Month: September 2024

Alliterative Poems – N, O, P, and Q

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Naturally neutral, niceties ninety, nouns

Never network nests, nemeses notwithstanding

Northwest, naughty neutrons, narwhals nebulous.

Nordic, neither neighbors nor – neurotic

Nomadic nautical, nanoseconds, necks, nil…

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Otherwise opportunistic, opinions, options, original occurrence.

Oily, omens omnibus, optimal occasions ought

Orange, overtly ostrich, oval octane obtrusive.

Overtime, oatmeal, ocelots oasis, onyx oboe.

Osmosis, oxygen, oxymorons oscillate, often oxen.

Ointment, octagonal, ossuaries, occipital oriented oxfords… Orwellian

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Plaintive, pensive, productive pendulums.

Prosperous, pileated, perusing plaid.

Pixels pictures, pines prepared.

Programmed positive, places plural

Pleasant prestidigitation, pred, prior… Parallel.

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Quilters quiet, quaint quarters, querulous quintuplets.. Quadrangles

Quizzical, quintessential, quandaries quince, quantum quibbles quipping.

Quail quarantined, quests quarrel, quarters quotes quills… Quality

Snickers

Alliterative Lines Part II, F, G, H, I

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Fabulous, festive, fun filled fantasy, future fandom filigreed filament, fabric formation finely fragranced. Flora, fauna, feisty fantastic. Fruition forward – freshly financed. Frothy flamboyant, fastidious fickle. Feverish, fables, familiar fracas – fudgy filling firmly fermented.  Formlaic, futon, fuming, ferrous. Fibrous, fabulist, forensic, faulty. Fiddlesticks…

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Gaudy gregarious, gargantuan gothic. Graceful, gorgeous, garish, guileless. Guilty guillotine, grumpy gopher. Gussets, goddesses, galloping grist. Gormy, grey, gravy, gatekeeper. Gallbladders, greenish, gaily gaping. Gators, goslings, gables – Gewurztraminer grapes. Guilds, grills, ganders, goblins. Grimy, grimly, grossly, gallivanting. Guppies, ghosts, gumtrees, gumshoes. Glamorous…

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Highlands, harbors, healing, hope. Hives, holes, hobbits, harrumph. Hooray, holograms, holidays, homage. Holistic, happiness, helping, holly. Haluski, honeycomb, halibut, halumi. Hideous, horrendous, heightened hilltop. Hermetic, hermits, hash browns, hamlets. Hillbillies, hauntings, Hellenistic hollers. Hemlock, hibiscus, heartvine, hops. Henceforth, homey, hummingbirds – hominids hirsute.  Humor…

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Ironic, irate, iconoclast, infer. Imply, implant, imitate, innoculate. Immature, immense, illusion, increase. Index, ibex, ibid, illicit. Idea, idiom, idealist, indeed. Income, implicit, impress, immoral. Irrelevant, imbue, irascible, implicate. Industry, insolvent, incur, inure. Involve, inert, indent, invent.  Isolate, innovate, imbibe, infiltrate. Isotope, implant, iris, inseam. Ibis, isosceles, incantation, intention. Irreconcilable…

More Alliterative Lines – Ch, Soft C, Soft G

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Channel chance, cherry, chase choose, charter, chores chanting, chime, chilly chili chunk, chairs chimneys chalice, chintz chorizo challis, church churlish childish, chortle cherub, chimpanzee, cheeky checkers chess, cheerful chestnuts, cherished, chiding charming changing. Cheese, chain, chastity. Charity, chubby, cello. Chewy…

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Cerise cinnamon celery. Celedon cerumen ceramic. Celiac cerebellum cerebrum. Certain cymbal citation. City citadel cite. Cerulean century centaur. Centennial citrus ceiling. Celebrate central cimmaron. Citrine citronella ceviche. Cement ceasing celsius. Cellular…

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Gemstones, gypsum gymnasium. Gentle, generosity gestures. Gelatin, geriatric genteel. Gesticulate, general gestures. Gyrate, genuflect gentry. Giraffe, gigantic ginormous. Gerund, gigolo gelato. Gigantopithecus…

Word Pictures

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Micros – images that make me happy. Six “pictures” with four lines each, lines with six words each. I need to be specific because I think in patterns.  🙂 Maybe I shouldn’t, but I count articles as words.

In red velvet, reading Busman’s Honeymoon

A strawberry margarita, garden of lupine

Terrace in firs, cardinals’ lovely song

Carrot cake slice, red Mary Janes

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Delicious peach crisp, a sparkling mimosa

Clear midnight sky, listening to Janacek

Baby blue sweater, cobalt blue pumps

A lapis bracelet, reading Eliot’s Middlemarch

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Old maple tree, autumn scarlet dressed

Pink silk thread, embroidered pink snapdragons

Ivory linen blouse, perfectly ripe plum

Delectable orange marmalade, honey wheat toast

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Orange tabby kitten, reading Nicholas Nickleby

Scottish terrier pup, The Scarlet Pimpernel

Glass of Riesling, Keeping Up Appearances

Vintage Wedgewood bowl, Thackeray’s Vanity Fair

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A shortbread cookie, Study in Scarlet

Just baked blondie, vanilla ice cream

A strawberry finch, clear blue sky

Pink wool blanket, big blizzard outside

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The Three Musketeers, Pint Guinness Stout

Vintage fountain pen, House of Mirth

A moonstone necklace, slice lemon pie

Red tasseled loafers, mercury glass mirror

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Alliterative Lines – A, B, C, and D, Maybe a Little E

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Antique amaryllis arise amidst, aphoristic asides, apples aplenty – alliteratively allusory, amourously applied, assuming available. Alluring anemone, Amber, affixed. An Aphrodite axiom, and amour’s abode, an advantageous arrival. Alas…

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Bulbous bunions bigly begin, boring biography, bullish bowel binding – basically bereft, brain barren baffled, blocked bilious biome, bivalve, brawny bestiary, braggart brigand beastly. Blasted brandishing.  Belted bland. Bombastic…

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Cotton candy car, color charismatic – Carpathians climbing, climate careening, cumulus cumulonimbus, clutter clashing, carnelian camellias – cut concise, crusty casserole crumbed cassoulet, chronic careerist, cajoling, creative – Christmas carolers counting, calling coldness. Clandestine crevices.  Cake…

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Delphinium, dahlias, dianthus, Dionysus. Delicate, decisive, disguised delicious. Doorknobs, dares, darling, decadent. Darjeeling, dijon, derivative, December. Daisies dawning, dusk descending, Dandie Dinmont Droopy, dialing dollars.  Decanter…

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Ethereal eclipses, elemental ellipses, emeralds elusive, earnest esteemed. Entrapment entails, elopement errors. Embraces enjoyed, embroidery emblazoned. Escargot emetic, eggs embellished. Editors eviscerate, escarole embezzled. Embers extinguished, everlasting evening. Enterprise…

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Lilacs – a fleeting favorite.

Not Realistic – A Rhyme

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Amanda dreams of a vacation to Fargo

Though it would make more sense to visit Key Largo

Fargo’s closer and makes more sense

And an island would be much more of an expense

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She wants to take her pup and cat with her

The rental’s interior should match their fur

‘Cause it’ll be deep on the seats if they ride too far

For the pet supplies and luggage they’ll need a big car

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When Amanda was young she drove a Pacer

And she drank Patron with a Miller Lite chaser

At forty four she drinks no more

She drives an El Camino – she loves its lore

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These days Amanda drinks totally tea

But she’s quite man crazy – it’s a sight to see

Her animals watch closely over her

They’re both well behaved – no trouble do they stir

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Once in awhile – Amanda solves a mystery

She really enjoys if it involves medieval history

She goes out Friday nights with her bff Molly

They never run into their nemesis Cassie Hawley

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Cassie is married to Amanda’s ex Lloyd

Molly’s in love with Cassie’s ex Boyd

No one can keep the love triangles straight

There’s just so very much gossip of late

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No vacay for Amanda – she’ll just stay home

In her garden she’ll spread bark dust and loam

Anyway there was a murder in town last week

The bffs will investigate – they’re anything but meek

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They won’t tell the cops – they’ll do it on their own

They’ve solved three mysteries – their ability they’ve shown

This town is small – but it’s anything but cozy

The glasses are dark – not at all rosy

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They’ll sneak to the crime scene after midnight

Like Velma they need glasses to better their eyesight

This is fiction and not realistic

It’s more like Scooby Doo and very simplistic

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Amanda and Molly are cozy mystery writers

The books have many recipes and are not nail biters

This time they’re having trouble with the formulaic plot

Time will tell if they can make their deadline or not

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End (For Now)

Lots and lots of pink! (Photo Mine).  🙂