Avid attention!
Total change bred
From sickly tyrants crashing trust
Monuments bending menacingly, listing, gleaming faction pimpernel:
Orifices afire.
Total change bred,
Wryly wounding, works individual.
Sore emissaries charge tall challenges—
Poor souls waxy.
Boorish pigs imbibe, stooping pointedly.
Heaven hardly nods.
Soldiers ate the slops, cropping heather branded,
Holding tar, tasting soot, seeming himself society.
Brave cadavers pace back, allowed pleasant soldiery murmured—
Acrid, enticed androids.
Wailing white steam among
Total change bred,
Orators’ elegies riddled,
Holy race ragged,
Seeping, spewing stories walking aboveground,
Orifices afire.
Total change bred,
Prayers elicit slaps, flags’ league shimmering.
Hearts heavy,
Roots rent notably sharply indeed entreated scarlet misguided, continued
Forward freedom stored warmly,
Hard hearts dark
Again astir
Fingers talking, dastardly distracting,
Again astir.
Hardly seeing,
Clouds rolling sourly, foolishly standing.
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This is a sort of different acrostic, based on a sentence from The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. Here's how it works: each line spells out a word.
Avid Attention! spells "at" If you really wanted to take the time to figure out the whole sentence you could, but if you're lazy like me, the sentence is: "At the first mention of the word small-pox, Bibot had stepped hastily backward, and when the old hag spoke of the plague, he retreated from her as fast as he could." This came out much darker than I had intended, and I couldn't escape the effects of the French Revolution on the novel, which definitely comes through in the poem. An interesting experiment, if nothing else. |
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P.S. I had to look up The Scarlet Pimpernel on Wiki.
P-three-S. I thought it was called "The Scarlet Pimple" at first. Gross.
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