Kaleidoscope
For Heather Hubler's 'Unscramble' Challenge
Speck-
led, escalop/ed,
opalesce plea
*
spli/ced, s.l.i.c.e.d
(looped) scope
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lace like
c o o l e d solace
*
special dose;
poolside e a s e
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Slick/ed, silk,
poised lips
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(Looped) locked,
cloaked ideals
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Slip, s l i d e,
p-e-e-l, (peek)
*
deco decals
*
DEEP lido
*
Speck-
led l e a p
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Sloped, spooled,
escalop/ed opalesce daps
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sli/ced, e(clips)ed ideals
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c e a s e
sleep
peace
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Thanks for reading!
Author's Notes: This is another entry for Heather Hubler's awesome little challenge. Follow the link below for more details. I wanted a more upbeat, but still tricky entry to balance off my last one...Also, check it, all words are bold. Meaning all words originate from the original word. Boom.
Also, this song was in my head at the time. Not exactly happy, but...it is still a classic...what the kids would say...banger!
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Paul Stewart
Scottish-Italian poet/writer from Glasgow.
Overflowing in English language torture and word abuse.
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Comments (11)
Wow! What an impressive entry & to use only unscrambled words & so many… amazing! Also enjoyed the song! I’m glad I didn’t read any entries before attempting mine or I would have given up 😵💫
Did you inhale e.e. cummings?
Reading this: Whoa 🤯- a few too many steps in this challenge for me (kudos to you both) but I liked your nifty entry! 😁
Oh, I loved the stylistic choices you made with the formatting!! It lended to so well to the feel of a kaleidoscope shifting. And of course the wonderfulness of all the words being derived from the main one...big points for that feat!! I was originally going to have my sample be like that but felt it may be a bit daunting to others, lol. Soooo happy you did this one!!
clever and creative, so far the other direction from mine. lol
This was what I thought Heather meant for us to do, to use only the unscrambled words but realise I was wrong when I saw her sanple poem. But you are sooooo brilliant, King Paul Shakespeare! 🍩🥐
Awesome!!! Loved the kaleidoscope vibe!!!💕❤️❤️
You are definitely the original out of boxer, Paul. You figured out how to only use the unscrambled words in your poem and still make the meaningful! Well done!
A marvelous twisting of the lens constantly changing our view even as our point of view remains the same.
This one sounded wet all the way through.
I see what you did, and good choice of song, great challenge entry