The Alphabetical Poetry Contest

[Danik 2016]

Litnet poets from far and near!

The alphabetic sentence game has brought to light some interesting pieces of poetry.

The idea is to start, albeit timidly, a contest similar to the old poetry contest, long abandoned.

The difference is that, like in the alphabetical sentence game, the words of the poem have to obey the alphabetical sequence.

The winner wins the right to start the next round.

The theme of the warming up round is free. And the deadline is July 25th.

[Danik 2016]

This is to remind you, ladies and gentlemen, who are frantically working on their poems, that our deadline is July, 25.

[Danik 2016]

This is to remind you all of our deadline, July 25, tomorrow!.

Can hardly manage all inscriptions that are coming in!

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apples

apples

beautiful
crunchy
delights

eaten
fastidiously

great
happiness

3-14-2022

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imagine

imagine
joyful
kindliness

loving
memories
need
only
play

questions
require
seasoning
to
unfold
verity's
wellbeing

4/26/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Lol! didn´t remember I started this tread.

Art

Art
bestows
dismay
erratically
fluid
geography.

[Danik 2016]

Lol! didn´t remember I started this tread. Enjoyed your sunny poem.

Art

Art
bestows
dismay
erratically
flowing
geography!

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intergalactic

historic
intergalactic
juxtapositions
keeping
living
memories
noteworthy

4/28/2022

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binary context

origins parse questioning realities

so too unphased vast WIMPs xor'd

your zone applies binary context

digitalizing every force graviton

5/6/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Reads very technologically!

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Nice poem describing chaos.


oranges

have
I
just
knowledge ?

mindfulness
needful.

oranges

5/6/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Peaches,
quiet
roundness .

Routine of
softness to
touch.

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Very serene !

Taking a short break now from yard work... weed whacking and such before the rains return :)

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cracker ?

do
earthworms
fear
garden
hoes ?
inquisitive
jays
know

last
month
nobody
offered
Polly
questions

raining
Sunday
(tomorrow)
umbrellas
very
welcome

5/7/2022

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[Danik 2016]

A legit garden poem:). (Prolly are going to be without internet later, wall with PC sockets is going to be repainted.)

Alphabetical ramble
"X" the stranger
"Y" opens it´s arms
to sleepy "ZZZ"
and so we are back to "A".

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Like it ! :)


apologetics


beyond
calligraphy
dapple
escribists

ferocious
gnomes
hazard
ignorance
justifying
knowledge

learned
men
nuance
opinion
purposely

Q.E.D.

5/11/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Reasonably
sage
though
unconscious
vertigo
words.

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historic mediterranean passages

xebec yachts zipped about

baggywrinkled cables dampened enthusiastically from glistening hydrology involving ¿jarbling?

keels lambasted mediterranean navigable ocean passages

quay restings - sanctuaries; tethered under variable weather

5/13/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Yes I guess it is how it all began. Well, this ia a contest, so...

Xerxes yapok zigzagged
across bland caravels
denigrating every feat,
gaining hourly indulgences
jostling keenly lost mentors,
never offering peace

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'yapock': cool!... hadn't heard of them before.


zoetrope


zoetrope
artistry
begets
cylindrical
delights

5/14/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Lol! Sorry! Missing part of the poem restored above.

Elves
fight
gnomes,
hastily
inducing
jolting
movements
never
obliterating
past
quests.

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#1 ah... thought two words was a bit short... excellent !
#2 elves !!!


astern

rustic
sloops
trim
undertaking
vivacious
waves

xiphias'
yield
zigzagging
astern
before
colliding

5/14/2022

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[Danik 2016]

#1:blush:
#2 ? Is anything wrong with the elves?

Demonic
earth
forswears
good
habits,
intentions,
judgments,
karmas,
leaving
memories
never
ossified.

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Love elves ! Continuing with earth theme:



zonk

peculiar
quakes
rumble

seismic
tsunamis
underground

volcanos
wake
xenoliths

yendings
zonk
afar

5/16/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Enoied the volcanic poem!

The song of chaos

Bellowing canyons
Darkening equators...
Flinching geographies...
Hourglass' ignited jaws
kaputs light mellow noons,
orchestrating pagan quarrels.

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Wonderful ! To go with your vignette of chaos the Super Flower Blood Moon...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p5G4EC-6r0


confessions

restively
she
trow
under
venus'
watch

xenacious
yet
zealous
as
butterflies
confess

5/17/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Thanks for the link to the moon! Charming poem!

The wild wind

Derision
encounters
forest gaps.
highly
instrumental
jointly
moaning,
navigating
other
planes.

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Quite existential :)



quasars

quasars -
radio sources transmitting
ultra-violet
visible
waves
x-rays

yesterday's zeitgeists

absolutely brilliant cataclysms

distant early formations

5/21/2022

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[Danik 2016]

True!

geographic
hills
internet,
jumping
kraals,
moving
oracular
particles.

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primer: quarks in brief (P-E)

part of the particle zooscape each with its complement to make a pair
quarks are 6- flavored fundamental particles (taste like chicken)... "Th-
ree quarks for Muster Mark!" from Finnegan's Wake where the particle got its whimsical name
... strange quarks - first discovered in "strange particles" (think cosmic rays)
... top - almost as large as a gold atom (see bottom)
... up and down quarks: most common in God's creation - the lowest mass of the six.
various intrinsicnesses manifest as: charge (electric & color), mass, spin.
within hadrons quarks are “color confined”. e-
xperiments led to the quark’s discovery in '68 whilst theorized in '64
yes, like gluons they have a color charge: blue, green, and red
zweig and gell-mann first theorized; and yes,
anti-quarks also exist
... bottom quarks - almost as large as a gold atom - as are top quarks
... charm quarks first found bound with charm antiquarks; "a beautiful symmetry"
... down: "normal" matter is comprised of up quarks, down quarks and
electrons ! (which are not quarks)


7/22/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Lol! I want my mammie!
(F-Z)
Full
geographical
hecatombs
ignite
jails and jealousies
mock
Nordic
opossums
pursuing
quokkas,
rambling snakes,
tattooed
unaus,
venerating
wildlife,
xenogamy,
yogurts
and
zeppelins!

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Overload ? lol

"Nordic opossums" lol !!!



artful beats

artful
beats
conjure
daffodils,
evanescent
frogs in
gardens that don't exist
haikus
invoking
jellyfish -
kigo notwithstanding
love
minimalism - makes me smile

7/24/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Charming "minimalist poem"!

Nihilist ogres
pick quarrels,
raving shamelessly,
tiring ugly vermins
wowing yonder X-zeniths!

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lol... too many nihilist ogres about.



a-k

absolute
beauty
contains

daffodils

enchantment

forest
gardens

honeysuckle
iris
jasmine

kindness

7/25/2022

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[Danik 2016]

:) Much enjoyed its maxi minimalism!

Things I love from A to N
avocados
books and berries
cats, cats, cats
Dell, dinners, dogs, Dumbo
Elephants, elves, eating, earth
Food, foxes, fluffiness, Firefox? fonts
Gently grinning giraffes
Hilarious hills,
Iceland's icy islands
Joy
Kindness
Master music
Not having to go on with this list.

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lol ! Wonderful alliterative List poem ! Some surprises and a happy ending :)


precious quail

our
precious
quail

raise
spirits

turn
up
very
wary

7/26/2022

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[Danik 2016]

A happy ending, eh!
(B-H)
Beautifully boasting boa constrictors
calmly calculating calcified clichés
deadly dandruffs!
electing elusive Elenas
fleeing from fire
grandly grinding ghostly grins
happily harassing buzzards!

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(lol) Ok, maybe ending wasn't appropriate.

(B-H) Intense poem... praying L4 comes to fruition... poor buzzards.


IV

icicles melt and fall
jostle all below

keeping on
lighting my fire

my
new
overalls so cool -

pristine

quiescent
roots
stalk family
trees
unceasingly -

vicarious

7/26/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Ai! Wondering why the name of your poem is IV?

The return of the infinite

Ancient
blessings
can
dust
evils and euros
forever.
Good
hymns and hyacinths
increase
joy.
Klutzy koalas
largely
mean
no
oops!

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re: IV... got lazy and left the hyphen out (I-V)

Enjoyed your poem, especially: "Good / hymns and hyacinths / increase / joy"


revisions

polishing
qwerty
rhymes
superciliously -
that's h-
umility out the
vanity mirror -
when a disturbance outside erupts; a
Xiaosaurus
yauping
zigzagging
about
breaking my sylvan
concentration -
drat, I hat-
e when that happens

7/28/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Lol! Got the feeling that my trickster enjambments were radicalized in the poem above!

(A-X)

Agitated
bets
cause
dark
enigmas
forgetting
gossip
harassments
idle
jokes,
laughing
masterfully,
noiselessly,
openly,
querulously,
randomly.
Successful
tactics:
unique
veritable
word
x-rays!

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I like that "radicalized" - (lol).

Sounds like a good day ?

pity the elephant

yesterday's
zoo
attractions
begrudge
circuses

degrading
elephants
forgettable -
gone -
history

7/29/2022

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[Danik 2016]

AII!

All things elephant

All
big beautiful bodies
compact
devout
elephantin essence
forming
gentle giants
heavenly havens.

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:)


i-t

indigo
jewels
kyanite
lights
my
night
opalescent
pearls
quintessential
royal
stars
transferential

7/31/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Scintillating!

Luck

Endless
geographies
house
indigene
jesters
lovingly
memorizing
naval
opals and opportunities.

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I'm thinking lots of rivers associated with naval.

petty quarrels

petty
quarrels
resulted -

squirrels
tossing
umbrages

vigorously
with wild
xesturgies

yesterday's
zany
activity

8/1/2022

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[Danik 2016]

Enjoyed! Particularly the word "xesturgies".

Playing with words

pheasant,
quails
roam
silently
to
unsuspected
verdant
woods
x-ploring
yonder
zeniths!

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x-ploring :)


abcde

alphabet
blues
conjure
denim
ewes

8/3/2022

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ffgghiijj

frolicking flirtatious
garden gnomes
homestead
in indigo
jaunty jalopies

8/3/2022

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