Weedeater, leaf-blower, lawnmower: the machines lack grace and make a horrific racket, but the words themselves sound like a mantra. Three dactyls featuring repeated w and l and long e sounds--if you didn't know the meaning of the words, you'd think it was poetry.
Weed-eater, leaf-blower, lawnmower, rake,
Lemonade, cannonade, masquerade, cake.
Anapest, assonance, flatulence, fun,
Add a verse, make it worse, this poem is done.
Your challenge: put together some words that sound like poetry without regard for meaning.
5 comments:
Funny. I am always muttering strings of words that sound poetic but are pointless. Now that I have to show of my "skill" I can't think of anything. Think, think, think!
Try some of these:
linoleum
catatonic
asparagus
velocipede
voracious
spelunking
nimrod
velveteen
vuvuzela (if that's how it's spelled)
seething
blimp
Read in a Churchillian accent. "That stupendous blunder of command which rounded out with resonance ample the general disaster that was mighty Byzantium's naval declining years, on one single day, a day like any other, with sunrise and sunset and breakfast and ablutions and all that we hold least dear and interesting, it was then, on the most normal of weekdays that the gods suddenly decided, out of boredom, or as a result of being irked by low scores at the celestial bowling alley or in the archery butts, to cast a host of lowly sailors into the wine-dark seas, where in swift and unjust finish they became fresh nourishment for fish."
D.
Ragtag ragamuffins
eating muffalatas
with a whole lotta ragtime goin' on...?
Ooh that's nice. I want to eat muffalatas at the celestial bowling alley, with fish.
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