Back in April, Stephanie of Little Stuff of Life launched Perfectly Poetical Tuesdays to celebrate National Poetry Month. We had so much fun creating and reading the poetry of others, she decided to make PerPoTues a monthly event. This month's poetic task was to create an epic poem - a rhyming tale of adventure or bravery. Stephanie had mercy on the poets and curtailed the normally lengthy epic line requirement and allowed us to have a minimum line requirement of just six lines.
My little entry takes the idea of epic very lightly . . .
O listen, friends, to my tale of woe
If on this journey you dare to go
To explain the rigors of this daily quest
This daily battle within my nest
Each morning my Reader greets me with the dawn
Cup of coffee in hand, I stretch and yawn.
Ninety-seven new posts! That can't be right!
There were only eleven when I went to sleep last night!
I've got thirty minutes whilst Super Why
Entertains Educates my children while I sit close by
Let's see, there's Gretchen and Dina and Kelly and Jill
If I don't get these all read, I'll just feel so ill
There's Laura and Becca and Corey and Beth
And Steph and Stephanie and Stephanie and Steph
Okay, I'm closer now, I must have found my Muse
This is so much better than reading the news
So many great thoughts, everyone with something to say
If only I could sit and read and comment all day.
Five minutes left, will I get them all read?
I'm subscribed to eighty-five feeds, I must be out of my head.
Elizabeth? Check. Sasha? yes, got her.
I must get to Jon - love to start the day with laughter.
Finally, finally, I've finally read each one
With my reading all finished, I'm ready to get some things done.
I linger and smile at that happy, shiny zero
Completing this quest makes me feel like a hero.
Oh, but wait! How can this be?
New posts to read? There's already thirty-three!
Oh well, I sigh. No more time I can borrow.
I'll be content to take up my quest once more tomorrow.
*** Okay, I took poetic license in my description of this quest. There is no way I ever get my unread posts down to zero unless I "mark all as read," which I regrettably have to do about once a month. That darn "unread posts" number lingers between 50-100 - on a good day! There are just way too many great writers and blogs out there for me to EVER keep up!
