My Sweetheart Donna Sue has a box of square scrap paper which I have lately found useful for doing acrostic poetry roughs. Today I did three, “Goal Post” successful enough to compel me to add a thumbnail illustration.

Goal Post

GRASP ye Soul and ye shall reaP

O for yodels oleO

As it snows so winter creepS

Leave ’em Loved. Á bientôT

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I like the spareness/economy of “Goal Post” that nonetheless includes (with necessarily enormous gaps) an entire life cycle, even to an optimistic “see you later.”

Here are the other two, which were OK as exercises but less worthy as showpieces.

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Deeper & Deeper

Deployed & then exploiteD

Entangled & ne’er to be freE

Erased & forgot save by ToynbeE

Prepared & embalmed while asleeP

Exacting & final, his starE

Remorseless & in situ & faiR

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Service Surface

Seasons change. Bring on the showerS

Enter fall and maybe flU

River ruined: effluent souR

Vile a’purpose is no gooF

It’s corruption run amok–A

Con concocted here ad hoC

Ethics elsewhere–pad the LockE