“Let’s take it for a whirl,” he said,
|that rusty old ute behind the shed.
Its tyres were flat, its paint was all flaked –
but still, it roared when gently waked.
We named it Puff, with dragon flair,
and drove it laughing everywhere.
(c) Dennis Ryle November 2025
dVerse challenge – compose a quadrille – a poem of precisely 44 words – and use the word “whirl”.
Wondering Pilgrim 
Ok, you totally had me at the title! LOVE this. What fun!
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Indeed, it’s been fun to remember it all from all those decades ago!
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hah, good fun, this one! loved. xx, ren
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Fantastically fun. I adore the title.
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Fun poem and delightful name for the ute.
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Fantastic title and fun verse!
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Oh this is great fun I love the name puff
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Tragic wagon no more after being awakened.
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Pure magic, just like Puff! A wonderful Q, Dennis.
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Excellent! I love old beat up cars. Modern cars are so boring! Not knowing if you were going to make it home was part of the excitement!
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Indeed, Shaun. I have too many tales to tell!
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Of course, how could you resist? — the naming or the driving.
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Dennis, “that rusty old ute behind the shed” hits me right in the nostalgia — I can almost hear Puff rumbling back to life.
~David
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FJ Holden and Austin A40 – how we wish we kept our first cars!
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