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Peter Blasevick's avatar

I walked the plank for

Crimes I never committed

Now my braids are wet

...I’ll stick to music :)

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Jason McBride's avatar

I like your poem! I love how it goes from serious sounding to silly with the last line

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Meg Oolders's avatar

Ok. I wrote this in 5 seconds. And I'm incredibly proud of it. 😊

Women bring bad luck.

And yet we yearn for booty.

Argh. Catch twenty-two.

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Jason McBride's avatar

🤣That’s great! Feels like the true pirate spirit

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Dascha Paylor 🇨🇦🍁🐻‍❄'s avatar

Wheels turning...

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man of aran's avatar

The temple harbours gold

Alas, the floorboards creak

Foiled again!

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Jason McBride's avatar

That’s brilliant! It feels like a scene in an action-comedy movie

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man of aran's avatar

Thanks, and thanks for the prompt! As a matter of synchronicity, I just recently learned that some temples in Kyoto were actually designed with creaky floors in order to warn of sneaky ninjas! They apparently sound like birds chirping.

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Jason McBride's avatar

That's a cool factoid! Now my mind is racing with possibilities...

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