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Heel and toe, heel and toe, it’s over the tallow-dripped boards we go
Turn me around, hold me high, mind the pans, don’t want to fry
Skip it and slip it and skim the next bit, twist it and twine it, make me a wick
Hold it loose, pull it tight, don’t want to burn it, don’t want a light
Heel and toe, heel and toe, it’s over the tallow-dripped boards we go
Join as one, join as all, forget the choices, raise your voices,
Take the cake, take the pan, but don’t take it wrong
In this, the Pancake Threaders song
Written for Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: 102 words.
crispina kemp 
Catchy little verse. Off to Google to find out what pancake threading is.
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I thank you, J. And as you’ve now discovered, Google doesn’t have the answer. 🙂
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Very mysterious write. Nice take on the prompt. I know you’ll fill us in. 🙂
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Eventually …. 🙂
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Hmm……..
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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🙄😊
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I searched it the last time you referred to Pancake Threading. No matter how I tried all I got was knitting. lol
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See my email. For you and you alone
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What email? 😐
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What? What’re you on about, Jen? No, not email. Snail mail. 🙂
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Right! Sleep deprivation. oopsy 🙂
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Something like that. Hasn’t blunted your wits.
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Witty I am or rather I have a sharp wit. Something like that. Is there a poem in that?
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Um… 2Ys UR, 2Ys UB, I CUR 2Ys 4 me. But that’s wise, not wits. 🙂
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OH! Took a minute or 3 , 4 me. i c u r 2y’s 4 me! and wittier. 😎👏
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Thanks, Jen. I hauled that out of childhood memories. Took me a moment to put it back together …
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It was VERY GOOD!
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Thanks. Don’t claim it as an original. Don’t know it’s origins. It was doing the rounds when I was at school. First school.
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I might try using this “New” form of poetry! 😂
Why not? lol
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Let’s see what you do with it. 🙂
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I’ll try it.
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That was a fun take.
And you made up a dance to go with your song, to boot!
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Absolutely. The real fun bit was finding an image that worked so well with it. Can’t you just see those dancers doing the Pancake Threaders dance?
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Yes! Perfection!
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I thank you. I wonder what chance of the next reveal? Another of Sammi’s prompts, maybe
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Yes a catchy clever rhyme, and that mysterious Pancake thread….
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Indeed … 🙂
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The rhythm of this is so interesting – kind of like a tribal dance, is the way I felt it.
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Yep, that’s about right. Glad you like.
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Very catchy, though I’m also lost on the term. 🙂
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Maybe I’ll explain it all, one day.
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When I read your poem, I Googled about “Pancake threader”. I got no answer, and so I started singing this song aloud with claps to keep the rhythm. And it fit in so beautifully! I really wanted to dance to it. You can easily be lyricist if you want. 🙂
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I thank you. I do say I am pleased with how this turned out. A slight blip in the penultimate line, cos it had to fit the 102 words limit.
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Fitting perfect word limit is very hard for me. But your one turned out perfect.
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I thank you. And it’s the word limit that’s the real challenge. 🙂
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Oh yes, the interesting thing 🙂
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🙂
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Each time I read “heel and toe” I instinctively tapped my heel and toe on the floor… The rhythm is interesting, like H.R.R. said, tribal. Though I also thought of a chant or a spell as well…
It seems you have stoked the fires of intrigue with this pancake threading…
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Yea, seems so. Naughty me 🙂
Oh, and while at school I was a member of a folk-dance team, which explains the heel and toe etc
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I LOVE this Crispina, you’re slowly building up a folklore of pancake threading…
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And quietly chuckling to myself 🙂
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