Hey there all you cool cats and diggety dogs.
It’s my Day Twenty-Seven entry of NanoPoblano AKA National Blog Posting Month (but with a truckful bunch of spicy peppery peeps known as Cheer Peppers) and I’m back with another slice of poetic pie to chow down on.
I’ve worked on a very short form this time round, so have decided to forgo the usual Facebook performance video.
My inspiration for this particular piece was from the OctPoWriMo prompt for their Day 27 and the use of flowers. I wanted to write something both elegant and seductive.
I also took a mosey on back to Shadow Poetry and picked a nice, simple form called a 7/5 Trochee (the structure is 7/5/7/5 syllables across two stanzas) and you can look at in further detail regarding it’s structure/rules here:-
Shadow Poetry – A Poet’s Writing Resource – The 7/5 Trochee
Also, since I such a decent sort, here are some other alternative prompts to help you jam and boogie with your own poetry ups and downs:-
2017 November PAD Chapbook Challenge: Day 30 – Writer’s Digest
And finally here is my poem in written form, which is the only for you are getting, since there is no accompanying video but what a pretty sight it is 🙂
Photo by RondellMelling from Pixabay
“Earthy Eloquence” by David Ellis
Rhombic roots rotate rosettes
Velvety vessels
Full, fenestrated fleurettes
Jazzy joy, jewels
Oblique, ornate operas
Pendulous pollen
Sensuous, supernovas
Drunken diversion
Still want more? It’s time for a little overtime then! How about some other Day Twenty-Seven posts by talented ladies and men who are also participating in the Pepper challenge throughout the month of November 🙂
At Twenty – Consolation’s Many Forms – The Miracle of the Commonplace
Hercule Poirot – The Heartsongs Blog – Journeying back to my heart
How to motivate yourself when you don’t feel motivated at all? – Stop procrastinating now!
Breaking Up Is Not Wrongdoing – Edward Fagan Blog
November Book Haul – WEE BIT WORDY
How I Accept the Unacceptable – billfriday.com – fictionary…8 megapixel artist…bloody awful poet.
WHAT DAY IS IT? – THAT CYNKING FEELING
Nano Poblano 2017- 30 Days of Haiku- Day 27 – The Illusion Of Controlled Chaos
Bite Bite Bite – loristory – flights of fancy to parts unknown
NaNoPoblano 2017 – Day 27 (November 27) – Zombie Flamingos – A journey into bloggerdom
beauty never dies – memoirs of an unremarkable man
The Holiday Controversy – Behind The Willows
You Over Did It Holmes – Fresh Off The Pad Poetry – Poetry from nothing. Inspired by Anything.
Natural Nut Butter – Just A Little Bit Sweet
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toofulltowrite (I've started so I'll finish) 
The alliteration! 😵
Glad you liked it Matt 🙂 If you think the alliteration in that one is good then why not check out this, one of my very best of several alliterative abecedarians I have written 😀 FYI I call the style ‘Acrostalyptica’ because it sounds cooler than abecedarian, even though technically they are only acrostic poems in that they spell out the alphabet 🙂
https://toofulltowrite.com/2015/04/10/poem-poetry-abstract-acrostalyptica-one-of-three-napowrimo-2015-acrostic-poems/
Now my brain hurts
Oh dear, sorry to do that 😉 As a way of making it up, I have your author interview scheduled for next week. To sweeten the deal further, I will also e-mail you contact details for another friend of mine who likes to promote poets too 🙂
Only 3 more! 😊
Lol TY Di – yes – I am slowly lolloping towards the finishing line like a great big poetic sloth. 🙂 I will endeavour to really push the boat out on these last three, I just hope I can find sufficient inspiration for them, the last few days are always the hardest!
Terrific and tremulous. What a good trochee. I would have liked seeing you. Photo will suffice. Enjoying your poetry. You write like Shakespeare. Well, maybe not like Shakespeare. Like David Ellis! 🙂
Lol TY Lori, what a wonderful comment, to be compared to the bard himself 🙂 Someone actually made a up a rhyme for where I used to work that rhymed with my being The Bard of the place, which was hilarious! I did want to do a video but when the poems are that short, I feel like I’m going to be talking for ten seconds and then off again into the wind, leaving nothing but a flower and a spinning chair, like a modern day Scarlet Pimpernel! Hope to record new videos with the last three, I think I will focus on longer forms or write more verses 😉
Brilliant ‘Trochee’! The alliteration and the vivid imagery really bring the picture to life!
Of course, I can’t hope to compare, but I just uploaded a ‘7/5 Trochee’ of my own onto my blog. It’s linked below. I’d love it if you would look over it and leave me some advice on how to improve. Thanks!
https://poeticaparadisum.wordpress.com/2018/05/12/excruciating-exams-the-7-5-trochee/