D’ Extinction (D’Verse Quadrille # 88)
Kids.
These days! Limited
vocabulary, low language. I’m sorry
for their losses
accelerated all thumbs texting Omg
it’s all done
with emoticons, fcol!
I hold up standards but they
head bent say
I’m gone by.
But I stand
by words; sometimes
even fly.
I don’t know who invented quadrille over at the D’Verse pub for poets, but I sure like the free form with the 44 word constraint. This week those 44 are to include, in body or title, the word “extinct”. Thank you for the prompt Linda Lee Lyberg.
It really is sad to become obsolete before we become extinct!
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Yep.
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You are so good at them, too!
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Aw shucks. Thanks.
(thing is, there’s no rules, other than word count- it’s foolproof!)
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Yes, but you always have a natural knack for the rhythm of the thing.
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Thank you. I am playing with words and ideas and I am relieved if it “works”.
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Love that line:… accelerated all thumbs texting Omg
Yea, one wonders what our hands in future evolution. And how sparse our vocabulary is to become. Will it end in LOL and OMG? And yet I grew up with PTO and PS/PPS and ELY, ITALY and other such likes
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I do see an erosion of language, of grammar, spelling and vocabulary. And besides that, around the world whole languages are becoming extinct.
PTO = power take off, the gizmo gear on a tractor. Or parent teacher organization.
PS/PSS are good as they come as an addition to a written letter (remember those?)
Far as I know Ely is a guy and Italy is a country. But wtf do I know?
TFCB! (thanks for coming by)
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Ever Loving You, and I Truly Always Love You, scrawled across the seal of an envelop. And yes, I still write letters. You can say so much more in 5 pages of writing than in the clipped language of the email.
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Thanks! NIK.
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🙂
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This is a most interesting format for a poem. The way the kids do it isn’t all bad, as long as they actually can read and write. They live in a very fast world. I also like emoticons.
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Emojis can be fun. I don’t have the phone for many good ones.
The world still spins at the same rate, about 24 hours a rotation. It’s we who need to slow down, IMO.
Anyway, just playing with words here, in response to a prompt. Thanks Robbie.
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Very clever, D., and all too true.
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Thanks Buddy.
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This is perfect for the prompt and so true!
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That was a fun prompt. Thank you for it. I am behind in my reading of the others’ responses but am headed back to the pub soon to drink in all the rich poetry.
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My Pleasure!
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I like the thought of not only standing but flying by words.
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Sometimes even, if I’m lucky.
Thanks!
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I for one D, an glad my ride is lmost over. My only deep and tru sorrow is that my 5-year-old grandson, and his generation, has to sort this mess out.
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It’s a good time to be older.
But that’s probably been said before.
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LOL!! 🙂 alas this is all we soon will be able to say. LMFAO
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T! (IDKWYLM)
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I dislike emojis–say what you mean! But actually, language is a living thing, so it’s going to change. It’s leaving me behind though. (K)
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It’s changing rapidly. More than ever perhaps, different generations are a different culture and there is a language barrier, where what would appear to be the same word has different meanings.
So when you say what you mean it doesn’t mean what you said.
Yikes.
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This is a hilarious take on a very serious loss ❤ 😎 😉
[I couldn't resist :)]
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🤔😐😂
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Change in this area seems to be coming very fast. They stopped teaching cursive writing in some schools…maybe all of them now and I just don’t know it. It’s enough to make your head spin!
Gayle ~
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Yep. My head is spinning. What will be considered a “classic” fifty years hence? ( Just had to use “hence” while I could)
Thanks for coming by.
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Haha…love that word ‘hence’ too; use it whenever you can.
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Henceforth I shall.
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😀
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