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Writer's pictureJarlath Busby

P's of Nonsense

P’s of Nonsense

 

Pristine paper, pen poised, peachy progress, perfection,

a pastiche of processed P’s, a plethora, prolific as pigeons,

plentiful proverbs, pronouns, pontifications passably

appeasing this personal poetic project

 

Peers point out my poor prose, patchy profligate punctuation

panning my pitter patter of P’s precipitating, proving

alliteration’s easy, positively a piece of patisserie,

P’s peppering the page of this past pet physician (****, profanity!)

 

My problem, silent pesky puerile purposeless P’s, frozen

in phrases, preying like prehistoric pterosaurs,

pecking phonetic punctures like a plumage plucking parrot,

a portrayal of psittacine psilosis

 

Popping up in my paltry, poultry, pastoral poem, a portrait

of a pheasant, no a ptarmigan, no a ptilinopus,

or my prayer, a psalm for psaltery players,

piously persuading psilanthropic pagans

 

Perceiving a puddle, perhaps I’ll pen a parky poem,

“The pest of Parkinson’s, ptyalism,”

a mouth-watering prospect, palate pouring,

like phlegm from a pneumomic, phthisic patient

 

Pseudo-alliteration, my new psychiatric possession,

pints of psychedelic potions propelling the pursuit

of publishing pseudepigraphic poems,

a portfolio under a pet pseudonym

 

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Martin Pickard
Martin Pickard
10月11日

phwaw!

いいね!

Keith Trayling
Keith Trayling
10月09日

That must have taken quite a while to put together, and most of it makes sense! Well written Jarlath and i'm looking forward to you reading it fast at the next open mike. Nice one

いいね!

Alison Blevins
Alison Blevins
10月09日

Flippin brilliant! 🤩

いいね!

Graham Pitcher
Graham Pitcher
10月06日

Wow what a wonderful way to welcome well written words to the world. A great alliterative piece

いいね!
Jarlath Busby
Jarlath Busby
10月07日
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Ironic that in phonetic ph doesn’t pass the alliteration litmus test!

いいね!

Darrell Troon
Darrell Troon
10月04日

Perfectly produced poetry. Presumably penned for performing at the next open mic event.

Well done

いいね!
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