The project here was to create a poem (I chose the abecedarian form) using a dictionary of words. In this case, I chose the dictionary of Shakespearean words. I wrote this in no time at all, and I am pleased with this first draft. Thanks for looking!
Abate the populace into the abhorring swamps of
hopelessness. The
Benevolence of my mind has shifted into the dark spaces of
demise.
Caitiff corpses fill the streets with a stench that maggots
feast on. I let the
Devil wear black and see the defeature faces of fallen foes,
hollowed eyes
Erroneous, yet wise, still wicked. Even the doves have
turned into crows for
Facinerious feasts, like the maggots on the rotting bodies
in the sewered streets.
God, not man, created war: anti-intelligent design: tanks,
bombs, bullets, blood.
Haggish history of following orders—for honor: humanely win
hearts and minds.
Ill-composed of hate and misconceptions: I never thought I
could love my enemy.
Jaded men with black eyes, jaundiced and longing for silence
with ringing ears—
Keel me, oh God. I am hot with fear and hate. I shake and
sweat when I sleep.
Labour your lewd-tongued devils from my dreams and whip them
to sweep the streets.
Maimed—mutilated—nightmares of tear-filled eyes with
crosshairs. The
Nativity of warriors from generation Kill—we filled the
streets. We didn’t
Object to drones that are now the Dovecrows feeding the
maggot larvae.
Pontifical ribbons and decorations, we became our own gods.
We
Quaff, only to sweat at night, only to be frightened by a
transformer blowing—
Ravenous rage tries to stomp the innocence. I forget I’m not
in Iraq anymore.
Soon-speeding with my rifle at the ready. Was I the
sacrifice or am I now
Thrice-repured and clean? No longer stained with repressed
eyeless memories
Umbered in the dark unattainted thoughts other soldiers
still battle which my
Vow-fellows may never win. Twenty-two veterans a day commit
suicide. It is
Web and the pin—disease of the eye—waging its own war of
Xeroxed honorable discharges, then tossed to the larvae and
the
Yoke-devils become presidents and senators and vote for war.
My brothers, feel the
Zephyr of hope. We are not alone. We are not helpless.
abate (v.) 1 lessen, lower, diminish
abate (v.) 2 shorten, lessen, reduce
abate (v.) 3 deprive, strip, dispossess
abate (v.) 4 blunt, put an end to
abate (v.) 5 set aside, except, bar
abhorring (n.) 1 abhorrence, disgust, loathing
abhorring (n.) 2 object of disgust, something to be
loathed
benevolence (n.)
forced loan, imposed
contribution
caitiff (adj.) wretched, miserable, worthless
caitiff (n.) [sympathetic or contemptuous]
miserable wretch, wretched creature
devil wear black, let the
to hell with mourning!
defeature (n.) disfigurement, defacement, loss of
beauty
erroneous (adj.) 1 misguided, mistaken, deluded
erroneous (adj.) 2 criminal, wicked, evil
facinerious (adj.)
extremely wicked, villainous,
criminal
haggish (adj.) like a hag, ugly, repulsive
humanely (adv.)
out of fellow feeling, as
fellow human beings
ill-composed (adj.)
made up of wicked elements
jaded (adj.) low-bred, ignoble, contemptible
jaundice (n.) sallowness, yellowness [as a sign of
envy or jealousy]
keel (v.) cool
lewd-tongued (adj.)
foul-mouthed, scurrilous,
abusive
maimed (adj.) incomplete, deficient, wanting
nativity (n.) 1 birth
nativity (n.) 2 conjunction of stars at birth,
horoscope
nativity (n.) 3 country of birth
pontifical (adj.)
worn by a pope, episcopal
quaff (v.) drink down, take a long draught of
quaff off (v.) drain a cup in a long draught
ravenous (adj.)
rapacious, predatory,
insatiable
soon-speeding (adj.)
quick-acting, rapidly working
thrice-repured (adj.)
highly purified, extremely
refined
umbered (adj.) shadowed, shadowy
unattainted (adj.)
dispassionate, detached,
unprejudiced
vow-fellow (n.)
person bound by the same vow
web and the pin, pin and web
disease of the eye, cataract
yoke-devil (n.) companion-devil, asssociate in evil
zephyr (n.) mild breeze, gentle wind [especially
from the west]
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