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Pea and Honey Recipes
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I Eat My Peas With Honey
And tales of derring-do.
Four lines, they can be rhyming
(That's Glow Worms to me and you).
Ending line is as usual.
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penelope
At following a fad
Chalky
It does not take me very long
Software
In fact no time at all
irach
To type into this little box
Kim
And see my words writ small
nights
I wish I was a bulldog
Raak
Of true-bred British stock
Rosie
Ugly, short and brutish
...shut up at the back...
Software
And with a squash-ed clock
Simons Mith
I've eaten too much fish and chips
Kim
To run the steeplechase
Chalky
I'm wiser just to stay indoors
Rosie
My tummy needs some space.
irach
I wish I was a haggis
Raak
In the Highlands I would roam
CdM
Hunting down the savage neeps
Rosie
For I'm no gastronome.
Software
I wish I were a skier
penelope
A-hurtling fast downhill
Rosie
A tree! I'd better veer
CdM
I wish I had the skill...
Rosie
I wish I were a molecule
irach
Bound covalently
Software
With my neutrons and my protons
CdM
Yearning to be free
irach
I wish I was Obama's dog
Kim
-ged Secretary of State
Software
Then I'd have a dogged husband
Rosie
With whom all shall mate.
Software
I wish I were the King of Hearts
Rosie
Ensconced 'tween Ace and Queen
Juxtapose
I'd give you diamonds at the club
Kim
I think it has to be conceded that, sometimes, there simply is no last line capable of rounding off a stanza effectively.
I ask you to consider
Software
[Kim] is that a first line? I was tempted to finish it myself, though poor form as I started it. I thought that:
Just don't ask where I've been
would have worked nicely.
Rosie
What you'd do if I
Assuming Kim's is a first line.
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