Hot Potato Poetry Challenge!

Your word: Potato

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(Good luck, I couldn't resist)

Change it to a new one and pass it on!

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Paul D. Deane @PaulDeane3 With the caveat that repeating every consonant on the same alliterating sound is, in English, a tongue-twisting sin of excess, suitable only for the sort who salivate at that sort of thign! 2:12 PM · Jan 9, 2026 · 4 Views

The Professor and the Bumjugoob By Richard H. Fay A perambulating professor of preparatory pedagogics Wandering beside a well-shaded Wannerran waterhole Meets a bouncing blue-green bumjugoob bounding by. The eager educator engages the creature in conversation, But the bumjugoob babbles a bunch of balderdash Which prods the pedantic professor to plunge into the pool. “Snik, snok, snek, syntal stems seem a sumplicious snack!” The blithering bumjugoob blathers bodaciously. “Stop assaulting my senses with senseless drivel,” The soaked and tortured tutor tells his turquoise tormentor. “Boo, baa, bee, a bingledoo barb in my bum bodgers me!” The bombastic blue-green beast blabbers and bleats. “My god, no more mindless muck, my mind will melt!” The pained and perturbed professor pleads piercingly. “So, sa, si, a scarlet sownseet sets the siddypips singing!” "End this nasty nonsense!" the nettled academic cries, But the nonsensical neologist natters on, and on, and on, Which prompts the problem-plagued prof to drown himself.

Over at the "other place", I think an editor and scholar who concentrates on alliterative poetry just described my alliterative nonsense poem "The Professor and the Bumjugoob as a "tongue-twisting sin of excess".

My reply: "isn't that the point?"

It is!😜

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A random photo of a page from the Idler magazine, reversed and vignetted. I was never going to write a 26-line alphabet poem. I decided to play the one word story game with myself instead - the only restriction was the next word had to begin with the next letter of the alphabet. Alphabet Soup Average Bob cheered decisive Eric Frantic gerbils hate invisible jails Keith Lemon meant no offence Premenstrual quokkas relish sexual tension Undead vampires wielding xylophones Yawning zebras

A Poem a Day, Day 97: Alphabet Soup.

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