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Poetic Form: Acrostic
Inspired: 2024 April 18
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Like a great beast Its age set course Futures the feast Exits ones corpse

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Matt Caliri

Date: 5/20/2024 9:11:00 PM

Congrats my island Sistah! You got 10th place out of 61 entries! Love your word usage, natural flow, and clever rhyme. This was an onolicious poem!

Hilo Poet
Date: 5/20/2024 9:41:00 PM

Cheers Matt, tho #62 it surely be--morbid and all--sorta thing that upchuck sistahs, not this bro, Aloha

Diane Christian

Date: 4/20/2024 11:45:00 AM

This is well written It sums it up to a t.

Hilo Poet
Date: 4/20/2024 12:36:00 PM

Thanks for your tally, maturity adds the right spices and merely sours in its minuses. Aloha, William

Buhagiar Victor

Date: 4/19/2024 3:14:00 AM

Hi William, is this for a contest? If so best of luck. I am not good at short poems and sometimes I divide them in two. Yours is so perfect. Good luck.

Hilo Poet
Date: 4/19/2024 3:48:00 AM

You are much too kind, Victor, of course, your optimism is very much welcomed, my friend, and truly appreciated. Aloha, William

Paula Goldsmith

Date: 4/18/2024 1:38:00 PM

I enjoyed reading your wonderful "LIFE" Acrostic write. "Good Luck" Looks like we both did this one. Enjoy your day writing away.............

Hilo Poet
Date: 4/18/2024 2:56:00 PM

Most had written there's less un-inspiring or blunt as mine, but, yours is a blessed write, Paula, thank you in kind. Aloha, William

Sara Etgen-Baker

Date: 4/18/2024 8:58:00 AM

an Acrostic that rhymes...doesn't get any better than that! have a pleasant day, Sara

Hilo Poet
Date: 4/18/2024 9:29:00 AM

Thanks, Sara, enjoy your day, Aloha, William