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


I love all of your made-up camping words, like “marsmallowly mellowing”. Did you tell me you are selling (or sold) the camper?
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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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