One of These Poems Is Not Like The Others

Linda challenged us with paints chips as usual this week
She pulled chips from the deck and says she didn’t peek

She did confess the deck had never seen a shuffle
And six of the chips were neighbors in this kerfuffle

The seventh chip came from elsewhere, unlike its brothers
She asked us to guess which one of these things is not like the others

Peachy, nectar, and coral are cousins in color it would seem
Lipstick, brick, and the whole enchilada are on the same team

The sand dollar hue stands alone by itself quite the quirk
No guessing required, the process of elimination at work

While others strive to work the colors into poetic lines
I just feed back the instructions with a little added rhyme

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Linked to Linda Kruschke’s Paint Chip Poetry Challenge Prompt #32. The challenge is to write a poem in response to the prompt. The topic is One of These Things Is Not Like the Others. This one is going to take some creative thinking. The prompt words and phrases are lipstick, brick, the whole enchilada, sand dollar, peachy, nectar, and coral. Linda says, “I will confess that six of these were right next to each other in the never-been-shuffled deck and the seventh was from a different part of the deck. Maybe you can guess which one is that seventh paint chip?”

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