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I gave my love a bowl of cherries;
she ate them and was through.
I baked my love a cherry pie;
she kissed my cheek anew.
I planted my love two cherry trees,
one for her and one for me,
and cared for them in fat and lean;
she vowed to e’er be true.
For this week’s Three Line Tales. Thanks to Sonya for hosting!
Tales from Eneana 
Ah, but was she? You’re very good at these rhymes and spells and so on – you manage to make them sound as if they’re traditional and been around for centuries. No mean feat, that. Lovely work, Joy 🙂
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Thank you, that’s high praise, Lynn! It’s always good to hear that what I write is coming across the way I hoped it did.
And yes, I think he finally convinced her that he was serious about making things work. I liked the idea that it’s almost a parable, about how some people think you can win someone’s love with a little token, and the “lesson” about being “sweet” here is that love takes time and effort.
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Glad to see the others agree with me about the rhyme – feels like the kind of thing I would have sung to my son. Like ‘Ride a Cock Horse’ or his favourite ‘I had a little nut tree’. Love those rhymes.
And the lesson is a good one – work for love, don’t assume it will fall in your lap 🙂
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Thanks, Lynn, I’m glad to hear the rhyme came across that way! I knew the first one but had to look up “I had a little nut tree.” I love those old-fashioned nursery rhymes!
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Love ‘I had a little nut tree’ – and ‘Ride a cock horse’ and ‘Mary, Mary quite contrary.’ Got a little obssessed when my son was little, teaching him nursery rhymes. I think it was that sense of oral tradition being lost if it’s not passed on. Love ‘London Bridge is falling down’ now since I learned it hails from Viking times. Now, that’s pretty old 🙂
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I already have so many books of nursery rhymes and fairy tales, I imagine I’d need a new bookcase for them if I actually had kids!
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They’re a joy, though. And some fairy tales have been found to be as much as 6,000 years old, which is pretty amazing. Love the really grimm Grimm ones – they were the darkest of dark 🙂
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Excellent poem. As Lynn’s comment above says, you have a great talent for making things sound traditional. If someone had told me this was a centuries-old rhyme, I probably would have believed them.
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Aw, thanks Joshua, I really appreciate that! Like I said to Lynn, it’s great to hear that it comes across that way.
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I ended up singing them like a rhyme! Lovely lines😀
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I was thinking it had a good rhythm for that, too. Maybe that’s what makes it sound traditional, that sing-songy quality. Thanks so much for commenting!
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Love love this very much.
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Thank you, very much!
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You’ve definitely got the knack for writing these short verses and rhymes, Joy. This one is lovely, and sounds very ‘olde worlde’ English – especially as cherries are a focal part of the poem. Great response to the challenge.
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Thanks Millie! I wrote a lot of poetry in high school and college (although mostly free-form) and a fair amount of practice writing songs; so I’ve been working with rhythm and rhyme longer than I’ve been writing short stories.. My original idea with these stories was to come up with the legends and plays and cultural commonalities that people of the various eras and places of Eneana would know — and this type of rhyme fits right in, I think.
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this is one lovely lyrical poetry. ❤
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Thank you so much!
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you’re welcome, Joy!
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