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By Laurie Glass
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Enjoys the quiet on a summer night.
With grammar book and writer’s guidelines, too,
Mind races with ideas fresh and new.
When sitting on the deck, with pen in hand,
Hears voices that she doesn’t understand.
The neighbors are away, it can’t be them,
So just where are these voice coming from?
She could give in and let herself get shook,
Instead, she opens up her grammar book.
And that’s when things begin to come to light,
The voices then erupt into a fight.
“I’m active, and I bring us all alive,
Or else the rest of you could not survive.
I know you think I’m ordinary, but
Without me, readers would be asking, ‘What?’
For I convey a person, place or thing,
Into a sentence, clarity I bring.
But I’m the one who introduces you,
I’m proud to be an article, it’s true.
But you are nothing when you’re on your own,
I interject, exclaim, command, alone.
Well smarty pants, that’s fine but tell me then
Who else could tell the why or where or when?
You flow’ry thing, don’t tell me you don’t know
That growing writers do avoid you so.
I ask, ‘What’s wrong with flowers anyway?’
My pretty words can make a poet’s day.
Whatever, don’t you know that I describe?
I draw the reader in, I’m like a bribe.
Who cares, for it’s well known that I’m the glue,
I’m in the middle joining all of you.
But I describe relationship between
The rest of you, to help the reader glean.
You’re picky where you in the sentence land,
Refuse your placement if it’s at the end.”
“I can’t believe what I’ve just heard tonight,
For there’s no reason for you all to fight.
I ask you, please, stop fighting, for my sake,
Your conflict makes my writer’s spirit ache.
Each one of you is vital for my use,
I need you all to sentences produce.
Besides that, you are all distracting me,”
And, quietly, the parts of speech agree.
Afraid her writer friends will not believe
The words she heard on this calm, summer’s eve,
She frantically records each bit she’s heard,
She doesn’t want to miss a single word.
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Something else I noticed: You could turn this into a quiz. Which part of speech is speaking which lines? :)
This is certainly a winner in my book.
That growing writers do avoid you so.' Hehe - not me! ;)
What fun, and I LOVE the ending. I wish I understood grammar to know what all the fuss was about! Haha! :)
But you know, it sounds so typical and I think you captured the writers soul here. The conflicts as we write - what to use - what not to use, and so on. Toooo real. Kudos on a very fun read!
The only suggestion I have is something to make it clear--when the parts begin to talk--that there are different speakers. It took me a few stanzas to catch on. You did right to avoid quotation marks--would've been messy--but maybe having every other "speaker's" words in italics?
And even though this is great fun, there's a message--we all work together. Really, really cute.
And, quietly, the parts of speech agree.
I love that line! This is very cute. I had a little trouble following who was doing the speaking but all in all it didn't hurt the piece. It was alot of fun!