Compulsion to Rhyme II
By now you’ve read my oeuvre once or twice before.
It’s bulging out of file cases, stacked upon the floor.
It’s quickly filling up my blog and straying to the media.
Soon I fear I must compose my own encyclopedia.
It started out a habit but soon became compulsion.
My housecleaner surveys my poems with undisguised revulsion.
Spiders live within the files, cats use them for their beds,
so they serve grander purposes than cluttering up heads.
Perhaps someone could stop me with a cudgel or a gun,
but lacking that, I fear that when my final poem is done,
my heirs will have to market my oeuvre by the ton.
The prompt today was oeuvre. In case you’ve never encountered the word without its buddies hors and d’, used alone, oeuvre means the works of a painter, composer or author, regarded collectively.
https://ragtagcommunity.wordpress.com/2018/08/29/wednesday-prompt-oeuvre/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
At least you have them filed and you sure have a lot more than I do. My file is much smaller, but I have a lot on my computer. I’m trying to organize mine on the computer into one folder.
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I have one folder full of the first year of my blog but haven’t printed it up since then unless I’m giving a reading. If the internet goes, so go I.
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I had to laugh at the hoards of files – we moved recently and cleared out our storage unit – boy did I hear about the boxes filled with my writing.
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hope you kept all your writing.
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I did – right back to first diary at age 7, lol.
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Good girl.
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I’ve just posted a comment on your talent for rhyme!!
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Dear Judy, this is the difference between a real poet (you) and an occasional one (me): you have FILES! I am in awe!
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Yes, I do. A plethora of them, Dolly.
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I can see that! on the contrary, I simply write what pops into my head.
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And you do just fine with what “pops into your head.” I do the same, by the way.
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Why, thank you! But you have FILES – that’s awesome!
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Ha..Better than flies.
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DEpending on what flies.
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