Let’s take a little alphabet
letter by letter but let’s
not start with a
let’s have a gander at g
a good enough place to start
g can be genuine, generous
or globular, gullible, a grunter,
an active participle ender
gunning with his ‘in’ running mates
but g is no a-lister
too often grubby, gaping
or gelled up,
affecting genius
and expecting
jilted cousin j to genuflect
if it’s a smarter consonant you seek
look no further than c
- like g, can be soft or hard
but look what else you cop -
conservative, classy,
central, circular
crisp cheddar cheeses
notice its checks
and balances
wherever it crops up
it can dance the can-can
yes we cannot
be convinced that c
can collapse
from its all-conquering perch
but what of the vowels you ask
well don’t let’s get started
on eddy everywhere e
- sentencers and scrabblers
reach and seek for him too often
a’s are anyones
u’s are unlovely q buddies
o’s offer more, round out
options but can obstruct orifices
obliterate one’s onions
no, o
should dip his lid to international, inky i
- i is interesting
immoral, immeasurable,
ideal, ironic, isolating
and can do e
if you like,
right, Ian?
s is sassy, sanguine,
a scene-stealing siren,
always up for a plural
d, a doe, a downer,
developing from drivel
f fails and falls frightfully,
freighted with farts
z’s zeal fizzles
h hums and haws
vapid v no victor
t’s tops in trees,
triumphs in thistles
but totally terrible
at tinkering with tomorrow
p’s a prince
or a poor pencil
privatised,
a pneumatic phantom
r romps, roves, rails,
a raspberry risker
and randy ratbag
but it’s double-clunking w
that wins the all-wound award
why w, you wise and whiskery wonder,
wrapping wine and whisky
whenever and wherever you want,
warping warrants,
westering winds,
weeping at windows -
what a way
to wind down this waft
of waffle
bw
25.12.18
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