. It's amazing.
DeleteFriday frivollity achieved. Thank you for this.
ReplyDeleteYou're most welcome, Jone.
DeleteLove this drop of light! Thank you, Alan.
ReplyDeleteJust seemed the right time to drop it in, Patricia.
DeleteIt's always a good exercise, playing with idiom, with the possibilities built into a single word--and can lead some interesting places! Have you ever done one like this that was (speaking as the author of that be/come frivolity) a real poem, in the end? I don't think I have. I am charmed to know that Australians also say "Goody goody gumdrops," a phrase which I used often in my childhood!
ReplyDeleteWordplay provides a wonderful dose of mental gymnastics, Heidi. Interesting, that you ponder the use of 'real' poetry. I take that to mean 'conventional' as we both, no doubt, see these poems we have written as extremely real. Like you, I have never ended up taking such a poem into that other realm. They have their own unique identity and don't need approval from the conventionals! -and for that I say, once more, goody goody gumdrops!
DeleteYou didn't drop it with this poem, Alan! So fun. "Drop dead gorgeous" always sounds very New York to me. Maybe because it was a favorite expression of my mother-in-law, a Brooklynite to the core.
ReplyDeleteThanks Susan. I also recall the term, drop dead gorgeous during my time in NYC. It was also used as the name of a woman's fashion outlet back here in Melbourne at one time. It has certainly entrenched itself into the vernacular.
DeleteFun fun! Goody goody gumdrops for your word play...although I never loved gumdrops very much, so I'll say "goody goody salt water taffy" instead!
ReplyDeleteWe need a variety of sweet offeriings to suit various tastes. Mary Lee. Glad you enjoyed the fun.
DeleteAll those drops add up to a bucketful of fun!
ReplyDeleteLike your thinking, Jone. Thanks for this.
DeleteHow delightful your “drop” poem is, especially on this dreary, cold day, thanks Alan!☺️
ReplyDeleteIt's quite wet and dreary on my side of the world too, Michelle. Today, the temperature has taken a dramatic -drop! Thanks for your response to my wordplay manoeuvres.
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