Alliteration Alphabet Challenge

[slipee]

OK!

Here's the criteria:
Use the next letter in succession as described by the alphabet, and create an alliterative passage consisting of 3 lines or more, using ONLY that letter to begin each word, hyphens are allowed (sea-like, pre-existent), but no joining words unless it matches the letter you are using for your alliteration of course (and, is, was).

Let's see if we can manage to create the whole alphabet. Kudos to anyone who takes on X,Y and Z.

A

Alliterations aren't always annoying, although, avoiding all awkwardness after an alliteration almost always appals. Advice: accept awkwardness as an advertisement, as an amplified aptitude among art amateurs.
Ambiguously askew alliterations attract attention and almost always ascend, arriving at an accusation. Absurd acquisitions about artistic authenticity amount again...
Anyhow, about art..
Abstracts attract another artistic avenue and allure artistically-avid adults. Acquiring artwork anticipates an announcement aligning an avid amateur as an absolute, an Adonis (as analogously abroad as art-speak allows), acceptance and assurance, almost as alleviating as an applause!
Actually, anyone as asinine as above, and aims at admiration among attendees at an Art affair aggravates anyone's arsenal. Alas (an Artesian accent), another anonymous assassination around Abstract artwork achieves an amazingly appropriate applause.
After all, accidents are accidents. An anxious announcement awkwardly absconds all alive and able artistic attendants, 'AUREVOIRE!!'

[YesNo]

I'm not sure if this qualifies, but here is something for the letter B.


Busy B-Nonsense

Big bang's botched, but breakfast bubbles.
Boyfriends better buy bright baubles.
Bees be busy by begonias
Beating butterflies by breakfast.

[slipee]

Sure it does!

Thanks for playing.

[jajdude]

Consider consciousness. Constant conditioned confusion. Can communities co-exist contentedly? Complainers cause consternation. Cheerfulness creates companionship.

[slipee]

Cheers!

By the way, if anyone is worried about writing one only to find someone else was also writing one at the same time, and they post it before you (or simultaneously) wasting your time and effort; just post a reply with the letter you are working on to 'book it' as pending beforehand. Then when you are done edit your post, pasting your alliteration from notepad (or whatever text editor you prefer).

:)

I have a Q passage in mind so I hope we get that far!

[BienvenuJDC]

Doing discussion distractions during dictionary deliberations,
defers dusty dispositions deploring doldrums.
Different dances disengage dim directions,
don't discontinue daring discernment.

[Delta40]

Everyone endlessly eggs edgeways eagerly enjoying ellegies,
estimating esteemed echelons entering enduring ecstasty.
Euphoric empiric exodus eludes english engines,
especially effected enquiries erred erelong.
Eventually, emulated endearing elegance eschews
every empty earmarked entry.

[slipee]

Farmer's favourite fowls face fate. Flapping furiously, fifteen form feeble flocks fleeing fruitlessly for freedom.
Foolishly five fly forward. Feathers fall, feet fly, fillets flip, farm-hands fetch fasteners for filling.
Foreman Frank feels fifty-five, face flustering, forgetful features forming full faced frowns.
Friday's focus finally finds face. Fortunately farm-hand's fever fizzles - falling forty Fahrenheit.
Fumbling feet flick feathers feeling for footing. Fuzziness fades.
Feet following feet flaunt facetiously, feigning fatal furnace falls for fun (frivolously foolhardy).
Far from furious furnace flames, Frank finds five frost-free fridges fit for filing freshly farmed fast food fillets.
Finito!

[cacian]

gagging gloriously gives goers gaming goals
grinning greatly galvinises glamourised grades
growing gladly generalises gripping graces
glowing gold gladly gards gentlemen's grants

[Delta40]

Cheers!

By the way, if anyone is worried about writing one only to find someone else was also writing one at the same time, and they post it before you (or simultaneously) wasting your time and effort; just post a reply with the letter you are working on to 'book it' as pending beforehand. Then when you are done edit your post, pasting your alliteration from notepad (or whatever text editor you prefer).

:)

I have a Q passage in mind so I hope we get that far!

I hope you get X as well then!

[slipee]

I hope you get X as well then!

Oh I couldn't retain any integrity if I did X. I would have to use a dictionary!
So, I might as well try now just to see...
[CUT!]
X is truly horrid.

And H is up next people!

(Fortunately time is well and truly on my side before X breaks my spirit)

[Delta40]

I think the challenge is yours Slipee. You brought us Litnutters to this game after all!

[cacian]

H
harmoniously honoured heros
have happily hiphoped home

[YesNo]

Idle I-Nonsense

Ignorant, idiot imbeciles
ignobly ignited Ident
infesting, indicting, inviting--
I'm idly ingesting intent.

[slipee]

Justice, jealousy,
judgemental jeopardy
Jukebox jitterbugs,
jilt Jupiter's journey

[slipee]

Well done everyone, by the way, who managed to write alliterative verses both syllabic and rhyming.

Cleverly calculated, conquering constraints,
coffee cup created, cost cutting complaints.

Just a thought.. Is alliteration on its own enough to determine a passage as poetic?
(Because that's how I approached this)

I do understand alliteration occurring in poetry but in the case where other structural rules are applied, it only seems to be alliterative occasionally.
I can imagine many variations though.

In defense of my potential ineptitude, I did call them 'passages' in the original post :p

[YesNo]

It is amazing how long you can keep the technique going. I was trying to make the one I wrote rhyme and have some meter as well.

Here is a link to Paul Deane's site on alliterative meter such as was used in Beowulf.

http://alliteration.net/fieldgd.htm

This is somewhat different from the alliteration used in meters that have a regular repetition of accented and unaccented syllables.

[slipee]

Whoa, that is extremely broad, and very much phonetically oriented.

Luckily I added rules to this 'Alliteration Alphabet Challenge' thread, but more accurately it would be called 'Alliteration-like but restricted and slightly more annoying Alphabet Challenge'.

I wrote one a few days ago which was much looser and and non-restrictive which rolls together so much nicer. I still wonder if alliteration was just an observed occurrence, and does so because words sound much nicer when they alliterate similarly - rather than alliteration being intentionally implemented. With no knowledge of alliteration, people would tend to write alliteratively (sparingly) so readers enjoy the ride(?)

[cacian]

so who is up for a K?

[slipee]

Youuuuuuuuuuu arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrre.

[cacian]

haha...

kirk kaki kelaidescope kicked kisses kwick!!

[slipee]

love leaves, lust lingers
late-night leisure leaves left-hand limpness
lap lightens, loneliness lasts
lurking leeriness left life's lows limitless

[YesNo]

Many moths move many mountains.
Much makes matter misty, mean.
Madder moonlight might move matter.
Much might matter, mild Maxine.

[Delta40]

Niggling negatives nurture nasty nightmares nesting northward.
Nature's nemesis never needs necromancy, nectar nor nails;
neither nice needleworked nightshades nearby naughty natives.

[slipee]

Outlaws of opiates: Oden's occupation
outnumbering, overruling, ordering ovation
Outsourcing our oil, optimising ownership
oblivious of obstacles, outshouting ogre-lip

Outlandish Oden, oh Overlord of ogres,
owner of Osiris' Ocarina of omens
Overlooking outcasting ongoing opulence,
Oden's old ox-blood, ordains our openness

[cacian]

propably palpable paper
potantly pertruded plausibly perfect
properly painted past promises

[YesNo]

Questioning queens
Quieting queries--
Queues quickly quieting
Questioning quirks.

[slipee]

Reverberating resonance, Rasputin roars
rearranging revelations, risking rapport
Religious reminders: retribution, remorse
rewording rubbish resurrection reports

Rasputin's ruthless, rebellious revenge
revised, rescheduled, rendezvous' rends
Rouge robes rinsed red, running remains
realisation reaffirms, ruling restrains

[tailor STATELY]

See ?

Seascape scenery
Scenario seems seemly
Seeing siege selah

6-3-2004 r.6-7-2011


Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[jajdude]

The things that take time take toughness, too. Trying tenaciously, thinking thoroughly, these things touch truth through time that tells.

[cacian]

undecidedely untouched
unspeakably unvouched
unrevokingly unbound

[slipee]

villainously vascular, varicose vein
violet-vermilion, venomously vain
vineyard vase varnish-like visual-arts
vessels veer verging, viciously vast

[YesNo]

Wistfully wonderland
Willingly waits,
While wet, wild with wonder,
What would we withhold?

[jajdude]

Xenophobic Xerses x-rayed Xanthus X-box

[cacian]

yourself yes you!!
yell yesterday yonders
your yasmin years

[Silas Thorne]

Zany Zarathustra's zebras
zig-zagging Zambian zimmer-frames
zipped zealot zeal

[Calidore]

I have to say congratulations here, especially to the Q and X folks. I never expected this to go the distance.

[slipee]

YESSAH!
Haha, thankyou everybody involved, and without a reitteration, exactly as above ;p
You know who you are, I would say 'thankyou from Australia', but in reality, right now I am in Amsterdam, and very glad I was not left with Z! -because I could not do it justice!

:D

w000000!

[Silas Thorne]

and then...

After angry arthritic aunts announced
areas allocated Alien anthropologists are
artistically archaic, another accepted artificial avian arms
and achieved amazing altitude.

[cacian]

besides beauty
behold bravery
because
bravery bounds beauty
beyond

[YesNo]

Clearly caution can't contain
Curvy clouds. Could clods constrain
Cunning cuties, clean, contrite,
Closely clinging crystallite?

[slipee]

haha!

[slipee]

Dear Douglas, dear Douglas,
drearily drugged
Don't die daringly,
deep-six dug

Depressingly dismal,
does dope's disposition
Dear Douglas, dear douglas...
dupe death's definition

Deliver; defy
denying decision
Discover dreams, Doug,
discourage dark demons

Disclosure dictating,
desires disguised
Deliberation dessimates,
darkness divides

Dear Douglas, dear Douglas,
'doomsday's dropping dime'
Defer designation,
delude Death's design

[slipee]

Find yourself
(in Amsterdam)
!

[YesNo]

Eventide each ego eyes
Every error everywhere.
Eat, excited eagle-eyes.
Enchanted eggs engulf eclairs.

[slipee]

I can't do F! zzzzZzzz D:

I did F last time, and I also have a nice G i made before because I didn't realise G was already done last time lol....

[YesNo]

Finally fickle, frumpy Fred
Facing forests fruitless fled,
Found Felicia fancied Frank
For forever falsehood's flank.

[slipee]

Thankyou YesNo, you are awesome.

[slipee]

Good Grief

Greater-goodness ghoulishly groans, 'g r a s s i u s'. Generally gentlemanly, Gunter's Graveyard greets guests, gesturing goodwill.
Ghosts give goodbyes, greetings, goodnights...gratitude goes-round, given-out gracefully.
Geists granting glimpses give gaunt gestures ghoulishly. Grim-Reaper goes galloping, greivous gallantry glares grimacingly.
Golems grin great glowing greenish grandeur. Gushing geiser's grumble gives-in; Graveyard Grand-Tour.

Guinevere graces God's glistening gardens. Glass-like garb glitters, glowing gowns gleam Godesses greatness. Galaxies give-way.
Guinevere's garments glorify Galactica's greatest gift: gems generously glimmering geomantic genius.
Gallant gesture, girl. Gallant...
Gatherers group, giggling. Grovelling gentlemen gasp, 'Greetings, Great Goddess...'

Grounded gemstones germinate golden grapes gloating gob-stopping girth...
God's giving generates generations generating generations...guess-work goes-on, geometric guidelines guide growth.
Gatekeeper Gharagorne grittingly grinds gears, granting Ghangis' guards gateway.
Ghost-land Gargoyles growl. Ghastly gazes grip goers-by. Gutless-wonders get goosebumps.

Gerbera's gentle glow... grains gently grow, generously gorgeous gails groom God's greatest garden-show.
Grape-vineyard's gallow-born geese greet galloping gusts gliding, going-with.
Glancing guides gliding geese-groups, generally gauging graze-worthy grasslands (green/greener/greenest)
Ghostly ghouls give going guests goodbye groans. Graveyard grand-finale...'G o o d b y e, g o o d m e n. G o o d l u c k'

[slipee]

I wrote that a few weeks ago so it's had a lot of patching up.... I couldn't stop editing it, was driving me nuts!

[slipee]

Finally fickle, frumpy Fred
Facing forests fruitless fled,
Found Felicia fancied Frank
For forever falsehood's flank.


You really tick all the boxes with these, YesNo, that is remarkable imo.
It doesn't even appear to be restricted by constraints at all (as most of yours), but I do like this one a lot. I bet you didn't even try! Haha, which is usually the case.

BTW, thanks, you lifted my game!

:lol:

[YesNo]

Thanks, slipee! These are entertaining. I'm amazed how long the one's you write are. I'm lucky to get 4 short lines worth.

Now waiting for someone to write H.

[slipee]

Oh mine are only long if they aren't structured like a poem, but more like a short story.
Keeping it in rhyme and syllabic as well is a lot harder, 4 lines are about all I can do like that with some sort of quality and consistency. The longer ones I have done don't quite fit, although the D one I did was a fluke I think. Some letters are easier, too. I didn't even attempt it until i read yours covering all grounds, and Cacian as well.

That last one I worked on for a long time, I'd occasionally read it and make adjustments. But it's not a poem really... and there are a lot of hyphens. I like doing it is why I put in the effort. I fear writer's block if I don't have boundaries.

You will notice I will probably only appear in this sub-forum because there are criteria to remain within the boundaries of, to which I enjoy pushing the boundaries. In a completely open playing field I just have no ..... direction? Without rules to push I stand still!

[YesNo]

I like the rules as well. My main problem is having some coherent message.

Here's one for H. I'm not sure what it means.



Healthy, happy harmony,
Her heavenly, hopeful hands,
Humongous high hilarity
Healed heartbroken Hildebrand.

[slipee]

It sounds to me like Hildebrand looked at the brighter side of life or some ironic humour in her misfortune which had left her with a broken heart. And that she is a creator or course, a quirky one, hilariously unorthodox most probably.

:)

[slipee]

Implying it insinuates
I'm itchiness, I irritate
I'm immature, I inscribe
insultingly I'll improvise

inevitable, inconclusive
I'm incredibly intrusive
information, illustrations
interloped imaginations

Intel imposed intervention
I'm insisting ill intentions
I'm incognito, in illusion
incriminating institution

Investigation implicating
interrogation, instigating -
Irrelevance, it is important
in intellect it's insubordinate

[YesNo]

Nice rhyming one, slipee!

[slipee]

lol thanks, YesNo, I realised i used 'aside' and just quickly changed it!

Nobody noticed :P

[tailor STATELY]

Jump, Jive; Jazz

Jumping jalapeño jazz
jouncy jolly Jack-tars join

Jesters jiving; jabbing
jaws jiggling; jibe

Judicious jimjams
jink!, jink!, jink!

Joints jactitate;
jostled jellies jam

Jocularity jauntily jokes -
jocundity's jubilee !

Jazzzzzzzzzzzzz...

6/1/2012


Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[Sancho Panza]

Keep killing kings
Kind kids kick kitchens
Knees knit knickers
Kangaroo's kanji kabbalah
Keen kayaking kebabs
Kneeling knobbly knives
Kidnapped kingfisher keeps kingdom
Ketchup keyboard kaput!

Its more a colelction of vaguely amusing nonsense sentences than a structured poem, but hey, its not as if the dictionary is overflowing with words beginning with k.

[tailor STATELY]

LOL. You should have tried "j"... but then my poem is all nonsense !

On reflection:

Odd. My dictionary has neither "kinoodle" nor "kanoodle" in it.

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY

[slipee]

^^
I did J last round, I struggled, edited it a few times, completely erased it, and then just made it a simple four lines! J and K are both difficult.

[YesNo]

Lila lightens lovelorn Lou.
Lively laughter legalized
Little lies, leaves lonely Lou
Listless, lost, localized.

[slipee]

Mysterious mountain mists, miss mighty monoliths
Mrs Missilip's miss-knitted mittens more mini-mitts
Mischievous Malcovich's mashed mint Martini mix
Misfits' meticulousness making mimicry minimalist

[YesNo]

Nothing noted. No, nowhere.
Nightly Nancy navigates.
Never needing nothing. Ne'er!
Needlessness necessitates.

[slipee]

OUT! Out of office. OTHER obligations
opportunities, openings, other occupations
over old ongoing orders - overwhelming overtime
owning ones ordeals only, 'out of order' otherwise

[YesNo]

Past priorities prevail--
Please, Pat, punctuality?
Perfect pictures, partly pale,
Peaceful practicality.

[slipee]

Quantum's quickest quarks quarantined,
queries quicksand Quin's quoted Queen
Quelling quarters quenched quarrelling,
quiet queues quiz quipped questioning..

[YesNo]

Random, roving righteousness:
Rainy rumors rise.
Really! Rowdy restlessness
Racers recognize.

[slipee]

Snakes slithering, serpent sells sanctimony
Sorcery songbird, scores soaring sentiently
Sunburnt sobriety; sailors stowing solemnly
Sermon superseded, so saying Sovereignty

[YesNo]

Tensely Thomas tightens truth.
Truly trouble titillates.
Toying, testing, teething tooth,
Till tomorrow tossing traits.

[slipee]

Unruly Underarms

Undoing Uma's underwear
unspoken urge unrestrained
understandably unaware
unshaven, unkept, untamed

[slipee]

I hope nobody was offended by that! It's tricky crafting humour into these things..

Only 5 more to go to complete the alphabet a second time!

[YesNo]

I liked it, slipee!

Here's one for V:


Victor's victims vow:
Vicious, vested, vile.
Vivid voluptuous view:
Victoria's versatile.

[slipee]

Ahhh haha, thanks YesNo!

You are too kind :)

[slipee]

I wrote the first two lines here a while ago, and while it could be perceived as cheating, I like them enough to pay the price.. :P


Wilting willows watched while we wandered,
wondering why we'd waste-away with worry..

White Winter's westerlies wearily whispered;
wishes without want; wishes well warranted..

[YesNo]

Xeriscaping Xanadu,
Xerxes xenophilic,
Xenograph, xenolith,
Xeric xenogenic.

[slipee]

Yes you're yapping
yelling, 'YesNo!'
Yesteryear's yacking
yachters, yellows...


(No hidden meaning here BTW haha - no sense intended :p)

[YesNo]

Zany zeros zooming,
Zealots' zealous zeniths,
Zombies zestly zigzag
Zebras' zeitgeist zipper.

:D

[slipee]

WooohoooO!

Thanks YesNo!
I don't think this cycle would have seen it through had it not been for you continual contributions.
Much appreciated! :)






-I think my writing stint has ended for now, I'm heading back to visual arts. Enjoy :)

[tailor STATELY]

A fond farewell and thank you !

Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY