Polished polite people picked purple pears.
Panhandle preachers passed plains plateau.
Pragmatic patients' passionate prayers.
Pinnacle performers posted photo.
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Placid politicians pushed poor pretext.
Preeminent powerful parliament.
Powerless persistent paupers perplex.
Palace painted property permanent.
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Potent point players playing pro-am.
Philanthropic published poignant Parton.
Principal performed pure pompous poem.
Political pal permitted pardon.
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Perfect pneumatic primeval pool place.
Praiseworthy professional players pace.
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Writer's notes: PARADISE is entered into the Tautogram Challenge. According to Vocal media, "A tautogram is basically a fancy term for a word game where every word starts with the same letter or sound. It's like alliteration, but taken to the extreme! It can be a fun way to play with language and create a memorable effect in writing or speech, as well as an effective way to challenge yourself as a writer."
My Tautogram poem is written in a Shakespearean or Elizabethan sonnet format. If you are unfamiliar, the format has ten syllables per line with fourteen lines in total. The first twelve lines are in the ABAB, CDCD, and EFEF pattern, with the last two lines (the couplet) in a GG pattern.
Mastering the Shakespearean sonnet can be found here.
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Babs Iverson
Barbara J Iversen, also known as Babs Iverson, lives in Texas and loves her grandkids to the moon and back. After writing one story, she found that writing has many benefits especially during a pandemic and a Texas-size Arctic Blast.
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Comments (24)
That was a a mouthful Babs! 😄👍 Missed this one! Came here from Rick’s article. Hope you are well. Have a great day! 😊
That was a fun read!
Once again, your knowledge and use of formatting is impressive!
Two poem styes in one, *clapping!* <3
Excellent Bab’s. 🥰 Prolific ❤️
plenty praise 👏 Well done !
Very good Babs!
This is so well done! I'm so impressed by this!
This is amazing, Babs. Great job.
From the opening line I really thought it was going to be like a "Peter piper picked a peck of pickled peppers." Great P tautogram!
This is phenomenal! Fantastic job!
So many great jabs Babs!!! So much food to feed off. But I'm going to single out a few of them to comment 9n. Powerless persistent paupers perplex - we are the paupers of the world. We unite our voices are heard. Philanthropic published poignant Parton - oh how I love that Dolly. Principal performed pure pompous poem - this is interesting. But I'm just going to leave it there because I don't want to offend anybody. I tend to be pretty good at that already. Political pal permitted pardon - I've never felt comfortable with one politician, say a president of the United States, being able to just pardon people from their crimes. They were put in jail or sentenced by a jury and I feel if they are to be pardoned it should also be done by possibly a jury or a judge and a panel. But one person, I don't care if they're president of the United States, should not have that much power to undo what a court of law saw fit. Great job as normal Babs you got my brain cells stimulated with this one.
GREAT job!! 😍😍 You had me with that first line -- fantastic!! 😍
Very nice babs I like purple pears 😀
Oh Babs this is excellent! 👏👏👏👏
I can’t wait to see you win, you are creating such excellent tautogram poem ❤️
Very nicely done. Perfectly perplexing.
Wow! A combo of Tautogram and Sonnet! Incredible!
Creatively written my friend. 💕
Beautifully & skillfully crafted.
Love this one, so well put together <3
Ooh the political commentary is witty and on point. Great job!
Very good tautogram!! Thank you😊💕
Nice ❤️