Busy Sunday

Day 13: "Today, we challenge you to write a poem that uses Donald Justice’s invented form. His six-line stanzas use lines of twelve syllables, and while they don’t use rhyme, they repeat end words. Specifically, the second and fourth line of each stanza repeat an end-word or syllable; the fifth and sixth lines also repeat their end-word or syllable."

My grandkids are coming over today, so what better than a poem about that? I've only got time for two verses,  but I think it needs another one if I have enough energy after they've gone home.


It's been a morning of tidying things away,
Things that get played with when the grandkids come around:
Brass bells, glass, shells, our precious bits and pieces,
Things usually, casually, left lying around.
   In their place I've put out the things they like to do 
   Lego, arts and crafts, old toys; there's plenty to do.

We can walk in the woods, find where the bluebells bloom,
Play endless treasure hunts, hide and seek, make a den, 
Let them run wild, run down their boundless energy,
I'm thankful its Spring, and we have a big garden.
    The neighbours are warned, there will be much more noise - 
    I can guarantee there will be a lot of noise!



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