Rebecca is our host for monthly poetry challenge.

My body once supple
Now changed to brittle
Bending is now difficult
Or walking, getting up
Syllable count: 24
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The Challenge
Write a non-rhyming poem, 4 lines about something that has changed over time, in English or Spanish. Deadline: Sunday 6/12, noon CST. G-rated please. If you are a blogger, please publish your poem on your website with the hashtag #ffpoemapop and link to this page by 5/12. If you are a poet at large, please post your poem below by June 12. I’ll publish a post with your poems next Tuesday, June 14!
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#Keepitalive
#ffpoemapop
Fabulous take! I love it!
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Thanks Suzette! I found an online syllable counter. That helped.
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Ah marvelous!
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😎
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hear, hear! I love it too ❤
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Thanks David
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Awesomeness!
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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Not quite yet! A great challenge and a brilliant response, Sadje.
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Thanks Keith! For me the most challenging part was to keep it in the syllable count.
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age sore just so not some more
slow and wise
at least in my own eyes
lmao
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That’s true.
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Wonderful poem, Sadje! ❤️It is easy to count the syllable, but we find it difficult.
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Yes, because I’ve never done it before. Thanks
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You are welcome, Sadje! Yes, once we are habited, it becomes easier.
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That’s true
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🙂👍🏻
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👍🏼
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I can relate.
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Thanks EA.
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Great take on the prompt. I’m feeling ya here! 💖💖
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Haha! Yup, we feel it all as we cross over from young to middle age.
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For sure!! 😂
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💕😜
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Aging has its challenges.
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Very true Patricia
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That’s a wonderful take and poem, Sadje. Love it.
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Thanks Jeff.
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You’re welcome, Sadje. Always.
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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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Ooooh. How I wish I didn’t know EXACTLY what you mean!
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Haha Margrate! It an unavoidable knowledge if we grow old.
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Minimization of flexibility that comes with Ageism – well written my friend.
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Thanks June. That’s a fact of life.
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Yes, unfortunately. Nobody informed us of what to expect after reaching the half-century mark. 😫
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But seeing older people I had a very good idea.
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Very relatable!! On our walk this morning we met a gent who had surgery and pins in his back… No more golfing for him he said. Just old bones that need support. I haven’t gotten there yet. But I do take meds to strengthen my ‘old’ bones!! 🙂
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Thanks Jules! Pins, nails and plates, all to support the bone structure of our aging bodies.
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Better to be supported, upright and alive than the alternative…
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Exactly so! That’s what I say too
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😀
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Says everyone at some point in their life.
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Yup, that’s a fact of life.
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Well done Sadje!
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Thanks 🙏🏼
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You are welcome.
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🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
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I wish I knew about this challenge earlier.
Hope to join next time :))
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Keep an eye out for monthly poetry challenge on Fake flamingo
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Nice♥️😁
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Thanks Vicky
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wow only 4 lines but the meaning is deep
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Thanks 🙏🏼
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