In her poem, “Front Yard Rhyme,” Cecily Parks evokes the sing-songy beats that accompany girls’ clapping games, and jump-rope and skipping rhymes. Today, we challenge you to write your own poem that emulates these songs – something to snap, clap, and jump around to.
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Love the Fee Fee refrain! I ended up writing a bit of a war rhyme too...this was a challenging prompt, way out of my comfort zone!!
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DeleteArti, this is sharp and unsettling. The nursery-rhyme rhythm makes the poem feel almost playful at first, which only makes its spiral into violence, propaganda, war, and shrinking thought hit harder. “The less we truth” is especially striking, strange, memorable, and disturbingly apt.
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ReplyDeleteFabulous Formation - a tad Frightening! In the tradition of so many nursery rhymes, which were really adults 'cartooning' the world (eg Ring-a-ring of Roses = The Plague... Humpty Dumpty, about George III...) YAM xx
Thank you Yamini. Yes, these are unsettling, frightening times.
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