Category: Poems

In drear nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity— The north cannot undo them With a sleety whistle through them Nor frozen thawings glue them From budding at the prime. In drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne'er remember Apollo's summer look;…

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,…

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…

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: