BTT #36: Broken Quadrille

Here I am feeling a little lazy, resting my head on a rabbit, relaxing on a wooden block toy raincloud in the sky.  Sometimes Second Life is so Freaking Awesome.  This Poem is in response to Amaya’s dVerse prompt on the Seven Deadly Sins.  This is a very serious subject so I have written a very serious little Quadrille.  For those who might not be aware, a Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, not one more not one less, excluding the title.  It also contains a chosen designated key word that must be used somewhere in the poem.  You will hae to guess waht the magic word is in this Quadrille.  Don’t let the long Title deter you.  Here is the Link to Amaya’s prompt just below the caption:

 

Poetics: 7 and 7

I was too lazy to edit so I broke the Quadrille.  yes, it was me, it was sitting around there all shattered and the entire dVerse had long faces, and said together, “HEY! WHO BROKE THE QUADRILLE???!!!)  I mean my poem was so awesome and each little word was just dripping with honey clanging  like a long slow machine in my moist and heaving parts (errm did I say parts?! Oh how embarrassing!  HEARTS!  I MEANT HEARTS!), yeah that’s right hearts- hearts is more poetical and stuff.. so wait a minute that doesn’t make sense, you only have one heart, so the plural doesn’t make sense, well I really meant to say that I wouldn’t see why it did make sense, not that it would make sense and I thought that might be obvious, anyway I digress.  And what is it with me anyway, I am digressing, why can’t I be like Bjorn, he never digresses but just chugs along beautifully, people might like me better if I could be like Bjorn again.  So anyway, why does there always have to be so many rules anyway, and who was it who made dVerse God and said that it had to have forty-four words, no more, no less – HEY – I bet someone on the team can actually answer that one.  But if I break the rules, they won’t let me post this on Quadrille Monday and will promptly – hehe- remove my link, I need to get all the Mr Linky Love I can, If I don’t get all the Mr. Linky Love I can, then it just pisses me off (see I can be like Charley and use a word like piss, gosh that actually feels sort of cool), hey that’s me, Lona, pissed off in Portofino!, anyway, I digress again), why do I do that!? I guess it might have to do with the fact that I ordered the entire shrimp PO-BOY with the Hot Damn sauce rather than just the half sandwich Scruffy’s special, which I always plan to eat the sandwich (half-sandwich mind you, can’t you see the brilliant planning!) and then bring the Etouffe’ home for later, but oooh that Etoufe, which always smells the same, but never quite gets spelled the same always beckons to me right there on the spot, and reminds me that if I don’t eat it now, then someone at home will be rummaging through the fridge and eat it before I get a chance to, and then what is the point, I mean, isn’t it true that the person who gets the most Eatofu wins, where is the soy in that and is that a joke or just a typo?  Anyway, I digress – So how was I gonna get round this Quadrille racket anyhoo!  I got it, the forty-four words does NOT include the title!!!  YAY!!!, So Ima jus gonna tippy-type the longest big awesome Title ever!!!   And then the last forty=four words will be the Quadrille, It is perfect!!!  mwa-ha-ha-ha.  This just might be the record for the longest title ever for a Quadrille… and I join the Cohen Brothers with the “Raising Arizona” of Quadrille poetics, and we get to keep the actual Quadrille brief, which Amaya loves so much, because she said she loves the concentrated brevity (at this point I am thinking brevity-schmrevity) of the form and the discipline to edit down something to a small precise lovely little space, and what was the opposite of diligence, can I find that in the anti-thesaurus?  I’d go find it but I was too lazy so I broke the Quadrille.  Now I think I have covered the deadly seven and should really start rambling in on the seven virtues, but I have had so much fun sinning I am not sure there is time. Anyway I digress- I love dVerse, and am grateful for y’all and now I am going to end this with a Haiku so I can also call it a Haibun and post it again on Haibun Monday – BOOYAH!!!  At this point the (ok ok get ready, now the actual Quadrille is about to start)

Mood becomes all lyrical and artsy and stuff like a Japanese Summer, waving against the Autumn rain of Winter’s Spring cherry blossoms…

Ok everybody quiet.. curtain rises…  here goes.

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Silence has no noise

Now I break the Haibun too.

Eat your heart out Frank.

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Not much is right with this one, but Lona Gynt still claims all Rights Reserved for this Hot Mess, July 2018.  (It’s Mine! you can’t have it!)

Pictures are from Cica Ghost’s Second Life Exhibit:  “Sunny Days”  It was awesome.