Alphabet Artistry Poem by Jonathan ROBIN

ALPHABET ARTISTRY
Able acrostic artist’s alignment adds air.
Alliteration asks acknowledgement aware,
Bard’s brain bequeaths benchmark billet, blends braid bans blare,
Beware braggarts’ boasts, banality, betrayal backstair.
Classic composition, clear content, compare
Creative couplets, compliment competent care.
Drawing descriptions deftly displayed debonair
Droll doggerel dubbed dextrous, doubts dismayed. Declare
Entertaining epistle’s extent e’er ensnare
Easy erudition evident everywhere
Fair fancy’s flight futility forbade, fine flair
Flickering forever – feeble fops fade – fan fair.
Great gifts, gainsay gameplay grandiloquent, gross glare,
Gain gleeful guests, greet gallant guy, girl, gent, goad galere.
Here he has honed his heavenly homemade highbrow
Handwritten harvest, handmade harlequinade … how?
Insight inviting idyll irreverent, ifere
Invents ideas intelligent, intent inhere
Judicious jumble joke jest judges jaded jeer,
Joins joyful jingle jamboree jacent jardinière
Kaleidoscopic knowledge knits kaross. Kowtow!
Knight’s kakemono knack karmic kudos. Know
Lines lyrical, lightheartedly linked, laid layer
Liltingly linger, lasting leisure lent lustreware
Mute melancholy! Muse’s masquerade mayor
Master musters magic meter, music made midair
Neat new needlecraft, never negligent ne’er
Neutral, negative nonsense, nonevent nowhere.
Ode’s object - open offering - obeyed order
Onomatopoeia overlayed over
Poetic passions, purposefully pent, prepare
Portrait pasquinade polyvalent poetic pair
Quick-witted quips quell quitters querulent, queer.
Quizmaster quality quite quiets querent. Quair’s
Rhymic reel responsive, readymade, reads rare
Reverberation, readily relaid repair.
Stanzas succinct, shrewd signposts sapient, should share
Such skillful stringing signals softly sent. So spare
The thesis, tested, triumphs, teasing trade that there
Takes time to twin terms taut, taught twined torsade tough to tear
Usage unexpected unpenitent, - unfair?
Unravels uniformity, unpent unaware.
Vitality, vim, vetoed vehement vaporware,
Vivacious verse’s veriloquent vent via vare
When willing writer worked with wonderment where
Weaving worthwhile wordplay wreath while weekend went west ware.
Xylophonic xenagogue xeroxes XX XY,
Xenial xesturgy xenogamy x-rays Xerxes, xanthous Xanthippe
Yet Ylem, Yggdrasil, yug yesterday, - yare
Youth’s yearning yeastier yolk yond yoke, yea!
Zestfully zapping, zooming, zigzagging zany zone
Zen zingaro zealots’ zeitgeist’s zenith, - zephyr’s zing …


Able acrostic artist’s alignment adds air.
Bard’s brain bequeaths benchmark billet, blends braid, bans blare,
Classic composition, clear content, compare
Drawing descriptions deftly displayed debonair.
Entertaining epistles’ extent e’er ensnare
Fair fancy’s flight, futility forbade. Fine flair,
Great gifts, gainsay gameplay grandiloquent, gross glare.
Here he has honed his heavenly homemade highbrow
Insight inviting idyll irreverent. Ifere
Judicious jumble joke jest judges jaded jeer,
Kaleidoscopic knowledge knits kaross. Kowtow!
Lines lyrical, lightheartedly linked, laid layer
Mute melancholy! Muse’s masquerade mayor
Neat new needlecraft, never negligent… ne’er!
Ode’s object - open offering - obeyed order
Poetic passions, purposefully pent, prepare
Quick-witted quips quell quitters querulent, queer.
Rhymic reel responsive, readymade, reads rare
Stanzas succinct, shrewd signposts sapient, should share
The thesis, tested, triumphs, teasing trade that there
Usage unexpected unpenitent, - unfair?
Vitality, vim, vetoed vehement vaporware,
When willing writer worked with wonderment where
Xylophonic xenagogue xeroxes XX XY,
Yet Ylem, Yggdrasil, yug yesterday, - yare
Zestfully zapping, zooming, zigzagging zany zones.

Zen zingaro zealots’ zeitgeist’s zenith, - zephyr’s zing …
Youth’s yearning yeastier yolk yond yoke, yea!
Xenial xesturgy xenogamy x-rays Xerxes, xanthous Xanthippe,
Weaving worthwhile wordplay wreath while weekend went west ware.
Vivacious verse’s veriloquent vent via vare
Unravels uniformity, unpent unaware.
Takes time to twin terms taut, taught twined torsade tough to tear
Such skillful stringing signals softly sent. So spare
Reverberation, readily relaid repair.
Quizmaster quality quite quiets querent. Quair’s
Portrait pasquinade polyvalent poetic pair
Onomatopoeia overlayed over
Neutral, negative nonsense, nonevent nowhere.
Master musters magic meter, music made midair,
Liltingly lingers, lasting leisure lent lustreware.
Knight’s kakemono knack karmic kudos, know
Joins joyful jingle jamboree jacent jardinière
Invents ideas intelligent, intent inhere
Handwritten harvest, handmade harlequinade … how?
Gain gleeful guests, greet gallant guy, girl, gent, goad galere.
Flickering forever – feeble fops fade. Fan fair
Easy erudition evident everywhere
Droll doggerel dubbed dextrous, doubts dismayed. Declare
Creative couplets, compliment competent care.
Beware braggarts’ boasts, banality, betrayal backstair.
Alliteration asks acknowledgement aware.


WHERE POSSIBLE for the tenth syllable of each line the rhyme scheme is a b a b
... ent
... made or braid
and for the twelfth c... fair or care

As this esquisse was attempted as rhyming couplets it can either be read as such A to Z or as A to Z followed by Z to A with only minimal punctuation differences

16 June 2007
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Alphabetic Artistry poem © Jonathan Robin