Hi, teachers! Here’s the answering quatrain to yesterday’s What’s Inside couplet!
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Ninth-Inning Win
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A bull’s-eye of cork helps you punish fast pitches?
and rubber and yarn add some bounce from within
all tucked below zippers of tight ruby stitches
This ball holds a breathtaking ninth-inning win!
A Note from the Poet:
Did you know that every Major League Baseball has 108 stitches? I love those little lines of red. They remind me of zippers, so I called them that, even though you can’t unzip them. And I used ruby instead of red for two reasons: 1) the line sounded better with two syllables there instead of one; and 2) since a ruby is a jewel, it makes me think of something valuable and important, not just everyday stuff like red.
Oh I love “zippers of tight ruby stitches”! That is genuis, Laura. So descriptively perfect 🙂
What Penny said! I love it.
:>D Thanks!
Thank you, Penny. That was the phrase I had the most fun writing!
Oh I love “zippers of tight ruby stitches”! That is genuis, Laura. So descriptively perfect 🙂
What Penny said! I love it.
:>D Thanks!
Thank you, Penny. That was the phrase I had the most fun writing!
Terrific, Laura. Baseball “rules”, like those stitches, are amazing aren’t they? Love each line, like that “cork helps punish fast pitches” & using ‘bull’s eye’ as the center. So clever!
Thanks, Linda:>) I appreciate that, esp since trying to make a baseball interesting was a struggle for me!
Terrific, Laura. Baseball “rules”, like those stitches, are amazing aren’t they? Love each line, like that “cork helps punish fast pitches” & using ‘bull’s eye’ as the center. So clever!
Thanks, Linda:>) I appreciate that, esp since trying to make a baseball interesting was a struggle for me!