{"id":98653,"date":"2012-10-25T21:14:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T01:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/98653\/poem-surprise-surprise\/"},"modified":"2012-10-25T21:14:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T01:14:33","slug":"poem-surprise-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/98653\/poem-surprise-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"POEMS: Surprise Surprise!, The Legend of Buxom Betty and I Love Lucy"},"content":{"rendered":"

These were written for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge<\/a>, where Michelle and I are looking for Acrostics involving some sort of surprise explained or presented. \u00a0I tried one using all one word lines. \u00a0The second is a “Hidden Acrostic” in which the letters of the words which read vertically are hidden in different locations in each line rather than the first letters. \u00a0I capitalized the hidden letters to make them easier to spot.<\/em><\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Photobucket\"<\/a>
\n S<\/font>imply<\/strong><\/font>
\n U<\/font>nderstanding<\/strong><\/font>
\n R<\/font>udimentary<\/strong><\/font>
\n P<\/font>rivacy<\/strong><\/font>
\n R<\/font>arely<\/strong><\/font>
\n I<\/font>nvolves<\/strong><\/font>
\n S<\/font>ubstantial<\/strong><\/font>
\n E<\/font>ffort.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

Acrostic Copyright October 25th 2012 RGD<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Photobucket\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Surprise\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I <\/font>was just a<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font>
\n L <\/font>ittle boy when,<\/strong><\/font>
\n O <\/font>ver the TV airwaves, a<\/strong><\/font>
\n V <\/font>ery funny sight appeared<\/strong><\/font>
\n E <\/font>lectronically.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n

<\/strong><\/font>
\n L <\/font>ucy was working in a candy factory.<\/strong><\/font>
\n U<\/font> nable to keep pace, she began eating the candies. The little boy exclaimed: “Lucy’s got<\/strong><\/font>
\n C <\/font>hocolate all over her face!” A story cherished by my mother in later<\/strong><\/font>
\n Y<\/font> ears.<\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These were written for the CPC Friday Fling poetry challenge, where Michelle and I are looking for Acrostics involving some sort of surprise explained or presented. \u00a0I tried one using all one word lines. \u00a0The second is a “Hidden Acrostic” in which the letters of the words which read vertically are hidden in different locations […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}