The Deadlines for Writers poetry assignment for the month was to write an acrostic poem. ARGHHH! First of all, I don't think this is even a legitimate poetry form, and second and third, I don't like to read or write them. I spent a long time with meaningful topics and got nowhere trying to write something with meaning using this format. I have never seen a pair of Jodhpurs or ever given them any thought, but three days before deadline, the word popped in my head, and I wrote the first worst version of this poem. I submitted it this morning in this form.
JODHPURS
Jodhpurs! What a
funny word! –
Odd in spelling
and sound.
Doing duty today
to jumpstart a poem –
How those
deadlines come rushing around!
Pants for riding
a horse, it seems, are
Uniquely designed
for a rider.
Really snug at
the boot-top, but then at the hips
Suddenly Jodhpurs
get wider and wider!
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