Short Pedantic Poems

Rickshaw |abia
punish my honey
drink my creamy dream

eat my children between fat-bread

Stulted pedantic canker-bloom
Your bird-plucked eyes
will gas-up and advertise...

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Naturally particular, normally pedantic, never problematic - pessimism notwithstanding.

Thoughtfully intuitive, interested in thinkers; tactile in time, nuance in tenderness....

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His alarm failed, so no time to be pedantic 
He still tried in his haste to be romantic
He had to hurry he was late
And in such an absent state
He slammed his wife and kissed the door, when frantic!...

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Inkhorn means ostentatiously learned and pedantic

Ostentatiously Learned Inkhorn

What I had learned after being born,
Was that I would become an inkhorn;
Knowledge showing,
And brain growing;
All over my walls diplomas did adorn.

Jim Horn...

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Trains are romantic,
  airplanes are not

The prepared speech pedantic,
  ‘a song lyric caught’

Your eyes have to choose
  between vision and sight

Or your spirit transforms
 —changing day into night

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2018)...

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In caves prehistoric
Static from minds ecstatic
Lively from minds elastic
Passion from minds romantic
Impression from minds pedantic
Bizarre from minds frantic
From Cro-Magnon to Warhol’s antics
Art pleas images and not semantics.
...

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One glass of Merlot makes my innards tingle

Dry wine has a way of making me romantic

Two glasses blur my vision, but I'm eager to mingle

Half a carafe finds my language less than pedantic

No misinterpretation, dwell not on meanings semantic 



*Entry for Francine’s “Pick a Beverage, Any Beverage” contest
October 23, 2011 by Carolyn Devonshire...

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PEDANTIC? – WHO ME?

You say that I’m pedantic
But that’s not precisely true.
Pedantic is not the right word,
As I’ll explain to you.

I’ve checked the Oxford Dictionary,
Which I know you’ll find insidious.
But really dear you ought to know,
The word you want is ’fastidious’

24th April 2023
Character Traits poetry contest
Sponsor - Angela Tune...

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ZZ Snore, Snore, ZZ
Written: by Tom
9-6-2019


Night’s sleep was scanty,
today I’m logy and slow.
Forgetting pharmaceuticals,
caused tossing to and fro.

Today my song,
won’t be a mellifluous sound.
But I’ll be pedantic,
until my sleep clocks rewound.

I’m apt to be loquacious,
during sleep once again.
While a good power nap,
might mollify my pain.
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Latin is abstruse whilst the learning battle ceased

Though as theorist thinkers, found a language lost,

Opaque it all may seem, but it’s merely just a dream 

Then I’ll circumvent some adumbrate at least.


Impetuous the urge I ask to detail verse for you- 

Meticulous does Latin sound, incredibly romantic,

As old as it may be, its sight is not pedantic  

It's feature full with feculence, but understood by few....

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Listen to poem:

Please pander to my
Perfectionism by
Pottering your purlesent
Peepers purposely past my
Permanently printed
Phrases of poetic poise

Pulling precious people
Past particular poison 
Pleases.
Pushing perfection points
Purposefully protects from 
Painful perception.

Perhaps a pedantic persuasion?
Perhaps a pen peaking in
Peppery passion or with
Personal poignancy or
Painted pastiche pictures of
Platitude?

Perhaps...

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MY LITTLE UNIVERSE—LEXI'S PERSONAL PLANET (Visual 1)

Penned in a poetry permissive as a
periwinkle
painting palette’s passive paths to
pain

Petty philosophy added to phobias
perils
perishing peace in selfish pedantic
prose

Passing parodies of passion on paper
permeate
pacifying periodic paralysis, a paltry
pardon

Phoney photoflashes, the profound
performance
persist perfectly profound on my personal
planet


© Kim van Breda...

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Silence
Light is speech.    the mind
an enchanting thing
picking and choosing.
Our past becomes present
consequences.
Modesty may,might nay must
overcome envy.
Retreat propriety,
rescued by the disposition of angels
in pedantic literalism.
A distrust of merits, style &connoisseurs.
prisnmatic colours,hyphens &lines.
Nonchalance,in lieu
efforts of affection ,interacting with
apparations of splendour.
Sleep

Inspired by the works of Marianne Moore...

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Tree-finger enchantments
   Shimmer pedantic staccato;
Violinist plucked
   Long-tails, blue in snow,
      Bewitched no longer, frolic.
   Embrace Poseidon.
       Whisper labyrinths cool to the wake.
East, I see an oblong ship pirouette
    Charging from Olympus…on fire,
        Shadowy Everests migrate west;
    Crisped saltines crumbled by guilt
       Whose silent peaks rejoice:
How beautiful the clouds swim in sunrise sky. 


2/15/2017...

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fiesty foibles
retrace resurrect
pedantic pathways 
serpentine spirals
barbs bittersweet
demonic delight
illusion indulgence 
instinct imposed
choicelessly chosen
trauma-bonding thus
blighted bondage
strangling soul

weary worn-out
surrendered stance
attention animated
poised perfectly
mindfully meanders 
anointing artistically
sanguine stillness 
vifying void
sifting silently
wafting wonderment
radiating rapture
lustrous love

05-December-2022...

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Disgrace
Surrounded by adulations, you flaunt your expectations. 
Undue repercussions, desiring gratuitous acknowledgement of your affluence and good fortune. 
Reminders of turbulent open tribulations, slamming the door and watching you crestfallen as you fall from grace. 
What you call a miracle intervention when really you should do penance for the chaos unleashed.
Pedantic overflow snuffs out my exhilaration.
Is my preoccupation really but a side effect of my own disgrace?...

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To whom life has lost its savor
The irrational does favor:
To whom existence is a bore
Breaker of Untouchable Law...

Exactly so with Bored Rhonda,
Ready to hug Anaconda,
Eyes planting to the Romantic,
Self lending in the Pedantic...

I would same say of Hunter:
The swayed by life - Bursting Thunder,
Who a try gives The Ecstatic,
Life helping with The Synthetic...

To whom life has lost its savor. 
Daily swallow of Saliva.
He is An Empty Survivor:
Satan's Misguided Conniver....

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