Monday, October 1, 2012

IMUNURI Prompt: undecided

"On the Fence"
Sculpture by Jana Lawton
We generally feel that wishing is good.
And we generally feel that washing is good.
But being wishy-washy, we generally feel, is not.

This week, write a poem that includes phrases or idioms signifying indecisiveness, uncertainty, or lack of conviction. Use at least three, or so, more or less. More if you wish, or less if that suits you. I don't know. Here are some words and phrases you could include:
 


Although
Approximately

Be that as it may

But
Guess

However

If indeed
Maybe

Mayhap
More or less

Neither here nor there
Nevertheless

Nonetheless

On the fence
On the other foot

On the other hand
Or not

Perchance

Perhaps

Possibly

Still

Undeclared
Whatever

Yet

On the other appendage, you could go a completely different way with this prompt.
You could choose to do something with reduplication, the linguistic phenomenon of word-pairs comprised of repeating sounds. Wishy-washy is an example, as are hanky-panky, bling-bling, pell-mell, riff-raff, artsy-fartsy and fuddy-duddy.

You'll find more of these, classified into three types, at the linked page above.


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