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Count Your Blessings
"Count your blessings", tells the saying,
think about the goods you're haying.
Forsake your ills, forget them all
Your blessings make the grieves forestall.
Healthy paws enhance the swaying.
Money's worthless love is paying .
Every little thing is weighing
with health and passion-overall.
Count your blessings.
Cheer your heart as faith is staying .
Boons alike the scent are spraying,
just sing, your songs one day befall.
The world shall tell and loud recall,
money's worthless health is paying,
count your blessings.
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judyanne
Tue, 2012-11-06 11:05
hi rula
although they have the ‘ing’ ending rula, 'lying' and 'flying' don’t rhyme with 'saying', 'haying', ]staying', 'weighing'
and the scansion is out with
‘Live for ] mor -row, | let reg -| rets fall’
and
‘Tell the | world, and | loud -ly | re -call’
otherwise – great rondeau
love judy
xxx
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shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They are.'
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Rula
Tue, 2012-11-06 14:48
Hello Judy
A difficult form. Yes a challenging one (at least for me) :)
I knew about these words -lying and flying - but couldn't think of anything else .May be later.
Those two lines:
Tell the world, and loudly recall,
I can edit to
the world shall tell and loud recall
and ..
Your blessings make the grieves forestall
What do you think?
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Rula
Tue, 2012-11-06 14:49
spraying and swaying ....good
spraying and swaying ....good alternatives?
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Rula
Tue, 2012-11-06 14:52
what do you think?
Does it read a little preachy?
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judyanne
Tue, 2012-11-06 22:21
very rula-esque
i like it
and no - it doesn't sound 'preachy' - at least not to me'
- and great meter
love judy
xxx
'Each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star,
shall draw the Thing as he sees It, for the God of Things as They are.'
(Rudyard Kipling)