#cinquat

Ready your four bits and a buck:
on the toasted breeze, the repetitive jingle
induces a joyous, anticipant tingle.
Amok,
kids scamper for the ice cream truck.

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#WordOfTheDayPoem #WOTDPoem: anticipant (from OED)

A weathercock
twisting in the shifting draughts,
he bends easily to influence.

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burbling, outgribing
Smaragdine the troglodyte
slays the slithy toves

— § —

to liven bean soup
not salt or biting cayenne
a dash of orange zest

#StoryIn12: twisting; #WOTDPoem: influence (word from @Algot)
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