Half Marathoners, this is your last prompt! Congratulations.
Full marathoners, after this you are halfway there!!!
Write a poem that contains no more than 100 words and no less than 90 words. If you repeatedly use the same word it only counts once. For example if the word umbrella was used 10 times in your poem you would only count it once.
The word count feature (bottom left of this text box) is your friend!
I have loved every prompt, and every moment!
So that’s 90–100 distinct words, yes? As opposed to a total word count of 90–100…
whew!
Thank you for the fun prompt! I’ll be writing more, of course, but I’ll be ending with this.
I learned that my font is too large in some of the prompts. Can I go in and fix it?
On to #12. . .
Again, many thanks!
A Hundred Words
what would I do
with a hundred words?
write you a letter?
a song in praise of you?
the beginning
of an epic?
an essay on beauty
pegged
to your gold standard?
if worth
were to be weighed
by quantity
and adherence to rules
surely this
would win a prize
fifty words
I have already reached
and so far
said nothing more
than when
I started this poem
and repetitions
do not count either
now I am sure
your are as befuddled
as I am
but if I were
to paraphrase all this
it would all
be said with my eyes
That is how I understood it. 90-100 unique words. The word count feature on the site counts the number of words, but not the number of unique words. Happy counting!
MINCED ABCS (hour 12, 2017; didn’t follow the prompt)
A botched time you arrived, isn’t it?
Been around the corners, have you?
Curving the ball, winning the game.
Don’t get all blousey on me, mate.
Enough teabags for a lifetime.
Fount off!
Go slow or be swayed.
How about coming up to where you can’t see me sometime?
I solemnly do sweat.
Just dud it.
Know the child, knock the knees.
Live strange!
Mean gulls never get the road kill.
Not in this death.
Out of sight, out of Miami.
Peace to meet you.
Quest for the mess.
Rest assayed.
Slow down – computers sleeping.
Top of the iceberg, to you.
Uppity yours.
Very bumpy move, dude.
Way to leave.
X is a spot with four corners.
You don’t whisper.
Zoos on us!