Poetry Stretch Results - Double Dactyls Galore!

The challenge this week was to write a double dactyl. Who knew this form would inspire so much poetry! Here are the results.

Pat from Knowledge, Ltd. left this poem in the comments.

Higgledy-piggledy,
Quantumechanical
Physicist Heisenberg
Wrote a new Planck,

Constantly stressed the Un-
Certainty Principle,
Leaving some scientists
Drawing a blank.

Last week over at Political Verses, Elaine Magliaro published two double dactyls, one by Julie Larios and the other an original.

Julie Larios of The Drift Record left this poem in the comments.

Diggery Dockery
Emily Dickinson
wrote about Nobody,
frigates and fame.

Flies in most poetry
non-metaphorically
buzz us, but Emily's
flies aren't the same.

Kate Coombs of Book Aunt left these poems in the comments.

Daisies and daffodils
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rode on a bicycle
Down to the lake.

Sixty-four suffragettes
Galloped behind her as
Eleanor taught them to
Make no mistake.

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Laggardy-Saggardy
Jefferson Cavendish
Fiddled and faddled and
Loitered and whined.

Ravenous tigers came
Leaping to eat him, so
Jefferson learned how to
Move his behind.

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Camouflage-Sophophage,
Benjamin Rosenbaum
Lounges in Switzerland
Writing a book.

Characters circle him
Polymorphetically,
Tugging at strangenesses,
Whispering, "Look!"

Elaine Magliaro of Wild Rose Reader and the Blue Rose Girls shares three double dactyls at BRG.

Jane Yolen left this poem in the comments.

Higgledy-Piggledy
Emily Dickinson
Dressed all in white while she
Eschewed all prose.

Scribbling poems that
Nobody would publish
That all could be sung to
The song “Yellow Rose.”

Amy Ludwig VanDerwater left this poem in the comments. *Blushing* THANK YOU, AMY!

Internet Spinternet
Tricia the blogerette
poses her poem posts
into the sky.

Teachers, librarians,
mothers, grammarians
gather words gratefully.
“This one I’ll try.”

Harriet of spynotes left these poems in the comments.

Tippety Typety
Poe (Edgar Allen)
Sat down at his desk
At a quarter past four.

Moaning and groaning
And clutching his stomach
“Oh WHY did I eat so much
crow? NEVERMORE!”

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Knickety Knockety
Ludwig von Beethoven
Wanted to write just one
Symphony more

In want of ideas, he
Sat down to ponder,
When “Dum dum dum DUM”
Came a rap at the door.

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Flippety Flappety
Orville and Wilbur, they
Wanted to ride a bike
Into the sky.

They fiddled and tinkered,
Fell over and over.
They made some mistakes, sure.
But now we can fly!

Carol Weis visited for the first time and left this poem in the comments. Welcome Carol!

Xanadu Shmanadu
Samuel Coleridge
created his Kubla
throughout the night.

But oh! the intruder
a damsel from Porlock
who found the poor poet
high as a kite.

At her blog Political Verses, Elaine Magliaro shares a poem entitled Better Duck...It's Dick: A Poem about Dick Cheney's Hunting Prowess. BEST TITLE EVER!

Jone at Check It Out shares a poem inspired by Skippyjon Jones.

My poem was inspired by the recent spate of dinosaur books I've been reading with my son. Just in case you need the pronunciation of the dinosaur name, it's KET-sahl-koh-AHT-lus!

Scarity-Rarity
Quetzalcoatlus the
Mexican dinosaur
what a surprise!

Pterosaur terrible
size unbelievable
ultrareptilian
king of the skies!

It's not too late if you still want to play. Leave me a note about your poem and I'll add it to the list.