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A Blimmin' Cold Day, Even For Grandad

All avenues are amphibious arenas Bubbles belch-burst, bitter Bacchanalian bombs Clouds' cast-iron crescendo creates cold cantankerous caricatures Drenched - darkness descending, daylight dying, disappearing duskwards Every eye echoing every eye, emotional evidence enveloped Fake furs, fashionable fools, firm friends fleeing flowing firmament Garrulous girls giggle, grizzled gangsters get going, gravity gyroscopes - ginormous gloomy grey gusts! Hapless Harry's hairpiece hovers, hesitates, hovers higher, hurriedly he hopes he has his hat, Intimate iciness infiltrates irrepressibly inside, Jaunty Jack's japery, just jaded January jokes - jigsaw justice Kilted killers, kleptomaniac kangaroos... Lame laughs, low lamplight, laser liquid lines lash lustfully Mercurial miasma mercilessly merging, mournful men mutter miserably Nobody needs niceties, navigating newspapers, nothing new now Ordered out over oof owed, obstinately offering old objections Pavement pool-puddles pose problems, precautions probable, prayers perhaps... Quintessential questing queens querulously quarrel, Rain rushes relentlessly, rudely, rapaciously Sizzling, steaming, slip-sliding silhouettes, soaked saturnine suits seething Terry the tiger-tamer, tastefully tattooed, taking time talking tactfully to trembling tramps Undernourished underpass underclass, underwhelmed under useless ubiquitous umbrellas Vulgar victors, vim-vigour-verve, voraciously vanquished, vanity virulently violated, Waistless waifs, wasted wastrels, wrestle with wicked westerly winds X-rayed, X-rated Yesterday's youngsters yellowing, yawning, yearning Zero zest. Zilch.

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Date: 2/23/2016 6:14:00 PM
Joe, Welcome to Poetry Soup. It will be a delight to read and become familiar with your poems in the future. As for now, I will greet you with the same smile others passed when I first joined the soup. Wishing you and your poetry the best. I hope you get to meet all the nice poets around here STARTING with me- SKAT :-) Please drop a hello and tell me a little about yourself if you wish. I would like to be your newest poetry soup "FRIEND" Hugs* SKAT
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Date: 2/23/2016 7:23:00 AM
- Welcome with your first poems here on PoetrySoup, Joe - PoetrySoup is simply the world's best :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
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Date: 2/20/2016 2:14:00 AM
Joe, to tell you the truth you did an amazing job. I never tried this form. Unless it was a short ABC poem. LOL, which in no way amounts to the talent on this poem. What I like is how it flows, even though I found myself a bit tongue twisted... LOL, On the H... he hopes, he has his hat. LOL.. try saying that fast 5 times in a row. Anyways, Joe, sorry for going on and on here. Welcome and Enjoy. LINDA
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Date: 2/20/2016 12:38:00 AM
Joe, I like the ABC form.. awesome poem. LINDA
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Date: 2/20/2016 1:38:00 AM
Thanks Linda, I had fun writing it, not my usual thing...but an interesting challenge :)

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