Category: An Ode a Day

A Literary Misnomer-Day 3-It’s a Limerick

by barbstruestories, posted in A Limerick a Day, An Ode a Day

I’m embarrassed, abashed and chagrined for I did pick                                                                                 For two days past to pen a literary form so quick

What was I thinking,  I publicly labelled and to the blogosphere told                                    I would daily for several consecutive create an ode  

I thank a friend for setting me right, for the form is actually limerick!

(Limerick)

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The world is coming undone and things are going to pot                                                 When anyone anywhere can write something, give it a shot                                                            For those professional writers and grammarians it must be all they can bear            When unrefined folk like me go on a tear                                                                                  And decide willy nilly to keyboard a rhyme                                                                           With ignorance to form and established verse                                                                        And the nerve! to post a blog for the world to see                                                                 You think you’d take a moment to get it right they mime                                                      And vow if they meet me to be very terse                                                                                 For it’s obvious this woman doesn’t know a literary q from a p

(Ode)

I think I got the rhyming scheme down for each form now.  If it’s not right, I’d appreciate a course correction from someone out there.  One of the references said that limericks are often obscene.  I seem to be digging myself in deeper every day.

Commitments (An Ode a Day-Day 2)

by barbstruestories, posted in An Ode a Day

Commitments

Commitments, openly stated, you then mean to keep

Without some forethought however, doubt starts to creep

 

Like this ode thing, I see now, is of certain code

Containing a strophe, an antistrophe and epode

 

Huh? Am thinking now I got in too deep

If someone would like to weigh in and tell me if the above is anything close to an ode, I’d appreciate it.

An Ode a Day (for not all that long) Day 1-Tony

by barbstruestories, posted in An Ode a Day

There are very ambitious bloggers who decide to blog daily for a long time on a certain subject.  Examples are various photo blogs and the blog that beget the story underlying the Hollywood movie “Julie and Julia” or our Ottawa based An Elephant A Day blog.  

I do not possess the talent, tenacity or creativity to blog daily.  I think I have it in me, though, to pen an ode a day, until May Day.  May Day is May 1st and by then I will likely be weary of creating odes and many of you who are kind enough to look at this blog will likely want to issue a “may day” by then anyway.  The odes will have no particular theme.  In fact, if you’d like, send me a topic, a word or phrase and I’ll see if I can put it to ode.

Here’s the inaugural blog based on an item that is one of the leading news items today.  (smaller font is due to user ineptness and inability to figure out to change it)

There once was a man named Tony
And that name rhymes with baloney
It says on the news, he and Senator Pana
Put money in places that grow bananas
Some would buy tickets to watch this pony