SEASONAL FROLICS 2006
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Choose a passage, at least four lines
long, from a Hardy poem, and substitute, in each line, one of the words or
phrases below for words or phrases in the original.
Entries will be judged on syntactic
soundness, invention, and the degree to which the new version (or new poem)
surprises the reader.
Entries should be posted on TTHA's Forum,
citing original title of poem.
Closing date Jan 1 2007. Prizes -- either
one year's free TTHA membership or a TTHA publication of choice -- will be
awarded to the two best entries.
TTHA officers are not eligible for this
contest.
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LIST of Choice WORDS/PHRASES
1. Betrodden to a clot - "The Supplanter"
(PPP)
2. Upsidled -- "I Looked Back" (WW)
3. Mire-bestarred -- " A Wet Night" (TL)
4. Poesy-paven -- "Meditations on a
Holiday (LL)
5. Heartsome zest -- "Joys of Memory"
(MV)
6. Cosy cushions more -- "To a Lady" (WP)
7. Hollowly hackered -- " The Obliterate
Tomb" (SC)
8. Balaam's ass's --"The Respectable
Burgher" (PPP)
9. Ding-dong ricochetts-- "Copying
Architecture in an Old Minster" (MV)
10. My largened love, "A Maiden's
Pledge," (LL)
11. Pier and groin-- "Rome: Building a
New Street in the Ancient Quarter"
(PPP)
12. Wan and grizzel -- "In a Eyeleaze
near Weatherbury" (WP)
13. You nude of cloud, "At Moonrise and
Onwards" (LL)
14. Dumbly in lippings - "Family
Portraits (WW)
15. Worm within the clod -- "New Year's
Eve" (TL)
16. Beneaped -- "Places" (SC)
17. The whirr of their wayfaring-- "The
Souls of the Slain" (PPP)
18. Periodic spasms - "A Night of
Questionings " (HS)
19. Husky croon-- "At Rushy Pond" ( HS)
20. Foredeeming -- "To Sincerity" (TL)
21. But to swell and swell again --"I Met
a Man" (MV)
22. To mar the ordained -- "The Clock of
the Years" (MV)
23. In Time's stayless stealthy swing --
"God's Funeral" (SC)
24. The hag still hawked -- "The Two
Rosalinds" (TL)
25. Quakes, and shoots -- "A Wasted
Illness" (PPP)