Category: Poems

Alliteration using ‘P’

Police pursue potential political provocateurs. Alliteration is when two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or a sentence. The repeated sound creates the alliteration, not the same letter. For example, ‘tasty tacos’ is considered an alliteration, but ‘thirty typist’ is not,…

The Lost Lagoon

It is dusk on the Lost Lagoon, And we two dreaming the dusk away, Beneath the drift of a twilight grey— Beneath the drowse of an ending day And the curve of a golden moon. It is dark on the Lost Lagoon, And gone are the depths of haunting blue,…

Mismatched Shoes

Mismatched shoes abandoned and forgotten on a wall, No one about to be seen, no telephone number to call. Mismatched shoes a new fashion rage. A toddler perhaps a fashion sense unconstrained by age. Mismatched shoes forgotten and left behind. A person in need perhaps they will find. Mismatched shoes…

Brevity vs Levity

Today’s #everydayinspiration challenge was to “Play with Word Count” by writing a post that experiments with word count. Never to be one with a too-serious attitude, I came up with this short poem: