Rallentanda

Rallentanda

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Read Write Poem 101

Prompt Wordle
pea, procrastinate, parallelogram, porous, plaster, prevaricate, polyglot, plethora, platitudes,
processional, pernicious, prickle, posthumous

You'd have to be a pea brain
to procrastinate over constructing
a parallelogram shape in porous plaster
Don't prevaricate, just do it!

For heaven's sake
You don't have to be a soi-disant intellectual
like your polyglot Uncle Vladimir posthumously
acknowledged for his plethora of dreary
platitudes and show off piano pieces
of presto passages at the speed of light
trotting them out in a nonstop processional
to achieve this task
His pernicious exhibitionism was the epitome
of bad manners behaving like an insensitive
prick (oh I meant prickle which rhymes with schmockle)

14 comments:

  1. Hi Rall,

    No veering from the set text please! I just hate those "soi-disant intellectual" types!

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  2. Poor ol' Vlad...I think he bit off more than he can chew when he irritated you!

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  3. You have a postumous polyglot Uncle Vladimir, too? What a small world!

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  4. I like "plethora of dreary / platitudes and show-off piano pieces" -- lovely!

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  5. Aren't those the most boring kinds? Folks like Uncle Vlad. They think they're fabulous, really....enjoyed the read.

    -Nicole

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  6. Great use of the words, and run of images. You manage to squeeze some neat, musical sounds from an intimidating lot of vocabulary.

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  7. Poking the pompous is your specialty, doused with so much fabulous humour.

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  8. Love the portrayal of Uncle Vlad. Also like how you work in parallelogram - clever. That was the most challenging word for me.

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  9. dreary platitudes and show off piano pieces
    of presto passages at the speed of light - a poem within a poem. Delightful read.

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  10. Thankyou everyone for your generous comments.
    I'm off on hols for five days and celebrating 20 years together. Going to read and thrash and frolic in the surf.Also treating the ol'fella to a professional
    massage and champagne dinner as thanks for carrying all those boxes.He has lost 6lbs in 9 days.Amazing what a move will do.Musn't forget to pack the marmalade boys.A bientot!

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  11. I loved your poem and my apologies for being late. My Uncle Vlad had his chemo 5 hrs. yesterday. How presumptuous of him to think you should sit through all of that! Have a wonderful get away. Enjoy the surf!

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  12. nicely done Rall....my uncle died young of too much vodka

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