Today’s rhyme, In An Oak There Lived an Owl, should have been much easier. “Just draw a freaking owl” you say. Well, yes but even there I find myself falling back on pedantry. What kind of owl? I went through a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, “Send Me a Ribbon” was another one of those ones that was really easy to conceive, and because it was that easy I dragged my feet for over an hour. I’ve been avoiding most of the poems about[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had a rough start with today’s challenge, pulling a couple of incoherent almanac rhymes before I got to “Here’s a Health Unto Our Master” . I actually stumbled over it a couple of days ago but being off my[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s Rhyme ” The Old Man in the Velvet Coat” for me hits the land of Values Dissonance again. The poem doesn’t say anything about whether the “maid” (don’t know if that means girl or servant in the context, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme, “A Robin and a Robin’s Son” was one I just couldn’t resist. The possibilities just started popping up as soon as I read the first line. The only challenge was making sure the tiny little robins were visible[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Well for this rhyme, “It’s Once I Courted As Pretty a Lass”, I was afraid I was dealing with one of the cliche’s of this collection, a gentleman gone a wooing… that is until I got to the last verse and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve been beginning to cringe anytime I get a number between 450 and 600 on this challenge because it means it’s one of the almanac rhymes that says something abstract about the weather and I would feel guilty about skipping[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I must say, beyond the cliche about Donkey’s being stubborn, today’s rhyme, “Donkey, Donkey, Do Not Bray,” made little sense to me. I decided to go with the donkey holding the narrator up so much that it took him the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today’s rhyme “Dance to Your Daddy,” is kind of cute, though based on the context I wasn’t completely sure if the father was even there.
When I saw the number for today’s rhyme I was worried since numbers between 450 and 600 tend to be completely abstract sayings about the weather and such, and technically this rhyme “Dreams at the Night are the Devil’s Delight” ,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
