Dramatis persona*

helenhead Helen Chick

I've always wanted a bumper sticker that said "I'm a female, LDS/Mormon, Scout leading, geocaching, piano-playing, bicycling, mathematics educator with a PhD in maths ... and I VOTE"!

I think this makes me a minority group of cardinality 1!

* Since there's only one of me and "personae" is plural (I think), I've gone with dramatis persona.
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29. Happiness [100 poems challenge]

 

29.          Happiness

Jollity schmolity,
Happy frivolity,
Mirth and amusement and
Smiles and guffaws.

Laughter, exuberance,
Hypereuphoria,
Cheerfulness, gladness and
Joy without pause.

18 May 2013

 

Comments: Hah! I’ve written a double dactyl poem. A dactyl is a DUM-di-di triple syllable metre, and one of the hallmarks of a double dactyl poem (which I nearly forgot to include … along with some of the other subtle requirements which I have also since redressed) is a double dactyl hexasyllabic single word in the second stanza (hypereuphoria in this case — it’s allowed to be slightly made up, I think). The above is not a very good double dactyl poem; the best ones seem to be witty condensed retellings of famous events or people. The one below might not meet these criteria exactly but is nearer the spirit of the double dactyl poem than the one above.

Hexical lexical
Blog-writer Helen at-
Tempts the quite ludicrous
Challenge to write

One hundred poems; a
Cerebrostrenuous
Effort that stops her from
Sleeping at night.

← Pair of nonsense dactyls (don’t have to be relevant)
← Subject of poem
← Story continues
← Dactyl plus one strong syllable

←Dactyls continue telling the story
← A hexasyllabic double dactyl word*
← (which could appear on this line instead)
← Final line rhymes with end of first stanza

* ideally genuine, but at least convincing

Themes to come: 30. Under the Rain; 31. Flowers; 32. Night; 33. Expectation; 34. Stars

Explanation about the 100 poems challenge here.

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