Good morning everyone! The sun is shining bright, the temp was -20 C first thing this morning and it did indeed feel cold! However, it’s expected to rise to -6 C by this afternoon, which means spring-like snow-melting in the sunshine. 🙂
Our Ragtag Daily Prompt this morning is FREESTYLE.
Not a word I’m very acquainted with, though I have heard of freestyle skating. According to Merriam Webster, FREESTYLE is used in connection with some sports competition where more than usual liberty of movement is allowed at such events.
When I Google “freestyle verse” I see that this indicates some types of music (rap?) and I wonder if “freestyle verse” isn’t also used to describe the flowing, un-rhymed type of poetry so common now?
Oxford English Dictionary claims it can be used as a verb, too, meaning:
To dance, perform, or compete in an improvised or unrestricted fashion.
My Word of the day, which I’ve just posted over at Word Buds, is VICARIOUS. I can say that I derive a vicarious thrill out of watching young and energetic sorts participating in active sports, but I am happy to cheer from the sidelines. Today I shall expend my energy sitting at the sewing machine, piecing together a blanket top. I’ll see how fast and how well I can do it — with no freestyle inserting of odd patches here and there. 🙂
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We were taught in English class that a poem that doesn’t rhyme is called “free-style.” I’ve always wondered–if you don’t want to write rhyming poetry, why not just call is prose?
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Mary had a little lamb
a tale I’d like to tell again
but I can’t use the same
dull old rhyme
like lamb and ham—
which never goes together
anyway, by the way—so
I’ll do this new thing
called “free-style” verse
and tell you that Mary’s
lamb followed her
around, bleating itself silly,
driving Mary bonkers
to the great amusement
of her classmates,
while the teacher droned on
about prose
versus poetry.
🙂
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