Adverbially Challenged

Chris Fielden has an ongoing 100 word challenge to use as many adverbs as possible. This one leaves the inner editor shell-shocked but is a great exercise for an amateur writer such as myself. There’s a huge variety already submitted, some very clever, some very funny. Mine turned out a tad serious, but I ran with it. I thought of well used adverbs as a starting point and remembered Yeats’ “Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”. Then I willfully committed overkill.

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After Yeats, Sceptically

You are, analogously speaking, the heart of a sparrow, flutteringly beating, gently cupped within my hands.

One harshly spoken word will see you swiftly fly away. Soothingly addressed murmurs may yet keep you here.

I cautiously consider.

I have assiduously moulded myself to be small. Quietly lessened who I am. Kept you safely. Tenderly controlling the sum of our parts.

I  truly grieve for your fragility, yet definitively dislike whom I have inevitably become. Tread softly, spake the poet, unrequitedly, to his muse. Treading softly has palpably eroded our very selves.

I daringly open my hands. Finally free us both.