#alliteration poems on Hello Poetry

Mark Toney Apr 2020

wasting well water wishes
while in waste water wading
waiting waist-high wailing
weeping, wailing—
what a waste!

wasting well water wishes
while we're waxing waning
waning waxing waging
waging, waisting—
wherewithal!

wanting well water wishes
while whole world watching
watching wishing wanting
wanting wishing—
worldwide!

welcome well water wishes
while watching winning wanting
wanting watching winning
winning, winning—
wonderful!

whew!!

© 2020 Mark Toney. All rights reserved.

#alliteration #flattenthecurve #pandemic #covid19 #sarscov2 #coronavirus

Mark Toney Apr 2020

X-Ray Oscar

(Pentagon E-ring office—executive officer knocks & enters—General motions him in)

XO,
Explain
examinees...

                              Examinee
                              X-11,
                              Xander
                              Xanakis

Experience?

                              Explosives
                              expert.
                              Ex-Army.
                              Executive
                              experience

Exam?

                              Exceptional

Excellent!

                              Excessive

Exessive?
Explain

                              Extreme
                              xenophobe

(expletive)
Exclude

                              Examinee
                              X-12...

Xavier
Xanthopoulos...

Experience?

                             Expert—
                             extraction,
                             exfiltration.
                             Ex-Navy,
                             Executive
                             Experience

Exam?

                             Excelled

                             Extracuricular
                             extras...

Explain

                             Expat,
                             X-games,
                             xylophone...

Expat?

                             Xalapa

(chuckling)
X-games,
xylophone—
(laughs)
X-Factor!

                             (XO nods his head, smiling)

Xenophobic?

                             (shaking head)
                             Xenodochial.
                             Exeptionally
                             xenophilic!

Expectations?

                             Exceeds
                             Expectations

Excellent!

XO,
exclude
examinee
X-11...

                              Excluding
                              Xander
                              Xanakis

Expedite
Xavier
Xanthopoulos

                              Expediting
                              examinee
                              X-12

XO,
excused

                               (XO exits)

© 2020 by Mark Toney.  All rights reserved.

4/25/2020 - Poetry form: Alliteration - This is the 8th poem in my Alliterative Alphabet Series. Each poem describes conversations between two or more people while only using words that start with or sound like the first letter of the title of the poem. I’m publishing the poems as I write them on Wattpad.com, not necessarily in alphabetical order. My goal is to write at least 26 poems to cover each letter of the alphabet. I hope you find the concept interesting, maybe even clever. Most of all I hope you enjoy them :) - There are a lot of words starting with "X", but it's a challenge creating a coherent dialog with just "X" words. Saved by the definition of alliteration: "The occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connected words." Ahhh... so the same "sound" would fit the bill. Thus, the use of words beginning with "ex" would provide the "X" sound, alliteratively speaking :) - Disclaimer: This poem is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event. The names used are ficticious and were chosen to satisfy the requirements of the poetry form. - © 2020 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.

#alliteration #xo #executiveofficer #pentagon #ering #general #examination

Mark Toney Apr 2020

Beleaguered Brussels Broker

.    .    .  Bonjour,
              Banque de
              Bruxelles...

Bonjour,
beautiful
Betty!

               Benjamin
               Baker!

Barry
back?

               Barry's
               back—
               Bye!

Bye,
Betty!

                              Bonjour,
                              Ben!

Barry
Beauchamp—
Brussels'
best
broker!

                              (Barry
                               blushing)
                              Benjamin
                              Baker—
                              Boston's
                              best
                              businessman!

Brokerage
balanced,
Barry?

                              Been
                              better ...

Been
better?
Bad?!

                              Below
                              benchmark :-(

Bygones
be
Bygones ...

Bullish
bearing,
Barry?

                              Best
                              be
                              bullish,
                              Ben!

Better
be
bullish,
Barry!
Brokerage
best
buy?

                              Best
                              buy?
                              Bonds!

Best
buy
bonds?!
"Be
bullish"
Barry?

                              Brighthouse
                              baby
                              bonds!


Brighthouse
baby
bonds?

                              BHFAL—
                              Balanced,
                              beneficial
                              buy.

Baby
bonds
bad
bet,
Barry.
Best
bullish
buy?

                              Bitcoin!

Bitcoin
bites,
Barry!
Bloomberg
broadcasted
Bitcoin's
bubble
bursting.
Best
bullish
buy,
BARRY??

                              Bullion
                              bars?
                              British
                              Britannia?

"Be
bullish,"
Barry!!
BEST
BULLISH
BUY??

                              BlackRock,
                              Buffett's
                              Berkshire—
                              Better
                              believe,
                              both
                              bullish
                              buys!

Bingo!
BlackRock,
Berkshire—
Buy
both!
BOOYAH!!

                              Bought!

Better
be
bullish,
Barry!
Bye!

                              Bientôt,
                              Ben!

© 2020 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.

4/18/2020 - Poetry form: Alliteration - © 2020 by Mark Toney. This is the 6th poem in my Alliterative Alphabet Series. Each poem describes conversations between two or more people while only using words that start with the first letter of the title of the poem. I’m publishing the poems as I write them on Wattpad.com, not necessarily in alphabetical order. My goal is to write at least 26 poems to cover each letter of the alphabet. I hope you find the concept interesting, maybe even clever. Most of all I hope you enjoy them :) - © 2020 by Mark Toney. All rights reserved.

#alliteration #brussels #broker #bonds #bullion #bitcoin #blackrock #berkshirehathaway #warrenbuffett

The Dybbuk Apr 2020

Pleasure Principle

In the perpetual pursuit
of planetary pleasures,
a purported supporter of such
paranormal potions must
ponder: is pleasure, in principle,
the peak,
or perhaps is it a journey,
from point O to point P
purposely pouncing to provide
pyromaniacs with plentiful
planks for the pyre.

#alliteration #fun #pleasure #pain

Shadow Apr 2020

June Moon

Marvelous, matchless, magical, moonlit midnight,
With a superabundance of sparkly, summery stars,
Peacefully placid, pure and prettily plummy,
Radiantly rich, rhapsody resplendent rapture!
Fragrant flowers frolic freely in your fervence,
Eye-catching and exquisite in their exuberance,
Bouncing blissfully in breezy, blooming ballet.
Inexhaustible and intoxicating and intriguing,
Dazzling and delightful, and doubtlessly dreamy

So a girl challenged me to write a poem with alliteration and so I accepted the challenge, tell me what you guys think :)

#alliteration #rhyme #moon #june

Lee Carter Apr 2020

The Bishop

"Blasted black bats in belfry!

They blight the blessed bells!

I am bedeviled by beasts born without beauty nor belief.

Break them from their borrowed burrow!

Banish them back to where beasts belong...

Beneath the boots of their betters."

#alliteration #superiority #religion #nature

Tina RSH Mar 2020

Covid!

Words were worthless when our whimsical wishes got vanquished by distance, draining dreams of us together. Darling! We didn't dare draw an inch closer. Catastrophe came, crushing us to the core..covid! Covid! Consistent callous company for months on and on flying far in fantasy, fingers flailing and fumbling for a faint trace of reality in which you were absent, folly! The agony and ache in every atom ate away at me as acid on iron. Ah! La! Love again, loses my lavish language, leaving lips ludicrous, lying, loquacious and the tongue tied, terrified to tell the truth..Darling! Dare me to delude you for I am desperate to devour you in this dream; Delusion! Delusion! Bare bitter bold brutality crushing the dream, crashing hard in our core..covid! covid! Dear! despite it all, don't doubt the divine dream, don't doubt that I love..

This is almost a letter to my lover, but also a note to the whole world and particularly those having to suffer the forceful distance.

#corona #alliteration #prosody #love #loveletter #distance #longdistance #relationship #metaphor

Lee Carter Mar 2020

Ghouls

Gangly ghouls and ghastly ghosts.

Grimy goblins, gremlins gross.

A graphic, grizzly gallery

Of grim and gruesome, giggling glee.

#alliteration #rhyme #horror #dark #scary #funny

Lee Carter Mar 2020

The Sea

Shifting sands, shaped by surf and sea.

Sunlit shores shine and shimmer.

Sailing souls, slaves to siren song,

Suddenly sink and slumber silently.

#sea #ocean #funny #dark #black #horror #alliteration

Lee Carter Mar 2020

Perfection:

Placed on pristine pedestal.
Its posture proud,
Its presence phantasmic.
Its position?

Precarious.

#alliteration #funny #think #short