Pear-Shaped
I was wondering yesterday what to put on this week's blog. Then I saw the prompt for one of the weekly flash fiction competitions I occasionally enter - the word was HOURGLASS.
Within five minutes I had written a limerick based on the prompt.
Where the inspiration came from, I don't know. Where the ideas came from, I don't know. Suffice to say, an original glimmer of possible rhymes for lines 1, 2 and 5 of the limerick (care, hair, stare, bare, pear, pair and fair) morphed into the poem below - I hope you enjoy it:
When Mary was youthful and fair,
at her hourglass shape men would stare.
But as middle age bloomed,
her figure was doomed,
and now she resembles a pear.
Below are links to my two Global Short Story Competition winners, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi, and my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment:
http://coscomentertainment.com/?p=159
http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesjuly09.pdf
http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesdec09.pdf
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness
Happy writing!
Within five minutes I had written a limerick based on the prompt.
Where the inspiration came from, I don't know. Where the ideas came from, I don't know. Suffice to say, an original glimmer of possible rhymes for lines 1, 2 and 5 of the limerick (care, hair, stare, bare, pear, pair and fair) morphed into the poem below - I hope you enjoy it:
When Mary was youthful and fair,
at her hourglass shape men would stare.
But as middle age bloomed,
her figure was doomed,
and now she resembles a pear.
Below are links to my two Global Short Story Competition winners, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi, and my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment:
http://coscomentertainment.com/?p=159
http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesjuly09.pdf
http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesdec09.pdf
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness
Happy writing!
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