Sunday, August 17, 2014

Keeps sending wrong signals


Image: Courtesy of Mindlovemisery (here)

A Triquain
A non-rhyming seven-line poem with a
syllable count of: 3 - 6 - 9 - 12 - 9 - 6 – 3

Young lady
Keeps sending wrong signals
Hiding her face but still sports a smile
Confusion reigns not knowing exactly what is
Lazy ocean weakens a man’s heart
Positively unsure
Bids to know

Redemption
Reappraisal  needed
Petrified suitor hangs on hopes
Strength of purpose wholly dependent on good sense
Young hearts opening up
Healthy thoughts!

Kerry's hosting with Sunday's Mini Challenge at Real Toads - A Triquain and
Mindlovemisery Menagerie with Prompt #68 - A Smile to remember

17 comments:

  1. Signals can sure be tough to wade through, especially when sent more than a few

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  2. How a smile can send them into wrong ways... (or right) usually it gets absolutely right at the end anyway.

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  3. Happy signals pays dividends, Great write Hank.
    Yvonne.

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  4. This is a lot of fun, Hank. It doesn't do to get those signals mixed up.

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  5. Don't smile at the single guy unless you mean it.

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  6. I thought the smile - the best signal ever! ~ Nice write :)x

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  7. Hank,

    Life seems to have just got so much more complicated and harder, by the sending of an innocent smile etc!!! Every signal is now dissected and debated...Smiles can be dangerous, so it seems:) :)

    Eileen

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  8. Nice use of form with these learning curves!

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  9. Well I am hoping for good and healthy thoughts as well ~

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  10. Ha! Very charming, Hank. k.

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  11. Oh those wrong signals...lovely piece

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  12. ah, geez. i sure hope this works out.

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  13. I love the form and you've conveyed so much I am socially inept so I never understand all those complicated signals

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  14. You can't hardly argue with redemption.

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  15. Lovely poem and take on this photo challenge. I had not been aware of this form.

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