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That Time of Year - Discussion Projacking

That Time of the Year

I want to go and see the Christmas lights,
the season's colors, red and green and white
so bright and festive, a joyful sight at night.
It will be fun, so come with me.

There will be Carollers just down the street
let's join to raise our voices, you and me,
it doesn't matter if we sing off-key,
It will be fun, so come with me.

And maybe we could visit old St Nick.
We'll check his list to see if we can help
to spread the cheer. We can play his elf.
It will be fun, so come with me.

                              ~~Judi Van Gorder

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"DISCUSSION: Learning by imitation."  

I Projacked

The Pasture

I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.

I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother. It's so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha'n't be gone long.—You come too.
                              ~~Robert Frost

This Frost poem is an invitation to join him seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Best enjoyed when shared. It is written in 2 iambic pentameter (L4 tetrameter) quatrains, with rhyme xaaB xccB. x being unrhymed and B being a refrain. My projacked poem is an attempt to emulate the spirit and frame of Frost's poem.