Punctilious conversation
Unknown by this generation
Suggested by eager administration
Hoping to curb dancing gyration
Censorship doesn’t work in our nation
Where felons are revered in Presidential celebration
Mrs M was a teacher with a clean desk
there was only one pencil in there
it was always sharpened
and a pink eraser that looked brand new
I never saw an ink pen
the top of her desk had a small plaque
with her name starting with Mrs. of course
Even though she was divorced
She never wanted the students to know about it
We all did
She was fastidiously neat and fussy
staying late to sterilize desks and seats
she inadvertently taught me one big lesson
I never wanted to be like her
She was too punctilious; cleanliness was her world.
Students were probably twenty-six on her priority list.
.
Without light
Gold will
Not
Glisten
Without hers
Turgid fupa
‘Tatched
Az molded
Clay
Unto
Hern thicks
did i mention
‘Bout the gold
*Glistening*
"regard not the
scop
the bard iz the
punctilious
carnivore"
hm
Multitudinous bells secern the tones
as may resound sharp bamboo xylophones.
Pulchritudinous bells have rhythmic ding,
others that linger with tedious ring.
Some little bells can echo a jingle
that surely bestow a Christmas tingle.
Quite many bells ting melodious chime
prompting our schedule's punctilious time.
A carillons' unique, harmonized bells
swing from gentleness to overtone swells.
Suspended bronze discs reach resonant gongs,
characterized by gregarious songs.
A bittersweet bell that distantly tolls
announces angelic release of souls.
Almighty ( El Shaddai, in Hebrew)
Benevolent
Creator-Sustainer
Demon-Destroyer
Everlasting Father
Faithful for Generations
Grace with Jesus-Face
Holy
Independence Personified
Just and Jealous (Hosea, in Old Testament)
Kindness Long-term
Lamb of Sacrifice
Monogamous (again, Hosea, among others)
Nation-maker, nation-breaker
Omniscient
Punctilious
Question and The Answer
Righteousness Personified
Savior
Timeless
Universe and Universal Solution
Verity
Water of Life
X-ray of your heart
Your Truthteller, to set U free
Zealous
Sources: Bible, Gospel of John, & Old Testament:
Genesis 22, Hosea. Isaiah 7:14 & 9:6
The truth became hideous
While lies turned delicious
I was not fastidious
Neither was I insidious
Only slightly bilious
Because I was lascivious
Though in truth, I was oblivious
That I rotated into supercilious
Even though I was punctilious!
To write this piece will be strenuous.
It could become downright arduous.
For it is a task quite rigorous.
So, despite the fact it may be onerous;
To the point of being tortuous.
The poet remains truly zealous.
In actuality he is punctilious;
Combined with being tenacious.
He will remain fastidious,
As well as conscientious.
To the end he will be sedulous.
He writes because he’s pertinacious;
That by being extremely assiduous;
This poem will turn out glamorous.
Despite the attempt to be scrupulous,
It seems the content may be mucilaginous.
Hopefully to have read it, was not laborious.
Perchance did you find it hilarious?
To write any more would be superfluous.
You need not be so supercilious.
Purple butterflies flooded the meadow that morn
Cherry blossoms, Queen Anne’s lace and daisies smiled
This was the reunion of the apricot faerie and her unicorn
A prophecy fulfilled, a joyous gift of extra meadow light.
Ribbons of exquisite loveliness flooded the our hearts
As we recognized the gloriousness of the celestial pair.
They were delicate, gracious, unwittingly orchidaceous.
The punctilious sun smiled at their quintessential loveliness.
A beauteous sight observed by those who came to fawn.
Deer, fox, raccoons, opossum; we all sat beyond their sight.
Communal silence greeted them as they conversed among flowers.
A promise of consummate well being lingered after they had gone.
Will they be back? We wondered, none of us knowing.
Appreciating we had observed a gossamer loveliness
Which most beings even celestial ones, never experience.
My uncle's polka dot bow-tie is markedly symbolic,
For he has been, throughout his life, a fervent spotaholic.
His patient wife, dear Dottie, with whom he is quite besotted
Will only buy him underpants if suitably bespotted!
Punctilious with spellings, it will come as no surprise,
That he delights to cross the T's and gaily dots the I's.
And even as a lad when bad concussion laid him low,
To see those spots before his eyes had minimised the blow!
So when he goes out walking with his pet dalmation,Spot
His coat aburst with polka dots, he doesn't care a jot!
I doubt he'll ever mend his ways for everybody knows
'A leopard cannot change his spots' - or so the saying goes!
18/01/19
'Polka dot poetry contest' : Sponsored by: Edward Ibeh
Pacific, pacifist pampered papa
parading par excellent paragon
parent (parenthetically parochial
particularly partisan) parvenu
passive, passionately paternalistically patient,
paunchy, peaceably pepped, perfectionist,
perceptive, perennially perky, permissively
persevering, persistently personable, perspicuous,
pertinent, phenomenally philanthropic, philharmonic
picturesquely pious, pioneering, piquantly pithy,
playfully pleasant, pleasurably plucky, plummy,
poetically poignant, politely pontificating, popular,
positively potent, powerfully practiced pragmatist,
praiseworthy, prayerfully precious, precise
predominant, preeminently preferable, preparedly
preponderant, presently president, prestigiously
prevailing, priceless, princely, principally pristine,
privately privileged, prized, proactively procreative,
prodigiously productive, proficiently profitable,
progressively prominant, promisingly prompt,
prophetically propitious, prospectively protective,
proudly proven provocative, prudent psyched, puissant,
punctilious, punctually purposeful.
This is what you’re
For God’s sake
Shake off shadowy cocoon
Of your broken past and its
Punctilious cares,
As along the pathway of love
Nobody laughs at the afflicted heart.
The lamp that you lit
Every night has burnt a hole
In the ignorant shade.
No place of hiding contagious guilt.
You were not born a poet
And weren’t looked after to be one either.
The syntactic beauty of words
Live as the freshly plough field
And swift as gray wings of flooded river
Bare your soul to the worth of well-wishes
A bit early
Your palm lines fall short
And inconsistent endeavor
Purportedly averted you the education
Job, posting and mainstream prosperity
Yet your light-flooded eyes
Never trembled
Reminiscence of scintillating memories
Of three decades in exotic destinations
Where waking life of a dreamer
Stand in the spring’s wild beads
Made up your loss
And people often ask
Why you are so loving, dear!
Days of longing, days alone,
hours and hours spent on you own
days of dreaming still alone
anxious just to hear the phone.
Nights are sleepless, endless too,
the rooster's call long overdue,
the noise unwelcome when first heard,
that slave to time, punctilious bird
with undue timing breaks the dream,
the one with hope to make it seem
much better, but purports to fake
a false pretender when you wake.
For what was there is still in view,
you dream and dream but never do.
Days of longing, days alone,
hours and hours spent on your own,
nights of waking, nights in thought,
hours and hours that come to nought.
"On Gelid Night" by David Hart
On gelid night, prone amidst this small sea of
faineant coverlets,
A nimeity of somnolent susurrations--
Bombinate and pierce the greyblack night.
Still, the foundling lies on bilious pillow
A radiator's dolorous tintinnabulation
Harmonizes a fan's punctilious paean.
On this gelid night,
A languid pillow kisses this naive cheek.
Vocabulary
Bilious-ill-tempered; Foundling-lost child; nimiety-excess (n);
dolorous-sad; tintinnabulation-tinkling sound; susurrations(n)-whispers; faineant(adj)-
idle; gelid-icy cold; bombinate-buzz or hum; punctilious-precise; paean- a song of praise
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