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Still April here in Illinois, so gonna try to finish up a couple.

Prompt word used from NaPoWriMo 2019 Week 4 Prompts

-- ORENDA {Iroquoian}(n.) a mystical force present in all people that empowers them to affect the world, or to effect change in their own lives

Written for   ProjectDFC's ProjectDFC: Amazing Alphabetic April 2019

-- Fixed form: The Alphabrachic Verse, created by DragonsChest, is an alphabetic form that consists of eight quatrains with a concluding couplet.  The alphabet letter succession occurs by having the subsequent letters of the alphabet as the first letters in the first and last words in alternating fashion in subsequent lines, i.e., the first line begins with an “a” word, the second line ends with a “b” word, etc, all the way through to the couplet beginning with a “y” word and ending with a “z” word.  The trick comes in the repetition of letters: the starting letter of the last word in the fourth line in a stanza also becomes the requirement for the starting letter of the first word in the next stanza’s first line, i.e., for the first stanza, the final line must have its final word start with a “d” and the first word of the first line of the second stanza also must begin with a “d”.  In the end, all the letters that are doubled up are “d”, “g”, “j”, “m”, “p”, “s”, “v”, & “y”.

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