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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Words Count With Mama Zen


The number of the day is . . . eight!

Eight.  Eight Mile.  Eight seconds.  Eight Is Enough.  Eight man football.  Eight ball.  Eight track.  Eight.

Eight.  Ate.  8.

Today, we are writing poems incorporating the number eight.  How? Why, anyway you like!  Use the word, the numeral, write eight lines, go concrete; it's up to you.  Just do it in eight words or less.  I'm kidding!  Let's make it . . . eighty.

Have fun!  Ah! Ah! Ah!

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21 comments:

  1. FireblossomSeptember 11, 2013 at 5:59 AM

    I love Words Count!

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  2. cosmos camiSeptember 11, 2013 at 8:12 AM

    I love the Count!

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  3. Kerry O'ConnorSeptember 11, 2013 at 8:59 AM

    Phew! You had me sweating there for a minute, MZ. 8 words...

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  4. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2013 at 9:26 AM

    well, it's something, anyways. what? I don't know

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  5. hedgewitchSeptember 11, 2013 at 10:38 AM

    Thanks, MZ--you gave me an excuse to write another fibonacci. ;_)

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  6. HannahSeptember 11, 2013 at 10:39 AM

    Smiles!! Love the Count, too!! Thank you MZ for the challenge! :)

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  7. HannahSeptember 11, 2013 at 11:03 AM

    Ooo...I wonder who'll be #8!!!? ;)

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  8. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2013 at 11:38 AM

    Marian - yes, there's a prick where hope was.

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  9. Maude LynnSeptember 11, 2013 at 12:04 PM

    Grapeling, that is freaking priceless!

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  10. MarianSeptember 11, 2013 at 12:28 PM

    indeed. or prickless? eek.

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  11. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2013 at 1:18 PM

    ball-less. (The NSA censored my other replies.)

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  12. SusanSeptember 11, 2013 at 1:58 PM

    Mama Zen, your chosen illustration sent me in this direction--8, in eighty! Yay to Marian and the number 8.

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  13. Kay L. DaviesSeptember 11, 2013 at 4:10 PM

    Well, this was fun. I froze for a second at "Just do it in eight words or less" but breathed again at eighty.
    K

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  14. Susie ClevengerSeptember 11, 2013 at 4:54 PM

    Love this. My muse of late has had me typing through mud it seems...she makes me work for everything. :)

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  15. Debi SwimSeptember 11, 2013 at 6:43 PM

    My mind was a total blank (which I am very much use to) but finally something clicked.
    I am enjoying your alls!

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  16. MargaretSeptember 11, 2013 at 6:47 PM

    I was very brief tonight...

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  17. AnonymousSeptember 11, 2013 at 7:08 PM

    because today's other famous number has been covered

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  18. FireblossomSeptember 11, 2013 at 7:13 PM

    ...and covered, and covered...

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  19. L. Edgar OttoSeptember 11, 2013 at 11:17 PM

    Fireblossom and Margarets Eight Words very good... I dont feel a kiss will give the sealing in me a soul or tell me I am beautiful...Live long enough and the metaphors make new memories and new metaphors... slow connection so this is too much like homework to respond all the time to all of you... eight words, who says we don't like haiku? Well, I liked the song but the video was so contrived. So forgive my contribution today, it is an endless lazy eight.

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  20. De JacksonSeptember 12, 2013 at 9:20 PM

    Loved this! Thank you!
    (Though I was all set to write that 8-word poem for a minute there.) ;)

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  21. OutlawyerSeptember 12, 2013 at 9:43 PM

    Hey, MZ. Hope all is well. Words count always a good practice for me. k. (This is manicddaily - I think my iPad will insist on posting from an old blogger id.)

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