Every Monday is Poetry Monday. Mimi of Messymimi's Meanderings
and I have taken over the hosting duties, mostly the supplying of the
prompts - only temporarily we hope - while Diane at On the Border is
taking a break for health reasons.
I
have something to ask of you: If you read this and the poetry of
others via the links, would you please leave a comment.
Half - if not more - the fun
of these challenges is receiving the responses of others.
Today's prompt is Beating around the Bush
As I wrote, I have been procrastinating, and ended up doing what I should not do - read other blogs before finishing my poem. This time was an exception inasmuch as it actually helped me finish my poem.
This is a limping verse.
Beating around the bush.
What a strange saying, that.
Who's beating what
and why around a bush?
And why beating? Why not push.
Who is beating, who gets hit?
I do not get it, not a bit.
And please no beating, no, not a bush
Now I have been to Mimi's blog
and meaning I have gotten,
to whom ad why and where to beat.
Yes Mimi spoil us rotten.
If you also do not now the reason behind Beating around the Bush, then go and read Mimi's excellent explanation here.
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Prompts for November:
Beating Around the Bush, November 4 (Today)
Wild Goose Chase, November 11
Jumping the Gun, November 18
Cry Wolf, November 25
The promised photos of Eco-printed papers have been snapped, and will go live tomorrow.
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Mimi is often helpful like that - and I thoroughly enjoyed your creation using a phrase unfamilar to you.
SvarSletHehe thanks. I am cheating a bit here. I fully know these sayings, as I choose them.
SletBut my quirky brain started wondering about why beating around the bush was even a saying, and I did not find anything until visisting Mimi's.
Heeheehee! Thank you, this was fun.
SvarSletThank you for explaining the whys annd wheres of this strange idiom.
SletBeating around the bush used to be a common saying here years ago. Largely forgotten these days, but I still remember the meaning and the original meaning as described by Mimi.
SvarSletOh, it has become obsolete, I'm sorry to hear this. In the un-original meaning it's such a good saying, let's revive it. ... A Danish museum has a garden for words people want revived, you can plant your favourite obsolete - or on its way there - word in a fenced area. I love the idea.
Slet