Short Peripatetic Poems

    ‘Turbulent Tulips’ 
     cannot be translated to Vietnamese
 
     Neither can
       ~ ‘Peripatetic Peonies’
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My peripatetic parrot went to sea
  where he met a perspicacious chickadee

He courted her a bit too parsimoniously
  For this peccadillo, she ensured he couldn't pee...

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The Rolling Stones
  Gather no moss
Not with Mick Jagger
  Their peripatetic boss

They travel first-class
  Partake of the sauce
As the globe they crisscross

Sipping the finest liquers
  ~ Discarding the dross...

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I lie awake in tossed sheets
moon sliver basking in my window
awakened awareness
ignited.
Peripatetic dreams
wander through the night sky
poking holes in creation,
letting the starlight in
so we may know
fully
what we are....

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Four lines -- seven, eight, nine:*
 kaleidoscopic kangaroo
 leaping 'cross lagoons of blue
    splashed peripatetic porcupine
    who shot a quill at her behind



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*The next 4 lines have 7, 8, or 9 syllables......

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AWAITING SNOWFLAKES


            ALONE TAMPING BEATEN TRAIL IRREPRESSIBLY HEARTBROKEN

            MENACING SKY TORMENT A PERIPATETIC DISENCHANTED SOUL

            TEARY EYED SHE PONDERS FORSAKEN WISH LONG FORGOTTEN

            COURAGE TRANSCEND DEFEAT AWATING SNOWFLAKES TO FALL





12/19/2013
2:54 p.m.
W.P.B Florida...

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Shakespeare found nothing esthetic about peripatetic
   Kazantzakis and Joyce found it maudlin, bathetic

Dickens and Dickinson thought it alarmingly phrenetic
   I’d use the word in my poems,     frankly it’s asyndetic*




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*denoting the omission of a conjunction between two parts
  of a sentence....

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Peripatetic movement impedes as I draw near to an atrocious condemned king
Probing him, in conceptualizing & equating potential 
Composure rapidly decomposes, investigating potential future
Ever so sickening to these eyes, sluggish gags massage my throat 
Am I to develop in any fashion of this creature? 
Recuperating composure and ingesting gags peripatetic movement finds its place in 
contemporary time
The words I articulate to such a fiend, “Hey dad, how’s it going?”...

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This vexing pencil in turgid fingers I gracelessly hold
  Sorcerer's lead conjures up casuistic captions, fools' gold

My peripatetic purple pen winks at my commands
  Dancing to a distant drummer on sun-scorched parchment sands

A cunning keyboard mocks me, in cast-iron briefcase locked
  Contrarian bent, loaded for bear, at my Muse pointed and cocked

What with erasers missing and forever low on toner ink
  It's a wonder the poetic process has not driven me to drink!...

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Particularly peripatetic
penguins pursue pharmacological
possibilities perusing polar
predator proboscis predilections,
predominantly picking putrified,
phenobarbital-packed perch-piece puree
packings, provocatively presented.

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I wish I could have gotten a rhyme in there as well,
but that's an alliterative Pleiades with 10-syllable lines.

It's also a near summary of the latest escapades over on
the collaborative limerick thread in forums...

Come join us!...

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