Beloved bicycle, where art thou?
Why didst thou leave out of the blue?
Hasten, my precious, return to me,
For without thou I cannot be.
Lily puts pictures of her bike on all the lampposts.
She wrote a silly poem to appeal to the thief’s heart
Because she checked how much a new bike costs
And determined she couldn’t afford one, for a start.
She wants hers back, she loves it a lot.
It was a present from a guy she never forgot.
Main reason she remembers him though’s the bike,
So she needs it for memory and mobility alike.
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I didn’t mean to mash Writing 101: Poetry and FFfAW, but the prompts demanded to be used together. Who am I to put up a fight?
Oh, and if you are interested in what I have to say about writing my 100-word stories, my first mslexia guest post is up today.
If there’s one person to marry the multiple prompts creatively, that’s you, Sonya.
I like how the last line highlights that she used it not just for the sake of memory – I’m all for anything practical! 😀 I enjoyed this!
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Thanks, Annie! Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
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My pleasure! 🙂
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Hope the thief will read this poem and bring back your bike. Good luck!😊
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Thank you 🙂
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You’re welcome😊
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LOL! Cute poem! I hope you get your bike back too but since it was stolen, I highly doubt it.
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Oh, it’s fiction. Well, sort of based on a true story, but I had two bikes and the thief took the one I didn’t like so much… Thanks, PJ 🙂
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LOL! At least he didn’t take your favorite. 😀
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I see this blog is Sonya and I see another blog that is Sonyca. Are you both people?
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Well, my blog’s sonyca.wordpress.com, but my name is Sonya. So I suppose I’m both!
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Oh, okay! Now I understand. I saw the Sonyca and thought I had misread the Sonya.
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Are you also Joy Pixley?
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Nope, that’s someone else 🙂
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Nice job putting the two prompts together. I loved the girl’s poem it is cute. And I feel bad for her since she loves this bike and cant afford another.
Great writing.
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I’m glad you thought the poem was cute. I wasn’t quite sure if it wasn’t a bit cheesy… Thank you 🙂
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It was just right
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Well done, love the story, the poetry adds something unique and is very befitting 🙂
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Thank you, Alixa 🙂
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This is fantastic. I love your take on this. I was trying to figure out what to do for beloved since I haven’t got one
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Glad you liked it and I hope I helped to inspire you… Thanks Melinda!
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You’re welcome and it did! I have no beloved so I was scratching my head over this one.
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Love it! A great way to work the prompts together!
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I think I liked this too much
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Great take on both prompts. I especially liked the last line: way to end with a bang.
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Thank you, Joy! I was quite pleased with that line myself – glad you liked it, too 🙂
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Fun! Really liked it.
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Thank you 🙂
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This was great! Love the poem. Too bad about her bike, she probably will never see it again.
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I’m afraid so, it’s gone for good. Thank you!
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I know I’ve been absent from challenges for a while, but I’ve never come across your poetry before. You’ve managed to make this work really well for two prompts, at the same time as making it a fun read – with a storyline to boot. The girl’s poem is fun, in the olde English style, but her message is clear: she wants her bike back! Her reasons for that in the second part make a lot of sense, as well as continuing in the humorous tone. Poor girl – but I have to wonder whether she’d bothered to chain it up! 🙂
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Thanks, Millie! The poetry is a fairly recent development – I’m having a lot of fun playing around with something new 🙂
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I like the poetic form – great idea to merge the prompts. I hope the thief reads her poem and brings her bike back. 🙂
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I hope so, too, but I rather doubt it. Thanks, Louise, glad you liked it 🙂
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Insane!!! Loved it. 😄😄
My blog: https://literatureandstuff.wordpress.com
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