Poetry Pals - Week 25 - Alliterative Poetry

Reaping the benefits of repeated sounds.

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Hello my wonderful poetry people,

This week over at

Poetry Pals

we were looking at alliterative poetry. I’ve been away this week at a very dear friends and haven’t had masses of time for writing, so initially I dug out a very, very, very old poem. The writing prompt for this week was deceptively simple.

to practice using some alliteration.

So I present you a piece I wrote a long, long time ago. It employs the style of the Oresteia (Ancient Greek play) lots of alliteration, lots of joined word phrases etc. Not particularly a style I find easy to write, nor to read. This was a given assignment about a particular piece. It certainly has alliteration in it.

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Boiling the bones in the 
Blood-bath of the blood-brothers.
Toiling the tilth of the
Treacherous mud-stricken earth.
Mother-sucking babes
Born screaming and moaning.
Breaking the backs of
The innocent slave-born.
This is the low-land of 
Blood-brothers, mother-murderers
And slave-owners.
This is the time of
Deadly, stealthy death.

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I did try another early this morning before we left to come home. A little less bloody and more contemporary. I am very, very tired at the moment. Had a great time but seriously overdid it. I will spend the next couple of weeks recuperating. Twas worth it.

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Sleep now

Slowly sleep seeps away and
wakefulness arrives arrogantly 
amid general consternation.
It’s not time,
it’s still dark, 
I’m still tired, 
let me slumber.
I’ll rise later 
when the sun silently grazes the zenith
when the sky is azure blue beyond
when…, 
	when…, 
     when…, 
but not now.
Not now. 
		Not now.

Tell me what you think. I’d love to know and get some feedback.

Till next time, peeps.

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