Written for: dVerse Poets Pub #87 – Quadrille – “Quick! Nick us a poem.”
(posted by WhimsyGizmo)
“Did you know that in 86 Quadrille prompts so far, we’ve never offered a word beginning with the letter “n?”
De Jackson here, aka WhimsyGizmo, and I was surprised by the little fact above, as I was pondering what word to plunder for this week’s Quadrille. Poor little neglected “n.” So I went on the hunt for a fun “n” word that can be both noun and verb, and can slide easily into some fun compound word situations.”
Just in case you’re new: a Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, not counting the title, and including one word we here at dVerse provide. And this week, I want you to ponder, and poem, the word nick.
Old St. Nick doesn’t come
down chimney anymore.
Last time he nicked a
knee. Same night, he went
to the kitchen for his cookies,
caught a child red-handed,
nicking the cookies. She cried.
Old St. Nick took off in the
nick of time.
Ha! sneaky little tyke.
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Nothing but coal for her!
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Love all those fun “nicks,” Sarah!
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Thanks, De!
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Poor St Nick!
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Well, maybe he should have forgone the cookies.
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A hard night for old Nick.
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Even he’s not exempt.
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This is cool. If you could have managed one more nick into the poem you would have won a free chicken dinner Sara!
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chicken dinner? that’s it? Thanks, Rob.
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Poor Ol’ Nick, not even a cookie, but at the least the little girl will not have anything in her stockings.
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Black coal for her.
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kaykuala
You did it very well with lots of Nicks nicking our imagination in this write Sara! St Nick will be careful the next time, I’m sure!
Hank
Hank
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Thanks, Hank!
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Hah! Clever way to cover so many meanings of the word “nick” !
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Thanks, Lillian!
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LOL I like this. 🙂
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Thanks, Crystal!
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