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8 November 2016

A Quaint Quibble

Queer querents queued,
queasily questing,
quashing their qualms.

Quite quickly
quaffing quince quinine,
the Queen quoth, 'Quiet!' 

'How Quixotic,' 
the Quartermaster
quizzingly quipped.

'I question your quenching,'
he quacked quarrelsomely.
The Quality quaked and quivered.

'I quit,' he quavered,
'quarantining this quintessentially 
quotidian quagmire!'


For Quadrille #20 at dVerse we are asked to write it around 'cue' – or 'Q'.

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12 comments:

  1. Truedessa8 November 2016 at 22:40

    Ha - I so enjoyed all the Q's. You made it look much easier than I think it actually was. In scrabble you would rack up a lot of points :)

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    1. Rosemary Nissen-Wade8 November 2016 at 23:43

      I did resort to consulting the dictionary in the end. (Grin.)

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  2. brudberg8 November 2016 at 23:51

    Ouch so many great words you have used... really impressive

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  3. kaykuala9 November 2016 at 00:08

    Wow, what a Q response. Got lost in all the alliteration!

    Hank

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  4. Anonymous9 November 2016 at 00:26

    Ha ha ha! I can't believe you managed this! Super creative. Well done.

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  5. De Jackson9 November 2016 at 06:38

    Yessssssssss! You have made my day, Rosemary. Quintessentially DELIGHTED by this quorum of Qs! <3

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  6. Frank Hubeny9 November 2016 at 07:47

    A lot of q's.

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  7. Anonymous9 November 2016 at 09:39

    You know I love this! Well done and clever

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  8. Gayle Walters Rose9 November 2016 at 13:02

    Ha, you were on a Q roll with this one, Rosemary...really fun!

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  9. lynn__9 November 2016 at 14:09

    Quite clever, Rosemary!!

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  10. Sanaa Rizvi10 November 2016 at 02:09

    My goodness this is exquisite!! ❤️

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  11. Cedarwind13 November 2016 at 09:30

    Enjoyed that and so appropriate that it was done as a Quadrille!

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