What a Perfect Poem: An Alliterative Poem in the Style of Late 15th Century Flytings Pal, pardon me, but your polished verse / like a bright, burnished mirror just blanks out my vision. / When you take your turn next, I trust you'll be terse -- ...

And finally, for those who are too taken with their own poetic skills, a flyting, "What a Perfect Poem", by yours truly ...

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Welcome to Our Website: An Alliterative Poem on Point and Click Greed ... Fill out our forms, / get freebies galore / (our plan is just perfect / for point-and-click greed.) ...

"Welcome to Our Website", by yours truly ...

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Mitch's Choice: An Alliterative Poem by Richard Pierce In which the protagonist of Richard Pierce's poem, The Book of Mankey, dreams he's his dead dog Mitch, trying to figure out a game show.

"Mitch's Choice", by Richard Pierce

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Rædwald's Return: A poem in alliterative verse by Karen M.P. Carlson “Perhaps the best known ... story about Sutton Hoo is Edith Pretty’s claim she saw an armed warrior standing on top of Mound 1 long before the excavation took place” . Maybe he wanted to be found!

"Raedwald's Return" by Karen M.P. Carlson

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Lay of the Staffordshire Hoard Dragon: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine When freshly hatched, I found a hoard. / To guard my gold, I grew its size, / alert in lair ‧ laid around it ...

"Lay of the Staffordshire Hoard Dragon", by Martin Vine

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Oversold -- An Alliterative Poem by David B. Ring Ever had it up to here with marketers?

"Oversold", by David B. Ring

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King Penda’s Apache Attack Helicopters: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine ...weapons of wonder ‧ Weland crafted -- / with elven pilots, Penda’s gleaming / Apache attack ‧ helicopters ...

King Penda's Apache Attack Helicopters, by Martin Vine

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Heorot, the Early Days: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine ... Laurence Longlocks ‧ launched into revamp: / The hearth was heaved, hurled on the midden, replaced by a piece ‧ of post-modern /Scandinavian ‧ sculpture in steel ...

Heorot, The Early Days, by Martin Vine

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Horace: Epode 2 -- An alliterative verse translation of Epode 2 by the classical Roman poet Horace The fellow's worth a fortune who, far / from commerce, cultivates his fathers' / farm with his own oxen & is free / of usury -- like the folk of yore ...

Horace, Epode 2, translated by John Quinn

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Beor's Lament: A poem in alliterative verse by Martin Vine Among the mead-cups, misery I suffered -- / Sloshed with gesiðas, smashed at the feast, / as hamstrung as Weland ...

"Beor's Lament", by Martin Vine

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In honor of April Fool's day, here's a thread of humorous alliterative poems and light verse ...

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Thank you Karen for stepping in as guest host this week, keeping the good ship #PoetsAbout on course. You know us all already! 💚

huge thanks once again to @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @thebrokenspine.co.uk for hosting #PoetsAbout #NeverAgain one of the first poems i was fortunate enough to get published about fiveteen years ago

A reminder to follow the brilliant people in this starter pack of #poets who take part in #PromptCombo #PoetsAbout #vss365 and other prompts. And please repost the pack if you can. Still a few spaces left if i have missed you #poetrycommunity #poetry #booksky

Defeat of Decency? after Mariano Fortuny's 'Nude Old Man in the Sun,' (c1871) Look on me as beauty, as denial of the iconography of youth, as prophet of the tried- &-tested, upholder of the truth.

Was grabbed by this amazing image today & am taking advantage of #poetsabout to post it! I've attached my snap response & offer it for the #defeat prompt from @brokenspinearts.bsky.social ....... I suspect it'll read quite differently after a few days contemplation & fiddling!

The opening 5 lines of the revision are incredible. Love the syncopated the beat of the words. So well done, Tracie! #poetsabout #threshold @brokenspinearts.bsky.social