Meaningless?

Cherry

By Rhiannonw

Thu, 31 Jan 2019
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13 comments
 

The protraction
of the interaction
saw little satisfaction
but detraction
and distraction
brought abstraction,
and subtraction
to a fraction
of the cost
of extraction.
___________________

The attraction
caused contraction
and compaction,
impaction
‘til liquefaction
and photoreaction
led to putrefaction.

[January poetry monthly: action]

 

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Comments

Submitted by Ewan on

Nice twist on the prompt. How did it go down? 

I think you missed the 'o' in Photoreaction?

BTW, reminded me of this:

https://youtu.be/GPFOU-GWIEQ

which is a good thing.

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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks for pointing out the typo, Ewan! Not sure what you meant by 'how did it go down?'.

I wanted something humorous on the lines of such words, and on failing to get something meaningful, tried to write 'good' nonsense, something I've not tried really, and presumed there should be a hint of it seeming to mean something, but not really, but presenting a nice sound of words.

In that song you linked to, it's not nonsense but a cynical feeling that everyone's just going through the motions of living isn't it? Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Ewan on

I thought it was one of the few -actions you left out is all. I thought you'd submitted it somewhere, but it's a response to January's poetry prompt. My mistake.

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Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Yes, I realised after replying, that 'stupefaction' would have been a nice one to use! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Nolan on

The rhyme really reminds one of a rap song. No offence meant. Earnestly. You do get good rap music and there's lots of gospel rap most of that is very good. There is excellent heavy metal gospel too. "Why should the devil get all the good music?"

Keep well! Nolan &

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Nolan. This was just a bit of fun, but I agree that good use of rhyme helps impact and is enjoyable as well as useful in making songs  memorable, and we should always work at writing truth in a pleasing and memorable way!

An afterthought: When copying musical trends that are used in secular or even sometimes for immoral words, I guess one would want to check that words we use are clearly audible, and conveying a holy and happy message, and are not thought to be carrying a similar ugly one to those of a similar tune?!

Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

phew! Am so glad I read the comments, I tried reading this several times and got lost after the first few lines. Made me remember Maths classes. But it's not meantr to make sense?

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

That's right! Sorry if it tried your patience and brain! I thought it sounded like science can sometimes sound when you're not sure the person knows what their talking about or is misleading you with fine-sounding words. Gobbledygook really. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Di_Hard on

 You are honest and call it Meaningless though :0)

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Yes, but I did put a '?'! Maybe that was misleading – I didn't think it really made sense, but wasn't quite sure myself in the end! Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks for the surprise cherries for this bit of fun/nonsense! I'm glad the rolling, puzzling words caused a smile. Rhiannon

 

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

Good to see some originality. A good one, Rhiannon.

Luigi x

 

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

Thanks, Luigi! Would have liked to do something sensible but funny, but couldn't get there, so had a go at fun high-sounding nonsense! Rhiannon