OTI:one poem and notes:9/7/17

Open To Interpretation

Six for Sixes, Five for Fives

"For poem 'Second Birth', I judge a five."

Said Petra,
Looking confident,

Like she had gotten the hang of the contest rules.

"Petra,"

Nemo whispered,
"There are only two scores you can give, Five and Six."

"Swallow a worm and choke,"

Said Petra,

"How so?"

"Hexagon poems,"

Said Nemo,

"Can only be awarded a Six.

Pentagon poems can only be awarded a Five.

If you award a Hexagon poem a Five,

It is dismissed, it is dross.

If you award a Six, it is kept, and counts for one score.

And it is likewise for the Pentagon's poems;
A Six score and the poem is a loss, a Five is success."

"Caterpillars upside down,"

Said Petra,

"Poets are a sorry lot.

Whereby these rules?"

"These rules are rules,

Without birth or death."

Said Nemo.

"I thought both poems Fives,"

Said Petra,

"The contest tied."

"Not so,"

Said Nemo,

"The Pentagons are two up.

A poem lost is a score for the opposite side."

"The candle is out,"

Said Petra,

"Where are we?"

"Top of the second inning,"

Said Nemo.

"Hexagons zero,

Pentagons two."

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Notes: rolled out to Huntington State Beach...and just that quick the current changed a little, surf flat...and the water cool!...only got my feet wet cleaning brushes and getting buckets of water...thought to swim, but hadn't eaten all day except for a bagel...and the water was cool!...anyway, did up the plein air day 7 hashtag stradaeasel contest post to facebook...I bought a collapsible water bucket...in the army surplus store...had to laugh walking in...store a little over the top...so, so, maybe tomorrow I load everything into a day pack, peddle my bike to the bus...and off to who knows where for the day!

:)

DavidDavid