Oh how my words just
TUM
BLE
and
F
A
L
L
across the paper
accented by
charming symbols and punctuations
20 words
on 21 pages
visually dictate
my passé phrases
Lines, tildes and brackets-
Oh my!
My dilettantish creativity
I try to hide
Slashes, dashes, spaces, dots
I’m at a loss for inspired thought
@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@~@
V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V V
See…
doesn’t that just reek
with poetic ingenuity?
One must be insane
not to follow this absurdity
…Plus
I know my poem is great...
since I edited the spaces…
…by inserting ellipsis
in all remaining places…
So who are you...
to tell me I need to revise...
...when I took the time
dressing my words...
in a tacky guise...?
P.S.
tRy*ing 2 ty(p)e {{like}} thi5->> S|U|C|K|S!!!!
Author notes
Prompts:
1]the number 20 (not necessarily in a birthday context)
2]the number 21 (again, not necessarily in a birthday context)
5]anything based on the word 'dilettante':
"1. a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, esp. in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler."-dictionary.com/
6]editors
8]perfume (in a non-sensual way)
9]ampersands (&)
13]absurdity
14]postscripts
20]grey cats (Meg has one called Juliet)
A contest entry
- Sailor Ptolema by notorious.
1222 points, ended October 20, 2008, 11 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
What did you think
Comments
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Beautifully spoken. If you feel the need to write in a crazy or artistic style, then put down the keyboard and pick up a fekking pen and paper! Trying to be artistic with your writing style with somebody else's font strikes me as being similar to trying to paint by numbers in a dark closet
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love the analogy
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Amusing. You always know how to make a direct hit. Ha! Dirty pretty *makes inarticulate gagging noises* That;s what I think of that.
Yink
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Glad you enjoy my facetious antics
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