ludic verbosity for the win
LUNGE across the dance floor like an electrocuted giraffe, the room changes from
GAZER into guffawer with literal spit-takes as glasses shatter around
GAUDY dresses and tuxes and shoes. Someone––anyone––please help. I, I mean, he needs it––
BADLY.
See more at Notes by Steven.
OCTET plays the summer bandshell circuit with
CAMEO occasionally from Clyde McCallister, who’ll
STRUT in with his oboe, crowds practically throwing
MONEY at this magnetic sex symbol.
OCTET before sestet, in Petrarch’s wake,
CAMEO, in first four lines, of the concern:
STRUTs heavily through four more, at stake.
MONEY, the resolution, drops after the turn.
Concise definition of the Italian sonnet at the blog of our fellow Quordle poet, Steven Robertson.
Even better, some Italian sonnets by Steven! https://notesbysteven.wordpress.com/tag/italian-sonnet/
STRUT my stuff in the movie for a piffling amount of
MONEY. My full day’s work ends up in a tiny
CAMEO where I’m glimpsed for a second as part of an
OCTET, gawking, and playing the piano.
OCTET of aspiring stars
STRUT onstage with a semblance of poise, hoping this
CAMEO will be the bended knees before the jump into pools of
MONEY.
See more at Notes by Steven.
SIGHTing fingerprints of ink and
OXIDE stains around the sink
NANNY scrubs ‘til all smells
PINEY, then scrubs the slippery tot who’s whiny.
PINEY–fresh, rather–smell in the forest clearing,
OXIDE–rust, rather–makes the cabin’s hinges grate,
NANNY–granny, rather–looking worse for wear,
SIGHT–fright, rather–what big eyes she has.
NANNY comes in sight along the narrow piney path. The
SIGHT of her brings images of hot soups, warm biscuits, sweet
PINEY smells from the trees at the back of her garden, the
perOXIDE she still uses to clean everything, including the bath.
SHONE that day the last sun,
WRIST watch down to final second
CHILIast marked the moment at falls’ lip,
CANOE almost hovering before the tip, then the plunge.
Note: I felt that the normal uses of canoe were taken by the time I got to it.
SHONE the waning light on
WRIST, mosquito bitten, stirring
CHILI over hard earned fire,
CANOE drying next to the tent.