My Poem: Original: Portmanteau: Gen

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Title: Portmanteau
Fandom: Original Work
Lines: 8
Words: 99
Rating: Gen
For: GYWO Yahtzee - Aces
Notes: this is the first half of exercise #6 of The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry which deals with anapaestic hexameter. The photo prompt made me with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's travel desk.
Prompt:

there the trunks in the bunks on the racks in the stacks, come-and-go portmanteau
the valises with creases and cases with traces of oft to-and-fro
there the marks of the larks: destination and tout, transportation and route
in the cracks of the leather, in sacks, in the whether, the monsoon and drought

in between can be seen a fine traveling desk of mahogany wood
in its folded condition it holds much perdition as well as much good
when unfolded mere notion is gilded and golded and spun into tale
there a fondness becomes correspondence, aslumber this wonder of rail

Comments

[smallhobbit]

Lovely - very evocative of travelling across the ocean with all the luggage.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thanks! I liked that image a lot.

[lunabee34]

I love the rhyme! It feels good in my mouth; I had to say it all aloud.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! It is an interesting rhythm.

[ancientreader]

when unfolded mere notion is gilded and golded and spun into tale
Perfect. I love the image of spinning gold into story.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!!

I had this vision of ol' Artie thinking up (and stealing!) all his ideas on board/on the train/etc and then sitting down at the desk to get them all down on paper.