ABPA - Australian Bush Poets Association

I thought while the topic was going somewhere, you might all like to have a go.....
Have fun kids - I started one for you, line ends already worked out. Who'll accept the challenge?

Rock rocked, music died
the day that disco came
Bobbby sox were put aside
and poodle skirts the same.
Ties became unseemly wide
a new style was the aim.

Every generations aim
before the last one died
was vow to never be the same
conventions put aside
until another gimmick came
and blew the last one wide,

Come on poets Aussie wide
load your pen and aim
before your grey cells all have died
try and do the same
I put all other work aside
till inspiration came.

came
wide
aim
died
same
aside


aside
came
died
aim
wide
same

same
aside
came
wide
aim
died

died/same
came/aside
wide/aim

I'm thinking Good on you Wendy - let's see who takes up the challenge

I had a go Wendy - not sure I have got it right though - but had a shot at it. I actually found doing the maths to work out where things went was harder - Lucky you had already given us the tip off about that.

Rock rocked, music died
the day that disco came
Bobbby sox were put aside
and poodle skirts the same.
Ties became unseemly wide
a new style was the aim.

Every generations aim
before the last one died
was vow to never be the same
conventions put aside
until another gimmick came
and blew the last one wide,

Come on poets Aussie wide
load your pen and aim
before your grey cells all have died
try and do the same
I put all other work aside
till inspiration came.

And inspiration surely came
from out of paddocks wide
when James Blundell took deadly aim
all other music died.
All music sounded quite the same
but James I put aside.

And hours that were put aside,
ignored people who came,
they may as well have up and died
for listening was my aim
with all the windows opened wide.
And nothing was the same.



And nothing ever was the same,
others I put aside.
The Beatles and the Stones now came
in last - my taste was wide
and opened - country style my aim
as Jazz and Rock just died.

And now Ziggy Stardust has died and music's not the same
and John and George both came and went, old Slim has moved aside
Seems God is casting his net wide. Is a new band his aim?

Clever lady. I love what you did with it and
I absolutely love challenges!
Great to see Bowie in there too. A fan in the day.

Thanks Wendy - it was rather a challenge - they are not easy

Here we go Wendy - as Maureen says, it is not easy to follow that pattern of end line words. My sestina is a bit eclectic but I continued the theme of changing fashions - this time in clothes. I don't think it ranks up there with yours, but I love challenges too, and I used my recent experience in a fabric shop where I bought a lovely bold piece of material that took me right back to the 70s!

Everything Old is New Again
(c) Wendy and Shelley

Rock rocked, music died
the day that disco came
Bobbby sox were put aside
and poodle skirts the same.
Ties became unseemly wide
a new style was the aim.

Every generations aim
before the last one died
was vow to never be the same
conventions put aside
until another gimmick came
and blew the last one wide,

Come on poets Aussie wide
load your pen and aim
before your grey cells all have died
try and do the same
I put all other work aside
till inspiration came.

I thought about the day I came
when doors were opened wide
at fabric store – my summer aim
(now ancient clothes have died)
to find a style not quite the same
as those I’ve put aside.

I took my shopping friend aside
and whispered, as we came
I thought the 70s had died!
She said – Don’t look! Just aim
your footsteps in a circle wide
and I will do the same.

I sensed our thoughts were just the same
I looked, then cast aside
the rolls of fabric, till I came
to one I loved, with wide
and coloured arrows “taking aim”!
(My girlfriend nearly died!)

The wheels of fashion spin, and nothing stays the same
but when you think the styles of yore are swept aside
They turn up once again to meet the retail market’s aim!

Oh well done Shelley, that's a beauty

Thatt's realy good Shelley. I noticed that Maureen and I could only think of 'put' to go before 'aside', but you came up with - took asIde and cast aside
Realy makes you did into the vocabulary!.