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    The challenge was to write a poem about 'sound' words. This was very hard to do. My thoughts turned to water, and then I spanned the multiple meanings of sound with onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme and alliteration. The challenge was posed by Golden Key member Kimberly Keith.

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    The challenge was to write a poem about 'sound' words. This was very hard to do. My thoughts turned to water, and then I spanned the multiple meanings of sound with onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme and alliteration. The challenge was posed by Golden Key member Kimberly Keith.

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    The challenge was to write a poem about 'sound' words. This was very hard to do. My thoughts turned to water, and then I spanned the multiple meanings of sound with onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme and alliteration. The challenge was posed by Golden Key member Kimberly Keith.

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    Water Water Everywhere - A Poem

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    The challenge was to write a poem about 'sound' words. This was very hard to do. My thoughts turned to water, and then I spanned the multiple meanings of sound with onomatopoeia, repetition, rhyme and alliteration. The challenge was posed by Golden Key member Kimberly Keith.

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    Water water everywhere - a poem.rtf 09.05.

    19 9:29 PM

    Water, water, everywhere

    a poem by Guy A. Duperreault.

    This poem came to be when I rose to Kimberly Keith's poetry challenge "Light up as
    many of your reader's senses as possible by using sounds. Let's hear what you have
    to say with sound words...crash, boom, splat!!"

    This was one of the hardest poetry challenges I have been faced with for reasons that
    are not clear to me. I imagined that it would be easy – it sounds so easy on the surface.
    But, since the challenge was posed in January of 2009, this is the only entry as of May
    2009.

    And as I finished composing it, I stumbled across an amazing song by Adham Shaikh
    and Kinnie Starr, all about water.

    Try listening to "Somptin Hapnin with Kinnie Starr" at http://www.sonicturtle.com/mp3/


    essence/somptin%20hapnin%20edit%20.mp3

    Water, water, everywhere

    Each time I turn thought towards sound,


    I sound in my mind sound sound words, and
    invariably,
    inevitably,
    inexorably they gurgle, chuckle, giggle,
    murmur, echo
    down streams of endless
    eau.

    Water, water everywhere.

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    Water water everywhere - a poem.rtf 09.05.19 9:29 PM

    Water chortling down thick think tank drains


    and stainless steal sinks –
    sinkholes in geyser guises,
    burbling onomatopoeically into rills, and a
    fulgent humour
    found sibilant in sweet Aphrodite's
    wind
    blown
    spume.

    I hear wind talking through stays


    and masts
    and rigging
    like owls in an empowered parliament
    bemusing wisely of mute mice
    and man
    walking
    walking on a sound of salt water
    and jellied fishes.

    Then within a breadth of breath,


    in a snap of
    breath, gasp of
    breath, dearth even death of breath,
    my thoughts turn to baby wavelets of water lapping,

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    like lazy lions' tongues,


    against hulls of barnacled
    white and faded
    red and stalwart
    blue.

    Then blue faced, true-blued face,


    wet race-thrilled face,
    I hear sheets of hemp and silk sail howling lines,
    trilling their thrilling striven
    pulling strain against stanchions sound,
    steadfast
    and safe;
    and inside my head, in waves,
    vibrant,
    pounding,
    pulsing,
    booming bass drum
    thrumming kettle drum
    waves great
    and small
    and too
    too tiny and tall.

    I feel the icy spindrift needles sending

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    endlessly
    sea sharp ended points
    in a fruitless effort to efface placid black keyboard riffs,
    creating anew faces etched with rifts,
    crevices
    of cold sweating
    tango dancing
    wing-wind prancing
    teary eye-lined squinted
    eye lines.

    And all the while, voice is lost, puff-gusted out


    blown back
    down the throat backs
    of sailing boat racers
    unsoundly racing their sail boats
    o'er water, under
    and through it.

    Race, fingers, race to mine the mind


    of unsounded soundless sound,
    flat screened face aglow
    bent backed
    and fingers bent too to
    tip tap tippity tap tappity tip tap tap tapping.

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    How far is that, in reality, from


    drip drap, drippity drip drip drappity
    drip
    drip
    drip drop
    drip-drop
    drip?

    Water, water, everywhere,


    washing,
    washing,
    every sound thick and thin
    far away ways in mind,
    unsound, sound
    and mindless.

    Page 5 of 5

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