Barbette Poems | Examples


List of Member Poems

Quiritation, Quirister

Quiritation, quintessence.
Quirister, chime in.
Sickle moon, slivered crescents.
Harvest, glitter grin.

Quickening, quill? Quoth, quotum?
Grapes of wrath, red tide?
Shelter well, velarium!
Vinomadefied!

Viscid, visibilia? 
Victrix, vair, vespoid.
Squirrel, thin ice? About me thaw!
Wasp, be paranoid!

Balefire, baetyl, bedaggle.
Ballyhoo bold, bagarre.
Nacre, naiad? Ne'er naggle!
Baisemain? Bizarre!

Blind bandelet? Binausic.
Belie, binaural beat.
Baragouin, barbette brick!
Blind, basiation? Bleat!

Best, bathysphere? Bathysmal.
Batrachian bateleur.
Ailed, apathy? Abysmal!
Bought ticket, took tour!

Abased or abacinate?
What is left to see?
Death and Doom, dread not thy date!
Just move in with me!

Abodement, abnegation?
Bad omens to renounce?
Chaos, cold is creation!
Pound, buy not the ounce....

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