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Torture by =Scarlettletters:iconScarlettletters:

Categories Literature > Poetry > Humor > Open


Sometimes I like to torture words
with obscene acts to nouns and verbs.
I tie them up in sentences
and whip them till they make no sense.
I love the screams of prepositions
while pulling them in odd positions;
and conjunctions make a lovely din
when decapitated by my pen.
I bind the wrists of adjectives
just for the pleasure that it gives
and adverbs leave me hot and bothered
once their meaning is uncovered.
Interjections beg for release
with pronouns trembling on their knees.
And once my fiendish work is done,
you'll find that I have just begun
my scheme to try and make you see
it's not perverse - it's poetry.
©2009 =Scarlettletters
:iconscarlettletters:

Author's Comments

Brought to you by the letter, "T" (and a nod and wink to Dorothy Parker)

Ah...yet more proof as to why I should not be allowed to write poetry that rhymes.

Please note that no letters or words were harmed in writing this poem.

Comments


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:iconblueskye27:
*Blueskye27 May 29, 2009, 4:13:33 PM
Ah, this made me smile...
:iconvillenueve:
=Villenueve May 29, 2009, 4:19:16 PM
Awww...I loved This,iT made me smile and remember my profession!...I love T!...I love leTTers as well and I'm a simple Teacher who loves using words!...Super and Terrific work dear Brendan!

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:iconcsnyder:
=CSnyder May 29, 2009, 4:20:28 PM
very creative, very nice ryhming
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=vampireknightfan May 29, 2009, 4:26:27 PM
You are good at free rhyme, but your free verse is to die for!

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--When I die, I want to go peacefully like my Grandfather did, in his sleep -- not screaming, like the passengers in his car.

--If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

Big Day Out 2010 is going to be fully awesome!!!!
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*SHARIKAYE May 29, 2009, 4:32:14 PM
~Bren~
I love this u so should do rhymes exceptional as always u rocked it!
Thanks for sharing,as always my pleasure hon!Hugs!SK


All I can say is Wow!

~I have never known such pain,
For something lost I never gained,
With mind & soul it needs reclaim,
The horror if feel,
I will not speak its name.~Treasure Lost~Me
:lol:

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SK:)
:iconsilentplea:
*SilentPlea May 29, 2009, 4:41:29 PM
Oh my that was fun! :clap:

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~Shelley

What lies behind us
And what lies before us
Are small matters compared to
what lies within us

~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
:iconlacedrabbit:
=LacedRabbiT May 29, 2009, 4:47:17 PM
I think your knowledge of words far surpasses mine, I am in awe, thanks.
:icondrusila333:
~Drusila333 May 29, 2009, 4:55:19 PM
:o So this is what you do when you compose a beautifully visual poem that evokes various images in my mind when I read it :love: I feel inspired love! =P

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If you try to fail, and succeed, which have you done?

Why is it considered necessary to nail down the lid of a coffin?
:iconleyghan:
Mood: Humor *leyghan May 29, 2009, 5:00:13 PM
That was fun to read.

--
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?
:icondenlm:
*denlm May 29, 2009, 5:23:23 PM
:rofl: And oh so true. It's our revenge on them for being so stubbornly absent at times.
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