‘No way. Way!’, a d’Verse Quadrille
Runaway,
wayless, makes his
way up dark
areaway - to
stowaway on a
rockaway.
Highwayman in jet
cutaway strolling past purplish
twayblades, reading stolen
waybill, notes blond
wayward
flyaways.
Hereaway’s no place for young
tearaways, he smiles. Well,
leastways we’re both of
waygoing
lifeways.
The above poem is my take on d’Verse’s Quadrille challenge #120.
The quadrille is simply a poem of 44 words (excluding the title), and it can take any form. This week’s challenge was to use the word “way” in a quadrille.
By my count, seventeen forms of the word way …. love this. Brava.
You know what’s funny? I actually didn’t count them until you mentioned it!
Thanks, Helen 🙂
-David
Nice play on words, David.
Ken, I just couldn’t help myself 🤡
‘Way’ to go, David❤️👏💐
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David, the wordplay here is phenomenal and genius! I love, love, love it! Your take on the prompt is unique.
Thank you ever so much, Lucy 🙏
My favorite might just be, “notes blond wayward flyaways.” Wonderful.
PIS, thank you!
-David
Who knew there were so many ways to us the word way in a poem! You knocked it way out of the park!
Dwight
Thank you, Dwight❣️
You are welcome!
Way to go, David! Hope they each get to their destinations without being waylaid.
me too, me too❣️
🙂
Excellent. This sounds like you had fun writing it. Love the whimsical, lyrical tone to it, David. Cheers
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haha I see we both had fun with this one, David. Bravo!
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So many ways! This fairly trips along 🙂
heheheh thank you 😀
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You certainly found a way to explore the theme of ways here. And I believe you have a way with it!
I somewhat had my way with them! 😉
I’d say you did, but then again, you have a way with words!
no way!
Way to go David, this one got me quite dizzy 🙂
whichaways? 😉
oh you terrible tease, now please go away 🙂
Waygoing–great word. Ways are flexible. (K)
Always!
I like this jolly acid-trip feel, and yes wonderfully wild as usual wordplay. Especially with the photo… What inspired it, besides the challenge?
Thanks, Lia 😀
Other than the challenge, nothing inspired this – I went through words that include ‘way’, and worked with what I had. With poetic exercises like this, I let the words guide my fingers across the keyboard.
❤
David
Ah lovely, thanks for the bit of process. 😃🙏
leastways we’re both of
waygoing
lifeways.
Yes we are all Ben, so we need to find a way to find love and peace in our lifeway. 🙂
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This made me smile. Love the word play here. A weighty way with words you have, my friend!
Thank you very kindly, Lillian!
-David
That’s the way (I like it)
This was is way better.. did I mess? 😅
Nah – you’re not so way out there!
The way you wrote this using the word ‘way’ was brilliant in every way!
No way! 😀
Fantastic exploration of “way”. Really makes you think of the history and the definition. Great work!
Thanks, Benjamin❣️
These d’Verse quadrille prompts always inspire wordplay for me.
-David
You’re welcome. That’s awesome: inspiration from anywhere inspires others everywhere, I feel.
Careful or I might start quoting your pearls of wisdom!
Haha. You made my day!
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I published one post on my personal blog as a comment linking with this post. Thanks for sharing it.
thank you for your kindness!
-David
Thanks for your kindness and inspiration. 🙂🙂
Love this. It was the first post that showed up in my reader. I mistakenly thought it was from today Mar 3rd. So I wrote a poem from the challenge….a *few* days late.
The Way
You may think I’m a wayward soul
It’s ok
At times I think so too
Don’t we really all go astray
While making our way
In this spinning world
That’s seemingly gone mad
I’ll keep wandering
Until that day
I fly far, far away
Tiffany, this is fantastic – do you like poetry prompts in general?
If so, I highly recommend following the d’Verse poets’ page – they have 3 prompts a week (M/T/Th).
All best,
David
David, that is the first time I’ve written a poem from a prompt. I enjoyed reading your poem so I thought I’d give it a try.
I will start following d’Verse thanks for the tip.
Blessings,
Tiffany
Tiffany, I found d’Verse through another poet-blogger, just like you found it through me 😀 – that’s how word gets around!
Previous to d’Verse, I never wrote in response to prompts, but I’ve been loving it.
BTW, each post of theirs contains a small white horizontal rectangle called ‘Mr. Linky’ near the end of the post – so once you’ve written a poem, you can click on that, paste in your URL and name, and share it with the rest of the poets.
it’s a very, very supportive community ❤
All best,
David