Short Pronunciation Poems

Perky pink python plays a piccolo
Perforated opossum practicing as pro
Pretty prancing porcupine poke Pinocchio
Pronunciation phrases performed in pleasing prose....

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An ancestor known as, "Miss Lottie"
Was a New York socialite "hottie"
To her lasting disgrace
She slapped Paul Revere's face
When he invited her to the p-ah-ty...

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Politics
Are just politics
Used by politicians
To drain citizens'
Blood bone dry....  


Second line 
pronunciation 
Pol-le'-ticks(meaning multiple)...

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I offen soffen neether content nor intent,

       eether explicit or implicit about 

       devices to rearrange things in

       the Care-ah-beein Sea or

       pahkin karz at Hahvad

       in  Bostin....

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It's pretty important
to know the difference
between squire and square.

Mayor and mare
there and their
fair and fare.

Lust and lost
Cussed and cost
Bust and bossed

Depends on the pronunciation, don't it?

A phone call makes all of it real....

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Under a dim glow
I sit alone on floor below
Me with my pillow and shadow 
With thirsty imagination
In situ, velvety meditation
Pondering reflection, concentration
Creating poesy syllabification
Articulating in conjunction 
With accentuated pronunciation...

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Jan Can Can

The dance show of sultry young Jan

was given a national ban.

It was found in her dance

she wore no underpants

performing high kicks with *can-can!


Written Oct. 13, 2016 for Jan's contest!
*Pronunciation is of course American style!...

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How do you pronounce Chile?
I have always called it Chilly.
Chilly does sound silly,
Although it has been the pronunciation for me.
Lately, news readers call Chile, Chilay,
I don't know why it needed to be changed
Today, or is it the correct way to say, Chile
Why can't they let things be?...

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Aadab the Aarab's
Favourite food was kebabs,
Be it beef, be it chicken,
He thought they were finger lickin'
With hummus and garlic dabs


authors note: i know Adab & Arab
 are spelled with one
 ...a.....at the start but i put in
 the extra ....a.....for pronunciation
 of a long.....a.....sound...

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I READ YOUR POEM
THOSE WORDS DESCRIBE YOUR THOUGHTS
AND FEELINGS
THEY SPEAK LIKE MENTIONINGS
AND REEL LIKE WHISPERS
WHO MOUTH SPEAKS
THE  THE FILTH OF YOUR
THOUGHTS.
THEIR POSITION AND FOOLISH
PRONUNCIATION
TICKLES OF DUMBFOUNDED
WORDS.
CURSES TO YOU THAT YOU HATE ME.
I LOVE YOU IF YOU LOVE ME....

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Rich chocolate 'pon my thin lips.
On taste buds twang sits
Minute; lifetime on big hips.
Now clothes don't fit

To a diet must commit
Carrots celery dip
Peanut chocolate dip permit
My pants can now zip


Sponsor: Andrea Dietrich
Contest: The 7/5 Trochee Poetry Contest



using choc lit as pronunciation
Celery pronounced cel ry...

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Vincent van Gogh**
Sliced his left ear off
Only one painting did Van Gogh sell  -
maybe he didn’t hear the doorbell!


The only painting Van Gogh sold during his lifetime was Red Vineyard at Arles
**Based on the European pronunciation of the name which is Van Goff!

05~30~15
Entered into Premiere contest #11 sponsored by Skat A...

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You left us a sound  recording of the pronunciation
but I'm guessing my ien from yang
with no written list to escrow
I'm blundering trying to shoulder this word game
and my reve of speakeasy fades
like Icarus without wings
I'm left floundering
on the mais we
You've jettisoned espere again
and I'm still guessing at my letters
I need a dentist to perfect my rolling R...

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Mothers are rare
so many of them
call themselves
a mother
but mothers are all gone

children are rare too
we see present only  their leftovers 
unable to communicate  without screens
children are all gone

through speakers there is a pronunciation shouting
request for all fathers:
would you please be so kind and
pick up those words
spread all over
before they
hurt someone....

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A man from Nebraska, called Wayne,
Found speaking in public a strain.
He stammered and stuttered,
The audience muttered;
'A pain? You can say that again!' *


18.07.19


* pronunciation of again has two variations. I'm using the one rhyming with 'rain'
(audio link for 'again' - third pronunciation : https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/again)

State Limerick Poetry Contest : sponsored by Kevin Shaw...

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A language more dense than water
Your irregular verbs forever dance
and verb negations are plus hard
my oi from ai pronunciation is oil skewed
A bill of learning strolling
into self doubt
sdtx not pronounced
but there are exceptions
your silent H is like an angry chore
the juxtaposition of possession alarms 
Your false friends laugh high five
but I'm told we still have a 1000 words
borrowed from French
altogether a curates egg I'm afraid...

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