{"id":990,"date":"2019-04-24T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cindyfaughnan.com\/faughnan\/?p=990"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:35:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T16:35:56","slug":"poetry-challenge-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/24\/poetry-challenge-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry Challenge #84"},"content":{"rendered":"

To Be or Not to Bee<\/h2>\n

I\u2019m no Hamlet\u2014never played one, don\u2019t live in one\u2014But . . . I do know the beginning of Prince Hamlet\u2019s Act 3, Scene 1 Soliloquy: “To Be or Not to Be…”\u00a0 And now, if you didn\u2019t, you do too. Thus primed, prompt on fair Prince\/ess:<\/p>\n

Richard Nordquist on Thoughtco says: The verb “to be” is one of the shortest and most important\u2014yet oddest\u2014verbs in the English language. It is an irregular verb; indeed, it is the only verb in English that completely changes form in every tense. The verb “to be” is probably the most important verb in English.\u2014 https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/present-and-past-forms-verb-be-1690359<\/a><\/p>\n

Below is a list of past and present forms of the verb \u201cto be.\u201d And, just for fun, a fuzzy black and yellow buzzy bee. Write a Bee poem using as many forms of the verb \u201cto be\u201d as you can. One way to begin is to write each form of the word be on a line and take it from there.
\nPast and Present forms of the verb \u201cto be\u201d:<\/p>\n

I am, I was
\nYou are, You were
\nHe\/She\/It is, He\/She\/It was
\nWe are, We were
\nThey are, They were
\nAnd if you want to try perfect tense: have\/has\/had been
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\nBe bold! Be silly! Be\u2014gin!<\/p>\n

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Set the timer for 7 minutes.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Start writing!
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Don\u2019t think about it too much; just do it. <\/strong><\/h3>\n

*Kelly Bennett <\/a>and I began this 7-Minute Poetry Challenge over 1100 days ago. We now take turns creating our own prompts to share with you. If you join us in the 7-Minute Poetry Challenge, let us know by posting the title, a note, or if you want, the whole poem in the comments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To Be or Not to Bee I\u2019m no Hamlet\u2014never played one, don\u2019t live in one\u2014But . . . I do know the beginning of Prince Hamlet\u2019s Act 3, Scene 1 Soliloquy: “To Be or Not to Be…”\u00a0 And now, if you didn\u2019t, you do too. Thus primed, prompt on fair Prince\/ess: Richard Nordquist on Thoughtco … Continue reading “Poetry Challenge #84”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1112,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990\/revisions\/1112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cindyfaughnan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}