Comment from strandregs

Exceptional

HI Craig
I really like the good stuff you've accomplished here.
with tempo wording, limericking, which I only noticed in the end.
you made me happy. kiss kiss.

I see kissing really raises your game. :-))Z.

 Comment Written 17-Jul-2018

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reply by the author on 17-Jul-2018

Thanks, Z - the terrific rating and lovely comments are most appreciated. Well spotted - the rhyme scheme does indeed follow the limerick form, although it's not really a normal limerick beat. I'm not sure what to call it, but hopefully it works :) Cheers, Craig

Comment from Ulla

Excellent

Hi Craig, This is a fun poem with a story within. It really made me smile and it's also well written. Well, I can understand basiate and suaviate could mean kissing, the osculate is more obscure. Why the first two occurred to me is that I live in Spain and speak the lingo. Un beso means a kiss, and suave means soft, which a kiss could mean: to soften somebody. Ach well, I suppose I'm just trying to be clever, but I do like languages and the origins of them. Great poem. I enjoy your series. All the best. Ulla:))

 Comment Written 17-Jul-2018

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reply by the author on 17-Jul-2018

Well, you speak at least one more language than I do, Ulla. I really wish I was multilingual, too old to correct that now. Thanks for the excellent review. Craig

Comment from Bill Schott

Excellent

This poem, Basinate With Me, gives lip service to the use of these synonyms within your funny poem. It's okay to kiss your relatives, just don't shake hands.

 Comment Written 17-Jul-2018

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reply by the author on 17-Jul-2018

My parents made me kiss Aunt Hazel, I didn't enjoy it much. Many thanks, Bill.

Comment from BeasPeas

Excellent

This is amusing. Written very well using your new word. Kissing back in the day was shocking to some, but not as shocking as today when sometimes the kissing is skipped altogether. Very good rhyming and I love the image. Marilyn

 Comment Written 16-Jul-2018

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reply by the author on 17-Jul-2018

Thanks very much, Marilyn. She does look suitably shocked and appalled, doesn't she? Most grateful, Craig

Comment from Debbie Pope

Excellent

You had fun with this one. I can tell. And you taught us three words with one poem. Your poem is well written, not just clever. I like the aabba rhyme scheme. My favorite rhymes are "osculate" and "relate." You certainly don't see that everyday.

By the way, do they basiate under the mistletoe in Nowhere, Australia?

 Comment Written 16-Jul-2018

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reply by the author on 17-Jul-2018

At every opportunity, Debbie! It doesn't even have to be Christmas. Many thanks :) Craig

Comment from bichonfrisegirl

Excellent

LOL ... this is very cute and just a wee bit cheeky, Craig. I love it! Great use of humor here to get your words for 'kiss' out there. Thanks for teaching me, not one, but three new words ... and all of them meaning ' to kiss'. I now can see where the word 'suave' must have come from. :)

"I tried it once with cousin Claire,
she kicked me in the you-know-where" .... hehe ... my fave part.

This was fun to read! Well done!

Connie

 Comment Written 16-Jul-2018

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reply by the author on 17-Jul-2018

Cheeky, Connie? Whatever do you mean? Many thanks for the fun review :) Craig

Comment from Gloria ....

Excellent

Well the acronym K.I.S.S. wasn't created for no reason I see now. Can you imagine what we'd have to come up with to use B.A.S.I.A.T.E. Instead.
Best
Always
Simple
Is
Always
Totally
Extraterrestrial

Doesn't have quite the same ring to it, ya know?

That said, fantastic poem and this is going to be a difficult one for me to remember, so I hope you'll be using ALL your words in a 365 word poem at year end.

Love it,

Gloria

 Comment Written 16-Jul-2018

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reply by the author on 16-Jul-2018

Does that mean no "filler" words, Gloria? That's going to be difficult! How's your 500 word masterpiece coming along? lol

Many thanks, as always - Craig

reply by Gloria .... on 16-Jul-2018

Oh thanks for reminding me. I shall go off and get my writing for today prompt. :)

Comment from Sandra du Plessis

Excellent

A very well-written poem about kissing that can be verbally expressed in many different words with the same meaning. I will aqpproach kissing from now one very differently.

 Comment Written 16-Jul-2018

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reply by the author on 16-Jul-2018

Haha, Sandra. Well, I hope it doesn't get banned, as it did in medieval England. Many thanks, Craig

Comment from --Turtle.

Excellent

Hey, Craig... read through this poem. An entertaining word tryst of tongue play in today's word of the day theme.

A bit tongue and cheek, with rowdy but not too rowdy undertones. I only had one thing I paused to want to suggest:

Oh come on(,) honey, don't be such a priss;
(suggest the comma because honey is a pet name, direct addressment.

 Comment Written 16-Jul-2018

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reply by the author on 16-Jul-2018

Thanks for the catch, Turtle. One day I'll get it right. I think the problem is, I use commas to indicate where I pause when I'm saying something, and in this case, I wouldn't pause after the "on". But I do believe you're right, and I've changed it. I've just got to train myself better to look for such things (I do think I've improved slightly since I've had the benefit of your reviews!)

Most grateful, as always. Craig

Comment from Robbie Yates

Excellent

I'll have to admit, the more I read, the more I thought, "this is either a dirty poem, or I have a dirty mind"... and I was quite relieved at the end to realise it was neither, really!

Great, humorous poem, and great introduction to some fantastic new words. After a few months of reading your poems I'm going to have the vocabulary of a professor!

 Comment Written 16-Jul-2018

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reply by the author on 16-Jul-2018

Thanks, Robbie. I don't think I could bring myself to publish a really dirty poem here. Although, there was a zombie porn challenge one from a year or two back that might have stretched the boundaries of good taste ;-) Cheers, Craig