#VerseLove Day 25 with Ashley Valencia-Pate of Florida: Spoken Wishes

Ashley lives in Titusville, Florida where she works as a high school English teacher.

Today, in the spirit of wishing, she inspires us to write a double dactyl poem. You can read her full prompt here. This whimsical form of poetry is made of two quatrains.

  • Line one is a pair of nonsense rhyming words
  • Line two introduces the subject of the poem (often a name)
  • Lines one through three and five through seven contain two dactylic metrical feet
  • Lines four and eight have one dactyl plus a stressed syllable

Aucta Schmaucta

Kimberly wishingly

camping glampingly

marsmallowly mellowing

happily hammocking

camping and coffeeing

secretly harboring

Willowy dreams

2 Replies to “#VerseLove Day 25 with Ashley Valencia-Pate of Florida: Spoken Wishes”

    1. Margaret, thank you! I’m just catching up on reading blog comments today and will continue into the weekend – – thank you for reading! We sold our Little Guy Max teardrop camper that was too small and got something with more space. So now, when I’m writing on weekends from the campground, I’ll have more elbow room for typing some longer words. 🙂

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