prissy
picky
persnickety
particular
pernickety
Paul
pursued
uptight
Eunice
for he was fascinated with her creativity, her wildness and her lack of rules
limits had never applied to her, she was a free-spirit,
someone unlike anyone he had ever met
He feared if he did not capture her heart
he would continue on in his unsatisfying, misunderstood, angry life path.
Categories:
pernickety, friend,
Form: Alliteration
RICKETY BRIDGE
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I keep my access bridge looking rickety
It makes unwanted visitors think twice
I like my solitude, I’m quite pernickety
Just one invitation each year will suffice
It’s actually stronger than it may appear
There’s a deep, fast flowing river below
I watch them approach and see the fear
Of falling, but I’ll wave as I see them go
My mailbox is standing on the other side
So, no need for post brought to my door
Nor any sales people with smiles so wide
But they know I have heard it all before
My home is my castle, and I’m just fine
Even without a drawbridge, it is efficient
I own it and the surrounding land is mine
By now you’ve guessed I’m self-sufficient
Maybe it’ll break and fall apart one day
A bit like me as the years take their toll
With independence slowly ebbing away
And no rickety bridge, just this sad soul
Categories:
pernickety, identity,
Form: Verse
Once was a handsome fellow of twenty-eight
Don't know what happened, maybe something I ate
Got old and crickety
A trifle pernickety
The young girlies giggle when I try to negotiate
Categories:
pernickety, giggle,
Form: Limerick
Once was a handsome fellow of twenty-eight
Don't know what happened, maybe something I ate
Got old and crickety
A trifle pernickety
The young girlies giggle when I try to negotiate
© Jack Ellison 2015
Categories:
pernickety, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Archangel that sways upon my peripheral pedestal,
Your eyes flutter gaunt pernickety,
An anachronistic presumption that does not grant fastidious rebuttal,
A perennial anathema that balances on a threshold so rickety,
Your scruples warrant the acceptance of abeyance,
Disguised muse, Incitor of Loath, your canker manifests itself,
Your sophistry is deflected in one single moment of sense,
Then emerge fettered wings and claws of malign wealth.
Bleeding thorn rose,
Personification of deception,
The resonance of your nefarious heartbeat breeds in my woes,
Beauty is just an artful perception,
Prevarications that even fool chicanery,
A ruse that compelled the fatal touch,
Oh white rose, now a blood red filled prism of rivalry,
A slight prick, poisoned my heart as such.
A circus of freaks dancing upon my intoxication,
Sober Liquid that mock my hallucinations,
Life,like the glass of the night, breaks at the light of dawn.
Categories:
pernickety, sad,
Form: ABC