Jeff Kyser Poet Abecedarian

Reversal Ii

A boy can dance
Boy can he dance
Can dance and sing
Dance free of string
Effortless float
Free like a note
Gain loft, soar swift
His feet adrift
Inspiration
Just elation
Kissing his true love.

Love by her spurned
Mocked, badly burned!

No other thing,
Other act brings
Predicament
Quite fiendish sent
Reverses love
Sensation of, 
To feel rejection
Utter dejection
Vengence directed
Withering invective
Xyloid, woody,
Youthful feelings gone,
Zeal for love dare again spawn?


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for the Abecadarian Poem Poetry Contest
sponsored by Caren Krutsinger
written on 05/21/2022


I wrote the original, Reversal,
comprising just the 26 words in bold,
on 02/07/2022.

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Timothy Ray May 21, 2022 at 11:44 AM Jeff....amazing feat that will forever escape me, i cannot write as such but you have done a masterful job here Jeff Kyser May 21, 2022 at 11:52 AM Thanks for the kind words, Tim!

L Milton Hankins May 21, 2022 at 9:27 AM Jeff, this is masterful. I struggle with these, but you have obviously mastered the technique and come up with a meaningful abcdarian, acrostic with rhyme and flow. Best of luck in the contest. Jeff Kyser May 21, 2022 at 10:41 AM Thanks, Milt. May still have to tweak it a bit, but I guess that’s true of them all…