Today will you penance
the ordinary,
make pilgrimage of necessity
from your book of days –
Sulfur Monday – you are
but tinder for the world
Matchfire Tuesday – conflagration
shadows your every step
Ash Wednesday – and to dust
you shall return
For these are you lent
For dVerse Quadrille
qbit 
This is simply STUNNING, from start to finish. Can you squinch the word “fire” in there, to make it fit this week’s Quadrille?
“penance the ordinary” leaves me breathless. And I LOVE the double meaning “book” can have, when dealing in matches. Goodness.
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Triple crud!!! I had “fire” in there at some point and it didn’t make one of the rounds of edits. Is “Conflagration” “some semblance of the word fire”? OK, OK, I know the rules. just thought I’d ask.
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Changed “Matchstrike” to “Matchfire”
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Perfection. Loves me a compound noun. And I know exactly what you mean. That happens to me all the time – edits to get it down to 44 words, only to discover THE word is no longer in there. 😉
Still chewing on “penance” as verb, and loving it…
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Quite outstanding!
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I liked yours better.
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Only because I put coffee in it and you wish you’d thought of it first.:)
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Ahahaha!! Yes! Yes! Dang, where is the coffee in my poem? Crap.
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Matchcoffee Tuesday…
Got edited out.
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Wake up you
chuckle head!
Yeah you! Talking to you!
This is your fire-breathing,
rip-tearing, snort-snorting
coffee speaking!
It’s Caffeine Thursday
and there are no nuts
in Chock Full O’ Nuts,
but if you laugh
it out your nose
you will miss
your bus.
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Post it! Post it!
Your fans demand it!!!
Applause & Laughter ensues!!!!
(…and I never did get that bit about Chock Full. It coffee BEANS and chicory ROOT. Zero legumes.)
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Probably ill advised, but done.
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Nice buildup to Ash Wednesday.
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Thanks!
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Holy moly, q! I still wonder about that somewhat Nehru collar you sport. Great quadrille. Nice save on the fire-thing.
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LOLOL! Thanks. Yes, a bit pretentious.
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Nah! It was divine. (W)hol(l)y worthwhile!
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Thank (Y)ou!
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😛
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Love your play on Ash Wednesday and Lent!
Dwight
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Thanks!
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Humbling, to say the least. I love what you did here and I don’t know if you “practice” Lent, but the stages of sacrifice and torment met with the different days is actually describe the inner penitence of the season quite well.
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Thanks. That was what I was going for.
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So clever. Particularly liked and reflected on ‘make pilgrimage of necessity’ along with the remaining 40 words. Bravo.
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Thank you so much!
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Clever wording. I like the build up, and then the fall into ash.
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Thank you!
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Clever – I think “ash” hinted at fire… Well penned.
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