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Dec 13, 2012 at 12:10pm
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Edited: December 13, 2012 at 12:12pm
Round 5
This will be a FAST round. Your entry must be posted by 8pm WDC time Thursday evening, so you have less than 8 hours from now ... if you don't make it due to time zone challenges, no worries. Pita Author Icon will post a new prompt at 8pm.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to write an English sonnet, which consists of 3 quatrains of alternating rhyme and a closing couplet. There are typically 10 syllables in each line but I'll probably be too bleary eyed from reading your crappy poems to count or notice whether you use iambic pentameter or not! *Bigsmile*

Here is the rhyme scheme
a b a b
c d c d
e f e f

g g

PROMPT: Teaching someone how to do something they've never done before.
(And for you pervs out there, be mindful of the 18+ rating of this forum, lol!)

Here's my sample.

Never Grow Up

Mounting the bike with determination,
(the training wheels already cast aside)
and with his face filled with great elation,
he kicked off with his feet, ready to ride.

I ran along the side to steady him,
but soon realized that I couldn’t keep up.
So I shouted at him, “Please slow down Jim!”
He looked back asking, “Slow down?” - I said, “Yup!”

Mistake! For when he turned his head to me
to make sure that he could hear what I said,
he of course ran right straight into a tree,
as did I – now we're both confined to bed.

He muttered, "Learning to ride was way past due!
For on my next birthday I’ll be forty two!”


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