Poets Pub, and Lillian has tossed the gauntlet of puzzles, or, if we’re brave, acrostic and acrostic plus for our poetic form. I stumbled over the gauntlet but soldiered onward to an acrostic, and, heaven help me, the acrostics rhyme.… Submitted to dVerse August 24, 2021
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THE PLAY
Words well chosen
Have been used to
Enumerate and
Name the
Cast and
Ensemble
Still,
Each cast member
Naked though they be
Seems slightly
Erroneous
It can sometimes feel awkward to fit words into an acrostic form, even if it ends up making sense!
ReplyDeleteHah! Enjoyed this. Nice messaging with first letters of both stanzas. And clever title….play on words really😊
ReplyDeleteGreat play on words, well done!
ReplyDeleteAnd a lovely pair of acrostics they are too! :-D
ReplyDeleteGood one Bev! Play it on, smiles.
ReplyDeleteLovely wordplay, Bev!💝💝
ReplyDeleteI love this, Bev. The wordplay and rhythm is great!
ReplyDeleteHa, I think I get this...but I could be wrong!
ReplyDeleteYes, I like this. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteThis is way clever! Ingenious really. I struggled with what now seems like a “simple” acrostic!
ReplyDeleteYou really brought sense to the whence. Well done!
ReplyDeleteWonderful wordplay!
ReplyDeleteMaybe making sense will always be futile if we only act.
ReplyDeleteA lot of sense Bev, and even having them to rhyme
ReplyDeleteHank
whence sense contains a lot sense, Beverly :)
ReplyDeleteCleverly (done) Beverly!
ReplyDeleteErroneous... unless they make sense, like this.
ReplyDeleteSo clever, Bev!
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