Getting Atten”tion”

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Write a “tion” poem? Okay, hold onto your hat!

Exhortation

Discussing a good book can improve any conversation,
while other books just serve us as a means of rumination.
Books come in many forms from poetry to exhortation.
Some use them to improve their minds, others as decoration.

Books furnish everyone a chance to get an education
as writers entertain us and provide elucidation.
Ghost stories and horror books give rise to palpitation.
Action and adventure lead to heights of exultation.

Comics lead to laughter and beyond—to jubilation.
Histories tell tales of conquerors and usurpation—
deprivation due to wars, like bombing raids and rations,
slaughter, mayhem, battle strategies and amputations.

Some books furnish thrills while some serve only as sedation.
Some books read as sermons, others bombastic oration.
Preachers read from Bibles to provide their congregation
with words that furnish some with hope, others with trepidation.

Some dread books they feel may raise their “lessers” to their station.
Some fear the joy they rouse in us and label our elation
as the hands of Satan, which they’ll cure with amputation,
labeling their action as an act of “God’s creation.”

Driven to destroy the means of all our excitation,
having few words of their own, a zealot’s main “quotation”
is burning books they fear in a colossal conflagration
that gives another meaning to the word “illumination!”

Whatever you might like to read, a certain exultation
waits for you when reading is your favorite vocation.
A torrid romance may work best while on a beach vacation,
(the heat a good excuse for your excessive perspiration.)

Mysteries serve for planes and trains—all forms of transportation—
either while you’re riding or just waiting in the station.
Books are everywhere. They form a great accumulation.
They bore us, reassure us, or provide great inspiration.

Information in most books serves as a vaccination
against hate and bigotry and all discrimination.
For those trapped by fate, they make a good means of migration,
as reading has no borders as to neighborhood or nation.

For Linda’s Stream of Consciousness Sunday prompt: “tion.”

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20 thoughts on “Getting Atten”tion””

    1. lifelessons's avatarlifelessons Post author

      Because there are so many possibilities. I’ve never found a word with so many rhymes. And for some reason the stress is right so two syllable and three syllable and four syllable “tion” words all work together.

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  10. annieasksyou's avatarannieasksyou

    Wow, Judy: you just jumped right in with boundless trepidation—
    There was surely nothing spineless in your firm determination—
    To make your bookish case (!) with such a fine imagination—
    You’ve covered the page so well I’ve not a word of hesitation—
    You’ve clearly earned a title for a “tionly” coronation!

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