Poetry

Showing posts with label word play. Show all posts
Showing posts with label word play. Show all posts

Sunday 11 June 2023

interpellation

 interpellation

UK 
 
/ɪnˌtɜː.pəˈleɪ.ʃən/
 US 
 
/ɪnˌtɝː.pəˈleɪ.ʃən/

farrago

 farrago

noun C ]
 US formal disapproving
UK 
 
/fəˈrɑː.ɡəʊ/
 US 
 
/fəˈrɑː.ɡoʊ/
plural farragos or US farragoes
He told us a farrago of lies.
Synonyms

Sunday 4 September 2022

Body lines

 Did you eye it, or did you leg it?

And was it legit, when you elbowed in

You may shoulder the blame

I can't believe you have the gall

To look at me at all

Not with all that spleen of shame

And why did you knee him in the balls

I'm sure it took some of them

Could you not have used your loaf

And headed him instead

It was me who footed the bill Fred

Was it you who fingered me to the cops

Or Pops, were you top of the tree crops

Missing the missiles, miles from home

Homing in like a pigeon, to the only

Loving garden gnome

Who stands awaiting Satan to turn up with Adam's bone

But yes I said to Saddam, it was like a bullet to the brain

Thursday 2 June 2022

You say potato I say photo

 I took a photography and cookery night class at the local college. I hadn't done too well in school and had a habit of getting my words mixed up so I was a little worried about the essay writing, but I felt pretty confident on the practical side. So when I read the instruction to now cook the photo in the oven for 50 mins I thought perhaps it could have been a strange request for my end of year roll. On the other hand I was more than willing to dip my baking potato in sodium iodine and to hang it up in a dark room in order to develop it. the results were remarkable, I won the end of year photography prize, apparently my post modern take on potatography went down a storm. Moreover I did exceedingly well in the cookery competition in which I gained third prize for most developed photogenic food category, only pipped to the post by a half baked apple iPhone and a Samsung soufflé. 

Thursday 24 March 2022

War words

 I came unto a dry place

Full of skulls and stone

And in the lines of every face

Were the bones of those I'd known

And it was not as if a trace

Was left which came before

But these are the lines of my disgrace

Inside this bloody war


I held my palms up to the sky

And I did pray for rain

And all upon a lullaby

A butterfly it came

It landed down upon my hand

And unfolded out its wings

And I could see the hand of God

In every beautiful thing



Sunday 6 March 2022

Word of tomorrow

 

preprandial

[ pree-pran-dee-uhl ]

adjective
before a meal, especially before dinner; anteprandial:a preprandial apéritif.

Word of the day

 insuperable

adjective
   formal
UK 
 
/ɪnˈsjuː.pər.ə.bəl/
 US 
 
/ɪnˈsuː.pɚ.ə.bəl/
(especially of a problem) so great or severe that it cannot be defeated or dealt with successfully

Monday 31 January 2022

Wise words

 Known for other such classics as:

the abominable Mr Toad

Love and Peace in a Jet Wash

Singleton in Miami or Shepton Mallet by the Sea

Firing squad apology

Ship shape and fancy free

If God was a Golden retriever

What does that make me?

Peace in a match box

Reverend on his knee

Will you be my Church he says

And will you marry me?


My luck ran out on 5th street I was cornered in a brawl

The dogs were down and dirty

And I don't mean Interpol

The fireflies so empty

Like flickering

Street lamps

And all about this Harvard Bridge

Rang the sirens of curfew


Push me back in Tinsel town

And wage war on my despair

The colours ramp up the rainbow

Rabies shadows far below

I wish for cutting cloth

And early winds in socks

But surely all I got

Was your gentle elbow