AN ALLITERATIVE ABC
always abridge ascribe and amplify an adsorbable affliction andiron again
buttress by backsliding but brandish bent bigotry
credibly crumpled choppy cocopa can campanulate caring catoptric centrocercus crabbedness
can cataclysmic courtliness chatter be captivating in the casaba
(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • August 31–September 6, 2026)
Penning in a crimson coloured covered book
at peace one summer in Limerick ,to be sure
Please ... please take a look
you'll see its plot is a bio adventure
aka that day swimming.. I lost ..my denture
The Visitor
He pushed at the open door
no sound
just darkness inside.
Dust filtered his
nostrils,
a mustiness of lost years
inhabited his senses.
A loose floorboard
creaked in the stairwell,
the aroma
of her Chanel provoked memories
of his
living hell.
A tear of self-pity congealed
in the dirt at his feet
He switched on the light
"Hello son
I knew you'd be back;
He's gone..."
Welsh poet Thomas better known for his amusing masterpiece 'Milkwood' play than as a major 20th century poet presents in four rhymed tristich & a concluding quatrain(abcc) his most famous & popular poesy ,a delight for those old enough to recall his live recitation thereof on national TV(sadly an unlikely event in the modern era despite the proliferation of available channels)
A consecutive (see Aug 27)'Neruda' poetic (rather proving plus ca change.plus la meme chose) so clearly selected by some automatic process..so a similar comment! ...a short poem put into words as a 'love letter' today but.. still in shapeless irregular lines .
A poetized 'shaggy dog story' of the universal relationship of faithfulness & sadness of eternal separation.. suddenly realised & put into words as an epitaph in shapeless irregular lines .
Langston Hughes is best known for his insightful and powerful poetry, often addressing identity as exampled in this in this 'Mother to Son' 20 liner personification.A staccato conversational recitational piece... best spoken aloud
A 20 liner quasi -rhymed quatrain nature fantasy so childish compared to the succinct poetry which has earned Emily's reputation as a goto US poet
ALLITERATIVE CINQUAIN Aug 24
could crabbedness credibly crumpled caring centre?
forcibly fluttering faultily from faintness
manorial monsignor modified my misdirection mockery
sapient sandboy serious statice smuggler
teenaged tassel through to their thirties
plumping for prolonged prokofiev protracted proficiency
(Weekly Magnetic Poetry Challenge • August 24–30, 2026)
Edna St. Vincent Millay ,American lyrical poet sonneteer and playwright received a Pulitzer Prize & known for her feminist activism (also used the pseudonym Nancy Boyd )for her prose, this particular PS choice today ,lengthy staccato sentenced style might better be so described.
december
destiny
a
midwinter
present
carrying
a crown
of
sapphired
joy
Response to SPWC AUG 24
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's famous narrative of 'an agent of national awakening ' in a un- uniformed rhymed account.Memorable metres make HWL tick in this patrotic missive
Longfellow very much a poesy traditionalist often with lyrical musicality did persist,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti,another beat poet,painter,activist,essayist publisher in this example pens a long lined unpunctuated 'unstanzard ' list poem ,staccato in concept & possibly it recites aloud better than it reads.
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