Short Participle Poems

"foreplay"


allow me to
dangle my
partial

participle...

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Linguist at a beach
dropping participle pants
revealing diphthong...

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Participle Pats Practicum por proficient patterning, 
pertaining particapatory pronoid program preparation,
preceeds pandemic profound PARTY!...

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Put it down to a grey-haired obsession;
Participles are a vexed question.
Even though it sounds quaint,
Elegant it ain't,
Robbing gerunds of their possessions!...

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Just a little 
participle
of a riddle

two eyes and
arm and arm
leg to leg
on all fours
in the hand
of the charm
breast and egg
opened doors

Just a little 
participle
of a riddle...

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Lectures for years each time we ended a sentence with at.

"You don't use a dangling participle at the end of a sentence.

There were no exceptions.

So we could not resist the head stone:

This is where he's AT....

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Twas the night before Christmas

Teddy
warm
and
soft,

timeless
hold
eased
Nick's
impatience
gay
hunger
towards

believing
even

festive
ornaments,
reindeer,
elf.

Christmas
holidays
raise
incandescent
sentiment
towards
many
alit
souls.


12/15/2022

a·lit v.
A past tense and a past participle of alight1....

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Exhorted (past tense) and exhorted                                                          (past participle); strongly encourage 
or urge (someone) to do something

Trump Had Exhorted

People to commit crimes, Trump had exhorted;
Terribly evil things distorted when he extorted;
Dilapidated,
And constipated;
Off stage should be escorted and then aborted.

Jim Horn...

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Listen to poem:

At the end of the meal we shared,
my participle principles split my jeans,
when you called me to split the bill!
What about the banana-split you had for dessert? 
You split-up spilled friend?
Or the soggy split pea soup you
asked me to boldly forgo, 
for the aperitif? 
The tiff began and ended
with the present and past-principles
of split personalities, 
listening to their inner voices 
with split-end infinitives....

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Concupiscent is from Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin concupiscentia, from Latin concupiscens, concupiscent-, present participle of concupiscere, inchoative of concupere, to desire strongly : com-, intensive pref.; see com- + cupere, to desire.


Memories come back and are reminiscent,
Of being highly effective and self-sufficient;
Did adapt,
With no mishap,
Also, as well as efficient and concupiscent.

Jim Horn...

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