Short Letter Of The Alphabet Poems

Sounds of Summer


If you can hear
as I can now
the rose of noun
the bee of verb
the hive of mind
then you can hear
as I can now
everywhere the zither
of the siphonings of day, 
everywhere the last 
letter of the alphabet.


Donal Mahoney...

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Take this gift
More perfect than a full moon.
It is softer than silk,
The tresses of unblemished ksin.
Its fragrence heavies the night air,
Making those around it dizzy
As they breath deeply to draw in the scent.
And its color is of a deep bloodred,
Smoothly cut rubies of elegance.

Answer to the riddle:
4 letters: the 18th letter of the alphabet, the 15th, the 19th, and the 5th...

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Let me paint the picture
Of your visage
And I will frame it in my mind
Let me write your name
With a strand of poison grass
On a crack sea shell
That no one but you
Will be able to erase 
The last letter of the alphabet
Under the point of my pen
It’s your love that I want to write
Singer had once sings it
Poet had once express it
But let me tell the story
That...
...there was a time
Me and you was once in love...

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Peace grips my heart 

as Jesus Christ

in love’s zeal

quiets rumbling fears

soothed by divine whistles

yonder xylophonic

triumphantly overtaking evil

nourishing kindness

upholding victory*. 

*1Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Dramatic verse with 26 words, featuring every letter of the alphabet. 

December 9, 2021...

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Z is pronounced Zee in the USA
Great Britian calls it Zed every day
Believe it or not good-natured linguists, the ampersand
Was once the twenty-seventh letter of the alphabet, my friend
Franklin wanted to eliminate five letters of the alphabet in his day
But the Americans would not agree to this censorship in any way
Four thousand new words are added to the English Dictionary each year
A fact in a book, but the why of this is certainly not clear...

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I am so expensive
I am very hard to grow 
I am grown in Madagascar
 that is faraway I know
I am used in sweet and savoury
I am pure, spicy, delicate too
with a peculiar bouquet
Have I given enough clues?.

What am I?

My first is a commercial vehicle of the white kind
My second says that i am sick
My third is a portion of the French expression, OOH la la
My fourth is the name for the water found at the beach 
My fifth is the 4th letter of the alphabet

The answer is 










Vanilla Seed...

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Amphorae, beautifully crafted,
Delicate, exquisite, fire-glazed, 
Heated in jumbo kilns,
Lovely molded necks, 
Opaque pigments, 
Quartzite residue- 
Symbolic, timeless, utilitarian
Valued- with xanthic yellow zirconium




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October 22, 2019
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Poetry notes:

Poetry form:  ABC - In this instance, a poem in which every word begins with a successive letter of the alphabet. The first word begins with A, the second with B, etc....

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as brave strong smart
kind long-haired
comfortable unhappy creative
warm encouraging inspiring
memorable

who writes with abandon
lives with abandon
and no plans
late is on time and schedules -- ha!
the nerve of suggesting I'm
the one who is crazy

call me every letter of the alphabet
I'll give you a word for each
one and count the freckles
like stars
on children's faces
and wish each
one were my
child freckle alphabet

soupy sky with clouds and
it's raining hard today....

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