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Transient Troubadour Traverses Terrestrial Terrain

'Course as a grim teller of tall tales, (albeit poetic) reasonable rhyming quasi roundelay I readily admitted to feign cuz, stringing words together with pride and prejudice plus sense and sensibility, jocularity, and conformity I dissed deign (spoiler alert) iamb, trochaic, dactylic, and anapestic metrical reign jest your ordinary garden variety dollar short day late dime a dozen penniless citizen banker Abel and Cain, yet mine mean mien blithely, daringly, fatuously, ludicrously, nauseatingly, pretentiously playfully urbane many (if not all readers) will coon sitter yours truly harmlessly insane, whose feeble attempts to wax and wane oft times falls flat (splat goes Matt) as if dropped out plane, without a parachute instantly recuperating while lain supine (winded, but... none the worse) asthma brain suffers concussion, confusion, contusion actually, immediately, and unexpectedly knocked fluent German speaking ability within germane guy verständlich? If ye really comprehend trademark non Turkish gobbledygook then explain (using language of least familiarity), but best to commence with eye catching hook impossible mission apt lit pupils (mine) to evade even momentarily riveting, spellbinding, and transfixing look courtesy ingenious way with word ye snook cored me and took wind out my sails. Nor could I breakaway courtesy automobile, cuz 2009 Hyundai Sonata would not start... yea for real, thus finding me ready to yoke neck (think gibbet) each heel dangling as body goes limp blessedly, finally, happily ridding me of any/all hangups, one less goo goo gaga born this way poker face cards for him to deal. UNGABLUZUM describes this schlemiel!

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Date: 12/26/2019 2:49:00 PM
I got so much out of this! I felt the release at the end of this poem! It really was like "traversing ...terrain," and it really is that when you are writing! Your piece reminded me of Ecclesiastes 1:1-11. Thanks for the journey and reminding me of how beautiful that release!!!
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